THE AFROBEATS BACKSTORY SONG REVIEWS Pt 1

This is a Review of Compilation of the popular old school and new generation music, This collection will help you appreciate the growth of Afrobeats in Nigeria. This Playlists covers the range of artistes featured in the Afrobeats
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1.TBDK ft. Erigga & Sinzu - Listen on Boomplay For Free

M.I. Abaga is throwing it back to the golden era of hip-hop with the release of a new single titled, ‘TBDK (This Beat Dey Knock)’.
The song, which features Nigerian hip-hop veteran Sinzu, and the ever-prolific Erigga is Mr. Incredible’s first single following his surprise collaboration with one-time rival, Vector.

The track which is produced by longtime M.I. collaborator, Chopstix, has a bounce like it was snatched straight out of the 90s. Think headbopping, hoodies, Timbalands, oversized basketball jerseys – the works.
#miabaga #Sinzu #erigga

2. KOLO ft. Oxlade - Listen on Boomplay For Free

“Kolo” is a great pop record sectioned and delivered aptly.

Both acts jointly perfected it all.

Right into the visual as well, the great taste wasn’t losing a bit.

The song is great actually, nevertheless, it was a pop-driven song but Ice Prince still found a way to fit in perfectly and left Oxlade to illuminate.

He was the pop star and Ice prince was the rapper, it was very clear and now I understand that the real Ice Prince flavor isn’t lost completely but only have to find ways to fit it in perfectly.

He is still the prince of Nigerian hip-hop because the richness of his rap still has the same great taste after the last decade of his dominance in the Nigerian music industry, and a little beyond.

#IcePrince #Oxlade


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The song starts with Flavour delivering lovely highlife performance. Not a bad way to start the song at all. Flavour went ahead to declare that M.I was the number one in the whole of Africa.
The lyrics are straightforward; M.I is simply the best! Tat was their declaration; The lyrical structure of the song is great and the plot development is just as impressive. Generally, the lyrics of the song are immersive and catchy.
Flavour's vocal performance was smooth and lovely to listen to. We enjoyed every bit of it. Powerful and emphatic. What is even more emphatic is M.I's vocal performance filled with passion and action.
Number one has an engaging melody from the freshness of sound, absence of musical clichés, colourful work, use of sonorous pedal-points, the crisp and intense combination of highlife and Hip Hop, splashes of percussive colour. A deep woody performance by M.I mixed with Flavour's smooth performance leads to a warm, mellow four-part horn chorale, a tender, expressive melody to the ears.

This dramatic piece creates an intense, rhythmic, driving, angular sound that is quite contemporary and also classic; The rich and resonant brass and the crisp and exact percussion dominate the scene throughout, as the main theme is somewhat developed.

#miabaga #flavour


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Dapo Daniel Oyebanjo A.K.A D’banj has been a force to recon with in the Nigerian industry ever since he came into the industry. D’banj has been growing bigger and bigger and it is safe to say he is the biggest music star right now in Africa. Tongolo was the song that brought D’banj into the spotlight and since then he has not looked back. Enjoy the blast from the past.

#Dbanj

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Escort Ladies ( aka Runs girl) is a term used to classify ladies who are pleasure escorts to rich and affluent men in the society. To some ladies it is all about dating multiple guys and to others, it might just be dating a particular guy who is boxed up with money. In this song titled “Koroba” by Tiwa Savage, she sings from the perspective ladies who are into such hustle. She sings about the reason why they joined that line of hustle and how they deal with their prospective clients while dragging Nigerian politicians into the scandal.

This song is club banger because of the beat and delivery. The song which has three verses breaks the usual norm of Nigerian music in recent times. Working with one of Ceeza Millie’s producers on the record; she vocals a beat that is of same family with Tekno’s “Skeleton” beat. The ponpon beat can get anybody dancing in a matter of seconds. As stated in our review of her (Tiwa Savage) song some time back, Tiwa have found a resting place in Afropop and Afrobeats because of the working relationships she has with hit makers in the Nigerian music industry.

#TiwaSavage

6. Duduke (Cover Version) ft. Taylor Gasy-Boomplay Music



Oscar created one of the most interesting instrumentals of 2020. The song started with a Pop piano riff and then came the switch to highlife with smooth guitar riffs and African percussions. Then came the 'pon pon' staccato melody that we are used to on a regular Afro-pop record. The instrumental was really good, but Simi's amazing and unique vocals did a lot of justice to this record. She sang ever so beautifully with amazing melodies, nice vocal dexterity, and good lyrics. The production was also top-notch and everything, from the scenery to the production, feels perfect.

#simi


7. Level Up (Twice As Tall) ft. Youssou N'Dour - Listen on Boomplay For Free


When Burna Boy recorded the album that he’d go on to call African Giant in the fall of 2018, he was still growing into the title. The Nigerian star was already signed to Atlantic Records — a feat for an artist as unabashedly global as himself, fusing west African, Caribbean, and American music into a blend that’s nothing short of addictive. But he wouldn’t fully take the throne until the following year, when that album became one of the year’s most celebrated (even netting him a Grammy nomination), he sold out London’s Wembley Arena, and between it all, he featured on Beyoncé’s Lion King: The Gift album. New album Twice as Tall, his fifth, released a little over a year after African Giant on August 14, only continues Burna Boy’s rise. It’s executive produced by Diddy and has features ranging from Senegalese legend Youssou N’Dour to grime pioneer Stormzy. (It also comes two weeks after “JA ARA E”s scene-stealing appearance Black Is King.) And while Burna Boy uses opening track “Level Up” to revisit his wild recent rise, he also makes clear that he’s not getting complacent.

