S1E7- Projects review: Real Vol.1 EP, She EP, Jigi Jigi Vol.1 EP, Hybrid

First projects review of the year, Dele and Uko are excited and bursting with joy to share their thoughts on the albums,EP's and mixtapes that dropped between first week of January and second week of March.

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SPEAKER_01 0:00

Three months into the music year, all I can say is hybrid baby, she is real a G.

SPEAKER_02 0:06

Hello everyone, welcome to your favorite music podcast. Hear me outside, Popsi, is it is it possible for us to go through three months, four months of music without us like doing a quarterly performance rating?

SPEAKER_01 0:45

I don't think it's possible because even when we did work together, it was like a norm. Guys, imagine working in the same company with your homie on the same team in the same department, same floor, side by side, same streets. That's a dream job for me. I don't know what you guys are kissing, but that's a dream job for me.

SPEAKER_02 1:14

It's even interesting because close of business, I always drop you off at home before I go home.

SPEAKER_00 1:21

It's just yeah, yeah, definitely.

SPEAKER_02 1:24

We spent way too much time together, right? From school down to where we were working.

SPEAKER_01 1:29

Transitioning from being roommates up to working in the same department, same team. Guy, it's tough of dreams, you know.

SPEAKER_02 1:36

And you know, there's something that was always constant. When we were in school, we would always get checked by exams, of course. Exams to make sure that, oh, are you learning something? And then while we were at work, we had our monthly performance rating and then the quarterly performance rating and the yearly performance rating. Yes. They were checking us then, I think, but now I think it's time for us to check other people.

SPEAKER_01 2:02

Oh, yeah. Uh I mean, we've learned, so we know how we know, we know what's was required. Yes. So we we've decided uh, I mean, it's good we had that experience. So for the listeners, just so you understand, we've decided that every quarter we'll be looking at what's been released in terms of albums, EPs, what mixtapes, you know, music in general, because we are music heads. So we've decided that we'll look at what's was dropped and what what really matters to us. Like if you remember when we started the podcast, uh Dilly rightly said we will help you guys streamline uh amongst the abundance of music, streamline what's is good. So a couple ashes have dropped a couple projects between January and March. So Dilly has the metrics, he will tell us what we'll be using for the rating.

SPEAKER_02 3:08

This is what we're going to do, I think every three months or four months, Popsy.

SPEAKER_00 3:15

Yeah, every three months.

SPEAKER_02 3:17

Every three months. So we're going to look at these are the ways we're going to critique these albums. You know, we are not yet to spill negative thoughts, just you know, to share our thoughts on them. Uh so we'll be judging them or we'll be critiquing them on creativity, um, retention. Retention is how does this album keep me interested? Can I listen to this album all through or this project without taking a break from it? And then we'll look at the production, and then we'll look at the lyricism, the lyrics. Are they saying something meaningful in this music? And then we'll look at the topics that are touched on. And I think those are the ways we would be the um critiquing this album. And I think it's going to be interesting.

SPEAKER_01 4:08

Yeah, it will. So just to touch on retention, for people that love movies, look at it like when you're watching your favorite music, uh, you're watching your favorite movie show, you never leave your seats, like you're glued. If you miss a scene, you might miss the whole episode. So that's what think of that like when you're listening to music and say, Oh, is this album or does this project carry me through the entire length of time? Or at some point, do I just be like, nah, guy, get out of here.

SPEAKER_02 4:39

And you know, touching on this, there are times I'm listening to like a project, and just halfway through, I'm like, ah, you know, may I just rinse my mouth with a previous project I used to like? This one they carry me, they go where I don't know. Yeah, true. So I think retention is like a very important um uh criteria that you need to look at when you're like judging or talking about an album or a project to sing.

SPEAKER_01 5:09

Yeah, true. True.

SPEAKER_02 5:11

So you want to tell us some of the albums you've been listening to that didn't actually make the albums we're discussing today.

SPEAKER_01 5:20

Okay. Uh Czech dropped an EP. Out of that EP, I be I liked just two songs. I don't know how many you liked.

