Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.

A day before the release of YENA, Blxckie sounds like someone with nothing left to prove and plenty left to share. “As you can see, I’m relaxed,” he says. “You know, having fun.” For an artist about to release a sophomore album that five years of waiting have turned into something close to an event,…

Music has always had a peculiar way of bringing us back to what makes us human and helping us feel deeply. Not just the dizzying exhilaration of falling in love, but the quieter, more enduring expressions of affection: the warmth of being held, the familiarity of belonging, the tenderness of familial bonds, and the courage…

What brings a self-described reserved, laid-back young man the most happiness? For T Solo, the answer lies in creating music.  Born in 1999, he grew up on Music Africa after school and Michael Jackson CDs at home, and never planned on making music for a living. But once the singer in him emerged, he couldn’t…

“We are not selling tickets to make money,” Kayode Adebayo told me, about a tour whose cheapest ticket I found for ₦2,000. That sentence is either a smart way to fund a business or a polite way to explain thin box office, and the next four weeks will show which. The bigger question underneath it…