In case you or someone you know needed an EDM remix of “Low”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J5eXRH-SmLsMarvio x Larry Gaaga ft. Wizkid • Low (EDMix)
― breastcrawl, Friday, 14 February 2020 17:24 (four years ago) link
Made a pseudo-pan-African-pop/not-pop playlist for the rolling afro 2020 thread and all Afro-adjacent threads, generously defined. It’s already 108 tracks deep, so enjoy!
ILM rolling✳️all-inclusive✳️afro 2020
― breastcrawl, Wednesday, 26 February 2020 22:36 (four years ago) link
crossposting with the eMcimbini thread, because this thread could do with a boost:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HBtX7kO4b1oKabza De Small ft. Wizkid • Need You Tonight
― No mean feat. DaBaby (breastcrawl), Friday, 26 June 2020 12:05 (three years ago) link
...meanwhile we're still waiting for Made In Lagos...
https://instagram.com/stories/wizkidayo/2343180875382347156?utm_source=ig_story_item_share&igshid=jbsxu30edjg6Out on July 16th?
― No mean feat. DaBaby (breastcrawl), Tuesday, 30 June 2020 23:08 (three years ago) link
Link won’t work for me, what’s the news?
― rob, Tuesday, 30 June 2020 23:26 (three years ago) link
-“album done” / date given: 16/7=7/16-thanks following artists:H.E.RDamian MarleyElla MaiTemsProjexxBurna BoyTay IwarTerriSkepta-thanks following producers:P2JJulsBlaqJerzeeLondon SarzKel PMut4yDro (LA-based producer/mixing engineer)MIA: Killertunes (news to me); Northboi (jumped ship - or was pushed - last year unfortunately)
― No mean feat. DaBaby (breastcrawl), Tuesday, 30 June 2020 23:45 (three years ago) link
(story on Wizkid’s official Instagram account)
― No mean feat. DaBaby (breastcrawl), Tuesday, 30 June 2020 23:47 (three years ago) link
(maybe he’s just telling us he finished the album in July 2016 and has been sitting on it for these past four years. can’t rule it out!)
― No mean feat. DaBaby (breastcrawl), Tuesday, 30 June 2020 23:49 (three years ago) link
Lol and thanks!
― rob, Wednesday, 1 July 2020 00:33 (three years ago) link
A classic from 2012, just because:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2esZIPkUE40eLDee ft. WizKid • Never Let You Go
― No mean feat. DaBaby (breastcrawl), Thursday, 2 July 2020 07:55 (three years ago) link
^^^ That might be the first time I remember hearing Wizzy on anything. Still a banger.
― Matt DC, Thursday, 2 July 2020 10:21 (three years ago) link
Made in Lagos, Jamaica:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GWKdV6H7qZMWizkid ft. H.E.R. • Smile*crossposting with the Summer Jams thread*
― No mean feat. DaBaby (breastcrawl), Thursday, 16 July 2020 22:00 (three years ago) link
very nice! fwiw the new H.E.R. single "Do To Me" is super jamdown too
― rob, Thursday, 16 July 2020 22:33 (three years ago) link
smile is sooooooooo goooooood
― Give me a Chad Smith-type feel (map), Thursday, 23 July 2020 15:12 (three years ago) link
who is h.e.r.? her verse on this beautiful monster is wonderful
― Give me a Chad Smith-type feel (map), Thursday, 23 July 2020 15:17 (three years ago) link
Don’t know much, but she’s an American rnb singer. I first noticed her on Daniel Caesar’s Freudian album from a few years ago
― rob, Thursday, 23 July 2020 15:25 (three years ago) link
h.e.r is Gabriella Wilson, never been a huge fan of how they marketed her (or h.e.r.) but the music is great
― ILX’s bad boy (D-40), Thursday, 23 July 2020 21:41 (three years ago) link
effortless:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WekJRXIKbcoDJ Tunez ft. Wizkid • Cool Me Down
― No mean feat. DaBaby (breastcrawl), Tuesday, 28 July 2020 17:02 (three years ago) link
exquisite! so much so, I almost feel churlish bringing it up, but are we back to wait-and-see mode w/r/t Made in Lagos?