SPEAKER_02 5:30

Okay. I I like two also. I don't know if it's the same one we like, but I'm guessing it's the same one.

SPEAKER_01 5:37

One of them made our song of the week.

SPEAKER_02 5:39

Yeah. So I think it's the last two songs on the EP, right? Those are the ones you like.

SPEAKER_01 5:45

Yeah, one was Desperado, and I can't remember the title of the other one. Another project that dropped was Afro House. It's the purest Afro House, it's the purest Nigerian Afro House project. It was by Dalapo Martins and a DJ called Dami. So it's new, so I can understand why we didn't exactly get on with it immediately. Because as other Afro House music or projects, like they've been done by people that are into the Afro House, but this one was pure Nigerian, like you could tell.

SPEAKER_02 6:37

Um I'm happy when people try something new. You know, they try to like experiment, not stick to one sound. I really appreciate that. I tried so much to like this particular project, but I couldn't get into it. I didn't really enjoy it. I tried my best to enjoy it, but it wasn't for me. I'm sorry.

SPEAKER_01 6:57

So for this project or for this collab, Wow just says, because it's their initiation into the Afro House scene, I'll give it another listen if they drop something else. So that one is sure. I will. I'll just I'm just looking forward to what they have to offer. Another project was Perfect, right? Is that how it's pronounced?

SPEAKER_02 7:20

Yes. Um, the SAS um alumni, he it was part of the SAS project, Perfects. Yeah. And I think for a while it was signed to the record label 1789 or so.

SPEAKER_00 7:33

Yeah. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 7:35

I think I sent that to you. I think I sent that project to you, right?

SPEAKER_01 7:39

Oh, yeah, yeah. But it didn't make the cut, unfortunately. No. But I mean, it's not so bad a project. It's an EP. I think it was four or five songs thereabouts.

SPEAKER_02 7:52

Another one again is Bray. I don't know if I'm pronouncing that name correctly.

SPEAKER_01 7:57

Bray. You know, me, I'll never pronounce those kind of names. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 8:02

I actually listened to his project, his EP dropped. A lot of EPs actually. People are not the staying away from albums. They are keeping it easy. So Bray does this RB, this Afro soul, and he does it beautifully well. And I think it's a project people should check out. I believe, I don't know, maybe this is a project I would have added to the project we are discussing today, but eventually it didn't make the cut, but I really enjoyed it, and I think it's worth mentioning. So you should definitely check it out, guys.

SPEAKER_01 8:40

Man, I think the last one that didn't make the cut was Tease Baby, the yellow one.

SPEAKER_02 8:51

I like that also. I like the DND, right? The first song or DBT.

SPEAKER_01 8:55

The first song on the EP. Yeah, that was a good one. That's just a there's some other ones that we probably skipped as well.

SPEAKER_00 9:02

Yeah, of course.

SPEAKER_01 9:04

But those were just some ones that you might, I mean, the listeners might have a different opinion when they check them out. But we've had we have just a few ones we're gonna talk about, more EPs, to be honest. And I think just one album, right?

SPEAKER_02 9:21

Yes, you're right.

SPEAKER_01 9:22

Yeah. And if you guess the album. If you guess the album, you're correct. But we'll start with the EPs.

SPEAKER_02 9:31

Which should we start with? I I have like a personal faves. I want the ones we're discussing today, but where do we start from?

SPEAKER_01 9:41

Okay, let's start with Jews. Mmm, I love that because that one wasn't like it was more of an instrument. So let's start, let's take it slow, let's go up the ladder.

SPEAKER_02 9:53

While we build, okay. Um, Jews dropped an EP during the year, released 30th of January 2026. It's a six tracks album. It dropped it on the Trabom Records, and um, it's mostly without vocals or any singing. Uh, we were just like I would describe the album as a celebration of heritage. It was celebrating the African culture. So if I am to discuss this album, I would start with the fact that it even without the vocals, it touched on some important topics that Africans need to discuss.

