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The Hip Hop World Online Weekly is out every Friday at noon
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June 15, 2012
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News Round Up
The Following Stories Made The News This Week
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Hip Hop World Magazine had a few artistes say few things about the legendry king of Afro beat; Femi Kuti in an exclusive package in comemoration of his 50th nniversary
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Days after the Dana air crash took the nation to grief, Hip Hop World Magazine took out time to compile this package even as we mourn, to pay tribute to those that lost their lives in the air crash.
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The father of the masked singer, Bisade Ologunde a.k.a. Lagbaja, Deacon D.A. Olugunde, is dead.
The late Ologunde was aged 83 and was a retired civil servant who served in the cabinet of the first military administrator of Kwara State, Col. David Bamigboye. He died on Saturday June 9 in Ilorin, the Kwara State capital, Nigeria.
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Konvict/EME star and rave of the moment; Ayo “Wizkid” Balogun is currently on location in Beirut with songstress Tiwa Savage. The pair are shooting their very first PEPSI Co. commercial. You will recall that both artistes were recently handed mouth-watering endorsement deals with the soda manufacturing company.
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Nigeria’s biggest music night, The Headies is back for the seventh year and organizers launch 2012 awards.
Organizers of The Hip Hop World Awards which debuted in 2006 this week announced “A countdown to the big day”- which officially kicks off The Headies
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Popular Nigerian disc jockey, DJ Sose who is recognized by his trademark tribal face art, in an interview with Hip on TV, spoke about the length artistes would go to get their songs played.
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Wale Adepoju popularly known as W4 is all about setting his priorities right this season. The pop singer has got great projects to achieve this year
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Recently music veteran, rapper, producer and singer eLDee signed on to his rejuvenated Trybe Records label its first lady, Eva. Hip on TV caught up with the label boss as he tells us how the deal came about.
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Chocolate City’s rapper Ice Prince and EME’s Wizkid recently got the nod to represent Nigeria, as they were nominated for the 2012 B.E.T Awards in the “Best International Act: Africa” category. They were nominated alongside Camp Mulla from Kenya, Lira from South Africa, Sarkodie from Ghana and Mokobe from Mali. Hip on TV caught up with rapper Ice Prince as he shares his joy on being nominated.
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Nigerian producer/musician Solomon Oyeniyi popularly known as K-Solo has been in the news recently after allegations levelled against him for theft, assault and battery of his estranged wife, Kikelomo Oyeniyi. Hip on TV had an exclusive chat with the producer on the allegations....
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Some dreams are better explained visually than in words alone. So is it for Ibk Spaceship Boi, winner of Don Jazzy’s Enigma beat competition and crooner of the song “I have a dream”, as he recently unfolded what’s been keeping him busy and what to expect.
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The Banky W and Segun Demuren owned Empire Mates Entertainment record label, which is home to in-demand singer; Wizkid has announced that the Label’s compilation album will now be released on Monday, June 18, 2012 as against the previously touted June 12 date.
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HKN lead act David Adeleke popularly known as ‘Davido’, has denounced reports saying he will be performing in Cyprus on June 15, 2012. Davido took to twitter to disown said show “I will not be performing in Cyprus on June the 15th! I have no agreement with any promoter out there! Cc @AsaAsika”. This tweet came on the heels of his Europe based fans asking for show details.
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In an exclusive interview with Hip TV, Afro Beats Legends; Femi Kuti, reflects on his life and achievements, his father and attaining his golden age.
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UPCOMING EVENTS
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Event Details: Afro-beats king; Femi Kuti celebrates his 50th birthday in grand style.
Date: Saturday June 16, 2012.
Venue: New African Shine.
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THE HEADIES 2012 (CALL FOR ENTRY)
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The Headies secretariat is now open to receive entries of music materials for nomination at the 2012 edition of the prestigious music award.
Entry requirements for nomination are:
*3 Audio CDs
*4DVDs
*1 Mini DV tape
*Soft copies of artiste's profile and potrait picture
Entry starts 4th of June and ends 30th of June
The Headies secretariat is located at No. 4, Ogundana Street, off Allen, Ikeja - Lagos.
Only music materials released between March 2011 and February 2012 qualify for entry.
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I THOUGHT YOU KNEW
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- Don Jazzy, alongside Mr Solek, were founding members of Jide Chord’s juju band.
- Akon’s father, Momar Thiam was a jazz percussionist.
- In July, 2009 King Sunny Adé was inducted into the Afropop Hall of Fame, at the Brooklyn African Festival U.S.A.
- Afrobeat pioneer, Fela’s full name was Olufela Olusegun Oludotun Ransome-Kuti.
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FULL NAMES: IYANYA ONOYOM MBUK
STAGE NAMES: IYANYA
DATE OF BIRTH: OCTOBER 31,
PLACE OF BIRTH: CROSS-RIVER STATE, CALABAR.
WEIGHT: 72 Kg
HEIGHT: 6ft
MARITAL STATUS: SINGLE
FAMILY DETAILS: 2nd boy, 2nd in family of 4.
PETS: DOGS
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WORD! What Celebrities told HipTv
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"We think to change the country we need to get into politics. You don’t have to. From where you are, you can change the country. In fact, I think it’s a waste of time to think you need four years to change the country. You don’t need four years. What is hard? Put water, put light, put road. It’s common sense, it’s easy but we just lie to ourselves that you need four years. They are wasting their time up there; you don’t need four years. What is hard in making the refineries work when we have reserves and money? It is not hard but they won’t just do it because some people are gaining from the refineries not working. Some people are gaining from the power supply that we don’t have. For everything that goes wrong in this country, someone is benefiting. And that is where the problem is".
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"… Who am I sitting on the wall? He says “don’t I have to take a political stand”. I said I’ve already taken a political stand. Now somebody that comes from my background… If I am seen supporting any political candidate and I’m not one hundred per cent sure that government is not corrupt, that government is for the people, doing the things for the people. How could I jeopardize my heritage, what my father stood for, what my grandmother stood for, supporting such a candidate that even if the person was doing right, he could change tomorrow. I don’t want to be seen as saying; this person I put my support did one or two things wrong. Now I think it is still very important for me to take that back-sit and watch so I can always criticize. So if we have a good president one day; we have to look at it from this point of view; it is our right to have electricity."
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"If you spend your time making enemies, let me just tell you one life secret; You spend your time making enemies and hating people, planning evil for people, you’ve wasted half of your resources you were gonna use to move forward. You’re gonna stay here, trying to push somebody down. To push somebody down, you’d have to remain down. But if you just let things go, you will go up. But be careful who you drag up with you because if you drag the wrong people up, they’re gonna draw you down again. So it’s better to do what Eminem did; go up, then you reach down to pull your people up. But if you are trying to get everybody to go up together, they are gonna weigh you down. So make sure you are up and then, like what Eminem did and 50cent came up then pulled his G-Unit brothers up. ".
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The CISUM Mixtape by CISUM and PopOffCentral is aimed at crafting the future sound and discovering the untapped, creative, energetic and upcoming pop stars for the Nigeria music industry.
The purpose of this mixtape is to discover and expose potential pop stars, artistes who will become superstars.
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