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Ladipoe Serves ‘Big Energy’ in Style

Mavins Records lyrical giant, Ladipo Eso, also known as Ladipoe has delivered a brand new banging single titled ‘Big Energy.’ Poe as he is fondly called by fans decides to ride the euphoria of his much-celebrated verse on the mAvins Posse cut, ‘Overdose,’ and serve this energetic cut with a black and white visualizer.

Ladipoe announced the single on Thursday, June 9, 2022, with a video of him and some Mavins Records staff vibing to a snippet of the song, followed by a freestyle of the same name to anticipate the song, on the same day.

The ‘Big Energy’ lyric video currently sits on 1.9k views in eight hours. It is also very impressive to see Ladipoe take on a hook by himself, as all four of his number one songs had featured artists on the hook.

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Ladipoe Releases ‘Big Energy’ Freestyle with Fire Visuals

Earlier in the morning of Wednesday, June 8, 2022 uploaded a video on his Instagram account, of him and a dozen staff of Mavins Records vibing to a snippet of a song ostensibly titled ‘Big Energy.’ Later in the day, the Ikeja-born rapper officially releases visuals for the ‘Freestyle.’

The minute, forty-six seconds freestyle was treated to a black and white video of Ladip rapping next to a car on a highway, flexing big energy.

The freestyle is as expected doused in lyrical gems or ‘lifelines’ as Poe likes to refer to his lyrics. Several brow-raising bars include ballsy lines like ”the only charting rapper charting that’s really rapping” pointing at most Nigerian rappers who sing to get a hit song.

Another highlighted is what seems like a shot at MI Abaga, or at least any other veteran rapper in the Nigerian hip hop scene, whose identity we can only guess ”ones that claim to move the culture same ones that block the gates” and Lagos nightlife and industry beef with ”the ones that are always jealous but still party with me at (club) Envy. ”

Poe has seemingly thrown shots at Abaga before on his 2018 song ‘Revival‘ where he rapped lines that seemed to attack hundred crowns records, chocolate city, Abaga, and Blaqbonez.” Although Poe gave Blaq a shout-out on his ‘O Por remix’ in 2020.

His relevance in the industry was addressed on lines like ”acting like rap doesn’t go well with Afrobeats but my verse on ‘Overdose‘ is making it hard to breath” and ”underrated but still five times nominated.”

 

 

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Falz Releases 5th studio Album Bahd

Nigerian rapper Folarin Falana aka Falz has debuted his fifth studio album, eponymously titled ‘Bahd‘ on all streaming platforms. The rapper who announced the album with a series of mini-documentaries he titled ‘Road to Bahd,’ had hinted he will be taking a different sonic direction with the new project.

Hardcore rap fans have raised concerns about their hopes to get rap Falz on the album being shattered, but every artist needs to evolve at some point.

Below is ‘Inside’ off the album featuring Nigerian veteran Timaya and Mavin’s newest wonder kid BoySpyce. The album also features Tiwa Savage, Chike, etc.

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Psycho YP Drops ‘Bando Diaries’ with Odumodu Blvck

Nigerian trapper, Psycho YP has not let the altercations with DND and other Atlanta rappers slow him down, as he has just released another banging trap tune, featuring Igbo rapper Odumo Blvck.

The Abuja rapper already dropped a double-track this year, one of them with frequent collaborator Azanti, and also bagged a master’s degree in the United Kingdom.

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AKA Still Inspiring A-Reece After 7 Years

Pretoria West Rapper and Rubberband Records founder, Lehlogonolo Ronald Mataboge, popularly known as A-Reece recently revealed that SA rap veteran, Kiernan Forbes also known as AKA, still inspires him after so many years in the limelight.

Reece took to his Instagram stories and shared a picture of AKA’s sophomore album ‘Levels,’ captioning the photo let me get inspired.

AKA levels

Baby Boy’s admiration for Supa Mega has never been in question, in 2015 Reece made a freestyle while in High school where he was declaring his admiration for Khuli Chana and AKA. Peep the freestyle titled ‘Valumlom’ below.

A tweep asked AKA if he would ever work with A-Reece and Supa Mega declared that he respects Reece and his music, especially his ‘Paradise’ album.

