The Mavins crew pull up an all-star project album tagged “Chapter X”
The new album “Chapter X” by Mavins is a 10-track song that features all the artists and producers under the imprint. Mavins Chapter X
The album features Don Jazzy, Rema, Crayon, Ayra Starr, LadiPoe, Bayanni, Boy Spyce, Johnny Drille, DJ Big N and Magixx.
The album’s opening track, Alle, is both a calming declaration of love and a serious expression of gratitude. Delivered by the same eight-member group seen on Won Da Mo
The following track, All I’m Saying, features a powerful bass background, the group’s calming flows, Don Jazzy’s iconic vocals, and a message of adoration. Ogini Na Fio comes next.
Empire combines project of various African artiste tagged “Where We Came From”.
Distribution and management company, EMPIRE has finally put out their long awaited collaborative album tagged “Where We Come From (Vol. 01)”.
The album, “Where We Come From, Vol. 01”. is a joint album that features songs from Olamide, Kizz Daniel, Wande Coal, Fireboy DML, BNXN fka Buju,Black Sheriff,Navy Kenzo and others.
Michael Owusu popularly known as Sarkodie drops his new project album featuring various African artiste, he tagged the music compilation “Jamz”.
On his 2022 release JAMZ, highly decorated Ghanaian rapper Sarkodie lets loose with a breezy selection of sounds spanning R&B, Afrobeats, amapiano and tropical pop. “It’s influenced by the new wave of Afrobeats and the sounds coming out of Africa,” Sarkodie tells Apple Music. “When the album started being recorded, I realised these are back-to-back, commercially good, playlist-type records—so this project combines all sorts of jams in one.” Celebrating the good things in life through his trademark flows, the Tema-native taps Black Sherif, Lojay, King Promise, Kranium, Cina Soul, Oxlade, BNXN, Inkboy and Joeboy to layer these tracks with balmy hooks and infectious melodies. “I’m in a space where I’m enjoying life, family and spending time with people I cherish so the tone of the music reflects that,” he shares. “It’s like listening to the radio—it has to make you happy.” Below, he talks us through the album, track by track.
“Labadi” (feat. King Promise) “My star sign is cancer, so I love being close to the ocean and I’m at peace when I hear the waves. I’m literally enjoying life so I go to places with my family and we get a boat and play music. That’s what influenced ‘Labadi’. It’s one of the greatest spots here in Ghana—it’s actually where I had my wedding and I love the place. This one’s special because Coublon sent me the beat and I just started writing. I had the first verse, and hit him back to ask what he was feeling when he was playing it. He said, ‘Boat ride, all white, having fun’, and that’s exactly what I’d written.”
“She Bad” (feat. Oxlade) “I like melodies that make you feel something, so with ‘She Bad’ I gave GuiltyBeatz the melody I wanted. I love something that has some soul in it, so we had a melody that was very calm, R&B-ish, and then we started putting in the drums to have that amapiano vibe. Ox was the first option that came in my head and he created the mood for this, especially with the lyrics. I followed his chorus to write my verses.”
“Confam” “How I appreciated amapiano the most was when I went to my favourite spots in Ghana called Skybar. I think that drum brings the rap element out of me—I could rap on that forever! The lyrics to this are for the typical Sarkodie fan from way back, especially Ghanaians who understand the stuff I say. I was very witty and saying some funny stuff. I was just taking myself back to the old Sark.”
“One Million Cedis” (feat. Ink Boy) “We were in Nigeria and Masterkraft played this. I always follow the production ‘cause it brings out what I have to say or how I have to feel. This beat’s tones are very dark and it makes you feel bossy. Ink was creating melodies and when I heard them I was like, ‘This is what I want!’. I got him on board, we had fun and he killed that hook.”
“Cougar” (feat. Lojay) “It’s not necessarily older women, but I’ve always been drawn to strong women who are very mature and independent. I’m a deep thinker. I love having conversations where we’re on the same level—not just in relationships even normal conversations or in business, when we speak we get each other. My wife is like that; I call her the living Google… she has an idea about almost everything. Even if it’s not in depth, she’s super smart and knows about it. That’s a turn-on for me and that’s how ‘Cougar’ came about.”
