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Ladipoe Bags Fourth Number One Song with Overdose

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Ladipoe Bags Fourth Number One Song with Overdose

Mavins Records rapper Oladipo Eso, popularly known as Ladipoe, or simply Poe, just landed himself a fourth number-one single on the Nigerian Apple Music Top 100 Chart, with the Mavins Record posse cut, ‘Overloading (OVERDOSE).’

The song features an infectious hook from Mavins and Blowtime singer, Crayon, a verse each from Ayra Starr, Ladipoe himself, Magixx, and new kid on the block, Boy Spyce, in that order.

The posse cut follows the 2020 pandemic hit, ‘Know You‘ featuring Simi, 2021’s Buju assisted ‘Feeling‘ and the Fireboy collaborative joint, ‘Running‘ as the Nigerian rapper’s fourth number-one single on the charts.

Ladipoe earlier this month released the video for his collab with Mavins golden boy, Rema, ‘Afro Jigga.’ What other songs from the Providence EP would you like to see a video for?

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Blxckie Celebrates 10 Plaques in One Year with Redbat Deal

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Blxckie Celebrates 10 Plaques in One Year with Redbat Deal

Blxckie, The Durban rapper tipped to be the next Nasty C when he burst into the scene in 2020, with his pandemic hit, ‘Big Time Shlappa,’ has steadily continued down a similar success path as the man he was often compared to., and that includes a couple of gold and platinum plaques and now a Redbat endorsement deal.

Around this time last year ago, Blxckie released his debut album after a slew of successful singles including ‘Ye x4‘ featuring non-other than Nasty C himself.

The album titled ‘B4NOW’ was a staple trap effort novel in both its production and Blxckie’s unique vocal dexterity and choppy flow, doused with slurry playful baby accents, and a palette of infused genres.

Somnyama and Redbat in a collaboration with a release of their new sneakers celebrate the success of ‘B4NOW,’ which spawned hits like ‘David,’ ‘Stripes‘ featuring Flvme, and ‘Hold.’

Blxckie expressed his excitement for the partnership and also revealed he will be the first SA rapper to have his own Redbat’s music culture tee.

‘B4NOW’ is now widely regarded as the greatest debut album by a South African hip hop artist, as amongst other accomplishments has accumulated ten different certifications for Blxckie in just one year of release.

Last year, he was named Apple Music’s up next artist and, along with several other nominations, won freshman of the year at the South African Hip Hop Awards (SAHHAs).

Somnyama in one year, received the following plaques, double platinum award for “Kwenzekile” feat. Madumane and “Chang Cello”, “Ye ×4” feat. Nasty C, “Big Time Sh’lappa” feat. Lucasraps and “Hold”.

Gold awards for the following singles, “Sika”, “David”, “Joy” Ft. Oxlade, Umoya, “Cold” and for his “B4Now” deluxe album.

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Lolli Native Gets Two Killer Hooks from SA King of Hooks, Emtee

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Lolli Native Gets Two Killer Hooks from SA King of Hooks, Emtee

Lolli Native is a Cape Town-born Xhosa Spaza Trapper, Lolli Native, gets some help from former Ambitiouz Entertainment trapper, Emtee, for two new singles.

The Nyanga East rapper who was signed to Emtee records last year, recently released ‘Nyanga‘ featuring Emtee and wasted no time seeking another killer hook from the Matatiele-born hook king for another collab.

Emtee has been low-key trying to make a huge comeback to the top echelon of SA hip hop since his third studio album ‘Logan‘ in 2021. This is just another set of features from quite a number, for the father of two, since last year.

‘On Your Own’ is produced by Knifebeatz and the visuals are a collaborative effort with Sportscene studios. Lolli Native is set to release his debut project titled ‘Ivangeli’ starring Brian Temba, Zaddy Swag, and a few more.

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Zoocci Coke Dope Receives Gold Plaque for ‘Hustler’s Prayer’ Production

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Zoocci Coke Dope Receives Gold Plaque for ‘Hustler’s Prayer’ Production

South African rapper, songwriter, and record producer, Zoocci Coke Dope, has just received a gold plaque for his production contribution to the 25k and A-Reece 2021 hit song, ‘Hustler’s Prayer.’

