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How ‘Made In Lagos’ Created A Blueprint For An Era

How ‘Made In Lagos’ Created A Blueprint For An Era

‘Made in Lagos’ shifted the culture and stretched the limits of what African music could be. Five years on, the blueprint still...

Best New Music: Sarz Is All About His Money On “Getting Paid”

Best New Music: Sarz Is All About His Money On “Getting Paid”

“Getting Paid” is an uber-cool affair that brings together Afropop titans Wizkid and Asake with Jamaican Dancehall star,...

How To Listen To Afropop

How To Listen To Afropop

When you press play on Afropop, remember you’re not just hearing music, you’re participating in a cultural

The Locales That Shaped Our Favourite Afropop Stars 

The Locales That Shaped Our Favourite Afropop Stars 

Markers of those places inevitably show up in the music of our favorite stars, enriching our soundscape and furthering our cultural...

Tracing The Peerless Influence Of Wande Coal

Tracing The Peerless Influence Of Wande Coal

It’s not hard to surmise that nearly every Afropop artist who defined the late 2010s and early 2020s has been influenced by Wande...

Maleek Berry Embraces Rebirth On ‘If Only Love Was Enough’

Maleek Berry Embraces Rebirth On ‘If Only Love Was Enough’

Few weeks after the release of ‘If Only Love Was Enough,’ we caught up with Maleek Berry to discuss the journey to his debut...

Afropop is the love child of its many influences

Afropop is the love child of its many influences

In a reversal of events at the turn of the 2000s, Afropop is profoundly reshaping the texture of music outside its borders....

The Songs Of Detty December

The Songs Of Detty December

Marked by a month-long marathon of concerts, raves, and highly-entertaining activities, these songs lived at the centre of Detty...

Afropop’s Child Stars and the Young Legends That Came Before Them

Afropop’s Child Stars and the Young Legends That Came Before Them

a new class of artists dominating music conversations and their predecessors

The Shuffle: Celebrating Wizkid’s ‘Ayo’ through 5 Essential Songs

The Shuffle: Celebrating Wizkid’s ‘Ayo’ through 5 Essential Songs

Here's to nine years since Big Wiz's sophomore

Three Takeaways from TurnTable’s Mid-Year Charts

Three Takeaways from TurnTable’s Mid-Year Charts

Nigerian music keeps gaining

Omah Lay, Wizkid & Nigerian pop’s healthy relationship with the deluxe album

Omah Lay, Wizkid & Nigerian pop’s healthy relationship with the deluxe album

The sample size isn't a lot but the results are overtly

NATIVE Selects: New Music from Wizkid, Nasty C, Tekno & More

NATIVE Selects: New Music from Wizkid, Nasty C, Tekno & More

new releases for the

Asake, Wizkid & the influencing power of listeners on artists’ creativity

Asake, Wizkid & the influencing power of listeners on artists’ creativity

Audience expectations are almost as popular as the

Track-By-Track: Wande Coal Breaks Down His New Album, ‘Legend Or No Legend’

Track-By-Track: Wande Coal Breaks Down His New Album, ‘Legend Or No Legend’

an entry into Wande Coal's

A 1-Listen Review Of Wande Coal’s ‘Legend or No Legend’

A 1-Listen Review Of Wande Coal’s ‘Legend or No Legend’

A polarising demonstration of the singer's famous

NATIVE Selects: A List of The Best Songs This Week

NATIVE Selects: A List of The Best Songs This Week

Featuring Rexxie, Kamo Mphela, Khaligraph Jones and

Everything We Know About Wizkid’s ‘More Love, Less Ego’ Africa Tour

Everything We Know About Wizkid’s ‘More Love, Less Ego’ Africa Tour

Double bookings and

TurnTable Top 100: Wizkid And Ayra Starr Debut At No.5 With “2 Sugar”

TurnTable Top 100: Wizkid And Ayra Starr Debut At No.5 With “2 Sugar”

Young Jonn's "Xtra Cool" holds at No.1

TurnTable Top 100: Young Jonn scores his first No. 1 with “Xtra Cool”

TurnTable Top 100: Young Jonn scores his first No. 1 with “Xtra Cool”

Tiwa Savage & Asake's "Loaded" also debuts at No.

Our First Impressions of Wizkid’s ‘More Love, Less Ego’

Our First Impressions of Wizkid’s ‘More Love, Less Ego’

new music from the Afropop sensation