SPEAKER_01 10:40

You see, um like the intro to some of the songs, right?

SPEAKER_02 10:44

Yes, the samples were very important. And before we even go right into it, there is something I enjoyed that happened throughout like some of the tracks on this project is there it was like certain voices, like eh, uh-huh, I see. It's just like why the instruments are playing, they just like eh, eh, like uh-huh. I and it it it it that was one of the things that improved the retention factor for me. Like when I'm listening and I'm going through the tracks, I'm waiting for the next sound I'm going to hear. Like the next what's the next thing that's going to be like a yeah?

SPEAKER_01 11:26

Like a roller coaster, sort of.

SPEAKER_02 11:27

Yeah, yeah. I'm waiting for the next one, and it was interesting for me. So, in terms of retention, I think it's beautiful. It's a very sweet listening from top to bottom. You start with um there's Roots, the second track on the album, and then on the EP, and then there's um Monera, then there is Copera reading. You know, it's just the retention-wise, it's beautiful. And then when it all comes to production, this is by someone who's a producer, so you should expect the production to be rich. The production had a lot of like traditional sounds, a lot of guard drums, guard traditional drums. If you guys don't know what guard drums are, I think it's popular like in Ghana. These are drums you beat them with like your palm. And I think we have that also in like the Yoruba culture, like the talking drum. Like the talking drum, sort of. So a lot of that featured in in this album. And Jews has always been known to like use traditional sounds. He samples a lot of traditional sounds in his music, a lot of percussion, you know, this um like um trumpet, you know, the different sounds in his music. So a lot of it came together in this. It was very groovy and stuff. So, in terms of lyricism, there is no real releasing to it, but I feel like it touched on important topics. So, for example, in um roots, the first sample was a speech that talked about colonialism and how colonialism, even though it has left now, it has left us wanting to be better than others. And you can always see that in Africa. I mean, we we are still having issues of tribalism in Nigeria, and we're still having issues of where Nigerians go to South Africa and they are hated in South Africa. Yeah, Nigerians or dark complexioned people go to Egypt and they are hated in Egypt. That's what colonialism has done to us. And Jews thought on these important topics on his EP. So I think it's a very good album. It's a very good project for me. It has everything the creativity, the retention, the production wise. So yeah, Uko.

SPEAKER_01 13:56

I just want to talk about the the like just some little basics. The album arts from Jul's Instagram post when he dropped this. He said it was done by his little brother, and he made mention, or if you do a Google search, you found find out that Jiggy actually means dance or like move your body. So which the EP does. He also said on that post, or maybe a preceding post, I can't remember, he made mention that it's a series of like this is the first of many, and he dropped one late last month, so that's like two. But I mean, he didn't make the cut though, or it's it's part two. Then for the for the project in general, I like the fact that without even hearing an artist's voice, you you you can appreciate the sound. It's an appreciated sound. So I appreciate thank you for bringing up the inside joke we have.

SPEAKER_02 15:16

Thank you for making our inside joke known to everyone listening. Okay.

SPEAKER_01 15:26

So uh if you if you look at the the the project, right? Some of the names, like the titles of the songs are already telling of what to expect. The first one is Jazz in the air. So it gives like a jazz vibe for listeners that like jazz. That should be your favorite project. Another one is uh Kokrobite Blues. Kokro Bites is a place in West Accra, if I'm not mistaken, but it's somewhere in Ghana, anyways, in Accra. So that's already referencing that part of Ghana. Probably that's like their sound or something. The capoeira rhythm that gives like a Brazilian sort of sound. Like if you've if you've listened to Samba and some Brazilian things, you'll feel it in there. So yeah, no much lyricism. Delia has explained what the album is on, is about. But when you listen to it, it's just easy going. It's easy going. It's 24 minutes, six tracks. Before you know it, you're done. So this is a decent work from Jules.

