HEADIES 2016, FULL LIST OF NOMINEES

The list of nominees for the Headies 2016 Awards has been released.

The list is made up of 21 categories covering the different genres of Nigerian pop music culture.

See the complete list of nominees below: (YEAR IN REVIEW: JULY 2015 – JUNE 2016)
BEST RECORDING OF THE YEAR
A non-voting category for the best single recording by an artiste or group in the year under review.

1. EMERGENCY – D’BANJ
2. PRAY FOR ME – DAREY FEAT. SOWETO CHOIR
3. LOVE DON’T CARE – SIMI
4. ORENTE – ADEKUNLE GOLD
5. SOMETHING GOOD IS HAPPENING – BRYMO

PRODUCER OF THE YEAR
An individual responsible for producing the most acclaimed song or album in the year under review.

1. DJ COUBLON ‘GOOD TIME & RABA’
2. PHEELS – ‘PICK UP & LAGOS BOYS’ – OLAMIDE
3. LEGENDURY BEATS – ‘FINAL – BABA NLA’ WIZKID
4. YOUNG JOHN – ‘MAMA’ – KISS DANIEL
5. MASTAKRAFT – ‘FADA FADA’, ‘CONNECT’ – PHYNO
6. OSCAR HERMAN-ACKAH – ‘PRAY FOR ME’ – DAREY

BEST MUSIC VIDEO
A voting category for the best conceptualist, best directed and most exciting video in the year under review. This award goes to the video director.

1. EMERGENCY (D’BANJ) – UNLIMITED LA
2. MARY (SEYI SHAY) – MEJI ALABI
3. SOLDIER (FALZ THA BAD GUY) – CLARENCE PETERS
4. MADE FOR YOU – BANKY W
5. BAD – TIWA SAVAGE FEAT. WIZKID – SESAN

BEST R&B/POP ALBUM
A category for the best R&B/Pop Album in the year under review (by single individual or group).

1. NEW ERA – KISS DANIEL
2. WANTED – WANDE COAL
3. KLITORIS – BRYMO
4. 4. NAKED – DAREY
5. SEYI OR SHAY – SEYI SHAY

BEST R&B SINGLE
A category for the best R&B single in the year under review (by a single individual or group).

1. LOVE DON’T CARE – SIMI
2. MADE FOR YOU – BANKY W
3. SUPER WOMAN – WANDE COAL
4. PRAY FOR ME – DAREY
5. ADUKE – TJAN
6. SMILE – SHAYDEE

BEST POP SINGLE
A category for the best pop single in year under review (by single individual or group)

1. MAMA – KISS DANIEL
2. FINAL (BABA NLA) – WIZKID
3. PICK UP – ADEKUNLE GOLD
4. OSINACHI – HUMBLESMITH FEAT. DAVIDO
5. REGGAE BLUES – HARRYSONG FEAT. OREZI, IYANYA, OLAMIDE, KCEE
6. EMERGENCY – D’BANJ
7. FADA FADA – PHYNO FEAT. OLAMIDE
8. MONEY – TIMAYA FEAT. FLAVOUR

BEST REGGAE/DANCEHALL SINGLE
A category for the best Reggae/Dancehall single in the year under review (by single individual or group).

1. 1. NO KISSING’ – PATORANKING FT SARKODIE
2. BODY HOT – PRAIZ FT. JESSE JAGZ & STONE BWOY
3. JAGA LOVE – JESSE JAGZ
4. OLOWO – CYNTHIA MORGAN
5. PAM PAM – KETCHUP
6. TIMAYA – I LIKE THE WAY

BEST RAP ALBUM
A Non-Voting Category for the Best Album By A Rap Artiste Or Group In Year Under Review.

1. EYAN MAYWEATHER – OLAMIDE
2. POWERFUL – ILL BLISS
3. STORIES THAT TOUCH – FALZ
4. LIL’ KESH – YAGI

BEST COLLABO
A voting category for the best R&B, Pop or Hip-hop collaborative track (including cameos).

1. SOLDIER – FALZ FEAT. SIMI
2. REGGAE BLUES – HARRYSONG FEAT. OREZI, IYANYA, OLAMIDE, KCEE
3. OSINACHI – HUMBLESMITH FEAT. DAVIDO
4. WAIT – SOLIDSTAR FEAT. TIWA SAVAGE
5. NO KISSING – PATORANKING FEAT. SARKODIE
6. MONEY – TIMAYA FEAT. FLAVOUR

BEST RAP SINGLE
A voting category for a single (released on-air) recording of a rap.

