Even in a musical genre we all know flows in braggadocio, Kendrick Lamar came into Saturday’s Xcel Energy Center concert with an unusually high amount of hype to live up to. “We’ll see,” were words probably on the minds of many of the 15,000 attendees before the concert, especially at an arena where Kanye West, Jay-Z and Drake have all performed in the past half-decade. The words on their minds after the 90-minute performance probably aren’t printable in a newspaper. Saturday’s show really was a stunner. Not only did Lamar’s lyrical prowess shine through as brightly as the yellow tracksuit…
Author: David Folami
Pete Edochie is caught in a steamy romantic affair with Ghanaian actress, Juliet Ibrahim, and the veteran actor may have shared his first kiss before the cameras. The new movie, “Kenny’s Divas” is set to make storm Africa as the “Things Fall Apart” star shared said first kiss with Ibrahim. The movie written and produced by Adaslim, features Pete Edochie, Juliet Ibrahim, Adaslim, Bryan Okwara, Patrick Doyle, Nora Roberts, Cossy Orjiakor, Rubby Dabbour and Oby Somina Okafor. It was directed by Adim Williams with co-directions by Ifenna Eze, Malcolm Besnson and Alexis Robinson. Speaking on the movie, Adaslim said that…
Bishop David Oyedepo and wife, Faith, recently celebrated their 35th wedding anniversary on August 21, 2017. “My Husband, Many years of love and laughter & it still only gets better each day. Happy 35th Wedding Anniversary,” his wife wrote. Bishop David’s anniversary is equally sweet, with the 62-year old clergyman saying his wife is “heaven sent” in a tweet posted early today. “Happy 35th Wedding Anniversary to my Heaven-sent Wife, Faith Abiola Oyedepo,” he posts. “It gets sweeter by the day!” Big congratulations to the General Overseer of Living Faith Church and his lovely wife on their coral anniversary.
Legendary Alicia Keys and her popular hubby Swizz Beatz, are celebrating their seventh wedding anniversary, and the lovely couple have the most heartfelt messages for each other on the special occasion. “We’ve been married for 7 years today and I’m… SO excited,” writes the ‘No one’ singer as she posts sweet video from their 2010 wedding on Instagram. “We’re even more in love, more full of potential and more excited about our future. We look at each other with the wonder of a child and I’m in awe of us everyday!” “You make me feel like a natural woman ~…
Self-proclaimed Oba Orin Jaywon has put out a love-themed song ‘Jomi Joromi’ featuring label mate Twist. The Next World Music acts could be said to borrow a leaf of inspiration from Simi’s new single ‘Joromi’.
Orezi has backed up his ‘Cooking pot’ single with a proper hustler’s anthem titled ‘Halleluyah’. The Afro-pop singer in ‘Halleluyah’ sang about the hustle and getting the money. Mystro produced this one, with mixing by Zeeno Foster.
Few of Omoni Oboli’s movies have a spot on the top 10 highest grossing movies list. They are “Okafor’s Law” with 90 million naira and “Wives on Strike” with 71 million naira. The actress has done her bit in setting box office records by engaging in several techniques. These include meet and greet, and selling tickets to her fans. She has come out to say she has met different types of Nigerians, including the ‘I don’t watch Nollywood movie’ gang. “There are just so many of them,” she said. “Some people really don’t know how to talk or they just…
Terry tha rapman Reeases New Jam Titled “Wickid” Terry tha Rapman is out with a jammy dancehall tune ‘Wickid’ for the clubs produced by Tony Ross. It features Cynthia Morgan dropping some mad ad libs as Caesar adds some Caribbean vibes on his part.
In anticipation of his upcoming album, scheduled to be released March 27, 2018; Brymo has released Jazz infused Afrobeat sound titled ‘Do you know me’. This is an ode to the independent African lady. ‘Do you know me?’ was written and performed by Brymo, and produced by Adey Omotade for Blackstar Studios.