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Flvme Set to Drop International Collaboration

South African music producer and rapper Flvme, earlier this month released the official tracklist for his long-awaited album, ‘Germander II.’ Taking to Twitter, Flvme shared the official tracklist of the project but he did not reveal the release date of the much-awaited follow-up to 2019’s ‘Germander.’

US rapper 24 Hours, since working with Nasty C on their collaboration ‘Plus 1,‘ has been on the lookout to work with more Mzansi rappers.

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Following a Twitter interaction with one of his followers, the US rapper disclosed that he has a song with Flvme coming. “When are we getting the project with @FlvmeSA,” read the tweet and he confirmed the collaboration on the tweet.

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MashBeatz & Thato Soul Announce Sophomore Joint Project, ‘Life is Gangsta.’

South African producer, Nhlawulo Mashimbyi, commonly known by his stage name MashBeatz aka The President is, is leading a revolution from Pheli. He took to his Twitter account on June 8, 2022, to announce his forthcoming joint album titled ‘Life is Gangsta’  with budding Pretoria rapper, Thato Saul. The album will be their second as a duo.

Mashbeatz is known as the 808 God in Giyani, and is the creator of rapper A-Reece’s hit singles ”Meanwhile in Honeydew” and ”Zimbali”.

‘Life is Gangsta’ slated for Friday 10 June 2022, will contain thirteen tracks, including a surprise feature from former collaborator A-Reece. The two were both thought to be involved in a cold beef by fans who read meanings lyrics and tweets from both parties.

Mash and Thato’s latest single ‘Never Ride’ hit 400k views on Youtube in one month, Thato may not be the new A-Reece to Mash’s genius, but it’s definitely a match made in 808 heaven.

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Tyson Sybatelli’s Album Enters the South African Apple Music Albums Top 15

A-Reece has been #1 on the Apple Music SA albums chart for six weeks straight, however, there’s a newcomer on the charts, Pretorian Tyson Sybatelli has cracked the top 15, with his studio album titled ‘Home‘ at #6, the album features A-Reece affiliated artists like Jay Jody, IMP the Don, etc, we may have an A-Reece and Tyson collab soon.

Following his December 2021 EP release, “Eve“, The album released in May 2022, has quickly garnered momentum amongst fans who have noted similarities between the rapper and other Pretoria compatriots like A-Reece and Wordz the Prince.

Like he said on ‘If found bring home,’ ”when you do a song with Wordz and talk to IMP like every week, n***as wonder if you’re gonna have a song with A-Reece.” Well, Tyson, we are wondering too, the fans await.

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Costa Titch’s ‘Big Flexa’ Hits 5O Million TikTok Views

Costa Titch’s 2021 hit ‘Big Flexa‘ has been doing massive strides since it first hit the internet and the airwaves. The single ushered in a TikTok challenge that spawned over 5,000 challenge videos. The single’s official video has accumulated over 50 million views on the short video sharing platform since 2021.

The internet has made so many stars in today’s entertainment industry but nobody has ridden the internet wave in SA hip hop like Uncle Vinny and Costa Titch.

Costa has ridden the wave to several smash hits including, ‘Nkalakatha‘ and its remix featuring AKA and Riky Rick, and a successful debut album ‘Made in Africa‘ and a Nota co-sign, all in his first two years in the mainstream.

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Youtube Algorithm Reports Maglera’s Verse is the Most Replayed Part on MashBeatz’ ‘Never Ride.’

Former TWC member and A-Reece collaborator Mashbeatz off the success of his joint mixtape with Pretoria newcomer  Thato Saul, recruited the Setswana rapper and Klerksdorp rapper, Maglera Doe Boy for another banger. The song is a trap song with recurrent violin and Cello sampled over hi-hats.

While fans call for a reunion between the Pretoria genius producer and old collaborator A-Reece, Mash keeps bagging wins, with this new viral hit.

The Youtube algorithm analysis has reported that fans replayed the ‘Bodega‘ rapper’s verse on the smash hit more than any other part of the song, since it’s upload to the platform. Maglera laid his very energetic performance on the second verse of the song and it has become a fan favorite.

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