Burna Boy performing on stage as cut from the documentary. (The Niche)
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‘Music is like my punching bag,’ Burna Boy says in new documentary

On March 26, 2019, tech giant, Google hosted a a cross-section of industry heads, media personalities, social media influencers and a host of others at Mulliner Towers, Ikoyi, Lagos. The event; its subsidiary, YouTube was screening its artist spotlight of Nigerian superstar, Burna Boy, born Damini Ogulu. The new 18-minute video was a documentary-esque recording […]

The contributors to the Nigerian street sound
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The evolution of the indigenous Nigerian street sound?

The Nigerian street sound is a blanket description for everything we think soundtracks the inner-city soundscape and determine a culture behind it. Lagos is the nucleus of Nigerian pop culture. If things fly in Lagos, they will fly in other locations because, there’s a subconscious approval when it passes through Lagos. Asides that, the multiculturalism […]

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Talk By Falz: A Review

In the 6 minutes of both works, Falz raises what it would take a journalist several opinion pieces to do same. It is the power of the musician to be able to do so much with so little time. Little wonder why Fela described music as the weapon of the future. “Music is the weapon […]