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Black Coffee In Lagos: The Night The City Claimed House Music
On Sunday, April 5, Lagos played host to one of its most significant electronic music moments to date. M:E Entertainment, in partnership with DAPO, brought Grammy Award-winning DJ and producer Black Coffee to the city for a night that felt both long overdue and right on time, cementing the city’s place as one of Africa’s…
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Inside The Feature Mixer: Where Spotify features came to life in Lagos
Spotify brought its education-led product experience, The Feature Mixer, to the rooftop of Sora Restaurant in Victoria Island, Lagos, turning an evening of culture and connection into a playful speed-dating-style introduction to Spotify features. The simple idea at the heart of the event was: what if you could meet Spotify features the same way you meet people?Fast, memorable,…
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AYO BENZI TURNS THE SCREEN INTO A STAGE: DEBUT EP ‘HEAT & HEART’ ARRIVED APRIL 8, 2026
Next Afrobeats Star Season 1 Winner Brings 4 Original Tracks From TV to the World’s DSPs Ultima Limited is proud to announce the release of Heat & Heart, the debut EP from Afrobeats artist Ayo Benzi. Released on April 8, 2026 across all major digital streaming platforms, the 4-track project marks the arrival of one…
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NYRP’s THUNDERVILLE Feels Like a Place You’ve Been Before, And A Sound You’re About To Hear Everywhere
There’s something special about when a producer stops just making beats and starts building a world. That’s exactly what NYRP does on Thunderville, his new tape dropping tomorrow, a project that feels like a place, a mood, and a tight-knit community all at once. If you’ve been paying attention, you already know NYRP isn’t just…
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Ballantine’s at ActivYard: Stay True to the Music
There are events, and then there are moments. The March edition of ActivYard at Autohaus, Lekki was firmly the latter. On the night of March 28th, Ballantine’s Blended Scotch Whisky showed up not as a brand looking for a backdrop, but as one that genuinely belongs in rooms like this. The setup reflected the brand’s…
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Khid Ceejay On Healing Through Music
There’s a version of Chinedu Emmanuel Chijioke that keeps to himself: thoughtful, introverted, watching. And then there’s Khid Ceejay. The 21-year-old Lagos-bred artist didn’t invent an alter ego for the aesthetics of it but because he needed one, a vessel wide enough to hold everything he couldn’t say as Emmanuel but couldn’t stop feeling. The…
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Inestimable Returns With Listen to the Music 2 After Three Years
Three years after their last full project, Inestimable returns with Listen to the Music 2, a release that reflects both time away and the decision to come back on their own terms. The Lagos-based collective first gained attention with Listen to the Music in 2022, a collaborative project that brought multiple artists together and reached…
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Culture Club: LADIPOE on the Rise of Nigerian Hip-Hop and Africa’s Creative Future
In the latest episode of Culture Club, the conversation goes deep as Spotify’s Senior Editor for West Africa, Benewaah Boateng, sits down with the lyrical Nigerian star LADIPOE. The episode centres on a conversation around the DNA of modern African music, delving into the evolution of the continent’s sound and the remarkable expansion of Nigerian Hip-Hop.…
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Axara Is Here To Deliver.
The Lagos music scene has a way of producing people who were never supposed to be in it. It is a scene built largely by people who arrived through side doors and stayed because the music gave them something they couldn’t find anywhere else. Ugochi Silas, who performs as Axara, is one of those people,…
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Nigerian Singer & Songwriter MAJEEED Reconciles with His Label Dream Empire Music After Dispute.
After a very public fallout that first came to light in June 2025, Nigerian singer and songwriter MAJEEED and his record label Dream Empire Music have officially reconciled and they’re already making up for lost time on the charts. The dispute, which sparked intense debate among fans and industry insiders, centered on contractual disagreements and…
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