Grammy award-winning producer, Rexxie teams up with PH music duo- Ajebo Hustlers (Kpo Lifestyle) for the release of a brand new song which he titles, CALL MY PHONE. This track is coming after the huge success of his 2022 hit song ‘Abracadabra‘ which went viral due to the catchy line ‘Abi Kin Pe Rexxie‘.
Rexxie carves his own lane, effectively circumventing mainstream expectations with his self-proclaimed Afro Streets sound, as heard in 2020 hit single “KPK” (Ko Por Ke) which featured Mohbad. Nigeria’s Ajebo Hustlers (Born and raised in Port Harcourt) are known for their fusion of highlife, Afropop, and street slang, as heard on their 2020 hit “Barawo“, and 2021 single- “Loyalty“.
After Naira Marley dropped the viral line, Abi Kin Pe Rexxie (should I call Rexxie?) in Abracadabra, The producer finally gives a special lady permission to dial his number anytime she needs company. “Call My Phone” is a follow-up single to Abracadabra Remix featuring Wizkid, and it serves as the lead single to Rexxie’s forthcoming BIG TIME project.
Quotable Lyrics
‘When you need a shoulder to cry, You can call on me I’m not perfect but i would try, You can count on me Heal your burdens and your worries, Baby bounce on me I’m one call away, baby would you speed dial on me Would you call my phone, yeah call my….’
Listen, Enjoy and Get!!!
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Ross Learmonth, best recognised as the frontman of South African royalty rock band Prime Circle steps back into the spotlight with his latest release “Young”.
“Young” is a song to celebrate the moment by not allowing time to dictate our age and how we perceive ourselves in this short but beautiful time we have on this planet,” Ross explains. “It is about remaining young at heart, not letting yourself get caught up in a silly thing like age. Enjoying every moment and keeping the kid in us all alive and well. Don’t let the old man in”
Having travelled the world for the past 3 years writing for international artists in Nashville, Muscle Shoals and London. will return with a debut project on the 31st of March 2023.
When asked about his reasoning for going solo Ross explained: “I just felt that there was so much music in me and not necessarily a ‘Prime’ sound… I wanted to explore and push my boundaries. (It is) to step out of my comfort zone and I was very fortunate enough to have found something beautiful beyond”.
Captivating audiences around the world with his new sound Ross released two singles from his debut project so far ‘Wild’ and ‘Screaming’ in 2022 and both peaked at number 1 on various radio stations.
“The album is a journey of living in the moment, realizing one’s faults in relationships and moving past previous bounds, and escaping into the unknown. Allowing oneself to break free and let the cards fall where they may. There is a romance in the unknown and allowing yourself to get caught up in it,” he explains.
“Young” is available on all major streaming platforms.
Arguably one of the best songs to come out of SA Hip Hop in 2022, Mashbeatz and his partners, MagleraDoeBoy and Thato Saul continue to ride the wave of their hit track, Never Ride.
Just months following the successful release of This Is Religion, Mashbeatz led the project with Never Ride which was dropped to critical acclaim. The catchy hook, infectious production, not to mention MDB’s verse, and overall delivery certified the track as a hit as soon as the streets heard it.
Having featured the likes of Jim Jones and Chris Brown for their From The Block Performance segment, 4 Shooters Only Africa took a trip to South Africa for a dope Never Ride performance.
Mashbeatz, Thato Saul, & MagleraDoeBoy – For The Block Performance
Shot in the township of Alexandra, the performance follows the sequence of the song, opening with Thato Saul who proudly represents his home donning a Pheli Mafia baseball cap as Mash and MDB stand behind him. The Maglera superstar goes up next, rapping his most loved verse to date before the trio closes the video off.
The Mavin rapper, like many others, has aired his opinion on the results of the just-concluded Nigerian presidential election.
Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Prof Mahmood Yakubu declared the candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Bola Ahmed Tinubu as the winner of the 2023 presidential election.
The INEC chair declared on Wednesday at the National Collation Centre, Abuja.
Nigerian ace rapper, Ladipo Eso, popularly known as Ladipoe, has reacted to the announcement by INEC declaring Tinubu as the president-elect of Nigeria.
In the early hours of Wednesday, March 1, 2023, the Independent National Electoral Commission announced Bola Tinubu of the All Progressive People’s Congress as the winner of the 2023 presidential election. This announcement was accorded by many as dubious due to the several cases of rigging across several states.
Reacting to the situation, Poe posted a video of Tinubu and his camp jubilating after being announced as President-Elect by INEC’s chairman, MahmoodYakubu. Implying that the election was rigged, the award-winning rapper accompanied his comment with a ‘zipped-mouth’ emoji and wrote:
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Award winning Ghanaian rapper Lyrical Joe has finally released the tracklist for his upcoming album which he calls “Photo Album”.