“Forever” (feat. Kranium) “There are certain places I wanna be when I play this record ‘cause I just keep seeing them vividly when I listen to the project. The mood of this gave me a ‘let’s get away’ type of vibe. You’re with your girl going to a nice beautiful place or resort in Paris or Miami.”
“Over Me” (feat. Cina Soul) “You can always get me to give you some mood music, aside from the dynamic quicks and cadences. MOG knows this, and the way I want to rap, so he sent this record. I was just having fun with the beat, so when I say something it doesn’t land on anything, it just plays a little bit. I think Cina is one of the greatest singers out of Ghana at this point and we had a great vibe.”
“Hips Don’t Lie” (feat. Joeboy) “‘Very pretty lady of course/Self-confidence, I guess I got me a boss.’ How I like my women just subconsciously comes out. I like confidence and I’m drawn to it… I don’t know how someone wouldn’t find it attractive.”
“Country Side” (feat. Black Sherif) “Black Sherif is in a space where he’s been through a lot and now he’s finally made it. That shock of moving from nothing to this is still with him. He came with that energy and it threw me back to that time as well. I like that he made me revisit that phase between being underground and coming up for the first time, ‘cause it’s something you can’t get over—when life is good you actually get scared! Even today sometimes, I have to pinch myself because it all feels too good to be true.”
“Better Days” (feat. BNXN fka Buju) “This is to make sure the fan base is well represented. The core Sarkodie fans always like it when I speak about life and give them hope. They also always want me to rap so I put myself in that zone remembering what I used to think about and how things are going now.”
Wizkid released his anticipated Album for the year tagged ”More Love, Less Ego”
Ten years on from Wizkid’s debut single, 2020 witnessed the Nigerian’s coronation as an undisputed Afrobeats icon. Global names including Justin Bieber and Damian Marley as well as emerging ones (see: Tems and producer P2J) helped Wizkid’s fourth album Made in Lagos strike a sonic balance to electrify bases at home and overseas, and unlocked fresh dimensions to his signature Afro-fusion. “That was where I’m from. And now you know it’s time for me to show the world what else we actually need at this moment,” Wizkid tells Apple Music. “And that’s a whole lot of love. I’m reminding myself, reminding the world, and reminding everybody.”
On More Love, Less Ego, the task is made smoother with P2J again by his side. Their percussive, midtempo palette makes for a rich, winning combo, and the duo lean into it here—with Wizkid’s pillowy vocals and the bright, unifying themes of passion and celebration the ideal complements. But, as the title suggests, a more emotionally exposed artist emerges across the album’s 13 tracks. “All the time, I want to show up as my highest self,” he says. “I’m really trying to show how God has blessed me with this talent and what I can do with it. And I’m here on earth to take this to the highest of my abilities.”
As Wizkid’s Grammy-nominated “Essence” galvanised the thrilling rise of Tems, on “2 Sugar”—a sultry, toe-tapping duet—Ayra Starr is the beneficiary of the Starboy’s magic touch. And it’s far from the only inspired collaboration. Wizkid’s cultural crosswinds take in talent including Jamaica’s breakout stars Shenseea and Skillibeng (“Slip N Slide”) and British Nigerians Skepta and Naira Marley (“Wow”) in a confident show of the diaspora’s effortless genre-fusing. Amapiano, meanwhile, is also explored on album highlight “Plenty Loving”—indicating another rich area for Wizkid to mine in the future.
“I’ve been in the clubs for the past couple months—travelling, doing shows, touring,” he says. “Of course, I’ve been partying to amapiano. I’ve been making that [sound] for years, with [DJ] Maphorisa back in South Africa. So I’ve made what I really love and just put it out there. I can do amapiano, I can do music from Mali, I can do sounds from anywhere, I’m African.”
