Video: SoundCity ONE on ONE with Olamide

Sound city OAP, Moet Abebe had a minute or 9 with Olamide and discussed his album, BGEL and his latest video. Olamide is always himself on camera so you know it’s never a dull moment with him. It come be like say Olamide dey toast Moet sef. Check it sha.

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Kanye West Interview With Jimmy Kimmel

Kanye discusses his past life in Chicago, his constant run-ins with the paparazzi, Kim Kardashian and North West, his experience in the fashion industry and much more.

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I Would Get Married To Angelo If I Had The Chance – Beverly Osu! Check Out Full Interview

So Beverly Ada Osu who represented Nigeria along with Melvin Oduah at Big Brother Africa The Chase granted her first interview since exiting the Big Brother House last Sunday. Even after the show, Beverly is not shying away from speaking some controversial things. Beverly Osu and Melvin Oduah joined IK Osakioduwa and Anita “Omalicha” Isedeh on Rhythm 93.7 FM’s Morning Show yesterday and here is what they both had to say. Beverly On Angelo’s Girlfriend Candice I don’t want to talk about his so called girlfriend because I don’t know anything about her. On if she engaged in any sexual activities with Angelo I did not have sex with Angelo. I loved him and I still love him. I would get married to Angelo if I had the chance. On the Bathtub scene (Where she appears to be having sex with Angelo) I’ll still say nothing happened between me and Angelo. On her BBA: The Chase strategy I talk a lot. My strategy was nothing. I just went with the flow. On featuring in a porn production by Afrocandy (A Nigerian-US based actress) Afrocandy nibo? No ooo!!! Thanks for the offer but NO. On her plans for the future I’ll continue with my online reality show “Beverly Says” and I’ll finish school. That’s what is important now. Melvin On Dillish Winning As you progress in the game, you’ll feel more confident that you’ll win the money. But still I knew it could be anyone of us. I don’t love Dillish, we’re just cool On his acting career I’m taking my acting career to the next level. That’s what Nigerians should expect from me. More movies.

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VIDEO: “I Came To Lagos In A Free Ride” – Skales

In an recent interview skales did with HipOnTV, he talked about his journey from Jos to Lagos. The Hustle basically, and he is still hustling. Watch this short interview.

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“I cannot be faithful to one woman, that was the problem of my marriage” – Femi Kuti

