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Listen to Dolapo's eager perspective on love for new single, "Skin" - The Native

January 30, 2019Music,

Listen to Dolapo’s eager perspective on love on her new single, “Skin”

A convincingly erotic sultry R&B song

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Debola Abimbolu

Listen to Bankyondbeatz's "Sailing Away" featuring UK singer, Jacob Browne - The Native

January 17, 2019Music,

Listen to Bankyondbeatz’s “Sailing Away” featuring UK singer, Jacob Browne

Basking in the soothing effect of love and music

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Debola Abimbolu

Listen to "Hello Africa Riddim", Sarz's EDM remix to Dr Alban's "Hello Africa" - The Native

December 23, 2018Music,

Listen to “Hello Africa Riddim”, Sarz’s EDM remix to Dr Alban’s “Hello Africa”

A youthful spin to the nostalgia inducing song that tributes Africa and the dance clubs

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Debola Abimbolu

Essentials: Riton and Kahlo's 'Foreign Ororo' project debut - The Native

November 13, 2018Music,

Essentials: ‘Foreign Ororo’ by Riton and Kah-Lo

Pulse-raising enough to mosh-pit and meditative enough studying to

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Debola Abimbolu

October 31, 2018Music,

Listen to Patoranking’s “Everyday”

Dance hall done right.

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Listen to "What Are We" by DJ Java and Bella Alubo - The Native

July 21, 2018Music,

Listen to “What Are We” by DJ Java and Bella Alubo

A portrait of a relationship built on ambiguity

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Debola Abimbolu

Lady Donli's "Poison" is a reminder that the best pop songs are often the simplest - The Native

November 22, 2017Music,

Best New Music: “Poison” makes a bold statement for Lady Donli’s soulful ambitions

Simple and soulfully futuristic

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Debola Abimbolu

November 5, 2017Music,

Hear Bella Alubo’s energetic new single “Gimme Love”

Tinny Mafia’s first lady shares new love track

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Listen to Nonso Amadi new single, "No Crime"

September 28, 2017Music,

Nonso Amadi’s “Long Live The Queen” expands his famed discography

You’re always in the mood for some new Nonso.

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Debola Abimbolu

September 20, 2017Music,

Ovid invites you to the dance floor with “The Feeling”

Somewhere between dance floor heater and catastrophic catharsis

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Essentials: Nxwrth takes Harmmatan Rain's Organic series for spin - The Native

September 6, 2017Music,

Essentials: Nxwrth takes Harmmatan Rain’s Organic series for a spin

featuring sounds from a song you probably loved

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Debola Abimbolu

https://thenativemag.com/music/maleek-berry-spent-last-15-months-consistent-afropop-artist/ - The Native

September 6, 2017Music,

Snakehips and Anne-Marie’s “Either Way” gets the Maleek Berry treatment

The king of the summer, always brings the sun with him pon this

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Debola Abimbolu

Novagotthatheat taps Bankyondbeatz for his new EDM-pop single "One Time" - The Native

July 25, 2017Music,

Novagotthatheat and Bankyondbeatz collaborate for new single, “One Time”

One time for the rave!

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Debola Abimbolu

Listen to Wurld's sexy new single "All I Need" - The Native

June 30, 2017Music,

Listen to Wurld’s sexy new single “All I Need”

Parental guidance is probably advised

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Debola Abimbolu

Relive Your Early Video Gaming Years With Lazougi Funk The Laser - The Native

March 23, 2017Music,

Relive Your Early Video Gaming Years With Lazougi’s “Funk The Laser”

Between video game pop and a funkadelic experiment

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Debola Abimbolu

March 22, 2017Music,

Okuntakinte’s “Bila Magina” Is A Mash-up Of Everything Pop

Fela goes the EDM way of things

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Oga Sudo EDM

January 26, 2017Music,

EDM and torch songs collide on Oga Sudo’s ‘Lose You’

Never a better time for a comeback than now

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