A LIFT OFF THE UNDISPUTED MIXTAPE VOL II- MATERIAL ELEGBEJE IS SMOKING THE FLOW

 

A markedly reflective song, euphoric. It sums the artiste’s new found lifestyle, popularity and success. The song has a limitless affinity to Rick Ross’ Aston Martin Music and Nickleback’s Rockstar. It is a song celebrating the fast life that comes with success.

The verses were well layered on the beat and one could perceive the painstaking effort of the producer, as the chorus and verses synched. At 1 minute 52 seconds, Lift off is quite short; this could perhaps be a plus for the song, leaving the listener no choice than to punch repeat. 

Crafty use of rhyme and Nigerian lingo set this man aside as an artiste with a vault of metaphors. His gift of language, poetry and ears for rhyme reflects all through and he’s definitely saying this is not the preserve of Mode 9 or SinzuSMG. The rap verses as well hook are well delivered. The hook singer did a marvelous job and that’s perhaps one of the best hook I have heard lately on a Nigerian song.

I have listened to Material Elegbeje before, this track might just be what he needs to raise his profile and stake a claim to the Naija hip-hop mainstream. And again, “Shout out to Dr. Frabz on this one!”. He equally showed why Dagrin (R.I.P) was such a success. The song is a neat club banger any day.

RATING: 3.5/5

The Chase is Inspired! Set to Launch Album

Cover Art Front

Following the successful release of singles off their debut album  ’Inspired’ Chase is set to release her complete album online on the 1st of November followed by a release party on the 27th to launch the hard copy deluxe version.

Chase is Nigeria’s Foremost female R&B/Pop group with amazing vocal abilities. this three young ladies (Chat, January and Ollah) are set to make an impact in the music industry.

SMIRNOFF EXCHANGE; GLOBAL PARTY IN LAGOS

The Smirnoff brand is bringing back The Smirnoff Nightlife Exchange Project, building on the great success of 2010’s global initiative. Like last year, the vodka brand is encouraging its fans to share what makes their nightlife original and vote for the best ideas. These will be implemented on November 12, the big night. This time, 50 countries all around the globe will be involved in the night swap.

These one-of-a-kind nightlife parties, which will include music, drinks, places, tastes and dances, will be hosted at special venues: Just like in 2010, people from one country will contribute ideas for a party to be arranged in another country. Last year, the programme was launched in 14 countries (the USA, Australia, Canada, the GB, Thailand, Brazil, and Germany, to name but a few) in 10 different time zones, engaging 2 million people through Smirnoff Facebook fan pages. This year Smirnoff decided to give an opportunity to say ‘I was there’ to as many as 10 million fans, by extending the cultural exchange project to include 50 countries in total. Some of the countries involved are Australia, Nigeria, Brazil, China, Colombia, Dubai, Germany, Ghana, Great Britain, Israel, Serbia, US and Vietnam .

This year, the Smirnoff brand also partnered with Madonna in a search for “the Most Original Nightlife in the Universe”, to find the best dancer to join Madonna’s next tour.

The Nigerian version of the party tagged Smirnoff Midnight Circus will tour Three Cities, starting in Lagos. It will be hosted by the rapper Ikechukwu.  As part of the total fun package, wanna-be emcees will get the chance to prove themselves by laying a verse on the beat downloadable on Smirnoff Facebook page at http://uploads.mp3songurls.com/1208647.mp3 The performance should be uploaded on youtube and the link put on the Smirnoff Nigeria Facebook page to enter the competition where fabulous prizes are waiting.

Revellers worldwide are invited to co-create and participate in the Smirnoff Nightlife Exchange Project by contributing ideas on what makes their local nightlife distinct in the categories of drinks, dance, fashion, music, places, and more creating a nightlife cocktail of unique events. The most inspiring suggestions from each region will be captured online and exchanged with another country on November 12, when the night swap takes place.

By participating online, fans will have the chance to win a place at one of the global events or experience another country’s party at a Smirnoff Nightlife Exchange Project event in their own city.