In a recent interview with Punch Newspapers, Femi
Kuti, son of legendary afrobeat saxophonist, Fela,
spoke candidly on marriage, music and more.
Excerpts:
Why did your father choose a controversial
lifestyle?
It was because he was too honest about his way of
life. He liked women and he did not hide it. He liked
to smoke marijuana and he did it in the open. Many
people like women but they do it secretly. There are
so many brothels all around the world but Fela never
patronised them, many people go there to pay for
sex.
You will be shocked to know the number of people
that smoke marijuana in Nigeria and all over the
world. I hope you know that some countries are
legalising the smoking of marijuana now. He was
truthful about his way of life while many of us are
hypocritical about ours. Many people were envious
that he was too honest and bold and that was why
there were so many controversies about his life.
Most of his friends who are highly-placed admire
women even girls young enough to be their
daughters. They leave their matrimonial homes to
meet them secretly. Some of them hide in hotels to
do what they cannot do in the open. Many of them
smoke but they are not brave enough to say they
smoke. All the call girls you see on Allen Avenue, who
picks them? Fela never did.
How was he able to manage his many wives?
It was very stressful for him. Do not forget that he
divorced all of them. They were not faithful to him.
When he decided to marry them, he did so for a
reason. He said they had been with him in difficult
times. They endured police harassment and beating.
But they never left. Though they were very loyal to
him, they still had a bad image in the public because
people were calling them prostitutes.
He felt that the best way to protect them was to
marry them. They became Fela’s queens, so the
society had to respect them. I believe he loved them
and he was already sleeping with them before he
married them. It was not really a big deal to anybody
that knew them. For instance, my mother knew this
was happening so it was not a hidden thing. The big
deal was how he was able to convince the 27 of them
to marry him same day.
Did Fela talk you into music?
He did not influence me as such. I always knew I
would go into music. It was just a question of how
and when. He was however a big motivation in my
life because every child wants to be like his or her
father. The son of a plumber will want to be like his
father, especially if he is learning the trade early. If
the son loves the father, he will want to emulate him.
I am not a different son. I love my father and wanted
to do what he was doing. The only question hanging
over that ambition was whether I could fulfil that
ambition perfectly.
How did he punish any of his children who
misbehaved?
He beat us. In fact, I was the one who got the most
beating in the house when we were young.
Can you remember things you did that made him
beat you?
I stole my mother’s £1 to buy chewing gum one day.
You can imagine how many wraps of chewing gum
that money would buy. They were not less than 100.
My friend convinced me to go and steal the money
but we were caught while chewing the gum. When my
father asked me where I got the money from, I was
speechless. I was still thinking of what to say when he
started beating me with his hand. He then warned me
never to steal again.
He also beat me when he caught me with cigarette in
1969. My mother used to smoke and he saw me put
the cigarette in my mouth. I did not really smoke the
cigarette because it was not lit, I only put it in my
mouth but it angered him when he saw what I did. He
beat me again and warned me not to touch cigarette
again.
Why do you think it has been difficult to replicate
Fela’s style of music?
It is so because the foundation of the band was
truthful. He was not pretentious. He really believed in
what he was saying. Despite all the police
harassment, he was not moved. Many people would
have gone to seek political asylum in another country
but Fela did not do that. He had so many
opportunities outside Nigeria and he would have
taken advantage of them to run away from his
enemies. These are the things that every generation
admires in him.
What are those things you imbibed from your
father?
I may not be able to mention them. In the way I deal
with people, I am very truthful. If I say I am going to
do something, I would do it. But I am more of my
mother than my father. My elder sister has more of
my father than I do. I am more of a practical person.
If I plan to do something, I will think of the
consequences. My father would never weigh any
decision before executing it. If he planned to go to
Dodan Barracks, he would just go there. As for me, I
make plans before I do anything. My father would not
write a Will. But because I know that I could get
killed, I had written my Will a long ago.
I know that in a divorce case, my wife could claim
one third of my property, so I would not go into
wedlock. The most important thing to me right now
are my children. Now, I will not play to the gallery. I
will not say because people love me, they must come
first before my family. Who are my family? My
children of course. So, whether you love me or not, I
will let you know that my children come before you,
take it or leave it. I live this way because I learnt from
my father’s life, the decisions he took and the
consequences. When you learn from someone, you
don’t have to do what he did. Fela did what he did for
his own reasons. I cannot criticise why he did what he
did.
Also, we must remember the stardom. Nobody was as
big as my father. He had over 100 people around him
daily when he became a star. I cannot live like that
because I don’t want too many people around me. I
saw what people did to him. It was too much. I can
keep the Afrika Shrine open to everybody but not my
house.
If you come to my home, you will only see me, my
kids and may be my girlfriend. Sometimes, my friends
visit but I don’t keep a crowd around for any reason,
my father did. I like women but I saw the harassment
he went through with 27 wives. It is not that I don’t
want 27 wives but I know what will happen because
of what happened to my father. I can’t tell a woman
that I will be faithful in our relationship. That was
part of the problem of my marriage. I cannot be
faithful. I will not lie about that. It is not that I cannot