SPEAKER_02 16:34

I'll cap this off by saying, you know, the one of the um samples on Roots again. By the way, that's my favorite song on the project. That's my favorite. There is a there is another sample just at the end of Roots that says Afrobeats generated from High Life in the 70s. And I think that is a very important thing to note. So um, Afrobeats itself is it's a genre that has gone through different transformations, but some of the roots of these was from High Life, and High Life is very similar to jazz. So if you enjoy jazz, if you enjoy the traditional high life music, if you enjoy Afrobeat, this is the project for you. It's a really good project. So, this is where we are going to like give our rating of the album. I have my rating in mind, but I want to hear from Popsy first. Let's say we're rating these with the um criteria we gave, and we're rating it over 10. What would you rate this project?

SPEAKER_01 17:39

Uh for me, the retention is a good, it's it keeps me going, like from each song to another, it transitions easily, smoothly. So retention for me is I'll give it a nine. Retention, it's a nine. For lyricism, there's a message. Lyricism, if for this one, lyricism and what was the other one? Leave topics.

SPEAKER_02 17:59

Topics discussed, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 18:01

Yeah, I'll put them together because there's not much uh lyrics on it, but a message is passed across. Okay. I'll give you a 10 because we always have to remember that uh you don't need to see color. Like, uh forget what might have happened, colonialism and all of that. Put that behind you. You're not better than the next man. See the next man as equal.

SPEAKER_02 18:24

Your brother.

SPEAKER_01 18:25

So that's a 10 for me. What was the last two? Okay, no, there'll be one more now. There was the last one.

SPEAKER_02 18:33

There is production. There's creativity and production.

SPEAKER_01 18:37

So I I because of what I've known Jews for as like a one-sound guy. And what he did on this project was a what's the word? Putting together of different sounds. So the creativity there, I give it a 10 as well. It's a good project for me, all in all. Without even saying so much as singing. I'll give the entire project a 9.5.

SPEAKER_02 19:05

Oh, that's beautiful.

SPEAKER_01 19:07

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 19:08

I don't think it did that much for me. I enjoyed the project. It's a very good listen. In terms of creativity, that's where I felt like it was lacking a bit. Because this is what I've come to express uh expect from Jews. You understand? Like he has always done things like this. You know, he has worked with uh with Weed, with Bonner, he has worked with a couple big names, right? And when I listen to a Jews song, I instantly know this is a Jews-produced song.

SPEAKER_01 19:37

And I don't think I would have known from this EP that it was Jews that produced them, to be honest.

SPEAKER_02 19:45

He's always used these traditional sounds in his music, and that's the same thing he did on this. I mean, he tried, of course, even the names of the um tracks. You could always hear how each tracks from the title, you will know what to expect. Like jazz in the air, you expected jazz sound, like Copera reading, you expect that Latin sound and stuff like that. So I feel like, yes, it wasn't bad creatively, it wasn't bad, but he could have just like done something unexpected, like be more like I wanted more. Yeah, it was a good listening, groovy, nice, but like I wanted more. In terms of the topics discussed, beautiful. You know, Jews has always been someone who is grounded, he's down to where grounded, and he's always been grounded in his like beliefs and traditional sound. And I really love that about him. He's someone you cannot say is a sellout. I don't think Jews is a sellout. So he has always stuck without sound, and I love that about him. The samples were really important to this particular project, and I feel like, yes, this is good. So it was only lacking in terms of creativity for me. The retention was solid, the production was solid, the lyricism, of course, topics discussed were important. So just the creativity, and say, so I'll say like an eight over ten for me. Like eight over ten for me. Um, do you want to kill me all you're okay with that?

SPEAKER_01 21:15

No, that's that's okay. It's it's mid in range. That's all right, it's a decent project. Okay, I would take that away.

SPEAKER_02 21:21

Okay, let's go to the next one. I love this boy so much.

SPEAKER_01 21:26

Yeah, the next one is gimbal.

SPEAKER_02 21:29

Oh, I love this boy so much. Before we even talk about the project, can I just talk about what gimbal means to me first?

SPEAKER_00 21:38

Um okay.