Following its recent controversy, Olamide’s new single ‘Wo’ has been banned by the National Broadcasting Corporation. The record is one of 5 songs which has been tagged by the NBC as “Not to be Broadcasted.” The corporation released the list, saying it has banned the 5 songs from being aired on all local radio and TV stations. The songs banned are: Olamide‘s ‘Wo’ and ‘Wavy Level’, Davido‘s ‘Fall’ and ‘If(Remix)’, and 9ice‘s ‘Living Things.’ No official reason has been given as to why the songs were blacklisted. The Federal Ministry of Health had in a tweet on Friday said that…
Usain Bolt has posted a scan of his injury following suggestions that he might be lying. At the 4x100m finals at the 2017 IAAF World Championships in London, which was his last race as an athlete, Bolt pulled up during the anchor leg as Jamaica were going for gold. Bolt went to the ground but rejected a stretcher, choosing to hobble his way to the finish line. Doubters, however, questioned the extent of the injury pointing to Bolt’s partying in London after the Championship. Bolt said on twitter “Sadly I have Tear of the proximal myotendineous junction of biceps femoris…
Rafael Nadal has described his climb back to the world number one spot for the first time in three years as “unbelievable”. The 31-year-old Spaniard, who won his 15th Grand Slam title this year at Roland Garros, took Andy Murray’s place, who withdrew from the tournaments in Montreal and Cincinnati with a hip injury. He has admitted doubting he could ever regain the number one spot after so many years. “Being No. 1 after all the things that I have been going through the last couple of years is something unbelievable,” the Spanish great told the ATP. ATP rankings on…
Anthony Joshua has said he wishes to have the wealth of experience Wladimir Klitschko has garnered over his fighting years. Joshua noted that he will be glad if the retired boxer can share some of his experiences as a professional boxer with him. “I’d appreciate it if we just sat down as gentlemen, and he gave me some experience he’s learned from over the years.” Joshua also admitted that even though “all looks good on the outside” Klitschko had “put his body through so many years impact”.
Gernort Rohr has cme out to say that Super Eagles stars Victor Moses and John Mikel Obi will return for the double header against Cameroon. Nigeria face Cameroon first at home in Uyo on Friday, September 1 and the return leg in Yaounde on Monday, September 4 in 2018 FIFA World Cup qualifiers. Ahead of the game, Moses and Mikel Obi who have not played for the Super Eagles since November 2016 will be available according to Rohr. “We have recovered some injured players – Mikel Obi is coming back, we missed him so much in the last game. We…
Antonio Conte said he would be happy for Chelsea to play catch-up in the Premier League title race following their clinical 2-1 victory over Spurs. Chelsea were torn apart 3-2 by Burnley in the opening game of their title defence, but calmed heavy pressure to ruin Tottenham’s Wembley house-warming party on Sunday thanks to left wing-back Marcos Alonso’s brace. “It’s not important if we are not favourites in this league,” said the Chelsea manager, whose preparations for the season were hampered by his club’s failure to significantly strengthen their squad. “It was the same last season. We know we are…
Monaco played like they knew nothing about the absence of want-away star striker Kylian Mbappe as skipper Radamel Falcao’s late goal secured a 1-0 victory at Metz on Friday that enabled them set a new French top-flight win record. Falcao’s goal came with 12 minutes left at the Stade Saint-Symphorien, and the win makes it three in a row at the start of the new season for Leonardo Jardim’s reigning Ligue 1 champions. Mbappe had been dropped out of the squad completely amid rising speculation surrounding his future. The 18-year-old, who was outstanding in the second half of last season…
Pep Guardiola agrees his Manchester City squad can fight for honours even if he is unable to make any more signings before the transfer window closes. The City manager is eager to bolster his defence and is expected to pursue a deal for West Brom centre-back Jonny Evans. “Like last season, every season I start, I always believe my players are the best,” Guardiola told reporters at a press conference in Manchester on Friday. “He (Evans) is a player for West Brom. It’s still the same. Tony Pulis was clear, so there’s nothing to talk about.” “We try to do…
Jose Mourinho believes Manchester United have found their confidence at last after making an amazing start to the Premier League season with back-to-back 4-0 wins. United blew Swansea City away on Saturday, three goals in the final 10 minutes completing a second successive rout after they put West Ham United to the sword in their opening game of the season. “The word that better describes the team now is ‘confident’,” said Mourinho, whose side won in South Wales with goals from Eric Bailly, Romelu Lukaku, Paul Pogba and Anthony Martial. “The team starts the game confident, the team starts the…
Atletico Madrid came back from 2-0 down after a red card for Antoine Griezmann to rescue a 2-2 draw at newly-promoted Girona to start their La Liga campaign on Saturday. Christian Stuani profited from some slack marking at the heart of an Atletico defence that had Diego Godin suspended to head home twice in three first-half minutes. Atletico’s hopes seemed to have being dashed when Griezmann was controversially sent off 23 minutes from time. The French international appeared to have been brought down by Gorka Iraizoz as he rounded the goalkeeper, but was instead booked for diving and then shown…
Liverpool will attempt to finish what they started in the lucrative Champions League group stage this week as they take a 2-1 lead into their play-off second leg against Hoffenheim. Trent Alexander-Arnold’s sublime free-kick and a second-half own goal handed the Reds a slim advantage in Germany, but Mark Uth’s late strike provided Hoffenheim with a bit of hope ahead of the return at Anfield. “The performance and the result were not perfect, far from it. We still have much to do in this tie,” Klopp said in Liverpool’s matchday programme at the weekend. Hoffenheim began the new Bundesliga campaign…