Ricqy Ultra - Letter of Rapology (video)

 

Ricqy Ultra finally releases the visuals to his much anticipated song titled Letter of Rapology. Letter of Rapology is the first track off his sophomore album titled Expect The Unexpected. The song was produced by KefaZz Simple Touch while the visuals was directed by Mr DMej.

Letter of Rapology is a complete hip-hop song that narrates the bitter-sweet love story of Ricqy Ultra in the hip-hop industry (specifically in the north). As he narrates his personal experiences, he scribbled down his story into a letter seeking for counsel from Hip-hop on how to overcome the daily issues, torture and blame that hip-hop has been receiving over the years.

As contained in his lyrics, Ricqy Ultra is rapologizing for all that has been happening around the hip-hop industry and as such, he hopes that he wont get into trouble for taking sides with hip-hop.

The concept of the video was conceived by Ricqy Ultra and the cinematography well handled by Mr Dmej. Kindly watch and listen below.

Abba Pastor - Kwarya featuring Nomiis Gee [Video]

 

Abba Pastor drops the visuals to his much anticipated visuals to the song KWARYA which features Hausa Hip-hop Ambassador, Nomiis Gee.

The song Kwarya is a hip-hop song with visuals that will keep your eyes glued to your screen. With a cameo appearance from Ricqy Ultra in the visuals as Abba Pastor finally hit the nail with a lucrative record deal, the sky is just the starting point for him under the tutelage of Nomiis Gee.

The video for Kwarya was shot by JimohFilms, chopped by RabsMada and directed by KaiKauce Class. The song was produced by Simple Touch KefaZz. Costume was provided by M&A Stitches.

Abba Pastor featuring Nomiis Gee - Kwarya [audio]

New rap prodigy Abba Pastor is another underground Hip-hop bred. Representing Kebbi state, Abba Pastor launches his first single titled KWARYA. 

To tell the world how prepared he is, Abba Pastor collaborates with self acclaimed Hausa Hip-hop ambassador Nomiis Gee in this exciting song titled Kwarya.

Kwarya is a hip-hop song with deep lyrics embedded both in the verses and hooks as well. A typical hardcore rap with the lyrics spoken in the native Hausa tongue, Abba Pastor is all out to prove a point.

According to the hook line delivered by Nomiis Gee, "in this game, I be legend/ me no need any agent/ levels pass levels/ levels pass levels/ kwarya ta bi kwarya/ kwarya ta bi kwarya". It literally means they are both at their best and need no one to represent them in the music game. As a matter of fact, they have standards that everyone must adhere to as such, they are on a different level.

Listen to KWARYA by Abba Pastor featuring Nomiis Gee below.

Prince A - Yanzu Na Gane

Prince A is a fast rising Hip-hop artist based in the ancient city of Kano. His unique story telling rap style is second to none. He drops this new tune titled "Yanzu Na Gane".

"Yanzu Na Gane" is a street slang common amongst youth. It literally means "I now understand". The composure of the artist in this song tells you how lyrically gifted he is with his lines, wordplay and rhythm. He was left in the dark for far too long but now, he can see things clearly and understands better based on the lyrics from the song.

From his verse lines, he said "Yanzu na gane, bleaching ba zai ba da farin 'da ba/ Yanzu na gane katifa ba zai 'bare gyad'a ba/ Yanzu na gane albasa batayi halin ruwa ba/Yanzu na gane dan kuka bai kyauta wa uwa ba.......Yanzu na gane....yanzu na gane.......duk shayi ne."

The song "Yanzu Na Gane"is a rich hip-hop song with elements of trap embedded within the production process. Production credit going to one of the most renowned Producer, Simple Touch KefaZz who did justice to the excellent mixing and mastering process. 

Kindly download and listen

Sadiq Astone - Zubar

 

Sadiq Astone is an exceptional talent who has mastered the art of entertaining his audience, most especially the female folks. Zubar is one exceptional song that will liven up any groove, most especially if it has to do with weddings.

Zubar is an Afrocentric song laced with the local kalangu (drums) to spice up and ginger your system. it is a song that speaks with a rich rhythm, carefully spiced up melody and most importantly, entertaining. 

The song in it's totality speaks on how weddings are graced by the elite and the flamboyancy of showering their loved ones with gifts which mostly comes in form of cash. Zubar can be translated to mean "shower" or "spray". kindly find the link to the song below.

To add more sauce to the mix, Sadiq Astone has placed a competition tagged "Zubar Dance Challenge" where the winner goes away with 50grand NGN cash price. The 1st runner up goes home with 30,000 NGN while the 2nd runner up goes away with 20,000 NGN.

All you need to do is follow Sadiq Astone on instagram, record a video of yourself vibing to the song. Post and tag the artist with the hashtag #Zubar. Good luck 

Nomiis Gee, Ricqy Ultra, Bmeri Aboki, Kamar Tachio, Others bag City People Music Award

 

Nomiis Gee receiving his award at the City People Music Award held in Lagos State 

The City People Music Award which was held at Lagos on the 6th day of December was quite explosive and welcoming. It heralded a brand new dawn in the phase of music in this post-covid pandemic. It also means a lot most especially to the northern artists who are working tirelessly to push their craft to the southern part of the country.

No doubt their craftmanship was well recognized by the organizers as the call for northern artists to be celebrated and recognized in this year's edition of City People Music Award 2020. It has been a long time coming and slowly but steadily, our northern artists will get the atttention they so much deserve as long as they put in more workload, time and effort to their craftmanship.

Among the artists from the northern realm who graced the floor for being recipients include the Hausa hip-hop ambassador who has put so much effort in projecting artists globally to every home with his programs on Arewa24 (Zafafa10 and HHipHop) grabbed an award as the Northern Best Entertainment (Music) Program of the Year. He also bagged the awards for Arewa Best Music Video Director of The Year for the song Fatima and Best Northern Promoter of the Year.

Other recipients include Bmeri Aboki who bagged the award forBest Hausa Rap Album of the Year.

Ricqy Ultra bagged the award for Best Rap Single Artiste of the year for the song Rapmetrics 202.

Kamar Tachio was awarded Arewa Best Hausa pop of the Year

Arewa Best R&B of the year was awarded to fast rising artist Young K for his tremendous work rate for the year in review. His manager CP Sajent was also rewarded as Best Northern Music Manager of the Year.

Soja Boy was awarded Arewa Best New Music Artist of the Year.

Buzu King also received an award as Arewa Best DanceHall Artist

DanZaki was awarded Best Arewa Hip-hop Artiste of the Year

With these marvelous awards presented to these hardworking and dedicated artists, no doubt the task is not too far for them but they still have a lot to do in other for their artistry to be identified globally. There is a lot of work to be done. The standard of video production is gradually rising. The quality of music production is also gaining better grounds. Promotion, marketing and the entrepreneurial aspect of the music industry in the northern part is poses a great challenge but the future looks brighter.