SPEAKER_02 21:45

Let me put it this way, Popsy. Yeah. When you want to break into the mainstream as an emerging art, there are two ways you can go about it. Try something new, you know, try something. Different from what everyone is doing. And the second one is to do what everyone else is doing, the traditional Afrobeat, and do it really well. You see, a lot of the imaginate art now, they're doing something new. They're trying something new so that they can gain new grounds, they can gain new fans. And but you see, Gimba has done something else. He's doing the traditional Afro-beats, Afro-pop, Afro fusion, but he's doing it really well. So this is why I appreciate Gimba a lot. He's not trying like something crazily different from what we're doing. He's not going through towards the trap direction or something. He's just doing the traditional Afro pop and he's doing it really well. That's why I appreciate Gimba a lot. Whenever I listen to him, it still gives me nostalgic vibes of what Afro pop used to be then. But then again, he's new. He's new, it's not like an old guy, he's new. And whenever I listen to him, it gives me like this vibe of I'm listening to like a 2012-2013 Afro-Bop song. So that is why I appreciate Gimba a lot. And I I would always champion Gimba. I would always champion him. Yeah. So going into the album itself, should I go through the basics? Uh Gimba dropped She. That's the title of the album. The release date, 6th of February 2026. It's five songs, four songs if we think about it properly, because it has an interlude. Interlude. And then yeah, it's just 10 minutes in total. It's distributed by United Masters. He's also from SARS Academy. He's an alumnus of SARS Academy. And the most production on the project was done by Twitch Papi. Yeah. And it's just Afropop, the romantic guy, and whatnot. Yeah. So you go first. Tell me how did you perceive this album? How did you receive it?

SPEAKER_01 24:18

Okay. You, I mean, while I'm talking about how I perceive the album, I'll probably just say in terms of lyricism and all of that. Yes. So you spoke about how he came into the scene. I think for most emerging artists, or a lot that we have seen over time, they came in, well, maybe not a lot, or some of them came in through this template. Jimba or Gimba Gimba was always doing covers back in 2020 for De Conley Good and World. He was doing covers of their song, and he was 16 as at the time. So the reception was good back in the time. Because I remember rightly, a lot of people said this guy sounds like Tubaba. And one thing with an immediate comparison with a legend is pressure. That's the immediate thing. I was scared for him. Like you already put in this guy as sounding like Tubaba. That's a lot you're expecting from a 16-year-old. But with this EP, I mean he's dropped an EP prior to this one. I think he did, he did alright. He did good. I So this is how I'll say, this is what I'll say about the EP. Please be kind to him. No, no, no. No. I think one thing he did, I don't know if you took note of it was all the songs on the EP start with an S.

SPEAKER_02 25:54

I didn't take note. Now that you mention it, I'm like, yeah, really he did that.

SPEAKER_01 25:59

So that's points for creativity for me. I don't know, but everyone, someone will just listen to it and be like, okay, I don't know, I didn't take note of that. But yeah. So this is how I say, this is how when I when I think of the EP, I always just say, she says San Andreas Signer, strange. Those are literally all the songs on the EP. And he was talking about a lady. So, yeah, I just put the five, whatever, together to say that's how. On She, that's the first song on the EP, he basically explains the type of girl he's trying to tell us about. He serenades her on San Andres, which is my favorite song on the album. And on Strange, it's more like him just talking about the troubles of being with. I don't want to say a lady, because that would be so I'll say struggles of being with a partner. Like you can have struggle with a guy, you can have struggle with a girl, but he's talking about a lady now. So he was just talking basically about a struggle. So staying on topic, Jimba did that all through the project. Creativity, I gave him points just because of that, you know, how the whole S thing. The production, Twitch Puppy did his best. I would have expected, I don't know why, SARS to like, you know, do some finishing touches or some mastery sort of based on my boy B this. Yeah. But yeah, it's it's overall a good project. Yeah. I know you're you're waiting for my rating.

SPEAKER_02 27:38

No, no, no. Wait, I would I would say mine first before I come back for your rating. So that in case what I'm going to say will change your rating a bit.

SPEAKER_00 27:49

Okay, go on.

