Check Out List Of Top 10 Male Artists In Nigeria (So Far This Year 2016).

The List is created Based on Writers Opinion.

Wizkid

1) WIZKID-: Annoyingly wiz happens to be my number 1. Since abandoning the Nigerian shores to seek international recognition, he has been involved with top music act the likes of Rkelly, Akon, Chris Brown, Rihanna, Tinie tempah, Wale, Tyga and also featured on Drake VIEWS album. Drake’s ‘One Dance’ became the Wizkid-featured song that trended globally and held the lead position on the music charts for several months long. This feat became quite the game changer for the STARBOY.
He featured not one but three international music weights Chris Brown, Trey Songz and french Montana on his latest release ‘Shabba’. I don’t even need to say much cos it’s obvious at this juncture why he’s number one. “Highstar AR u happy”

OLAMIDE

2) OLAMIDE -: Olamide, remains a frontline soldier on the Nigerian music affairs. He is known for dropping HIT “back 2 back ” and also arguably the most featured artist in this diaspora. He started his 2016 on a high with the ‘Oyadab’ song featuring DJ enimoney, we find ourselves grooving to tunes like ‘I Love Lagos’ and ‘Abule Sowo’. Olamide’s songs always come with potential magic in keeping our turn up morale high. There’s the buzz worthy ‘Who You Epp’ – a studio freestyle that turned into viral competition and then konkobility recently dropped ‘owo blow’ and ‘sere’. I call him MR CONSISTENT.

KISS DANIEL

3) KISS DANIEL -: Kiss Daniel stormed the industry in 2014 with his break out single, Woju. Since then,we have enjoyed hit BACK 2 BACK. Coming out of an unknown record label ‘GWW’ kiss has attained success in building his artiste profile to becoming one of the industry’s respected acts in the A-list category.
He’s managed to do this in a little less than two years, and with pretty much no ‘loud’ collaborations whatsoever. Daniels debut album titled ‘New Era’ drooped in the month of may. ‘Mama’ (my song of the year)– the album lead single, still topping the music charts nationwide for several weeks consistently.

FALZ

4) FALZ –: Like play, Falz just rose like that to becoming a global music sensation even with extensions now in the abroad. The comical rapper has enjoyed his career like a rollercoaster affair, seeing his sophomore album ‘Stories That Touch’ as one of the most anticipated in the 2015 year. Falz hasn’t slowed down on his road to glory as he put out the short film for the Simi-featured track, ‘Soldier’, which ‘JUGRUL and others’ have touted to be the hottest contender for Video of the Year in 2016.
Just recently, he got a nomination on the platform of the BET Awards in the category for Best New International Act (Viewers’ Choice), which he won. Presently, his collaborative feature with Olamide and Davido on ‘Bahd Baddo Baddest’ is a chart topper on media transmitting frequencies nationwide.

PHYNO

 5) PHYNO -: Eze Nnunu as he is fondly known by many, his the champion of the east, he has stayed true to his craft which is the indigenous rap style, he has also cut deep into the Western market all thanks to olamide baddo. He is 1 of the most featured artist in Nigeria. One of his most recent releases ‘Fada Fada’ is arguably the nation’s number one song. While his latest release ‘E Sure For Me’ is fast gaining form.

ADEKUNLE GOLD

 6) ADEKUNLE GOLD -: Adekunle signed on to YBNL popularly known has YBNL TOASTER came to limelight in year 2014/15 with ‘Sade’ a cover to one direction ‘story of my life’ ever since then he as dropped hit songs like ‘orente’, ‘pick up’ and ‘ready’ he recently dropped his debut album ‘GOLD’ which featured only SIMI(my crush) arguably the best album in year 2016.

LIL KESH

 7) LIL KESH -: Lil Kesh may have been passed up on for the Next Rated award at the most recent Headies, Keshi’s rose the stakes a notch higher being the first of his category colleagues to put out a debut album. Lil Kesh also set a new record in the process by being the first youngest artiste to own a record label(YAGI) In the Nigerian music terrain.

REEKADO BANKS

8) REEKADO BANKS -: Nigeria’s next rated, Reekado Banks has been putting in serious work to prove that he was deserving of the award that stirred up plenty controversy. , Reeky Banks set us off to an early party with a trendy single, ‘Oluwa Ni’ massive hit. He’s become a steady feature face with the likes of Oritsefemi, Kida Kudz, Sammy Davids, Jaywon. Most recent single ‘Standard’ also doing good….we all anticipating the release of his debut album.

PATORANKING

9) PATORANKING -: Patoranking who just recently dropped his debut album yes debut album he kept us waiting forever for the album GOE ‘GOD OVER EVERYTHING‘ the album features heavyweight artist like Sarkodie, Olamide, Wizkid, Kwam1, elephant man PHYNO and so on. Album topping every music charts.

 10) DAVIDO -: Davido, is fast making his play for a comeback. The yearning to put out a follow-up to his debut album has seen him go under for some time now, although he’s managed to keep afloat with trending features and controvesy. Started the year with baby mamà drama later on Mr Dele Momodu who he refer to as is boy, then record label drama…. David is signed to one of the world’s biggest label platforms, Sony Music Global.
This feat was ultimately confirmed toward the end of the first quarter of 2016. Speculations on international features with Young Thug, Trey Songz and Tinashe anticipating.
If by any chance you do not agree with the selection picks, please let me know your thoughts and sentiments..
Source : NAIJALOADED
Written by OLAKUNLE TEMIT.
 
NOTE: Do you think someone is missing or something is wrong with the collation? Feel free to comment!!

