The year was 2017. I was at the Teslim Balogun Stadium where I had gone to cover Olamide’s concert. That bright afternoon, while walking backstage, and taking in the scene for the story, I was accosted by one of Olamide’s crew.

Every day, enthused fans of musicians find joy in comparing their favourite artists. As kids, huddled in corners of the playground and walking down the street, we always engaged in battles about ‘who repped a better creator’. We fought over the art, breaking down the lyrics, the sound and the feeling that rappers and singers,…

We are in a simulation called Nigeria. Nothing is real, nothing holds actual value, not even human life. This simulation is looped with everything going in cycles.

Nigerians love a great messiah. They long for a superman, a strongman, who would swoop in with fanfare and pomp, and rescue them from all the ills that plague them. That’s why Jesus Christ is very revered in the country, and his religion is such a potent force for good and evil in the country.…

When you search the name ‘Azeez Fashola’, which is the real name of singer Naira Marley, you would find multiple links between the singer and internet fraud. That alone is a red flag. And if it doesn’t raise the tiniest bit of alarm in you, well….it should!

I love a good cancelling session on Twitter or Instagram, or anywhere the Lord has provided a sanctimonious Nigerian community. I love how they pick their victims and objects of cancellation. It’s a joy to behold when a tweet rubs them the wrong way and their righteous faux outrage shows up. “I will never listen…

If you have a favourite artist that popped up on your mainstream radar four years ago or before, you will discover that they...

There’s Yahoo money deeply embedded in every cranny of the Nigerian music industry. It manifests itself in more ways than the eye-catching popping of champagne and the possession of all the nice, expensive, new tech. That song playing on the radio might be fuelled by illegal money exchanging hands between music and media executives. The…

That’s the line that captured that feeling of superiority from the past. We felt a sense of pride when we are referred to as “Giants” in comparison to our neighbours.

I have talked to artists who have raised their nose in the air the moment our conversation left creativity for the sake of it and delved into the business of commodifying your music in Nigeria. For many creatives who are idealists, the very thought of not making a song based on vibes - but rather,…

When Kiss Daniel made the decision to release a new single unburdening his heart about a lady who cheated on him, he never could have envisaged that it would get to this point. Placing demands on the public, the singer requested more people to make DIY versions of the song, and it opened the floodgate…

In spite of all the daily trauma that Nigerians face, they are a compassion bunch. You could see it everywhere around you, albeit in isolated doses. Beggars always end the night with enough to eat...