SPEAKER_02 27:51

Okay, this is the first thing I noticed when I got into that project. It was the fact that I think Gimba is someone who loves and loves. Do you understand? Like he loves to love. He's a real year now. Give me back the year music. People who yearn for love, people who cue for love. So I find that very relatable.

SPEAKER_01 28:14

Fair, fair enough. Yeah, you love our boy.

SPEAKER_02 28:18

I like people who love. I like people who enjoy every emotion that comes with loving, maybe the outbreak, maybe the chasing of the woman, maybe the serenading, you know, saying sweet words and everything. I enjoy the whole process of it. So talking about that, these projects, it's like the whole process of loving a woman. And the the project is titled She, so you know, ah, it's about women. And then the interlude says, Don't you love women? Don't you love beautiful women? Don't you love black, beautiful women? And when the interlude was playing and the lady was saying that, I was like, Yes, I love women. Yes, I love beautiful black women.

SPEAKER_01 29:03

You were answering the questions.

SPEAKER_02 29:05

Of course I did. Of course I was. So the interlude generally, I don't, I'm not sure I'm a fan of interlude on projects, but this one felt it's like a commercial. But this one felt like it was well placed, it was rightly placed, and it kind of taught us how to pronounce Gimba's name properly. When they said, welcome to Gimba everything. Yeah. So, and then again, he's a stars alumnus. So I think he has beautiful years for production, beautiful years for production. The production on San Andres, it's so large, it's so rich, you know. It sounds like wow, this production is like you paid millions for this. So San Andres has like a very good production, and you know, you said that's your favorite song, and it's probably my favorite song, also, but say is like fighting hard for it. Say is also really good.

SPEAKER_01 30:11

Yes, say is also I was gonna do San Andreas Strange, yes, she and say wait, did you just play say as the last song? Yeah, what's yours?

SPEAKER_02 30:40

Are you joking right now?

SPEAKER_01 30:42

What's yours? Give me your ranking for this.

SPEAKER_02 30:48

I'm saying, I'm saying San Andres and Say uh basically like on par, yes. That that could so sometimes it's say, sometimes it's San Andres. The the the reason why San Andres kind of like takes the thing is I like one of the very the on the hooks on the hook of that song, San Andres. He said something. He said, Don't hold back from me, give me overdose.

SPEAKER_01 31:16

No, there's there's something he said that I actually like because I was I used to play uh Gujita San Andres like back in the day. He was saying, I'll be leaving you with good remark. No go play her like San Andres.

SPEAKER_02 31:35

You see, San Andres has all these quotables that are very interesting. So sometimes it's it's but say is also very interesting to listen to. I think his vocal performance on say is so rich and it's so um like it it does this thing with his voice that is interesting, but then again, San Andres. So I don't know. So for me, San Andres and Say are on par, then strange. He's treated strange like the single of the project, actually.

SPEAKER_01 32:04

He has dropped the video for strange, so I feel like he really believes that song he expects to blow up more, yeah. So but he's sleeping on San Andres.

SPEAKER_02 32:15

The audience will always speak something different. That's the that's the way music works. You might think you know the air.

SPEAKER_01 32:23

I'm looking at the album arts, and you said something that I disagree just because of this album art. Okay. Gimba is not talking about one girl. He has he has one, two, three, four, five. He has five. And this is this is from SAS because SAS has a a reel on his Instagram that he was surrounded by ladies. And in the comments, everyone was everyone were like, is this the person we are supposed to protect at all costs? So you can actually tell like Gimba.

SPEAKER_02 33:03

Hey, like mentor, like mentee.

SPEAKER_01 33:07

That's all vital.

SPEAKER_02 33:09

Oh, but it was like on San Andres, he said, put me to the test. You'll see that I'm bought it. So I don't think someone who is not a lover boy would say things like that. Let's see, let's see, let's see, let's see what happens with the comment buttons. Let's see if he's a real lover boy. But enjoyable project, romantic project, afrop. Um, I think creativity-wise, I don't know, but topic, lyricism, retention, production, all good for me. It's a project that'll probably rate around that eight, eight point five over ten for me. I think it's really good.

unknown 33:49

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 33:50

Yeah, I'm sorry. You're going with a seven.