[New Music] Majek Fashek - 'No more sorrow' ft 2Baba

 2Baba who has repeatedly listed Majek Fashek as one of his biggest influences shines effortlessly beside the returning reggae legend on a song he has identified as one of his favourite Majek classics. He stated, “It's an honour to collaborate with one of Africa's greatest musicians of all time. To go from admiring him from a distance to actually having the opportunity to record with him and contribute to his legacy is something I cherish”.

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Majek Fashek remains a strong force to reckon with in music as seen by his headline-grabbing performances at notable events this year. With the GistMe-funded release, ‘No more sorrow’ marks the formal return to the buzzing recording scene for the legendary 'Rain Maker' as he is fondly called by fans all over the globe.

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Listen to Jay Z lastest song 'Spiritual' on iTUNES

Rap Mogul Jay Z pours out his heart on this song titled 'Spiritual', a song addressing the recurrent cases of police brutality against black Americans in the United States of America.
According to online site, The Verge, Beyoncé led the way yesterday in asking her fans to convert their sorrow and anger at recent police brutality into democratic action by petitioning their state and national lawmakers for change.

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Today her husband, Jay Z, is joining the effort by releasing a song he says he never got to finish, but which he says would sadly always be relevant. Titled ‘Spiritual,’ the track relates the thoughts and feelings of a black person living in the present United States. Its artwork is a solid black square, illustrating the mourning for the most recent victims, Alton Sterling and Philando Castile and many others.

The song arrives at an especially sensitive time in US race relations, which have been further strained with the shooting of 11 police officers guarding a Black Lives Matter protest in Dallas

In other news, the rapper's music streaming service Tidal is being rumoured to be acquired by Apple Music.

Listen to 'Spiritual' on Tidal.

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Download Reminisce – “Nobody Knows” ft. 2Baba (Prod by TMXO)

Reminisce – “Nobody Knows” ft. 2Baba (Prod by TMXO)

Reminisce returns with a new single titled “Nobody Knows”, and it features iconic Nigerian artiste 2Baba a.k.a 2face.

It seems the indigenous rapper is back with a TMXO produced banger.

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The dance move called 'The Dab' is officially dead!!!

The dance move called 'The Dab' is officially dead!!!

Unless you're the sort of person who is still comfortable wearing ‘Ama Kip Kip’ t-shirts or a ‘spinners’ belt in 2016, this means it is now socially unacceptable to engage in "the dab" in public.

We all love the dab. It’s classy, looks dope, feels like a decent move, and most importantly, it’s easy to learn, and requires very negligible amount of energy to pull off.

In the quest for the perfect Nigerian dance, “the dab” has been the easiest so far to learn, rising in prominence among the young folks, who are naturally the first to pick up on any craze. The reasons for its meteoric rise and inclusion in our pop culture was simple: it came from the West, popularized from the creative hotbed of Atlanta, and seeping down to us as well, all other things do. It was also easy to learn, perhaps very easy.

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Alanta needed you to scratch like a mad man, Azonto was for rocket scientists with all of that oscillating limbs, rhythmically complex hand movements and energy. Shoki needed the best of your waist to accomplish. And it also didn’t help that it was open to interpretation, with everybody personalizing the dance and making others feel like their ‘Shoki’ was the best. It was really morale-deflating stuff, and became a horror show later. Sekem, well. Sekem came from an untrusted source, and only Michael Jackson enthusiasts, can drag one foot across the floor, leaving the other lifeless, while appearing to enjoy it with one hand on your waist, and the other on your chest. Hell no!

But dabbing was easy. It was a simple dance in which the dancer simultaneously drops the head while raising an arm and the elbow in a gesture that has been noted to resemble sneezing. As a Sports Illustrated article about the phenomenon described the Dab, “The dance is pretty simple; one leans in to their elbow like they’re sneezing."

Everyone caught the dab. I, Joey Akan, the overweight, balloon-waist, chubby, sexy Nubian god of love, could also dab. Before dabbing, I never danced in public. But now I could. Children sampled it on the streets, the boys made it fit into any song in the club. In the offices, ‘Team Dabbing Sessions’ was launched to foster teamwork and make the dream work. According to bosses, it boosted productivity by whatever percentage they care to slap on that lie. In churches, people dabbed to the glory of God, and praised the lord with a wonderful dab. He was also exalted with a dab offering, and Pastors executed the most hilarious religious dabbing to edify their brethren. At homes, your parents embarrassed you with dabbing, and your annoying Uncles called you to come display like a clown for a few bucks.

And it is at the juncture, that we have decided that the Dab is dead.
So, then, as all trends grow and come to pass, the moment has come for the dance move to be laid to rest, taken to a spiritual church, buried in some ancestral cemetery, and left to fester in the backpages of time.

Dab was first killed in the US, its home country. In an interview with TMZ, Quavo of the rap group Migos—who are widely recognized as one of the originators of "the dab," having immortalized it in the hallowed hallways of their Instagram and tracks like "Look At My Dab (Bitch Dab)"—signaled the death of the dance move. Asked about comments made by the NFL star Cam Newton regarding the expiration of the dance move, Quavo states "RIP" to "the dab." He then goes on to say, "You got to give everybody a new trend, a new wave or something new to do so I feel him on that. Everybody was copying it and now it's time to switch lanes."

But Nigeria is yet to catch on to the news. Our musicians still promote a dead culture in their music videos, and we all are still reluctant to let it go. It’s fine, all good things come to an end. Let’s all pour libation, cry our hearts out, and look sad while we go back to our chairs and wait for a new dance move.

Unless you're the sort of person who is still comfortable wearing ‘Ama Kip Kip’ t-shirts or a ‘spinners’ belt in 2016, this means it is now socially unacceptable to engage in "the dab" in public. Fear not, though, as we can always count on the YBNL boys to come up with something real quick.

                           Thanks for listening. Go into the world and dab no more.

 Source : PulseNG