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19 Jun

Grammy Organisers Tag Wizkid As Up And Coming Artist; Nigerians Fume

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International record body Grammys, has caused a stir on social after referring to Nigerian singer, Wizkid as an up and coming artiste. The American award organisers had tagged Wizkid’s name under a post that read: “Who is an up-and-coming Black artist everyone should have on their radar?” shared via their Instastory. The names of the up and coming artistes mentioned include, Rema, Ice Spice, Pinkpantheress and Wizkid. Stunned by the attribution, Nigerians on social media stormed their page to descend on the Grammys. @esportpridee1: "Wizkid up and coming ke? Is Grammy mad?" @OsasMick: "Can never be Burna, baba is far gone." @adesolaaaaa: "Grammy has bought…

13 Jun

Wizkid Unfollows Everyone On Instagram Except Naira Marley

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Grammy award-winning Nigerian singer, Wizkid, has unfollowed everyone on his official Instagram account except Marlian label boss, Naira Maley. Checks on his page show all posts on the singer's account are still intact, with the exception of modifications to the people he follows. Wizkid once generated media attention with his Instagram feed sometime back when he removed all of the posts from his timeline in 2019. However, his most recent action comes days after Davido, started the conversations surrounding 'new and old cats' in the industry. Meanwhile, many have been astonished by the Grammy award-winning singer's actions and wondered the reason behind…

01 Jun

It’s Not Easy To Work With Wizkid – Official DJ

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DJ Tunez, the official disk jockey of Afrobeats star Wizkid, has said the singer is very difficult to work with. He said despite Wizkid’s busy schedule, the Starboy honcho has blessed him by featuring on several of his songs. However, he said getting Wizkid to be on a song is difficult because he is very selective of collaborations. DJ Tunez appeared on the latest episode of the Afrobeats Podcast hosted by Shopsydoo. According to him: “First of all, it has to be a really good song. It has to relate with him [Wizkid]. So, any song that I’m trying to put him on, I…

12 Apr

Wizkid Calls Me Every Week After My Son’s Death– Davido

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Davido has been speaking about his current relationship with colleague, Wizkid saying they have moved on from being rivals. According to him, they are now best friends. The two of them have settled their differences and Wizkid now calls Davido every week since he lost his son. “With Wiz, over the years we had a rift, for 12 years we had a rift up until recently he chatted up and I am seeing the positivity. I am seeing the change in the industry a little bit because everybody is calming down, especially with my situation; the tragic situation that happened,…

20 Jan

I’m Going On Tour With Davido — Wizkid

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Nigerians might finally have the chance to see their two favorite music stars, Davido and Wizkid perform together on a joint music tour. On Wednesday, Wizkid took to his Instagram page to make a shocking announcement of going on tour with fellow music star, Davido. In the post on his Instagram story, Wizkid wrote, “After my ‘MLLE (More Love, Less Ego)’ tour!! Davido and I going on tour! save your coins! I no wan hear pim”. Recall that Wizkid reportedly postponed the release of his 5th album ‘More Love, Less Ego’ following the loss of Davido’s son, Ifeanyi. Fans applauded…

05 Dec

Only Nasty C, Sarkodie And Black Sherif Are Rappers In Africa – Wizkid

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Wizkid woke up on the ‘vawulence’ side of his bed to further an agenda he started days ago when he described the rap genre as boring and ultimately dead. Ghbase quoted Starboy as saying, “Afrobeats is the new pop. I sold two million copies in America off of one song! Even some American artists don’t have a diamond record. If I’m being honest, I don’t listen to any other genre of music anymore. I don’t listen to rap – that shit is boring to me. It’s dead now, it’s tired. These guys do the same shit, rap on the same…

11 Nov

‘I Make All Types Of Music. There’s Nothing I Can’t Make,’ Wizkid Says On The Dotty Show

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Nigerian megastar Wizkid was on Apple Music's The Dotty Show where he talked about his new album 'More Love, Less Ego' as well as his Apple Music Live performance. The live rendition of Wizkid's 'More Love, Less Ego' is set to be exclusively available on Apple Music from 14th November 2022 and the megastar shares his excitement. Speaking on the performance, Wizkid says: "This is very important to me, you know because I don't usually do this, so it is very rare and important that I do this, especially for this album, you know? You, understand it probably after you listen to…

20 Oct

Sarkodie Should Have Been Bigger Than Wizkid – Shatta Wale

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Controversial dancehall artist Shatta Wale is of the opinion that multiple award-winning rapper Sarkodie should have been bigger than Nigerian artist Wizkid. According to Shatta Wale, Sarkodie is one of the artists in Ghana who invest and pump money into their craft, hence expecting him to be bigger than Wizkid. “You see someone like Sarkodie, he should have been bigger than Wizkid. You see what Sarkodie even did. Sarkodie is putting money into his craft in terms of videos and everything to make it perfectly right but he is still not there,” Shatta lamented in a recent interview on Joy…

15 Mar

NAM 1 Congratulates Burnaboy And Wizkid On Their Grammy Award Wins

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Nana Appiah Mensah, popularly known as NAM1 was the mastermind behind the alleged Menzgold Ponzi Scheme which left numerous people broke. After hiding for a while, he has made his presence known as he congratulated Wizkid and Burnaboy on their big wins last night. Wizkid and Burnaboy won the Grammy for Best Music Video category for ‘Brown Skin Girl’ song with Beyoncé, and Best global music Album category for ‘Twice as tall’ respectively, making Nigeria, the ‘Giant of Africa’ proud. Nana Appiah Mensah congratulated the duo in a Twitter post where he further said that, “AFRICA has been pregnant with…