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ISSUE 52  ·  AUG 4 2026  ·  MUSIC · AREWA POP

FirstKlaz

FirstKlaz
Abuja, not Lagos. FirstKlaz builds around the kalangu and the goje, the Hausa talking drum and the two-stringed fiddle, and the Gen-Z Arewa run pushed Northern instrumentation into Afropop without sanding it down. Olamide, Joeboy and ODUMODUBLVCK co-signed, and he toured seven states. Against all of that sits one seven-track EP, Déjàvu. The ability is not the question; the catalog is. An album closes this gap, and there isn't one yet.
6.6SCORE TORCH ROOM'S AHEAD HEAT 61

ROOM'S AHEAD — the room's ahead of what's landed.

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