A fantastic hook can transform a song from good to amazing and rescue an otherwise poor song from disaster. In hip-hop, the chorus is the anchor that grounds the song. While lyrical prowess and ...

Nigerian rapper Odumodublvck has responded to critics who argue that Nigerian hip-hop and Afrobeat artists are not “real” hip-hop musicians. During a recent interview, Odumodublvck asserted that ...

It suffered afflictions from the treatment given to it by both its creatives and its consumers. While the audience treated it as an option (a mere alternative to pop music); the artists turned away ...

A Nigerian literary researcher, Adefunke Eruobodo, has dismissed long-held perceptions that the Nigerian hip hop music genre is anti-intellectual, raw, loud, unserious, and mere noise, insisting that ...

Lagos — Safe for his funky dress-sense of designers Jeans trousers and shirt with glasses to match, one would have sworn he is an Osama bin Laden follower given his goatee beards which bellied his hip ...

Plus, get the best of BroadwayWorld delivered to your inbox, and unlimited access to our editorial content across the globe. "Unpredictable" would be the best word to describe fast-rising Nigerian ...

Rapper Odumodublvck, born Tochukwu Ojogwu has addressed critics and celebrated his contributions to hip-hop. In a recent interview, he hammered the impact of his work and dismissed doubts about his ...

Singers use artistic conventions to construct marketable music personas. However, that’s not the full picture. In the US, for example, most American hip-hop and rap songs are also a reflection of the ...

(CNN) — Osmic Menoe was a young kid in South Africa when he first fell in love with hip-hop culture during the late 1980s, at the height of the country’s anti-apartheid movement. But like so many, at ...

LOS ANGELES (Billboard) - What began as a hobby and form of therapy has evolved into a career for Nigerian singer-songwriter Nneka (pronounced "neck-ah"). "Nigeria is a tough place to grow up," the ...