Category: Interviews

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…

This piece was submitted by a contributing writer, Ifowa Ajike. ru. is a firm believer in divine orchestration. “There’s just something about submitting to a will that is much higher than yours, smarter than yours, incredibly intelligent and also trustworthy,” she says. “It has never failed me yet.” I’m inclined to agree. Going off deep…

Osa caught up with WTS from the airport, half an hour before boarding, squeezing in the conversation between the rollout of his new EP, Feels, and his next stop. The New York-based artist and founder of the More Good Music movement (MGM) has spent the past few years building a sound rooted in the African…

Photo credits: Trevor Stuurman There is a moment in Massa where Fatoumata Diawara stops performing and simply speaks;  no ornament, no softening, just a woman naming what she sees. “We need to be honest about our realities,” she says of the album. It is definite, a mission statement.  Everything else about her, the guitar, the…

Bfire’s stage name has an origin story several centuries in the making: it’s short for Bush Fire, a nod to the moment God appeared to Moses as flames that burned without consuming. “That fire signifies the presence of God,” he says, “and that’s how I translate the name.” It’s a fitting metaphor for an artist…

Soulaar & XtremeTheProducer On Finding Their Wave and Building a Community Before there was Soulaar System, there were just two friends, a shared studio session, and a genre neither of them had started to love out loud. Soulaar and XtremeTheProducer met in Lagos in December 2020, introduced by a mutual friend. What started as a…

Before TOSOM, there was The Real Jainy, an introduction. Now, with this new EP, the singer says she’s ready to go further: past the confident, polished version of herself and into the parts people usually keep hidden. In this conversation, Jainy talks about growing up as the eldest of four girls, the Friday concerts that…

Taves sees no reason to be shy about what he wants to be called. Not just “big,” not “blown,” and not any of the reflexive honorifics we bestow upon Nigerian musicians. “Popstar” is the title he’s assigned himself on his new project, Popstar – Side A, and one he defends with the ease of someone…

Solana has never made music that stays in one lane. Since coming up through the emPawa 30 cohort alongside artists like Joeboy, she’s moved through Afrobeats, R&B, and dancehall without settling into any single sound. “Okunkun” marks a deliberate turn: a song sung predominantly in Yoruba, built on the tension between modern, experimental production and…