1. EYAN MAYWEATHER – OLAMIDE
2. ASAMALEKUN – REMINISCE
3. JAGABAN – YCEE
4. CHUKWU AGOZI GOGI – ILL BLISS
5. AGU JI NDI MEN – A-Q
6. SHOW YOU SOMETHING – BOOGEY

BEST VOCAL PERFORMANCE(MALE)
A non-voting category for the single male artiste with the most outstanding vocal performance on a single song or album.

1. BRYMO – SOMETHING GOOD IS HAPPENING
2. DAREY FEAT. SOWETO CHOIR – PRAY FOR ME
3. SHAYDEE – SMILE
4. WANDE COAL – SUPER WOMAN
5. RIC HASSANI – GENTLEMAN

BEST VOCAL PERFORMANCE (FEMALE)
A non-voting category for the single female artiste with most outstanding vocal performances on a single song or album.

1. SIMI – LOVE DON’T CARE
2. SEYI SHAY – RIGHT NOW
3. ARAMIDE FEAT. ADEKUNLE GOLD – LOVE ME
4. OMAWUMI FEAT. ANGELIE KIDJO – PLAY NA PLAY

NEXT RATED
This category is a voting category for the most promising upcoming act in the year under review.

1. YCEE
2. TEKNO
3. MR. EAZI
4. HUMBLESMITH
5. ARAMIDE

HIP HOP WORLD REVELATION
A voting category for the best new artiste in the year under review.

1. KISS DANIEL – NEW ERA
2. SEYI SHAY – SEYI OR SHAY
3. LIL’ KESH – YAGI
4. RUNTOWN – GHETTO UNIVERSITY

LYRICIST ON THE ROLL
A non-voting category for the Rap Artiste with the best lyrical depth and performance on a single song or album.

1. ILL BLISS – CHUKWU AGOZI GOGI
2. REMINSCE – ASALAMALEKU
3. YCEE – JAGABAN
4. BOOGEY – SHOW YOU SOMETHING
5. A-Q – AGU JI NDI MEN’
6. MODENINE – NO MATTER WHAT

BEST STREET-HOP ARTISTE
A voting category for the artiste whose songs are inspired by the streets. Such song should captain lingua, which may also be originated by the artiste and popular on the street.

1. OLAMIDE – WHO YOU EPP
2. AJEBUTTER FEAT. FALZ – BAD GANG
3. KOKER – KO LE WERK
4. YCEE – JAGABAN
5. SMALL DOKTA – GBERA
6. 2T BOYS – CUSTOMER DADA NI

BEST ‘ALTERNATIVE’ SONG
A voting category for the artiste whose songs reflect any form or style of music which falls outside the mainstream of recent or past popular musical trends.

1. PICK UP – ADEKUNLE GOLD
2. SOMETHING GOOD IS HAPPENING – BRYMO
3. YOU SUPPOSE KNOW – BEZ
4. WAIT FOR ME – JOHNNY DRILLE
5. GENTLEMAN – RIC HASSANI

ALBUM OF THE YEAR
A voting category for the best album (solo or group) in year under review, that meets judges requirements of excellence (Songwriting, production, rendition and promotion) and acceptability (Sales and popularity).

1. STORIES THAT TOUCH – FALZ
2. NEW ERA – KISS DANIEL
3. WANTED – WANDE COAL
4. SEYI OR SHAY – SEYI SHAY

ARTISTE OF THE YEAR
Most critically and commercially adjudged artiste in the year under review. Overall most successful artiste for the year under review.

1. WIZKID
2. TIWA SAVAGE
3. FALZ
4. YEMI ALADE
5. OLAMIDE

SONG OF THE YEAR
A voting category for the most popular song in the year under review.

1. FINAL (BABA NLA) – WIZKID
2. OSINACHI – HUMBLESMITH FEAT. DAVIDO
3. PICK UP – ADEKUNLE GOLD
4. REGGAE BLUES – HARRYSONG FEAT.
5. FADA FADA – PHYNO FEAT. OLAMIDE

AFRICAN ARTISTE
A non-Nigerian award category for an individual African artiste or group with the most outstanding achievement, impact and infiltration into the Nigerian music scene in the year under review.

