The Urban Retro Playlist

One of my favorite tapes this year so far has been Leap of Faith by Juls, which is a wonderful blend of laid back but still very progressive and considerably upbeat music ironic right ? Anyway the song of the day is actually not from that tape but it wouldn't be hard to believe if it was just one of those songs you recorded for an album but eventually didn't make it to the album for one reason or the other. Definitely not because it wasn't it wasn't good enough though.
The song posses sounds that embody Banky style of music, said to be pioneered by Mr Eazi but another salient individual in the development of this sound is Juls who has prominent in a good amount of his songs. I hope at some point they (Juls & Mr Eazi) work on a project together.
Any Rock your body is heavily influenced by the banku sound and Burna Boy maintains a laid back demeanor and is able to impose his style and personality properly although the song.
Also present are some dancehall elements in the song but they are so subtle, well blended and entirely smooth to listen to. I especially love the array of the various drums on the instrumental. This in my opinion is the closest anyone has shown they posses as much chemistry as the Burna Boy LeriQ duo, I hope to see more collaborative efforts with them in the future.

In the time I stopped writing (for reasons unknown to me as well) I haven't stopped listening to music, in fact I've discovered so much more music and I've opened my mind  so many new thing I didn't know and my not ordinarily accept. I also decided screw my data constraints, Seun be like: " I will open my SoundCloud more often."  I've in the process opened myself to the many people making mind blowing music especially from Nigeria.
Today I'll be focusing on Odunsi who's music is spreading like wild fire, considering his song "Situationship" made it to the Billboard charts late last year. I'm excited by a lot of things he makes keeping in mind he's a producer as well, there's something about being able to create your own sound.
It's a different experience, it's one of those things where no matter how you explain it can never come close to what you feel. Another thing is how he's effortlessly able to switch and mix up his sounds as clearly apparent in his Time of Our Lives Extended Play.
As a producer it's expected that you'll collaborate with a good number of artists, his collaborations also involve him as a vocalist and I find his performances on features very exhilarating. There's also this calm, not too laid back and still exciting vibe he has I don't know if that makes any sense at all. I'm really excited because I'm going to watch him perform live tomorrow at Young Kulture.

So I decided to make a playlist off songs I've heard which  he's been featured on.

When some photos began to surface of Falz and Simi about a month ago I
wondered what the publicity was for, because I was pretty certain something
was coming afterwards(I mean you can't just come and go and just do
photoshoot for nothing, though you can but that's not the point).
Shortly after the announced that they were releasing a joint project, I was
absolutely certain I was going to listen to it. For some reason I thought it
would just be good but not great, was I wrong.
The album was properly titled as the duo posses the type of chemistry that
Timbaland and Timberlake posses in my opinion. At no point did I spot signs
of struggle with their transitions between verses. Also, the album was very
comical, filled witty lines and there were constant variations in tempo and
the genre.
Simi's performance and vocals were very commendable as she showed versatility
approaching her verses differently from doing a little rap verse like in the
song "Want To" to exhibiting her vocal prowess in the song "Chemistry".
Versatility wasn't limited to just her performance but to the entire project
as the themes differed in most of the songs while trying to maintain elements
of the general vibe. Like the song "Shake Body" which particularly targets a
(Yoruba) marriage audience, which is a topic which Falz talks about which I
established in this post here.

The Song of the day is Smooth Sailing by Burna Boy from the album L.I.F.E(2013).All the songs from the album were produced by Leriq I think he should have gotten a few other producers on his tracks not because Leriq is not good just for diversity.
Well I like the not so party sounds he went for (most of the songs on the album a like that) it was also progressive and  it was just too cool. I like the way they started with the Piano it was nice. But I didn't understand when he said "...P laugh like potato..."  The hook was very cool and and he just rode the instrumental so well. I found out some of his song are on rap genius but sadly this one wasn't there.This album itself is one of my favourite Nigerian albums for this year.


See link to the song here