― rob, Tuesday, 28 July 2020 21:25 (three years ago) link
Well, he did keep to the 16/7 - 7/16 date by releasing “Smile”, his first official (ie Wizkid-as-Wizkid-on-RCA) single since “Joro”, only it turned out (allegedly!) to be the kick off date for the album cycle instead of the release date of the album proper. No new clues given, as far as I know. Wouldn’t be unlike him to drop something on Nigeria’s Independence Day (Oct 1). tl;dr: I guess“Cool It Down” tho...
― No mean feat. DaBaby (breastcrawl), Wednesday, 29 July 2020 06:55 (three years ago) link
thank you, that's helpful, I'd missed the key fact it has RCA's approval
― rob, Wednesday, 29 July 2020 13:10 (three years ago) link
Ah wow, we both came up with "effortless", great minds think alike
― Nabozo, Sunday, 2 August 2020 20:13 (three years ago) link
yeah, and exquisite was taken as well - what are you gonna do?
― No mean feat. DaBaby (breastcrawl), Sunday, 2 August 2020 20:55 (three years ago) link
You’re all invited to participate in this poll:
🇳🇬 NAIJA SPECIAL: which of these *seven* current high-profile Nigerian hit songs is the best one? please help me decide
― No mean feat. DaBaby (breastcrawl), Tuesday, 4 August 2020 16:18 (three years ago) link
foolishly getting my hopes up for Oct 1 (Nigerian Independence Day):
MADE IN LAGOS! SOON COME 🦅🔐 pic.twitter.com/QJjib3wqsC— Wizkid (@wizkidayo) September 16, 2020
― No mean feat. DaBaby (breastcrawl), Wednesday, 16 September 2020 18:25 (three years ago) link
well, it has to be *something*...right? cool art in that teaser, if the cover looks like that, he'll easily win the best naija album cover award this year, a thus far uncontested competition lol
― rob, Wednesday, 16 September 2020 18:42 (three years ago) link
yes, some of that competition is as stiff as they come:
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https://www.naijaloaded.com.ng/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/Kizz-Daniel.jpg
https://taletela.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/Patoranking-%E2%80%93-Three-1200x1200.jpg
(warning to self: if this goes wrong it will be absolutely spectacular!)
― No mean feat. DaBaby (breastcrawl), Wednesday, 16 September 2020 19:51 (three years ago) link
omg that first one is so bad, I almost love it
― rob, Wednesday, 16 September 2020 19:54 (three years ago) link
The first one, just no. My sympathy vote goes to David ‘Hero’ Millz. As for the name acts, I always thought Kizz was in a league of his own, but Patoranking has managed to handsomely outdo him this time.
― No mean feat. DaBaby (breastcrawl), Wednesday, 16 September 2020 20:04 (three years ago) link
haha, agreed on Millz, that one is actually pretty cute. Tbh it was Twice As Tall that I most had in mind; I think my antipathy to that image made it harder to get into the album
― rob, Wednesday, 16 September 2020 20:12 (three years ago) link
thought you had that one in mind, but wanted to present some alternatives. the Adekunle cover is bad as well, but in a bland way.
― No mean feat. DaBaby (breastcrawl), Wednesday, 16 September 2020 20:16 (three years ago) link
I hope he actually releases this thing. Rereading this thread is poignant
― rob, Wednesday, 16 September 2020 20:17 (three years ago) link
Yep, I also had Adekunle, Tiwa (decent idea, poorly executed), and Fireboy (forgettable) in mind but none of those rise to the level of offensive. Omah Lay maintains his outsider status by giving us a pleasant enough cover with a wretched title
― rob, Wednesday, 16 September 2020 20:19 (three years ago) link
it’s crucial. as I noted on another thread, I’m pretty sure he has several discarded finished versions of this album/project in his vault, and it makes me sad to think about.
― No mean feat. DaBaby (breastcrawl), Wednesday, 16 September 2020 20:21 (three years ago) link
xp
― No mean feat. DaBaby (breastcrawl), Wednesday, 16 September 2020 20:22 (three years ago) link
okay, here’s your new song, everybody - not listening to it now, it’s sleepy time for me, but have at it:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0BBw8q_4Xj0Wizkid • No Stress(it has the artwork!)