Lyrical Joe, who picked up the Best Rapper at Ghana’s Vodafone Music Awards 22 just last year is currently the best rapper in his country, and he dropped the tracklist on his Twitter page today , 1st March 2023.
God’s Blessings to the Team, every artiste and producer who worked side by side with me to make this treasure a reality. And to all who stayed with me, let’s start making history together with this #PhotoAlbumpic.twitter.com/kiqqE6Gg2v
The album would be officially out on the 17th of march and the Ghanaian industry at large is anticipating this project from Lyrical Joe who has been proving to be one to look our for. The Album features fellow Best Rapper in Neighboring country Nigeria A-Q featured on the track 10 Street Prophets with other Ghanaian heavyweight rappers EL and Medikal on track 6 and 8 respectively and female songstress Efya and Black Avenue’s S3fa on track 2 and 14 with buzzing young versatile Darkovibes on track 13.
The Photo Album could be the beginging of great things for lyrical Joe and everyone at the Hiphop Africa team wishes him well and he prepaprea to drop his project.l
Nigerian Pop star Burna Boy has been billed to headline this years annual Dreamville Festival alongside the host J.Cole, Usher and Drake in Raleigh North Carolina, he will join Cole at his annual festival when it returns to Dorothea Dix Park in Raleigh, North Carolina for a third year on April 1-2 and would be Headlining on the final festival day to thrill the audience just as he has been doing round the world.
Other performers include special guest Drake, who will help him close out the main stage on Sunday night. The duo who both have songs together will perform a medley of hits from each of their chart-topping catalogs. Other African acts include Arya Starr and Victony
Over 80,000 people attended last year’s two-day celebration, which featured Lil Baby, Wizkid, Kehlani, Ja Rule, Ashanti, and Wale, plus a Gangsta Grillz set with Lil Wayne, Jeezy, and T.I.
Tickets are on sale now for the April 1-2 festival, which has become one of the biggest music festivals in the state. More than 80,000 people attended in 2022.
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Featuring on the Wakanda Forever Original soundtrack album alongside Barbadian Superstar Rihanna shot her into international stardom but Sampa Tembo has been popping in the Australian rap scene for more than a minute. The country she was based in between 2014 and 2020.
The Zambian-born emcee’s debut solo album, ‘The Return‘ released in 2019 peaked at No. 12 on the ARIA Albums Chart.
The 29-year-old rapper, singer and poet is a non-conforming renegade, evident in her eclectic music style and fashion sense.
She has several ARIA Music Awards under her corset including Best Hip Hop Release, Best Female Artist and Best Independent Release.
As the first female person of colour to win a hip-hop category, the move exemplified systemic racism in the industry.
In March 2020 Sampa the Great won the Australian Music Prize for The Return; becoming the first musician in its 15-year history to win the award twice
The biggest highlight of her career came with her 2023 Grammy nomination for her contributions to Angelique Kidjo’s ‘Queen of Shea’ album as a featured artist.
Her latest album ‘As Above, So Below,’ is her self-love note and expression of her higher self and also her introduction to the Western World.
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Celebrated Kenyan rapper Femi One who is at the top of her game has just dropped a new video dubbed ‘Staki’ featuring Domani Mkadinali
Staki better explains that No is a complete sentence. In the song, Femi One touches on various issues that need to be addressed, such as rape and women being forced into compromising situations.
is a must-watch video, the video is doing well and has over 90K views in 24 hours.
In her signature punchlines along with Domani’s dope street vibe; Femi underscores the issues that women face daily in our current society such as sex for work, sex trafficking and transactional sex.
The visuals shot and directed by renowned director Steve Mugo is a perfect depiction of the song. Femi One shows her acting skills on another level; which brings out the detrimental consequences of going against someone’s will!
With such a strong statement made by the AFRIMMA best female rapper, one can only imagine the projects and movements Femi has lined up for her fans this year.
Follow @Femi_one on social media to keep up with updates from the fiery kenyan female rapper.
BoomerCPT is creating his own world of alternative Hip-hop music. Getting inspiration from rock and alternative RnB BoomerCPT is ready to change the face of rap music one song at a time. This past year BoomerCPT completed his matric last year while trying to find balance. He soon came to realise that music is his everything.
“Music has always been my main focus, so having to balance school another extra year felt very weird. Especially since I could have been done earlier. Since a very young age, I didn’t see the importance of school but I know that matric is important so I had to finish it.”
BoomerCPT
“My chemical romance” and “bring me the horizon” influenced BoomerCPT heavily while he slowly made his transition away from the music his peers were making. Most of his peers made Hip-hop while BoomerCPT felt the need to go in a new direction with a more alternative approach.
