Category: Interviews

Most people know the feeling Timothee speaks of, where things are moving and life looks fine from the outside, but somewhere underneath, something does not sit quite right. You have probably always known what it is, but knowing something and facing it are two different things, and it is easier to keep going than to…

DJ Khalipha is not what you would expect, in that he doesn’t seem like his music. The music is fast and feverish, built on a tempo that doesn’t give you time to think. The person behind it speaks slowly, carefully, with the measured politeness of someone who was raised to be decent and has not…

Since his first single in 2019, the Lagos-based rapper and producer Kayode has been releasing music across hip-hop, drill, trap, alternative, afrobeats and R&B, sharpening his sound through projects like the 2023 album Still Figuring Life and the 2024 EP Kay Kay, collaborating with PsychoYP and Odumodublvck, and crossing 50 million streams without a major…

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…

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,…

From the first minute of conversing with Ebi, also known as DJ Tomce and Dr Love, you can sense that he’s not one to waste words or time. His directness seems to serve him well: he’s a founder of one of the OG Nigerian raves, Sweat It Out. Together with his collective, he has laid…

LMNL doesn’t make music for the background. The Lagos-based EDM DJ and producer builds sets that are dark, fluid and deliberately consuming, the kind that pull a room inward and hold it there. Growing up with music in his bones and a mother who performed, LMNL spent years searching for an outlet that matched the…

Morse doesn’t talk about his work the way you’d expect. For such an impressive portfolio, there’s no list of credits rattling off, no name-dropping for effect. He’s measured, thoughtful, and almost understated about a career that is quietly touching some of the most significant creative projects coming out of Lagos right now. What makes him…

At 21, the Lagos-based DJ, model, event curator, and nursing graduate, Kyla, has already built a world around a single belief: that sound is never just entertainment. It is expression, control, and atmosphere. Armed with little more than her phone and an ear that most seasoned DJs would envy, she has carved out a space…