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.
6.6SCORETORCHROOM'S AHEADHEAT 61▲
ROOM'S AHEAD — the room's ahead of what's landed.
BENCHMARK IN THE 50 · Victony — the 50's global-diaspora lane, the same crossing attempted from a different corner of Nigeria