THE GAME NEEDS 'YOLE'

Yole, born Oluwatoyole Adepoju on May 11, 1989, is the first of four boys born to Dr. and Dr. (Mrs) Adepoju. The Nigerian born artist was taken to Sydney, Australia as a toddler and was introduced to orchestral music at a tender age. Yole’s interest in hip-hop started very early in life with his performance as a rapper in his class’ imitation of the ‘Joyful Joyful’ number from Sister Act 2. As he grew older, he began writing numbers for his church's children choir.

Yole’s strength is in rap music metaphors and similes became major ingredients in his style. At thirteen he began attending rap battle competitions in his neighborhood. From this, he began to compete in the battles but was not able to win any.  However, Yole honed his writing skills and although he stopped participating in battles, he never stopped free-styling.

At sixteen, Yole gained admission into Covenant University to study Petroleum engineering. By then he had been writing songs and had participated in numerous ciphers. With the help of producer Nasty (now Nastizzle) he recorded his first track titled ‘Black-White-Black’.

He and his family later moved to England, and the exposure was limitless. It was the rebirth of Yole. With help and encouragement from friends in the music industry, such as Silly beats, he was able to breathe life into a still-born career.

The road has since been clear cut for the 22 year old who has since worked with Tintin, Silly Beats, Sencosonic, Contradiction, Oyinkansola, MsChief and many more.

With his momentum in music, Yole is fast becoming a force to reckon with among artists both home and abroad.

DOWNLOAD: Relax- Yole ft Oyinkasola
http://search.4shared.com/search.html?searchmode=2&searchName=Relax+-+Yole+ft+Oyinkansola

Acknowledgement: Bio wordings as provided by "Yole"

STILL WONDERING WHY 'EVERYBODY LOVES ICE PRINCE'?

Ice Prince - ”Everybody Loves IcePrince (ELI)” was released earlier today.  The art cover would have had Andy Warhol go green with envy. The playful ambiance suffused with light hearted colours and hearts definitely will get the chicks loving Ice Prince all the more.  The 17 tracker ish had some of the industry's finest doing stint with Ice Prince. Check for the listing below

1.Remember (Intro) Produced By Jude Abaga
2.Juju Produced By Jesse Abaga
3.Superstar Produced By Jesse Abaga
4.Magician Ft Yung L & J-Milla Produced By Jesse Abaga
5.Baby Produced By Jesse Abaga
6.Olofofo Ft Wizkid Produced By Jude Abaga
7.See Myself Produced By Jesse Abaga
8.Wassup Wassup Ft Tuface Produced By Jesse Abaga
9.Oleku Ft Brymo Produced By Jesse Abaga
10.Find You Produced By Jesse Abaga
11.By This Time Ft Wizboy Produced By Wizboyy
12.Somebody Lied Produced By E Kelly
13.Small Small Ft Sean Tero Produced By Jesse Abaga
!4.That Ni**a Ft Morell Produced By Jesse Abaga
15.End Of Story Ft Samklef Produced By Samklef
16.Raindrops (It’s all good) Produced By Jesse Abaga
17.Thank You Ft CHOCBOIZ Produced By Chopstix & Jude Abaga

Executive Producers:
Audu Maikori, Paul Okeugo, Yahaya Maikori,

Co Executive Producers:Jude Abaga, Jesse Abaga

All Songs Written By Panshak “Ice Prince” Zamani except parts written by featured artists.
A & R / Management: Doosuur Tilley Gyado, Bishmang Nanle

Official Team ELI: Bishmang Nanle, Terver “Trump” Malu, Doosuur Tilley Gyado, Amaka Okwuonu, Kunle Peter Thomas, Mavrik Films, Sola Oladebo, Ibiyemi Bello, Bukola Izeogu, Seyi Sanusi, Sam Lolo, Ebere thomas, Oyiboka George, Katung Aduwak

Photography: Augustine Victor Udoh, Art Direction & Cover Design: Ogbonnaya “Big Meech” Chukwudi
Mixed & Mastered By: Jude Abaga & Abuchi “Don Boos Boos” Ugwu

Random Axe, Freeway, Homeboy Sandman Headline HipHopDX's A3C Showcase

On Thursday October 6, the place to be in Atlanta is The Masquerade, with Sean Price, Black Milk, Guilty Simpson, Bronze Nazareth, Kosha Dillz, JYoung The General, HipHopDX and many others.

