It suffered afflictions from the treatment given to it by both its creatives and its consumers. While the audience treated it as an option (a mere alternative to pop music); the artists turned away ...

A fantastic hook can transform a song from good to amazing and rescue an otherwise poor song from disaster. In hip-hop, the chorus is the anchor that grounds the song. While lyrical prowess and ...

Nigerian rapper Odumodublvck has responded to critics who argue that Nigerian hip-hop and Afrobeat artists are not “real” hip-hop musicians. During a recent interview, Odumodublvck asserted that ...

Rapper Odumodublvck, born Tochukwu Ojogwu has addressed critics and celebrated his contributions to hip-hop. In a recent interview, he hammered the impact of his work and dismissed doubts about his ...

A Nigerian literary researcher, Adefunke Eruobodo, has dismissed long-held perceptions that the Nigerian hip hop music genre is anti-intellectual, raw, loud, unserious, and mere noise, insisting that ...

Apple Music’s Rap Life Radio, presented by Global Editorial Head of Hip-Hop and R&B Ebro Darden, will feature acclaimed ...

Reviewed by Luis Gimenez in African music (Grahamstown, South Africa) 9 (3) 2013, pages 192-195. Reviewed by Caroline Mose in Journal of African cultural studies (London) 25 (2) June 2013, pages ...

There are different paths to success, and in the music industry, some artists are born with a silver spoon while others have a more difficult background. The beauty of it all is that, irrespective of ...