The gold plaque was presented to Zooloo by the Recording Industry of South Africa (RISA), the official governing body for music certifications in South Africa, for selling an equivalent of 10,000 units.

‘Hustler’s Prayer’ albeit the first time 25K and Zoocci are working together,  is not the first collaborative effort between Zoocci Coke Dope and fellow Pretoria-born emcee, A-Reece.

The two artists have previously worked together several times in the past as Zooloo was heavily affiliated with the now-defunct A-Reece-led crew, ‘The Wrecking Crew.‘

Their collaborations include the 2017 smash hit, ‘All Night Long,’ 2018’s Sweet Revenge, and several production efforts on Reece’s sophomore album, ‘From Me to You and Only You.’

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Vector Ready to Make Another Comeback with New Single

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Vector Ready to Make Another Comeback with New Single

Olanrewaju Ogunmefun, popularly known by millions of Africans by his stage name, Vector the Viper, took to has been teasing fans with a forthcoming single, on his Instagram account @Vectorthaviper for the last week. Lanre has been quiet since he dropped the remix of his uber-lyrical collaboration with former archrival, MI Abaga; Crown of Clay, featuring Khaligraph Jones and Dip Doundou Guiss.

Fans are definitely excited about the snippets the Nigerian veteran rapper has been sharing all week, and the excitement met an all-time high as he announced the release date with a black and white picture on Tuesday, the 29th of March.

From the snippets, the song features soulful, Yoruba female vocals on the chorus, accompanied by Vector dropping catchy bars, as he is known for, on the song which is an ode to his given name, Olanrewaju.

The song release has been slated for April 7th, 2022 as Vector captioned the Instagram photo was captioned, “4-7-22′.” Are you excited for new vector?

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Electronic Hip Hop artist ITUM releases ‘MINIONS’ – A Song About Power & Control

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Electronic Hip Hop artist ITUM releases ‘MINIONS’ – A Song About Power & Control

Born in the Freestate, South Africa and now based in Johannesburg, Itum has a message for the masses about always being aware of your own power and who is in control.

 MINIONS is the first single release off his forthcoming EP

ABOUT MINIONS: “The song came about after I had watched the film ” Minions” and I started questioning control and power. The inspiration behind the song is about realizing that no matter how you look at it, there is always someone else in control and we are all minions to one thing or another,” explains ITUM. MINIONS was the second song recorded after losing all of his previous songs to a computer virus.

“I saw this as a revival track, as I really felt like I had lost it all with losing my musical creations previously,” says Itum.

MINIONS is one of 4 tracks to be included on the new project ” fun is yours _ you define it” releasing June 2022. ITUM delves in an international flavored style of electronic hip-hop mixed with local African elements. By mixing African percussion and an array of indigenous South African languages, his sound is African at the core, but appeals to a wider international audience. Having gained experience producing an array of other artist’s music ITUM was prepared for the release of his own sounds and styles. Having studied Music at Boston City Campus & Business College in 2017, he honed his skills and knowledge of music creation, which is evident in the latest single MINIONS.

Itum has released 3 previous projects, the first one a beat project called NEESUN, followed by his debut project ESIR and his latest space + time. Itum has had previous success with singles play-listed on numerous local stations including Tshwane FM and a chart hit single on Alex FM AMATOP 7 CHART and features on two Spotify editorial playlists.

 “fun is yours _ you define it” EP will be released 6 June.

 

Kendrick Lamar has the Highest First Week Sales of 2022

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Kendrick Lamar has the Highest First Week Sales of 2022

The highest first-week sales from a 2022 album is not from the ”2000s pop samples” heavy, college dorm rap filled Jack Harlow album, nor the R&B and melodic rap-laden Future album, isn’t it surprising? Kendrick Lamar Duckworth disappears for four years and returns with the highest first-week sales of the year.

Mr. Morale and the BigSteppers just debuted on the Billboard Hot 200 and smashed all the predictions critics and fans alike had for the album, commercially

Kendrick just landed his fourth No.1 album on the Hot 200 with sales of 295,000 equivalent album units in the first week of review, debuting atop the coveted chart.

