Here are the 7 most anticipated Nigerian Hip-Hop projects in 2020
In 2017, Nigerian Hip-Hop suffered its worst year in terms of quality and quantity. Thus, Nigerian legend took to the studio and recorded one of the most impactful rap records in modern Nigerian Hip-Hop history. The song was titled, 'You Rappers Should Fix Up Your Lives.'
Rappers huffed and puffed, but time is a funny thing. Three years down the line, we realize that MI Abaga actually did Nigerian Hip-Hop a huge favour. Over the past three years, Nigerian Hip-Hop has improved in quality and quantity. 2019 was incredible and filled with life - it also birthed an interesting beef.
2019 ended with a release of Palmwine Express by Show Dem Camp. 2020 has already seen seen an Olamide project, but there seems more to come in Hip-Hop. Thus, here are the top five most anticipated rap projects of 2020;
MI Abaga
In 2019, MI Abaga and Vector were embroiled in an epic beef when MI Abaga debuted a new jingle on his Vector diss, 'The Viper.' The jingle was simple, 'Judah.' It was like the voice of a commanding Nigerian father nudging his son to do something with little words. A few weeks after, Blaqbonez released a tweet where promoted an EP titled, Tribe of Judah.
Earlier in 2020, MI Abaga leaked a number of songs in 'wav.' format. Some weeks later, certain things associated with him started trending. The release date for this project that looks to be titled Tribe of Judah is uncertain,
Olamide
In the last decade, Olamide barely went a full year without a body of work. In January 2020, he released his tenth body of work - a project titled, 999. While the project was lukewarm, Olamide announced that we should expect new albums from him and Fireboy, his artist.
We don't know the truth behind that picture, but if anybody can drop two projects in one year, it's Olamide.
Show Dem Camp
Over the past three years, Show Dem Camp has released at least one project per year. Even if we don't know the state of any project, the iconic duo of Ghost and Tec always work on music. In 2019, they released two full-length bodies of work and they were beautiful.
Again, we are not sure about the state of an impending project, but Clone Wars is on its fourth installment. Palmwine Music is only on its second installment.
Falz
Every year, we are sure to get something major from Falz. In 2019, he took home the gong for Album of The Year at the Headies. The win was for his polarizing album, Moral Instruction. While he killed features for fun in 2019, three of his subsequent singles failed to make any meaningful impact.
However, he did do a madness on Make E Nor Cause Fight II with Ajebutter and BOJ. With how Falz moves, chances are his next project will be a surprise, and the certainty of that project is almost written in the stars.
AQ
After Crown, the impressive collaborative album with Loose Kaynon, AQ had a fairly quiet 2019. But even in that year, he had two impressive performances on the Martell Cyphers, released two loosies and won Lyricist On The Roll at The Headies.
With 10 full-length projects, AQ is set to release God's Engineering, his eleventh body of work on March 13, 2020.
Paybac
In the last three years, Paybac has released three incredible projects; two albums and one EP. Look, Payback is one of the best rappers in this country - period. Very soon, his new album, Cult! will be released and it looks set to be impressive.
iLLBliss
We don't know the state of this album yet, but what we do know is that iLLBliss will never release a bad album. From the look of things, an album might be coming from iLLBliss and this is one you want to move with.