On the heels of releasing their self-titled super-group debut, Random Axe (Sean Price, Black Milk and Guilty Simpson) will perform in Atlanta, Georgia on October 6, at HipHopDX's A3C Showcase. The Duck Down Music trio will be joined by veteran Philadelphia, Pennsylvania emcee Freeway and Queens, New York's Homeboy Sandman. The event takes place at The Masquerade venue. With over 200 artists, five stages and three days, 2011's A3C Festival is a pillar of live Hip Hop this year.
  The beardest rapper from Philtown, Freeway released a collaborative EP with Statik Selektah this year, Statik-Free, while Homeboy Sandman recently announced signing to Stones Throw Records for his next album.
Also performing is Wisemen member and Wu-Tang Clan affiliate Bronze Nazareth, DXnext alum Gods'Illa, and hometown duo, Ultrabeast.
The winners of the A3C x HipHopDX "Pick 3" contest will also be invited to perform, including New Jersey emcee Kosha Dillz, Michigan's JYoung The General and North Carolina's Joe Scudda.

The flyer is below:

MR. OLU MAINTAIN...CAN'T WE ALL JUST GET NAWTi AWHILE?

Raunchy without the rough edge… Not without its share of coarse words. What it lacked in content, Mr Olu Maintain’s new track “NAWTi” made up for in style and vocal delivery. It’s definitely a track you’ll probably want to play over and over again. It is not a party song- my 10 kobo- but it is a song for the hotel lobby, if you are into that fetish.  The brand new track might as well re-establish and bring about the buzz around the “Yahoooze” crooner.  NAWTi - Natural African Woman Totally Inspiring-is cool and mood setting, especially for a night of erotic revolution.

I wouldn’t pass the lyrical content for average, it was below par but Mr. Olu’s vocalization showed a strong element of dexterity and the auto tunes can’t take that away. The producer should have taken down the volume on the beat, it clearly overshadowed the vocalization.

Except for the thrilling production, the art cover was very misleading and as ‘Natural African Woman Totally Inspiring” , it should have been more African; the model with blond hair on the art cover was a great disservice to what the song was intended to project. This might be another gimmick from Mr. Olu, but on its merit, it is a song worth listening to over and over.

RATING: 3/5

Lil Wayne Revisits Jay-Z Beef, Says It "Isn't About Competition"

Weezy echoes previous statements and says that he knows "there won't be any repercussions."

Lil Wayne has once again addressed his beef with Jay-Z, claiming that he knew what he was doing when he dissed Hov on “It’s Good.” In a cover story for VIBE Magazine, Weezy explained that he doesn’t consider other rappers as “competition” and that he’s just focused on his own career.

“There’s no competition [with any artists]. Music isn’t about competition no more. All the gangster rappers are happy, all the skateboard rappers are happy, all the white rappers are happy…,” he said. “Everybody just happy to do music these days. There are no problems. That shit died a long time ago with them old-ass rappers. We are just making music, making money and having fun feeding our families. Competition is for the old guys.”

He also spoke about how he knew others would look at his shots towards Hov as a diss, but says that he didn’t fear any repercussions.

“I know for a fact, music is about perception. You can't do anything but perceive what you hear. If I know that for a fact, I can never be upset about someone's reaction to it. I'm not gonna say I don't know what will happen before I say it [on record]. I do know what will happen. I am aware of it. It is what it is,” he continued. “Well, I'm a man. I believe as a man you should know that. Every man should know the repercussions and consequences behind whatever they do before they do it. And of course, I know there won't be any repercussions behind what I did.”

Read more excerpts from the story at VIBE.com.

Kokoro Ife (Love Bug)- G-Fresh (Single Review)

Kokoro Ife is a definitive baby making song, from the very first chord, you get the impression that this is a song to be played over and over again, with messages delivered over many layers.  The message is about filling the void of loneliness; it brings back memories with an emotive mood.   Kokoro Ife is a fresh joint from G-Fresh, real name Gabriel Afolayan , a multi talented dude;actor ,dancer, choreographer, multi- instrumentalists and voice artiste.

