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African Fresh Picks: Olamide, Maleek Berry, Amaarae, Spinall, Crayon, Young Jonn & More
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Shortly after Olamide presented EMPIRE founder and CEO Ghazi with the Clive Davis Visionary Award at Billboard ‘s first Global Power Players event in London last month, the YBNL label boss didn’t rest on his laurels and continued refining his craft on his 11th studio album, Olamidé. The Nigerian rap legend taps in with Wizkid twice on the horn-heavy “Kai!” single (featured in last month’s African Fresh Picks column) and boastful “Billionaires Club” cut with Darkoo while linking up with American hip-hop heavyweight Dr. Dre on the smooth “Indika” collab with Spinall. Olamide’s self-titled latest album is full of outstanding collaborations with some of the brightest lights in Nigerian music right now: Wizkid, Seyi Vibez, Darkoo, Asake, SPINALL, Young Jonn and Boj among them, and he even clears space for a Dr. Dre verse.
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