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Best New Music: Cruel Santino Blends the Present & Past on Sauce Kid’s “OMOGE WA JO”
A spin on Sauce Kid's 2006
CKay, Omah Lay & The Rise of Emo-Influenced Nigerian Pop
An offshoot of rock, a fairly recent wave of rap, and now a prominent sensibility in Nigerian
NATIVE Sound System’s debut compilation LP, ‘NATIVEWORLD’ is finally here
Championing community by collecting the talents of many and distilling them into a thrilling
Bruk It Down: Genio and GMK on the Making of Cruel Santino & Koffee’s “Deadman Bone”
Featuring the Monster
A rundown of the guests on Cruel Santino’s ‘Subaru Boys: FINAL HEAVEN’
Featuring Gus Dapperton, EbEE, 1Takenandos, and more Subaru
BNXN, Cruel Santino & the importance of artist name trademarks
A previously neglected area of the music business in
NCVRD: How Upson Martin created Cruel Santino’s Subaru World
" is a new wave of art, it’s just doing whatever it takes to get to your goals in a very swaggy
Best New Music Special: Cruel Santino documents his sonic evolution on new LP, ‘Subaru Boys: FINAL HEAVEN’
A total immersion into his hyper-vivid
Cruel Santino’s ‘Subaru World: Final Heaven’ Is Finally Here
Featuring Koffee, Skepta, Gus Dapperton &
17 Projects The NATIVE team are looking forward to this year
Dates have already been announced for albums from VanJess, Mr Eazi, Shekhinah, and Scorpion Kings x Tresor
Amaarae, Kojey Radical and Cruel Santino link up in the video for “Jumping Ship”
The trio make a sweaty toast to pop
In conversation with SirBastien, who is looking to add more depth to Nigerian music’s DIY culture
We spoke to the ever-improving polymath about his latest project, 'Mango Island', seeing Odunsi as an inspiration and potentially working...
The best musical pairings from the past five years
Who takes the crown? Will it be Cruel Santino & Odunsi The Engine, Naira Marley & Zlatan, Tiwa Savage & Wizkid, Boj &...
Why you should be excited for Seki SuperVillain’s forthcoming project, ‘TECHDRILL’
Seki is tapping into the alté universe and that speaks volumes of the impact the movement has had, even in its
Life In Ink: Cruel Santino walks us through his life, one tattoo at a time
"This year, I experienced