  “I need to write a special song, something different, not deeply influenced…I mean too Americanized’’ That was how he put the inspiration for the song, the effort has been a very good one, he has been able to marry a Naija flavoured lyrics to American styled R’n’B; a detour judging with the lyrics reminiscing of moonlight love stories. A groovy ballad, sung over violin revv and heavy base line.  Kokoro Ife is partly escapist and part nostalgic. 

Now Master Craft must get a big-up for the production, Kokoro Ife has heavy base lines sustained with hollow drums and intermittent clash cymbals which set the tempo, and the mix of piano,cello and violin whining and revving combined well with a strong vocal presence.

 Sonically, this song sampled a whole range of cascading strings, percussion with a heavy bassline and this could be a plus except that the domineering baseline ambience gives an overpowering impression of traditional drumming influences. I have listened to G-Fresh on that number by Brotherhood “Kini Number” and I must say, he keeps evolving and his style is curvy, flexible, and he brings a lot of voice clarity and dynamism to bear on that track and with this, he showed that he is ready for the big stage.

  No trite song writing here, the voice dynamic did justice to the effort invested in song writing, and to think he did not feature an established act to pull this off, this an effort commendable.

 Overall, I G-Fresh can de-emphasize the voice, he has a strong voice no-doubt, the violin rev could be more prominent, extended and blended with percussion, strings blips and nips and groove will add an atmosphere of a million musical instruments clashing in one of the most emotive song of the year. G-Fresh continues to expand his range, evolve and shows no sign of slowing down, as a musician; I think he is going to be around for long.

 RATING: 4.25/5

Download Kokoro Ife (Love Bug): http://www.plunder.com/x/copy/?id=f18223771c 

PAPI; THIS KID IS HOT! NO EGO ROBBING.

From a very early age it was evident that Papi was musically gifted. Like he always says, “I didn’t choose music, music choose me”. It was only the insistence of his family on the acquisition of a university degree that stopped him from practising his first love long before now.

Make me Craze, an Afro-Pop, is Papi’s first single. It featured the multi talented Terry G of the House of Ginjah fame who also produced it. Papi wrote the lyrics and the chorus of the song. One cannot fail to note the unmistakable style of Terry G’s whilst playing the song.Papi also recently added to his libary two new songs,titled I Don Kolo and See Ole.Papi is presently working on songs like "Fineboi Drama"being produced by Samclef and "Download my pimpim" by Ojb Jezreel.

Though born in Kaduna state, Papi is an Urhobo from Delta state but was brought up in Port Harcourt and Lagos,he had his secondary education at the famous Government College Ughelli and holds a combined honours degree in Linguistics and Mass Communications from the University of Port Harcourt.

He has many siblings and has so far resisted the lure of the UK where his Mum and some siblings are based. Whilst in school he worked part-time with LTMX the family owned business who are specialist in the design and build of TV and Radio infrastructure.

Some of the lyrics of the song reflect the concerns of his family on his decision to navigate the slippery terrain of the Nigerian music industry. His family agreed to give him two years within which to pursue his musical dream and only a successful outcome will prevent him heading back to school for his post graduate degree.

About his music someone has this to say:

"I have listened to a couple of new artistes, but without holding back the truth, he has impressed in many ways in which others have failed. Not only has he shown his knack for the unusual in his approach to music, he also shown that making music is an art that can be made personal"  (Icaruspage from Twitter)


"on the evidence of his debut single he might just have that success very early in his career and that post graduate qualification may just have to wait" (Funmi from Notjustok)


Contact & Bookings: LTMX Entertainment
info@ltmxng.com
papinani@rocketmail.com
UK: +44 793 915 8733
Nigeria: +234 708 155 6006
http://www.twitter.com/papioverhot



You can get his music on:

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-neZvsjjDmM
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http://www.africahit.com/videos/videos/9...
http://recordpool.nigeriandjs.com/commen...
http://campusheat.ning.com/profiles/blog...
https://papinani.wordpress.com/about/
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http://twitter.com/#!/itspapibaby