be faithful, but I cannot start my relationship by
saying I am going to be faithful till death do us part.
There are possibilities that if another woman comes
and I like her, I cannot give the assurance that I will
not have an affair with her. I have no intention
whatsoever to bring all of them under one roof. My
intention now is to cater for my children and do my
job to the best of my ability.
Did Fela have any special food?
He ate any food. He liked cakes and ice cream too. I
don’t like cakes. I can eat ice cream and chocolate
once in a while but my father loved them all. If
somebody is celebrating and there is a cake, I can
take a little piece not to offend my host. My father
could die for cakes. If you visited him and looked
inside his refrigerator, you would see lots of cake in
it.
Your father did not hide his hatred for western
medicine. Is it the same with you?
I grew up not liking tablets too. I grew up to be a
traditionalist like my dad. But I later realised that
there are too many fake traditional medicine in our
society. The government must understand that many
of these herbs are claiming the lives of our people.
We must ask ourselves which of the herbs has been
scientifically proven to cure malaria and the ailment
they claim to cure. I once had malaria and I drank
herbs but I was not cured. I felt very uncomfortable. I
will not say that herb does not work because Africa
believes in it. It is a fact that we did survive before
orthodox medicine came.
There was African traditional medicine, but where is it
today? Everywhere, you will see people hawking
herbs, saying it work for this and that. People buy
them and mix with hot drinks. Really, when you are
mixing alcohol with herbs, you are damaging your
liver. While you think you are curing one thing, if it
does work, you are damaging another thing in your
body. Until we have concrete fact to say something
works for the body, we will be deceiving ourselves.
Why do you think Fela hated former President
Olusegun Obasanjo?
Olusegun Obasanjo was a bad leader. He did not do
well for Nigeria. He ruled this country three times but
has nothing to show for it. They called the soldiers
that burnt Kalakuta Republic and killed my
grandmother unknown soldiers. The Federal
Government is yet to apologise for their action against
the Kuti family. Whether they like it or not, Fela was
one of the biggest stars from Africa. As the days go
by, people are beginning to understand the
importance of his music. The Lagos State Government
is building a museum in his honour. The family does
not have that kind of money to build a museum. It is
not the governor’s money but the state government
money. But the governor took the decision on behalf
of the people.
Another museum is also being built Ogun State.
Governors are beginning to understand that Kuti’s
name cannot be swept under the carpet. The family
has done so much for Nigeria and the world. Many
people are playing afrobeat style of music today
because Fela invented it. Some people are saying he
did not start it. But the question is: Who started it and
stood firm using the music creatively? Fela stood for
many great things and his contribution to the society
cannot be pushed aside.
Did he have time to take the family out for
leisure?
In 1967, I remember that he took us to Onikan
swimming pool and also Federal Palace Hotel. That
was the first and last outing for fun with us. He
always made it clear that he was not a conventional
father. He did not want us to go to school not because
he did not like education, but because he believed
that education was colonial. He believed that it was
structured to show that Europe is supreme and Africa
is not good. Even when he took me out of school in
my fourth year in secondary school, I had acquired
vast knowledge about the outside world through the
books I read at home. I was known as a professor in
the Kalakuta Republic. I read books such as Blackman
and Walter Rodney’s How Europe Underdeveloped
Africa. I read so much that I even found there was a
Pharaoh Kuti in Egypt. I wondered if this Egyptian
Pharaoh Kuti was in any way related to the Kuti
family in Nigeria. My father said we are probably
related.
Which school were you attending before Fela made
that decision?
I was studying at Baptist Academy and he withdrew
me from there when Obasanjo deployed soldiers to
the school. I later went to Igbobi College and spent a
year. He advised me to leave the school in form four.
Many believed I would become a nonentity because
of his action. There was disagreement within the
family, my mother was against it, but my dad stood
his ground. She wondered why my dad took me out of
school when he went to one of the best schools in
the UK.
She also said since he did not teach me music how
then would I be great in life? My father told her not
to worry that I would be great. I was not happy too
and did not speak to him for six years. He told me
that he was confident that I would be great. I did not
know what he saw in me. The day my album, Wonder
Wonder, became popular and I was becoming a
household name in Nigeria, he called our family
members and told them that the same boy he
withdrew from school had become a successful
musician.
At that time, it was only my father and King Sunny
Ade that were travelling abroad frequently for musical
concerts. But I suddenly started travelling abroad
more than the two of them because I was becoming
known more outside the country.
Will I do the same for my son? No. He will get a good
education. I will let him understand street life which I
grew up to know so that he will have a feel of it, but
he must be formally educated.
Where were you when soldiers invaded Kalakuta
Republic?
I was coming back from the school when I saw the
soldiers. They wanted to arrest me. But I managed to
escape through a place called Alagbole behind
Kalakuta. I ran and went to pick my younger sister at
Mary Magdalene Primary School. We then crossed
over the railway and went home.
Is there anything you miss about Fela?
I miss his being a grandfather. I think he would have
been a fantastic grandfather. He had already been
showing the signs with my sister’s daughter and my
son. He died in 1997 and my son was born in 1995. I
know that what he was not able to do for us, he
would have done for our children if he were still alive.