SPEAKER_00 33:54

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 33:55

Um, before I spoke, it was probably a six, right? Uh 6.5. I just added 0.5. You added a 0.5. It's okay, I take it. I take it. Uh moving on, right?

SPEAKER_01 34:12

Yeah. The next one is it's a collab project, which you in December or in January did not want this collab to happen. But it's funny how when the collab happened, you became the happiest man that Friday when the project dropped. It's real by Ashake and Wiz Kid. Ashake. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 34:45

This is the first time Wheez wasn't actually lying. No one tells lies.

SPEAKER_00 34:54

Whiskey give us hope.

SPEAKER_02 34:56

Steady. This is the first time he actually was. So I saw the Apple interview he did. Uh it was with Ashra K and he was on Apple Music. He had an interview with them, and he just said, you know, we have an EP on the way. And he said, it's dropping soon, EP on the way, real, volume one. I was like, okay, this man is just lying.

SPEAKER_01 35:20

In the wine as per usual.

SPEAKER_02 35:24

And then come January, it dropped in January, 23rd of January 2026. It dropped. They dropped under Starboy Entertainment, Giron, and Empire. And it dropped. Major production was done by Magistics and a couple of minor productions by Fortunes and LOL. And funny enough, the single from this project, Jogodo, had one of the best first days in Nigeria. It did 1.38 million first day listings number on Spotify. So that's really big. And we couldn't expect any less from two people who are termed like you know some of the biggest hit makers in the Nigerian music scene, in Africa in general. So we and Ashake coming together, we couldn't expect any less. Is this a project that you thought was going to happen? Did you ever think a project like this was going to happen? Like Ashake and Wheeze?

SPEAKER_01 36:25

I mean, prior to them speaking about it on Apple, I didn't expect them to collab. But the two songs they had been on together, MMS and Bad Girl, are songs that I actually do like. So when they announced it, I mean, aside everyone's thoughts of Whiskey Not like whining us as usual, I was like, okay, it's not a bad one. I just hope they maintain the same level they did on MMS and what's it called? Bad girl. So and to be honest, they did, to be to be very honest. Uh there's not much about the album mat, to be honest. It's just whiskey than Ashake, being whiskey than Ashake.

SPEAKER_02 37:17

I've been in the I think it was from their own. It was from the when they were shooting the video for Turbulence, they must have captured that. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 37:29

And I think no, I think Turbulence is my personal favorite on the album. I know you're on the other end of the album, or the project rather. So that's fine. But I like turbulence. I like Whiskey at first. Like Ashak starts off with obviously the Yoruba part of it. And he, you know, gives everybody a proper Instagram quotable, uh, where he says he's enjoying life like an ajebo. I've seen, I can I can't count the amount of Instagram captions. I I've seen people use that. Who knows? I might have to jump on this. So the funniest thing on, well, it's just because Ashake is not a serious human being. Was the part where he was speaking about his reproductive organ and he was bragging about why did you say reproductive organ? Because, bro, what do you mean? Kinimi Maduro. Say your kingdom. Killing me Maduro Tony only.

SPEAKER_02 38:45

I say good. Do you know what that means? There is nobody I take home that doesn't cry.

SPEAKER_01 38:54

Ah, come on, man. Now, the read is that the topulas we are talking about.

SPEAKER_02 39:02

You know the funny thing was that Wiz was doing an introspection on that particular song. Yes.

SPEAKER_01 39:09

And then because Ashake was just doing something else entirely. Ashake was on another cruise. And for me, also, that's Wiz's best verse on the project. Because he, if you think of turbulence, like turbulence is probably like life in general. So Wiz just comes up with happy life with my family. Where I did now and they can't believe, practice self-love. I've been minding my business. I know send none. Like Mokonjaemi, like he just went on, but Ashake was on something else, heavyweight.