The first voice on “Level Up” isn’t Burna Boy’s, but a tinny sample of 1950s hitmaker Pat Boone singing a song from the 1959 film Journey to the Center of the Earth. “Oh, I’d have to be twice as tall, at least, to view better than I do,” he sings. It gives way to Burna Boy’s own anxieties. “Start feeling like I had enough, then I contemplate giving up,” says the performer who’s always projected a rapper’s swagger. In the second verse, he dives into specifics: finally being able to afford his weed when he started selling out venues, throwing up from nerves before the Grammys (Angelique Kidjo, a legend of her own who featured on African Giant, won in the World Music Album category).

It’d all be enough to discourage some, but not Burna Boy, who’s been hustling since he dropped two mixtapes in 2011. The simple beat finally picks up a bit toward the end of the second verse — “Level Up” isn’t trying to be Twice As Tall’s most exciting or adventurous track — as Burna Boy does the same. “I remember feeling legendary in Wembley arena,” he says. “You’d be proud of me too, if you knew where I was coming from.” He did, after all, leave his home of Nigeria to study in London, only to return to Nigeria to try his hand at music instead. The leap really began to pay off in late 2018, when his infectious hit “Ye” blew up his international profile and emblematized Nigerian pride.

Where the one white voice on “Level Up” projected some of Burna Boy’s self-doubt, the two Black icons who join him only offer encouragement. N’Dour is far and away the most exciting part of the track, stopping the show with a simple, inspiring chorus in Woluf and English. After the first chorus, the Boone sample returns, but you can barely make out the words as it’s pummeled by drum and bass — Burna Boy now demands to be listened to on his own. Diddy delivers his own message in the outro as N’Dour finishes the final chorus: “Don’t be afraid to step into your greatness, people.” His message bleeds into “Alarm Clock,” and the album is off with a bang, for 45 more minutes of Burna Boy confronting his critics, standing against oppression, pushing himself, and (deservedly) flexing. He is an African giant now, no question. Why stop there?

#burnaboy


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Capital hill company present A new music by the The Goretti Company act Illbliss kick start the year 2018 with a brand new single titled “40FT” featuring the ybnl CEO Olamide.

40ft container, importer, exporter, all my guys are making it, sare gbowo ko ye se giri, suspect on the mix…

#olamide #Illbliss


9. Kuku Kee Me ft. Egypt 80 - Listen on Boomplay For Free



Kuku Kee Me” and “Bad Man Lighter” are more focused on the the instrumentals than the lyrics. With a zesty, two-minute saxophone solo at the beginning of “Kuke Kee Me” and smooth bass lines in “Bad Man Lighter,” Kuti shows that he is just as focused on musical technicality as he is on a social change.

In “Struggle Sounds” Kuti blends his humanist lyrics with Motown rhythms. Throughout the song, Kuti yells “get down” over 20 times, showing a strong James Brown influence. Singing about justice for all people in the modern world, he voices his concerns about the rat-race, modern-day media and oppressive corporations. In “African Dreams” Kuti returns to the Afrocentric themes seen in “Last Revolutionary” singing about western stereotypes of Africa and his hope for better schooling and healthcare in Africa.

While many of the songs in this album focus on blackness or the African continent, Kuti said on his Bandcamp profile that this album was made for people around the world.

“It is an album for anybody who believes in change and understands the duty we have to rise up and come together,” Kuti said. “The elites always try to divide the working class and the poor people of the world. The same oppression felt by workers in Flint, Michigan, is felt by workers in Lagos and Johannesburg.”

As I listened to this album, I was blown away by the depth of the lyrics. While the interesting, Afrobeat instrumentals were outstanding, each song’s profound message is what made me hit repeat. There were many times where I had to stop songs to research the topics Kuti was referencing.

Seun Kuti’s “Black Times” is much more than an album. It’s a history lesson, a correction to false stereotypes and a universal call to action. It proves that music is not just organized notes, but a mode of making the world a better place.

#SeunKuti


10. Orobo (Remix) ft. Flavour N’Abania - Listen on Boomplay For Free



Back in 2013, many of the fans of versatile Nigerian singer, Sound Sultan, were quite surprised when the singer sang about plus-sized women, calling them ‘orobo’.

The singer got a lot of commendations from plus-sized women who had been body-shamed in the past.

he said, “Everybody cannot sing about the government being bad. Yes, we have danced. We know about a girl’s bum– it is big and round. We like it. Except one is pretending, every guy loves a woman’s curves. When I released the song, Orobo, full figured women suddenly became my fans. We can’t be body shaming plus-sized women when we know Africans love them that way.”


#SoundSultan #flavour


To be continued.........


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