With over 70k units more than Future’s ‘I Never Liked You, ‘Mr. Morale‘ is the highest album debut since Adele’s ’30’ debuted with 839,000 units in late November 2021.

 

 

Kendrick Lamar Lands All 18 Songs From His Album on the Hot 100

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Kendrick Lamar Lands All 18 Songs From His Album on the Hot 100

‘Mr. Morale and the Big Steppers,’ just debuted on the Billboard Hot100 with a bang. The album is barely two weeks old and is already running the Hot 100. Many fans and critics had predicted modest sales projections for the long-awaited album. The album’s units have been finally collated by Billboard and the results are staggering.

For four years, the most prevalent work of Kendrick’s on the charts was his major-label debut album ‘Good Kid MAAD City,’ which broke Eminem’s record of the highest-charting rap album of all time.

The new album has wasted no time in scaling the charts, with lead single ‘N95‘ leading the pack at #3 with 37.2 million streams, 942k airplay audience impressions, and 2,300 copies sold between May 13-19. This is the fifth-highest streaming tally of 2022.

‘Die Hard’ settled in at #5, ‘Silent Hill,’ and album intro ‘United in Grief‘ settle at #7 and #8 respectively, which puts Kendrick at four entries in the Top 10, and a total of 9 entries in the Top 20. The lowest entry from the album is ‘Mother I Sober’ at #59. Not bad for a conscious, sonically experimental rap album.

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Kendrick seems ready to take over the summer, is ‘N95’ about to be another ‘Humble‘, and give Lamar his second solo Hot 100 #1.

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Jack Harlow’s First Class Spends Third Week at #1

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Jack Harlow’s First Class Spends Third Week at #1

Louisville, Kentucky rapper, Jack Harlow,  is enjoying rave success for his sophomore album, ‘Come Home, the Kids Miss You.’ The ‘What’s Popping’ rapper scored a second #1 single prior to the album release five weeks ago and has been sitting comfortably atop the Hot 100 for it’s week.

The Drake co-signed rapper, raked in 110,000 album equivalent units in the first week for his sophomore effort, settling in at #1.

First class concurrently claims a fifth week atop both the Hot R&B/Hip Hop songs and Hot Rap songs charts. The track knocked Harry Styles’ ‘As It Was’ off the #1 pedestal on the Hot 100 and is facing heated pressure from Kendrick Lamar’s ‘N95‘ which just landed at #3 this week and does not seem to be slowing down in streaming numbers.

Falz Announces Fifth Studio Album, ‘Bahd’

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Falz Announces Fifth Studio Album, ‘Bahd’

Bahd Guyz Entertainment CEO, rapper, and actor, Folarin Falana, popularly known as Falz the Bahd Guy, has taken to social media to announce his fifth full-length studio project, titled ‘Bahd.’

The rapper has been preaching the ”Bahd Gospel” since his debut album, 2014’s ‘Wazup Guy‘ in the early days of his career. ‘Bahd’ will be the follow-up to 2019’s renegade and genre-fusing ”Moral Instructions‘ which received stellar commercial and critical acclaim among critics and fans alike.

The comic emcee invited fans into his creative walls to witness the creation of some songs that might make the final cut of the project, via an episodic documentary titled ‘Road to Bahd.’ He explained that the album will take a different dimension and direction, and there are possibilities that there won’t be any rap songs on the album.

In the documentary which stars some of the featured artists on the album, the artist explains the inspirations and creative processes behind the songs.

It is refreshing to see moe Nigerian artists take project rollouts more seriously, an effect of what a well-planned and executed rollout helped Burna Boy’s ‘Twice as Tall’ achieve in 2020, maybe.

Do you think this album will live up  to the almost ethereal standard the emce has built into his discography for the last decade, are you expecting a socio conscious effort like ‘Moral Instructions,’ giving that this will be Falz’ first project since he was heavily involved in the EndSARS protests, or another mood music filled endeavour closer to 2017’s ‘27?’

What we do know is that Duktor Sett, Yung Willis, and frequent collaborator Sess, are on production duties, and featured artists include Timaya and Boy Spyce.

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