― No mean feat. DaBaby (breastcrawl), Thursday, 17 September 2020 19:41 (three years ago) link
Nice, very mellow & late-night, aptly titled. Is it just me or has naija pop gotten significantly more ‘slack’ this year? Or at least the English lyrics are a lot dirtier?
― not right at all (rob), Thursday, 17 September 2020 19:52 (three years ago) link
there might be, yes. can’t think of any examples right now (except for Kizz’s “Fvck You” from last year) - Omah Lay has some explicitness too, I think. But this kind of explicit sexual “fuck” (with added “suck”!) is definitely a first for Wizzy.
― No mean feat. DaBaby (breastcrawl), Friday, 18 September 2020 07:05 (three years ago) link
happy with “No Stress” (produced by P2J, btw) - “Smile” was fine, though many miles from being my favourite Wizkid, but this fits the Made-in-Lagos brief much better.I love the “1 Thing” interpolation, of course
― No mean feat. DaBaby (breastcrawl), Friday, 18 September 2020 07:10 (three years ago) link
did I mention “No Stress” is delightful? intimate Wizzy is the best
― No mean feat. DaBaby (breastcrawl), Friday, 18 September 2020 10:34 (three years ago) link
MADE IN LAGOS. @WIZKIDAYO.15TH OCT. Pre-order/pre-save the album and listen to new track 'No Stress' here: https://t.co/tDQsv2UPDo pic.twitter.com/LD84yGgRTb— Columbia Records UK (@ColumbiaUK) September 17, 2020
― No mean feat. DaBaby (breastcrawl), Friday, 18 September 2020 23:52 (three years ago) link
Yeah, No Stress is far superior to Smile.
― human and working on getting beer (longneck), Friday, 18 September 2020 23:54 (three years ago) link
looks like this will be the cover: https://bonnewshaiti.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/New-Music-Wizkid-Stress-Stream-Mp3.jpg
― No mean feat. DaBaby (breastcrawl), Saturday, 19 September 2020 00:17 (three years ago) link
No stress, just smile - we have a video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4oseK1D6ru0
― No mean feat. DaBaby (breastcrawl), Thursday, 24 September 2020 13:19 (three years ago) link
I am so hyped up and ready to update my list of top 50 songs by Wizkid
The artist has pulled in singers HER and Ella Mai, Jamaican artists Projexx and Damian Marley and fellow Nigerian artists Tems, Starboy Terri, Skepta and Burna Boy.
There will be several producers working on the all includes long-time collaborators of the singer such as Blaqjerzee, Sarz and Mut4y, and other West African (London, P2J Music and Juls).
― Nabozo, Saturday, 10 October 2020 22:01 (three years ago) link
The album has been pushed back to the 22nd, for good reason this time:There are mass protests going on in Nigeria as we speak (supported internationally as well) to demand an end to police brutality:https://thenativemag.com/music/wizkid-postpones-made-lagos-release-due-endsars/The protests are also mentioned in this interview Wizzy did with the Financial Times (hope the link works).
― Welcome to Nonrock (breastcrawl), Thursday, 15 October 2020 08:22 (three years ago) link
man the starboy EP from last year is so good wtf, i totally missed that. “cool me down” is also great looking forward to this record a lot... “smile” wasn’t that exciting but easy to imagine it fitting nicely in the context of an album. “no stress” is on point tho. he’s still managed to maintain a pretty identifiable sound even as afropop has really blossomed around him. & selfishly i find it insane that burna boy didn’t work with kel p at all on twice as tall... i’m very ready for more kel p vibes in my life
― J0rdan S., Friday, 16 October 2020 15:58 (three years ago) link
Jordan, just in case you missed it (it wasn't posted on this thread), there's also "Pami", the follow-up to "Cool Me Down":
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rYiUHMF7upYDJ Tunez ft. Wizkid, Adekunle Gold & Omah Lay • Pami
― Welcome to Nonrock (breastcrawl), Monday, 19 October 2020 13:23 (three years ago) link
thank you breastcrawl
― J0rdan S., Monday, 19 October 2020 17:27 (three years ago) link