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VIDEO: “Goldie Was My Support System” – Denrele

Hip On Tv sat down with denrele and talked
about his relationship with his best friend, the
late Goldie. Much was said,Watch Video here.

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‘I’ve got a crush on Kemi Adetiba, Chidinma’ – Lynxxx tells Toolz

Charming rapper Lynxxx is the latest guest on Ndani
TV‘s interview session ‘ The Juice ‘ with host Toolz.
The Syndik8 Records front line artiste talks about a
lot of things he’s been through since debuting in 2010
but more interestingly about the few female
celebrities he has a crush on.
Lynxxx names former Rhythm FM OAP and video
director Kemi Adetiba , Tinsel soap newbie Osas
Ighodaro and pop singer Chidinma as his crushes.
‘Chidinma is so cute’, the Jollof Music rapper tells
Toolz.

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“When I met her, I said ‘good evening ma’” – Wizkid reveals crush on Genevieve Nnaji and more

Wizkid has confessed in an exclusive interview with Toolz, how he had a huge crush on Nollywood star, Genevieve Nnaji. “When I watched her movies, I said ‘O I love you’,” he said blushing. “Then I met her and said, ‘Good evening ma!’” “Good evening ma? O you killed it,” Toolz laughed. EME’s star boy, apparently was in the mood to tell it all, as he discussed his fast growing international reputation, the ‘big boys’ he rolls with now and of course, his beef with Davido.

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“He is my friend, we are all making money” – Davido denies ‘beef’ with Wizkid [VIDEO]

Dami Duro crooner, Davido, has come out to state categorically, that he is not at war with Wizkid, as it was reported some days ago. The 19-year-old pop singer, made this clear, in a video interview with AMC Nigeria, when he was asked about his relationship with Banky W’s protegé. “Wizkid is my friend, Wizkid is my n***a, Wizkid is my brother. There’s nothing wrong at all. We are young n****as making money, that’s all,” he responded. With these comments, Davido, who has been immersed in different controversial stories lately, hopes to put out the flames that were being fanned. The rumours especially became widespread, after he allegedly walked out, while Wizkid performed at the Nigerian Entertainment Awards in New York. Watch the full interview:

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“D’Banj can never be replaced” – Tiwa Savage [VIDEO]

First lady of MAVIN Records, Tiwa Savage has revealed the real reason why she joined MAVIN Records. In a recent interview with Factory78, the Kelekele crooner dismissed the insinuation that she was signed on the label to replaced D’Banj. According to her, ” It’s great (to be a part of Mavin Records Team). Don Jazzy is a legend in my opinion. He is incredible and I have always looked up to him. Continuing the talented singer said she has always been closed to Jazzy even when they were in Mo’Hits, so joining him was a natural progression. “I just want to say this: his plan to sign me is not to replace D’Banj… D’Banj can NEVER be replaced. He is an icon, the entertainer. It was just that they wanted a female touch” she concluded. The first lady also talked about her style of music, stage craft amongst other things. She frowned at how Nigerian artists altered their style to fit the foreign market advising them on the need to stay true to themselves. Tiwa is currently working on releasing her long-awaited debut ‘Tiwa O ni Baje‘ slated for this year. Watch the interview:

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Fresh and Hot Controversy – Nollywood Is My Baby – Bob Ejike Interview.

