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| Afro pop star WizKid. Credit: Dan Wilton/ Fader Magazine |
Afro pop star WizKid is definitely on a trajectory and the accolades won’t stop pouring in.
Recall that a few weeks ago, late November 2015 precisely, Fader magazine interviewed the Ojuelegba star and he said of the hit song:
“I knew it was a good song,
“But I didn’t expect it to blow up the way that it did.”
The song borrows its title from a popular Lagos suburb Ojuelegba and he said of the locale:
“My parents still live there. We have a house there.”
Earlier in July 2015, hip hop star Drake and Skepta made a remix of the song, further helping it cement a global spot.
Listen up:
There is more recognition for the 25-year-old star however. Fader magazine has listed Ojuelegba as the 12th best song in a list of 107 best songs for 2015.
This is really an impressive feat seeing as the list also has names as Kanye West, Rihanna, Kendrick Lamar, Justin Beiber, Drake and Future to name a few.
According to the magazine, even though Drake made the song more popular in America it would have been just as big as it is.
Read Fader magazine’s full description of the song here by Alex Frank:
“Let’s get what we all already know out of the way: Drake hopped on this song from Nigerian artist Wizkid for a remix, generously making the song more famous (at least in America) than it might’ve been on its own in 2015. But let me state this clearly and definitively: the song never needed him. No matter the celebrity, you can’t improve on perfection, even if the Skepta verse that accompanied Drake’s on the remix was pretty great. No, ‘Ojuelegba’ is best on its own, a graceful slice of rhythm that does not need cultural translation. Like Popcaan’s ‘Everything Nice,’ the iconic global jam from last summer, it has a message of grace, thankfulness, and happy perseverance that resonates in every home. And that beat? It’s got a shoulder-shrugging momentum so joyful, how could it not have wound its way all over the world?”
See original version of Ojuelegba below:
Recall that a few weeks ago, late November 2015 precisely, Fader magazine interviewed the Ojuelegba star and he said of the hit song:
“I knew it was a good song,
“But I didn’t expect it to blow up the way that it did.”
The song borrows its title from a popular Lagos suburb Ojuelegba and he said of the locale:
“My parents still live there. We have a house there.”
Earlier in July 2015, hip hop star Drake and Skepta made a remix of the song, further helping it cement a global spot.
Listen up:
There is more recognition for the 25-year-old star however. Fader magazine has listed Ojuelegba as the 12th best song in a list of 107 best songs for 2015.
This is really an impressive feat seeing as the list also has names as Kanye West, Rihanna, Kendrick Lamar, Justin Beiber, Drake and Future to name a few.
According to the magazine, even though Drake made the song more popular in America it would have been just as big as it is.
Read Fader magazine’s full description of the song here by Alex Frank:
“Let’s get what we all already know out of the way: Drake hopped on this song from Nigerian artist Wizkid for a remix, generously making the song more famous (at least in America) than it might’ve been on its own in 2015. But let me state this clearly and definitively: the song never needed him. No matter the celebrity, you can’t improve on perfection, even if the Skepta verse that accompanied Drake’s on the remix was pretty great. No, ‘Ojuelegba’ is best on its own, a graceful slice of rhythm that does not need cultural translation. Like Popcaan’s ‘Everything Nice,’ the iconic global jam from last summer, it has a message of grace, thankfulness, and happy perseverance that resonates in every home. And that beat? It’s got a shoulder-shrugging momentum so joyful, how could it not have wound its way all over the world?”
See original version of Ojuelegba below:
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