Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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Runtown’s ‘Mad Over You’ Is Still Travelling Ten Years On
In 2016, Afrobeats was taking shape. Wizkid’s voice carried one of the biggest records on the planet, Kizz Daniel arrived with his debut project, and a new class including Mayorkun, Tekno, Mr Eazi, Ycee and Maleek Berry was defining the sound of modern Nigerian pop. Runtown’s ‘Mad Over You’ landed in November of that year,…
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SO YOU WANT TO SEE DAVE IN LAGOS? HERE’S WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW
Thinking about seeing Dave in Lagos but still deciding whether to buy a ticket? Here’s everything you need to know before you pick your date, seat and experience. His The Boy Who Played the Harp tour comes to Lagos for two nights, Friday, October 16, and Saturday, October 17 , at the Wole Soyinka Centre…
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On SWAGUU, Seyi Vibez Is Whole Again
Seyi Vibez has spent the better part of a decade being the kind of artist the music industry does not fully know what to do with. Not because the talent is questionable, but because the talent refuses to sit where it has been put. Undeniable in his lane, restless enough to keep testing its edges,…
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66 Essential Songs For Nigeria’s 66th Independence Day
Music has always been inseparable from the fabric of a nation, and probably will always be. There are songs that are simply hits, and then there are songs that become part of how a country remembers itself. Nigeria has never had just one sound. There is juju and highlife, Fuji and Afrobeat, gospel and hip-hop,…
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Meet The Doctor Who Has Built a Talent Incubator, a Streetwear Line, and Greencamp Festival
Dr. Babajide “Molo” Olanrewaju trained as a doctor. He also runs Greencamp, the non-profit talent incubator now heading into its tenth annual festival; styles artists under an Afrocentric streetwear lens; promotes events; and works as a data scientist, a discipline he says has sharpened how he reads the Nigerian entertainment industry from the inside. Raised…
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5 TYPES OF PEOPLE YOU’LL DEFINITELY SEE AT SANTAN DAVE’S CONCERT IN LAGOS
It’ll be the first-ever headline appearance in Nigeria for Santan Dave this October 16 and 17, when he takes to the 4,000-capacity Wole Soyinka Centre for Culture and Creative Arts (formerly National Theatre) in Lagos for the Nigerian leg of The Boy Who Played the Harp tour. The two-night stop will also bring the global…
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What the Timeline Got Wrong About Pap Smears
You’ve probably seen the pap smear conversation that took over Nigerian Twitter this month, which was split down predictable lines. One side traded stories about painful, dismissive appointments. The other side wondered why a routine screening test was being treated like an ordeal. Both sides were talking past each other, so we went straight to…
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Early Nigerian Rock Bands You Must Listen To
Long before Afrobeats became Nigeria’s biggest musical export, electric guitars, fuzz pedals and psychedelic grooves were already moving the country people on the dance floors. When people talk about Nigerian music history, the conversation usually moves through highlife, juju, Afrobeat and, eventually, Afrobeats. Rock rarely gets the same attention. But in the late 1960s and…
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Spotify brings fans closer to Tems and Runtown at Surround Sound in Lagos
Spotify brought fans closer to Tems and Runtown across two nights of Surround Sound in Lagos, inviting selected Premium listeners based on their listening behaviour to experience the artists and music they care about in an intimate, in-the-round setting. Held at Livespot in Lagos on 25 and 26 September, the performances brought two distinct catalogue…
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How Coca-Cola and Johnny Drille Made a 75th Anniversary Anthem You’ll Actually Replay
It starts before the music even starts. You hear a crowd (people talking, laughing, the kind of noise you get at a family party). Then a bottle clinks. Only after that do the words come in: Coca-Cola, Coca-Cola. That opening tells you everything about what this anthem, released to mark Coca-Cola Nigeria’s 75th anniversary, is…
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