Tell us about your new establishment NATIONAL EDIFICE MAGAZINE The National Edifice magazine is the latest entrant into the Nigerian tabloid industry. It is the result of a collaboration between Prof. Bob Ejike and a group of corporate entities that include Free Energy Resources, Mustard seed, Emerald park farm. The magazine is interested in environment, Aesthetics, Architecture, Horticulture, Personalities. Profiles of personalities who embellish and beautify our city and enhance our economy. Titbits, News, reality and truth. These are the areas the National Edifice is involved in because i saw the loopholes in the system which am about to fill. I have been writing since i was 14 years, for the drum magazine where i shared

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In Pictures: Banky W Interviews Lagos State Governor Babatunde Fashola

Last week, the International Republican Institute (IRI) & US Agency for International Development (USAID) visited the Governor of Lagos with R & B Power House Banky W for a documentary hosted by Banky W. Banky who is presently on set for MNET TV series “Jacob Cross” in South Africa tells us “The documentary is about promoting democracy in Nigeria through the youths of Nigeria, and it included an interview with Governor Fashola, I had a nice time” The song “Change” featuring Skales, Wiz, Niyola, Banky W and Shaydee on the Empire Mates State of Mind album will also be used in the documentary

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Flytime TV Exclusive Interview With Omawummi

Flytime caught up with amazing singer, omawummi . You have watched their earlier interviews, this is different. They bring us exclusive band sessions, as she debuts the Flytime Tv’s , fly access. Interesting Interview, pretty much the basics. The journey til date. You gotta Love Omawummi’s sense of humour. Enjoy!

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Music Everywhere With 2face Idibia

Seems Like HipOnTv on that MTV type of interviews. Watch this interesting video as they follow Nigeria’s biggest export after crude-oil, 2face Idibia. Watch as they follow 2baba everywhere, studio, rehearsals.

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MOPOL slap rumour: “I was never slapped,” Davido reacts

Music sensational, David Adeleke better known as Davido has reacted to the rumour going round that he was slapped by a mobile policeman in Abuja recently. Few hours ago, news went round online that Davido was slapped in Abuja by a mobile police for talking too much. This news has spread like harmmatan fire. Reacting to the disturbing news, the ‘Omo baba olowo’ crooner took to Twitter to clear the air on the story. He tweeted, “I am safe and at home. Stop the lies! Unlike some of yall der r some pple out that care. OMO BABA OLOWO: GENESIS OUT SOON! Davido is the new kid on the bloc making waves in Nigerian music industry. He is set to launch his debut album in July 2012.
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K SOLO CLEARS THE AIR ON ALLEGED WIFE BATTERY

Producer K.solo had an exclusive video with Hip On Tv about the alleged beating of his estranged wife, listen to what K.solo have to say to this. He definitely threw washing Machine at her.

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Ice-T Talks ‘Art Of Rap’ Documentary

Ie-T stopped by Hot 97 for a few minutes to speak on his new documentary. He emphasizes how he wanted to elaborate on the craft, and not the topics artists normally get asked about. Ice also mentions the calling people up, the premiere party, and more.

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ItsTheReal Interviews Talib Kweli, ?uestlove & Mac Miller At Bonnaroo

ItsTheReal is gunning for Nardwuar for the best interviews, and scored some great ones down at Bonnaroo this weekend. Check out their interviews with Talib Kweli, ?uestlove of The Roots, and Mac Miller. Always great questions from the Rosenthal brothers.

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Kanye West has over 100 producers and I wasn’t his priority – Don Jazzy

More and more facts are emerging over Don Jazzy and D’banj’s split. In a recent interview with City People, super producer Don Jazzy, explained why he opted to return home while D’banj chases after international exposure. “I am still signed to G.O.O.D Music, but in order for me to be able to concentrate on building the artistes that we have here, I wouldn’t be able to give my 100% in the work I have to do in NY,” Don Jazzy said. “In New York, the music and orientation is different. I can sit down there and say I’m trying to make an album for Kanye West, and it takes me longer because the level of music there is different from the one here. Kanye

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Performance & Lil Wayne/Pusha T Beef

2 Chainz called into Jenny Boom Boom’s radio show and spoke on his Hot 97 Summer Jam performance, recent arrest, the Lil Wayne/Pusha T beef, his debut album Based On A T.R.U. Story and more.

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