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Who is responsible for the change of trend in a Music Industry, The Artist or the Music Producer /Sound Engineer ? Lets Use the Nigerian music industry as a case study. The Nigerian music industry has evolved over the years with different hit songs emanating and emerging from different music artist. The industry has experienced a drastic change in both structure and exposure as a result of quality sounds released by Artists. The sounds gets better by day as Artists and their producers think outside the box to create sounds that can actually break into the western world and attract potential investors. As we all hear and see on news and social platforms how Nigerian /African Artist are been offered deals by foreign Music bodies like Sony music, RCA, ROC Nation and Universal Music. This is a clear proof of growth in the Music Industry.  Now the question is, who is actually responsible for change in sound /trend in the music industry. Who is a music producer? -  A prod...

Nigerian Afro pop star 'Davido' debuts in 2017 his highly anticipated song 'IF' produced by Africa's golden boy and MMMG front liner Tekno , who is also on a high demand in the Nigerian music industry for releasing hits back to back. After listening to the song and delivery by Davido, you will agree with  me that Tekno  had a major influence in the composition aside being the producer of the song. The song was accompanied with an amazing visuals directed by Director Q somewhere in the Uk. Enjoy after the cut... 

Nigerian super talented Musician 'Orezi' who is known for chunning out hits songs that keeps the DJ steadily putting the Dance floor on fire  has Just released a new and amazing song titled 'How long' off his Ghen Ghen Album released in 2015. The video was directed by Mazi .C. Jizzle, checkout the amazing video after the cut....

Few days ago Nigerian rich kid and CEO of Davido Music Worldwide DAVIDO calls out his Manager Kamal Ajiboye who has been known in the music industry for his tremendous support and contributions in shaping and guiding the career of Davido and HKN Artist. Kamal is seen as one of the most influential and hard working Managers in the music industry. The reason for the conflict between the Artist and the Manager is yet to be revealed. All we see on the social media is the artist calling the manager bad names and also claiming he used diabolic means to control his business with him, no proof has been linked to that allegations yet. The latest is Davido hiring his former manager Asa sika who he fired before for allegedly embezzling promotional funds. Asa sika who is known to also have a management affiliation with Neoto C will now be doubling as Davido's Manager. We wish them all the best and hope he understands the implication of changing managers.

Once again Nigerian Artist Black Face calls out his former group mate Tuface Idibia now 2baba . He called him an illiterate for planning to lead the February 5th protest against the Nigerian government. He took to his social media pages to educate 2baba as he claims. Check out what he posted below.... I read Tuface Idibia‘s verbal tirade in Vanguard in which he said he will be leading a protest against Buhari on the 5th of February for among other things not paying salaries of civil servants. I think he needs to be educated about the efforts of the Buhari administration: So far Buhari has released three bail out funds to the 36 states in Nigeria totalling over N1.5 trillion in the last 18 months. Apart from this another trillion was released as Paris Club refund money to the 36 states. Buhari emphasized the need for the states to prioritize the payment of salaries of workers and pensions of pensioners as these states receive the money.

Nigerian fast rising Afro pop Artist 'Dotman' who made his mark in the Nigerian Entertainment with hit song 'Akube' bounces back with yet another impressive single titled 'Escobar' featuring the OBO himself Davido . The young Star Dotman starts the year 2017 on a right note with a MEX directed video..See video after the cut...

Top Ugandan Artist Eddy Kenzo Links up with Jamaican diva Alaine to put out this impressive brand new collaboration titled 'Addicted' . I don't know what they are addicted to but this is definitely an amazing song you should have on your playlist. It's always nice to see great people from different countries link up and put out materials, that really helps the growth of music. Nigerian Video director Patrick Elis used his magical directing and photography skills to bring more life o the audio of the song. Enjoy