1. SAUTI SOL
2. CASPER NYOVEST
3. DJ MAPHORISA
4. STONEBWOY
5. SARKODIE

Wizkid Announces New Single featuring Drake

The cat is out of the bag; Wizkid just tweeted that he and 6god (Popularly Known as Drake) are about to school everybody (see tweet below). As most of you know, Wizkid recently signed a global record deal with Sony Records.
According to insiders, this single featuring Drake will be the first single off Wizkid’s new project. If this new track is sonically close to One Dance, quality wise, and there is no reason to think otherwise considering the track record of both Wizkid and Drake, it can become a huge world record and earn Wizkid another Number ONE single.

The cat is out of the bag; Wizkid just tweeted that he and 6god (Popularly Known as Drake) are about to school everybody (see tweet below). As most of you know, Wizkid recently signed a global record deal with Sony Records.
According to insiders, this single featuring Drake will be the first single off Wizkid’s new project. If this new track is sonically close to One Dance, quality wise, and there is no reason to think otherwise considering the track record of both Wizkid and Drake, it can become a huge world record and earn Wizkid another Number ONE single.

6god x Real Starboy about to school everybody!! 🌊🌊🌊🔥🔥🔥

— Wizkid (@wizkidayo) October 11, 2016

This is a definitive ranking of all the Choc Boy anthems released before 2012

We can’t categorically say Chocolate City is heaving its last sighs as a major label with Ice Prince’s recently announced exit. What we can say however is that at some point in the label’s history, the highlight of every album released under the label’s imprint was the official Choc Boy anthem for the record. Here is a definitive ranking of all the Choc Boy songs released before the label’s problems began in 2012 with Jesse Jagz’ exit.

5. Chocolate – Brymo, Son of a Kapenta, 2012

If we didn’t know any better we’d say the label had anticipated problems later that year, hence gave a befitting title to this number off Brymo’s sole album before announcing his exit via a series of chaotic tweets. With the addition of Pryse as the label’s first female rapper, the song didn’t bear the usual ‘(feat. Choc Boys)’ tag, but it did have Brymo on chorus and Jesse Jagz on the last verse while Ice Prince and M.I filled everything in between. Between the local Hausa music infused beat and Pryse’ dull opening, this is unarguably the weakest link in the gallery of Choc Boy anthems.

4. Thank You – Ice Prince, Everybody Loves Ice Prince, 2011

Ice Prince debut ELI album may have as well changed the industry in its own way. Heavy kicks and poppy synths are littered across the Jesse Jagz produced LP and Thank You borrows the same instrumental arrangement to close the album. Ice Prince stumbles through his verse with occasionally mediocre punches but he is rescued by a chord progression that does too much even for Jesse Jagz who unusually mouths cringe-worthy lines like Life’s a bitch(pause)/me Nyansh tire . M.I drops a humorous third verse maintaining the basic bars standard his comrades already set through the song. But the success of this song was never really in the verse, it was in Brymo’s smooth chorus about fine boys looking for fine girls. Agreed, none of it makes sense, but boy does it sound good.

3. Represent – M.I, M.I 2: The Movie, 2010

A skit between a cinema attendant and a customer who apparently fell asleep in the theater while waiting for the post-credits Choc Boy anthem opens Represent. Brymo’s voice backed by electronic organ synths opens the song for Jesse Jagz to spit on the first verse. Save for his interpolation of the punch lines – ‘ping-pong’ and ‘king-kong’ on the wrong bars, Ice Prince delivers an almost flawless second verse. M.I comes in briefly for a vocoded refrain, before bursting into a 2-minute long final verse detailing how he set up his Choc Boy crew and of course reminding us why they will be at the top for a while.

2. Choc Boys – M.I, Illegal Music, 2008

It is general knowledge that M.I’s Illegal Music mixtapes may be the only representation of his true artistry, and this alternate synth version of JayZ’s Roc Boys proves just that. With a minimalist cast of the original Choc Boy formation, M.I, Ice Prince and Jesse Jagz, Choc Boys is opened by M.I’s auto-tuned sing-song style. Jesse Jagz, Ice Prince and the Short Black Boy himself fulfill the role of their places while the lush instrumental does the rest of the work. This is probably the smoothest lyricism we will ever get to hear from this three, and not even Ice Prince’ infamous flow so bloody/ just me and my menses line did too much to taint that legacy

1. Nobody Test Me – Jesse Jagz, Jag of All Trades, 2009

In what many have referred to as one of the hardest collaborative rap songs to ever come out of Nigeria, Nobody Test Me came at the peak of the Chocolate City freshman years in the music industry. It’s 2009, M.I’s debut album, Talk about it, dropped the previous year, Jesse Jags just snagged a hit off Jargo and Ice Prince was quickly becoming a household name, these guys were literally untouchable. With a chorus helmed by Ice Prince, Nobody Test Me is a song that comes second to none as a statement of braggadocio. The braggart premise of the song is further fine-tuned by an M.I second verse where subtle shots are taken at Kelly Hansome before Jesse Jagz finishes off with the bar for bar tightrope lines that stay on course all through the verse. Trust us when we say, this is the best of the best of the Choc Boys.



