Music artistes continue to get credit for the rapid expansion of African hip hop music culture popularly christened Afrobeats but it is Disc Jockeys such as US-based DJ Hol Up who are the unsung ...

Renowned Disc Jockey, DJ Obi has paid tribute to British-Nigerian rapper Skepta for his pivotal role in promoting Afrobeats globally. On a recent podcast, DJ Obi highlighted the significance of Skepta ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Emerging in the 2000s, Afrobeats is a popular style of West African music that employs polyrhythms and syncopation and draws ...

The meteoric rise of Ololade Asake this year from the backwaters of obscurity is like Tems’ rise last year. This year, Tems rendered her take on Bob Marley’s ‘No Woman No Cry’ on the original ...

Set to drop his six-song EP and videos this summer, US-based Nigerian DJ, DJ Dozzy Ross, has claimed he is among those who have been pushing Afrobeats music to the US and the world. Born Dozie Udemadu ...

Afrobeats is the Gospel; she is the Evangelist spreading the good news, converting souls to Afrobeats one show at a time, gradually building an audience who will live to cherish the rhythmic sounds ...

The first time I realised Gen Zs were falling in love with live DJ performances, I thought: Surely, we’re all attending different parties?Because my early DJ experiences? Let’s just say they felt less ...

Prince Kalu still isn’t sure what happened to the DJ who was supposed to provide the music at a 2016 wedding his friend was attending. “He had set up his equipment and then he disappeared. The bride ...

Nigerian disc jockey, Nonso Temisan Ajufo, popularly known as DJ Big N, has expressed concern over the sharp drop in the performance of the Afrobeats genre on the global stage. He claimed that the ...

Oliver Akinfeleye remembers Burna Boy’s first show in New York. The location was Palladium Times Square, the year was 2017. Akinfeleye, an American Nigerian photographer known professionally as ...

Step into any of the countless nightclubs in Lagos and you’re bound to find yourself immersed in a sonic journey of pulsating beats, groovy samples and hip-hop kicks. In a megacity where everybody ...