Judgement was a challenge Boomer had to face head-on. Going against the grain isn’t always easy but it’s something that we all have to do at one time or another. Boomer continues to strive towards becoming the best artist that makes alternative music in South Africa and eventually goes on to grow a fan base all over the world.
“Music is therapy for me and I treat it as such. Whatever I release I want it to come from a personal space. “
BoomerCPT
For more on BoomerCPT read our interview below:
The following interview has been lightly edited for context and clarity
Daniel Young: When did you start getting into music?
BoomerCPT: Music has always been an aspect in my life. I started making music in 2018 and partook in rap battles at my school. I soon realised that I couldn’t always go to YouTube for my beats and I learnt how to make my own. I remember using the demo version of fruity loops and then moving onto getting the crack version. Ever since then everything has been going up for me.
Talk to me about that transitional period of moving from YouTube beats to making your own, you don’t just start off and everything is perfect.
To be honest with you it was not easy at all. YouTube beats is where I got all of my inspiration from. I went from finding my own vibe with a certain beat on YouTube to actually having to go and create my own atmosphere. It wasn’t easy at all but I think that even through that process it was shaping me into the artist that I want to become. I went through so many avenues to make sure that I can become the best version of myself. I asked my friends for help and I even went on Reddit to help with my production. As time went by the process got smoother.
Do you play instruments?
I don’t know how to play any instruments. I am learning how to play the keyboard so I can brush up on my production skills. I remember my parents would always buy me the flute or a guitar but I just wouldn’t use it. I had no interest in it at all.
Can you talk to me about the music scene that you are currently in? I know that once you start making music it can feel isolated but once you start getting to know more people it becomes so small. How have you found it?
I have always liked being the centre of attention. Sorry for saying it like that but I’m just being real. Getting attention from other artist isn’t just something that I brushed off easily, I really liked it. I even used it as fuel to grow as an artist. I found a lot of friends that I made in this music business. The fact that the Cape Town music scene is not on top right now is mind blowing. Slowly but surely we are getting there.
How have you found with collaborating with other artists? Has it been easy working with other people and trusting them with your ideas?
It really depends on their vibe. I do get tired of people who consistently have the same subject matter all the time. Personally I like to try new things and experiment with my sound. I want to change the landscape and push other artists to do the same. Working with artist who are as open as I am and creative as I am is the most beautiful experience ever. However, if I get this vibe that people just want to work with me for clout then I will only do one song with them.
So then how do you differentiate between the two, do you have to sit down with someone beforehand or can you just tell by their “vibe”.
It’s a bit of both. I can meet someone on whatsapp and see by the content that they post that they are just in music for the clout. Then you get others who just radiate creativity when you meet them and I think to myself I want to work with them. One thing I don’t like is an artist that is consistently rapping on ‘Lil Baby’ type beats.
Where do you see yourself in the next few years?
I see myself being successful. Not just successful in a financial sense but I want to better myself as a person. I want to be a better person emotionally. I think that taking care of your mental health is very important. I hope that in the next 5 years I become less anxious and I want to be someone that people look up to.
You mentioned success… What does success look like to BoomerCPT?
You get two types of success in my opinion. There is personal success and then there is success that is seen by others. Personal success to me would be being happy with how far you have come as a person. Success seen by others I would say is if a lot of people like you. It’s a very subjective topic.
If you had to describe yourself as a person, it doesn’t have to be music related. How would you do so?
I would describe myself as reckless. I am very emotionally hard headed and combative to a point where if you don’t believe in what I am doing then I would do my best to try and show you that I can achieve that very goal that I set out for myself. I am basically just all over the place. I like to hustle. A prime example of that would be if we are in the same studio and I want to get money now but you’re saying let’s get money in 5 minutes’ time. I am going to tell you that you should stop your nonsense.
How would you describe the type of music that you make?
To be honest with you I don’t know how to answer that question. The type of music that I make is just me. It’s emotional and also very ignorant. My lyrics aren’t going to take you to google to search what I just said but it’s very direct and I try my best to speak to the soul. Music is a spiritual thing.
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South African super lyricist PdotO coming off his collaboration album with the legendary Blaklez ‘Lost Diamonds 2,’ is set to drop his sixth studio project and first solo project in three years, a mixtape titled ‘Son Of Nomsa.’
The East London emcee’s last solo project is 2020’s ‘Cold Waters.’ He has stated that it is his best project yet but he will let the music speak for itself.
“New PROJECT. SON OF NOMSA MIXTAPE/S.O.N MIXTAPE My 6th Solo Body of Work Real close to my Heart. DROPS MARCH 10TH (MY BEST WORK yet , but il let the Music Tell It) available for Pre Order Right now–>https://distrokid.com/hyperfollow/pdoto/son-of-nomsa Artwork Design by @elroyalty Love,” he tweeted.
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