If ever you lose your way Find the road back home Rainy days and lonely nights Feel like I’m losing time Nowhere else to go so I chase the fading light Towards the goal I run Reminded of the days I lost Losing all I have and I have to go back home Home Home Home Home God knows I miss home Home Home Home (Yeah yeah yeah) God knows I miss home Obodo’m M na-eje obodo’m Ebe m ga-ebi n’udo Ooohh hohhhh My happy place Where my heart lives God knows I miss home Home Home (sawa sawa) Home (sawa sawa) God knows I miss home (home) Home Home (sawa sawa) Home (sawa sawa) God knows I miss home Home Na you I dey think of (home) When am I gonna go home (home) Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah God knows I miss home Home (sawa sawa) Home (sawa sawa) Home God knows I miss home God knows I miss home
I know sometimes e be like say Nobody send you That one na lie I dey for you my friend Padi no vex for me Say I never call you since But I hope that you are well I hope your market sell Everyday I dey pray for you Make baba God bless you I never forget you How I go forget you See my shoulder Make you rest upon me You know I got you Na me be your friend indeed The money don show now I don keep some for you You no go suffer rara ‘Cause anything I get na for me and you yea How are you my friend How do you do my friend I know sometimes e be like say Nobody send you That one na lie I dey for you my friend How are you my friend How do you do my friend I know sometimes e be like say Nobody send you That one na lie I dey for you my friend Oremi Atata You always dey my mind Padi me gan gan gan I cherish you with my life No worry yourself o Everything go dey alright And if anybody try you You know it’s gon be on sight See my shoulder Make you rest upon me You know I got you Na me be your friend indeed Omo the money don show now I don keep some for you You no go suffer rara ‘Cause anything I get na for me and you yea How are you my friend How do you do my friend I know sometimes e be like say Nobody send you That one na lie I dey for you my friend How are you my friend How do you do my friend I know sometimes e be like say Nobody send you That one na lie I dey for you my friend I know sometimes e be like say Nobody send you That one na lie I dey for you my friend I know that I don’t call enough But you are always on my mind I dey for you my friend
Happy girl on the outside Prettiest smile But she losing her damn mind She cry every night Nobody cares Nobody hears When she calling for help So many friends But nobody there She’d a loner (loner) If only someone will call me To know how I’ve been doing lately Hanging on for dear life I’m dying inside but Nobody nobody knows Nobody nobody knows Nobody nobody knows Only only only God knows (nobody knows) Nobody nobody knows (nobody knows) Nobody nobody knows (nobody knows) Nobody nobody knows Only only only God knows Hard guy on the outside Trying to get by Everybody says men don’t cry So he keeps it inside But every night he cries out to the Lord Cause lately I’ve been feeling all alone I’m a loner loner If only someone would call me To know how I’ve been doing lately Barely hanging on for dear life I’m dying inside but Nobody nobody knows Nobody nobody knows Nobody nobody knows Only only only God knows (nobody knows) Nobody nobody knows (nobody knows) Nobody nobody knows (nobody knows) Nobody nobody knows Only only only God knows Only only only only only Only only only only only Only only only only only Only only only God knows Only only only only only Only only only only only Only only only only only Only only only God knows Fighting demons So long But out from the ashes You’re gonna rise You’re gonna shine
Everytime that I think of you Oh girl you make me smile Since the day you caught my Eye eye eye eye eye eyes I can never love anyone but you Oh girl you fit me die And you bring me peace of Mind My omalicha you’re my sunshine The only girl in my eyesight Every other kele just dey pass by Oya bye bye You set my soul on fire Girl I go love you tire Do anything your heart desires Baby don’t say no I wanna know you wanna Be my lover Baby baby be my lover I want you in my life No longer wanna be on my own Be my lover Baby baby be my lover Baby I’m the one for you Let me put my love on you Yeah U see this special kinda feeling Melu m m cho ka ibata nye my life a meaning Zobulu ezo but kita everything revealing Ina gbam ala blow my head up to the ceiling Nwa m na catch feeling Osokwam Dili busy Ikponaro m, I go make everything easy Words may be misleading but ur love is what I’m needing Umu na enye m obi but your heart is what I’m keeping Na me u go believe in Afugo m Omo I’ve seen it all and done it all But anything ga