 SOURCE : SOUNDS.NGhttps://youtu.be/IpX30PFR1BQ

Snowflake - winter is coming(mixtape)

The most anticipated mixtape of the year is now out!!! Download “Winter Is Coming[The full mixtape]” by Snowflake{Tha Magnificent}. He is known for his sleek delivery,  intelligent word play & punchlines, he is definitely one of the fastest rising stars from the North.
The mixtape features other dope artists which include Kheengz, Zik, Soul flavour & Obizee. The whole project is dedicated to his late parents & is guaranteed to leave jaws dropping, download & enjoy.

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DANHAUSAWA - GOOD LIFE

Brand new feel from the award winning Kaduna based musician DanHausawa popularly known as DH who remains one of the biggest stars in Northern Nigeria.
2016 has indeed been a good year for the veteran musician and entrepreneur after winning the prestigious City People Awards back to back and scored big time with his Hit TV show which eventually won an award, he joins other patriotic Nigerians to celebrate life regardless of the current challenges facing all sectors of our lives.
Enjoy “Good Life” by DanHausawa, produced by Burning Sounds. Have a Good Life.

DT - I WILL BE GOOD

In anticipation to the release of his new EP ''The dark tape'' Which is rumored to be featuring the renowned ABU Zaria freestyle duo Advocate and White, Hiphop heads General and Zx based rapper AHMED DT has decided to give us a heart touching sound titled I`ll BE GOOD.

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BOC - SORRY PLEASE THANKS EP

The most Awaited/Anticipated Ep of the year By B.O.C titled ‘Sorry Please Thanks’.
B.O.C is one of the celebrated rapper in the north coast right now. So why don’t you take a seconds of your time and stream and download B.O.C’s creativity and hard work below.
1. DOWNLOAD MP3: B.O.C – Knock Knock 
2. DOWNLOAD MP3: B.O.C – Madarar Lebe 
3. DOWNLOAD MP3: B.O.C  Dari Bisa Dari 
4. DOWNLOAD MP3: B.O.C ft Pheroshuz – Really Real
5. DOWNLOAD MP3: B.O.C ft Kenny Wonder – Do That
6. DOWNLOAD MP3: B.O.C ft Lee Rhymes – Penates
7. DOWNLOAD MP3: B.O.C – Sorry, Please, Thanks
8. DOWNLOAD MP3: B.O.C ft C Man – Big Brother 
9. DOWNLOAD MP3: B.O.C – Mama (Skit) 
10. DOWNLOAD MP3: B.O.C – Himma 
11. DOWNLOAD MP3: B.O.C ft Abyssinia – Sir Abubakar 
12. DOWNLOAD MP3: B.O.C ft Stesh – Sabada
13. DOWNLOAD MP3: B.O.C ft Black House – Home Coming 
DOWNLOAD ZIP FILE: B.O.C – Sorry, Please, Thanks (EP)


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Mixtape: Kheengz – Voice Of Arewa (V.O.A)

As we await his much anticipated PEDESTAL EP, KHEENGZ has decided to release a 10 track mixtape VOICE OF AREWA( V.O.A.)..with just two features on it and also production credits to Dj Steev, Zayne Ef and Maazid. We get to see this northern emcee play with words a lot as he delivers heavy bars and punchlines both in Hausa and English..please download enjoy and drop your comments ..also follow him @yungkheengz
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KevinWords – “Levelz” | @kevin_gaiya [Prod by @Stevjazzbeats]

KevinWords – “Levelz” | @kevin_gaiya [Prod by @Stevjazzbeats]

Kevinword$ a.k.a Kong Marley.(@kevin_gaiya) Is another redefined rapper straight out croccity(Kaduna), his ear stingers has been upped in numbers with this one called “Levelz”. It’s a real track to put your believe on, as it was produced by Platnum producer extraordinaire Stevjazz (@stevjazzbeats).
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MIXTAPE - RISE ABOVE PEER PRESSURE BY DIA

Its been months since Kaduna based rapper and one of krock city`s finest DIA(dual intelligence artillery) released his mixtape titled RISE ABOVE PEER PRESSURE.But if u haven`t listeened to this dope project yet, here is your chance!
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