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Rick Ross releases new Drake diss track, “Champagne Moments”.

The rap world is experiencing one of its biggest moments over the last few years, with heavyweights like Kendrick Lamar, Drake, Future and Rick Ross allegedly involved in a beef. After a leaked song, “Push Ups” by Drake, where he sent jabs at Kendrick Lamar, Metro Boomin, Future and Ross. Rick Ross immediately unleashed his response in a new single, “Champagne Moments”, where he cussed Drake out for allegedly a BBL and nose surgery. He also revealed that the Canadian rapper sent a cease and desist to their colleague, French Montana. While Drake has reacted to these claims with an Instagram story post, fans are expectant of another reply from him.

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ODUMODUBLVCK teases new single, “Technician” with Blaqbonez.

The Nigerian rap industry has witnessed tremendous success due to new generation rappers like ODUMODUBLVCK and Blaqbonez at the forefront of the genre. The duo have released multiple songs together, including the smash hit, “Tesla Boys” off Odumodublvck’s debut album, “Eziokwu” and the duo are now set to release another collaboration, “Technician”. He teased this collaboration at Boiler Room on Saturday night, raising fans’ expectations for the upcoming release. The song will be released next week.

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Tekno debunks news of paid royalty from Kizz Daniel for hit song, “Buga”.

Afrobeats’ stars, Tekno and Kizz Daniel teamed up for one of Nigeria’s biggest songs of 2022. The hit song, “Buga” was the most streamed Afrobeats song in Nigeria, amassing over 82 million streams on Spotify. In a new statement going round on X, it was alleged that Kizz Daniel paid Tekno over a billion naira as royalties for the single and the “Pana” singer has come out to debunk this claim. On this alleged statement, Tekno replied with “him money no reach”. This has caused a major uproar among fans who believe that both artists have fallen out.

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Shallipopi’s new album grosses over 1.5 million first day streams on Spotify NG.

Benin-born Nigerian music star, Shallipopi released his sophomore album, “Shakespopi” on Friday. Garnering over 1.5 million streams on its first day of release on Spotify Nigeria, it becomes the sixth biggest first day streamed project on Spotify Nigeria history. Since this release, the album has received a plethora of reactions from fans and critics, who have either shown blatant dissatisfaction or great interest in the album. Despite these mixed reactions, all the songs on the album have charted in the top 20 of both the Spotify and Apple Music Nigeria charts.

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Fans show major concern for Asake after new photos surface.

New photos of YBNL artist, Asake surfacing online after his sold out Scotia Bank Arena show in Canada has got many fans worried about the hit maker’s well being. The “Joha” crooner had a performative moment on stage and the now-circulated after-show photos have even raised more concerns, causing many on X (formerly twitter) to believe that abuse of drugs might be manifesting on the artists wellbeing. While it is unsure if anything is really wrong with the star, fans have expressed good wishes to him.

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