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In what is a rare opportunity, I spoke to the great @manifestive. We explored the beauty of urgency, creative agency, the evolution of African Hip-Hop & what it means to be an alternative voice in the heart of global rap storytelling. Read below: zikoko.com/pop/manifest-o…
10000HEIGHTS prod. @Haviskingpoetik 🎬: @snkfafilms x @spinatra_ listen to SUNZ ON PEGASUS today!! open.spotify.com/album/2jcU1FVi…
Timing! I rate it.
You asked for it and now it's here!! The music video to the lead single "SAVE ME" off the original soundtrack to the limited series "TO KILL A MONKEY" out tomorrow.
Therapy showed me how to open up. It also showed me I don’t give a fuck.
To Kill a Monkey is infuriatingly overwhelming unmindful of the brilliant performance from Bucci Franklin, William Benson and others. in my latest for @tweetedbyCC, i interrogated the show read, share and comment. the show is streaming on Netflix culturecustodian.com/to-kill-a-monk…
Almost 2 years removed from saying, “Is this the motherfucking thanks I get for making my people proud every time I get?” Burna Boy is back at it again, being vindictive. For London Listening Session, I reviewed his latest Thx 4 the platform @JollyPaps1! damiajayi.substack.com/p/77-is-burna-…
Durella ruled the early 2010s with hits, swagger, and a voice you couldn’t forget. Then… silence. No music. No drama. zikoko.com/pop/where-is-d… So, where has one of Nigeria’s early 2010s Afrobeats icons been? I tracked down the King of the Zanga himself to find out.
What makes a rap song culturally impactful? To answer this, I went beyond internet banter and into the culture, speaking to over 25 die-hard rap fans, longtime listeners and respected music critics. The result? This solid list. zikoko.com/pop/culturally…
In my first byline for @NativeMag, I explored how worship, Gospel music and religion show up in popular music. Read below. Happy Sunday! 🫶🏿 thenativemag.com/the-gospel-of-…
I hit a 600-article mark for Zikoko this week. For my number 601, I ranked and wrote about the best 15 Nigerian gospel albums that prove evergreen and still relevant many years after their release. Read: zikoko.com/pop/nigerian-g…
I wrote about Goodgirl LA and her new EP.🔪 zikoko.com/pop/review-goo…
This is a scene from The Wire when Donut stole a car and sped around the projects 😂
A 12-year-old boy led police on a chase in a stolen SUV in Southwest Baltimore Monday night, highlighting ongoing concerns about juvenile crime in the city. MORE: bit.ly/3GFZYvM
Buchi Emecheta was in the famous Granta Best Young British Novelist list of 1983—alongside Booker Prize winners Salman Rushdie, Julian Barnes, Pat Barker, and Ian McEwan, as well as Nobel laureate Kazuo Ishiguro. Easy to forget because, somehow, she never reached those heights.
so grateful to work alongside a great group of writers to compile a list about the 50 best songs in this thing of ours for @billboard we had a a really tough time finalising this list but it captures all that’s brilliant about our music and part one is here some blurbs:
I worked with some of the best journalists - @iamntyrell, @whereswongo, @walenchism & Blossom Maduafokwa - on the 50 best Afrobeats songs of all time list for @billboard. We’re rolling out this list 10 songs a week, starting today. Read No. 50-41 here: billboard.com/lists/best-afr…