egbochi mu na gi I’ll call it off Mhhhmm Maka I bu dealer bulu plug m And otu isi amuli melu m ji akpo gi sugar plum m Adi m obsessed Biko drop your address Bia bulu gi ka madam in the back of my benz Ma o cock egbe na isim nko I na touch obi m doooo Ife obuna icholu m go Maka acho m ino gi nso Please… be my lover Be my lover Baby baby be my lover Baby I’m the one for you I don’t wanna be ever apart from you (yeah) Be my lover Baby baby be my lover Every day I dey look your photo Baby girl you don dey make me kolo o Be my lover Baby baby be my lover With me you no go ever suffer suffer suffer lai lai oh Be my lover Baby baby be my lover I no go do you bad o I no fit break your heart o Girl I no dey lie o Baby girl I no dey lie o Everybody know that I love you so so so much
Jumoke there is nobody like you I don check am your loving na true (yeah) Falling for your bunny tattoo Dem no know you like I do You dey special to me They don’t know You dey give me the joy wey I need They don’t know Dem no born me well make I leave They don’t know oh oh oh You are the air that I need Baby come closer to me You dey special to me My own You’re my own I wan show them you’re my own For you alone (for you alone) My money dey for you alone Extraordinary person o You are perfect to me Na only you I dey see You dey special to me (Oh my my my) Jumoke there is nobody like you I don check am your loving na true (yeah) Falling for your bunny tattoo Dem no know you like I do You dey special to me I’m gonna pamper you for life Cause you give me peace of mind Here feels like paradise Oh girl I wanna treat your right I go fight for you And I go enter anybody Cause I take your matter personal You’re special to me They don’t know You dey give me the joy wey I need They don’t know Dem no born me well make I leave They don’t know oh oh Just like air that I breathe Baby come closer to me You dey special to me (You dey special to me girl) Jumoke there is nobody like you I don check am your loving na true (yeah) Falling for your bunny tattoo Dem no know you like I do You dey special to me Jumoke there is nobody like you I don check am your loving na true (yeah) Falling for your bunny tattoo Dem no know you like I do You dey special to me My own You’re my own I wan show them you’re my own For you alone (for you alone) My money dey for you alone Extraordinary person o You are perfect to me Na only you I dey see You dey special to me My own You’re my own I wan show them you’re my own For you alone (for you alone) My money dey for you alone Extraordinary person o You are perfect to me Na only you I dey see You dey special to me Oh my Jumoke there is nobody like you On God
I have been looking For you all of my days (all of my days) Pull me out the river I’m washing away, take me away If you need me there Just say the words And I’d be on my way (I’m on my way) And I’m gonna stay I give you my word Oh my love don’t be afraid You’ve got all of my days I’m wasting no more time No not for another minute I’m for the finish line Steady on my mind Tell me you’re ready for the ride Down for the journey of our lives We don’t need a reason We’re gonna gonna love Cause we wanna wanna love ooh We don’t need a reason We’re gonna gonna love Cause we wanna wanna love We just wanna love yeah What you found in me No man can see Girl on my oath My world is yours You know it is that deep When I swim the sea Just to show you That I’m sure it’s you I’m wasting no more time No not another minute I’m for the finish line Steady on my mind Tell me you’re ready for the ride Down for the journey of our lives We don’t need a reason Yeah we gonna gonna love Cause we wanna wanna love We don’t need a reason Yeah we gonna gonna love Cause we wanna wanna love We just wanna love yeah We don’t need a reason Yeah we gonna gonna love Cause we wanna wanna love We don’t need a reason We gonna gonna love Cause we wanna wanna love (we wanna love) We just wanna love yeah
Ayra Starr update her Star Quest as she gave her fans a deluxe album to her recent project titled 19 & Dangerous; here comes the Deluxe version.
Brimming with a spirit that is audacious and defiant yet vulnerable, “19 & Dangerous Deluxe” is an apt title for this new chapter in Ayra’s blossoming career. Comprised of 16 unapologetic tracks all written or co-written by Ayra herself, the album is a coming-of-age record seamlessly weaving Afro-pop, R&B, dancehall, trap and alté styles. Perfectly tailor-made to soundtrack your summer.
Young John drops another melodious banger compilation titled “Love Is Not Enough”.
Young John got other fellow beat makers on their hills with his new EP has all of the track has been making waves and been a must play for every song lover.