SPEAKER_02 39:47

Ashake, what happened? Ashake, can we stay on scene, please? We're talking about.

SPEAKER_00 39:53

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 39:55

But then again, it shows like the different stages of life these people are in, honestly. You know, yeah. Um Ashake has a child, obviously, but then he's not yet like the family man. And Wiz has been in the industry for so long, and at this point in his career, family's first, family is important. He's thanking. This is a man who has been through like a lot. So every song, you would always see him like being grateful, being, you know, like, wow, I'm grateful to be here. I've gone through a lot, and I'm happy to be here now. But for someone like Ashake, who's just like maybe like he just got, not he just got it, but he's experiencing fame and new now. So these are the things that are important to Ashake now. So of course he's going to talk about it.

SPEAKER_01 40:43

And also on a project which is like his idolo, like he you you saw tweets of when he was always like tweeting about wanting to be with Whiskey and all of that. So it's a dream come true. So he's just happy to be there, to be honest.

SPEAKER_02 40:58

But one thing I do appreciate Ashake for throughout the entire project, it's just the fourth song project, is the lamba, the lamba he was giving. Is it the celebrity life in no easy skilly skilly skilly? Yes, kind of and the one it you know, it just it just gave me like so much lamber in the project that was so interesting, and that was what what kind of led me to my favorite song on the project, and that is Iskolo do. You see, that Ashakes verse on Iskolo, it was just Lamber on Lambert, it was just Lamba on Lamba. Like what at one point I was even wondering what was he saying exactly, like Nantana Masuja Soja. What is what you please, guys? If you know what he was saying, please let me know because I can't tell exactly what he was saying on that song. It was like this culudo had a para what tanama so ja soja money to our logo. Please, but it was so interesting to listen to. I enjoyed that. That's my favorite song. A lot of people don't like it. They felt like, what song is this? And then on that song, they sampled a Latin record. I can't pronounce the name of that record, but Magistics, Magistics did a beautiful job, you know, chopping up that record and using it as a sample. Very interesting. I think when you listen to that project at first, the first thing you notice is the production because that is not the typical Wiz production, you know, that's not his lane. It was more for like a Shakespeare. So I think Wiz did a beautiful job jumping on this sound and not being washed entirely by Ashaker.

SPEAKER_01 42:43

So because I think on each song, I don't know, maybe I mean they were just showing their what's the word now? They were showing their ability to compete, like healthy competition. Because they were going verse for verse, like who has the better verse? I've seen people, I saw people talk about like the different verses. And it was like sometimes they say, like, oh, it was it was a tie. Oh, this one, a shakem bodied with this one, whisp. Like overall, it seemed like they had equal lyricism, sort of, like in terms of the verse. I and this the title of this EP, I think they just woke up one morning and said, Oh, you too real, Jerry. And that's how it came. I don't think there's any title to there's no any meaning to the title of this.

SPEAKER_02 43:36

Did you know what? You might be right. Another one I saw was someone say the first time Ashake heard of that title was when he mentioned it during that interview, and it was like, new volume. Ashake was like, Yeah, we don't give our name.

SPEAKER_01 43:52

We don't give this this one, was vibe. This this time. Particular, I'm convinced it was definitely the title.

SPEAKER_02 44:03

Definitely, it was definitely vibe. It was just vibes. I'm being honest with you. Have you seen the two of them relate? There was a video that showed them in uh they were in LA and Wiz was going home. Um, this guy was tunes was next to Riz, and Wiz was like, me now. Like, if you want to hang out later tonight, call me. And Asheka was like, Ah, could see problem. Definitely. You could they just, you know, that these guys are like, you know, they enjoy being in each other's company.

SPEAKER_01 44:36

I I think my favorite clip from both of them, I think they were in Ghana, if I'm not mistaken. Whiskey was telling him, obviously, in Yoruba, say, no, they humble.

SPEAKER_02 44:46

I said, no, humble.

SPEAKER_00 44:48

I say, ah, Whiskey.

SPEAKER_02 44:51

I saw that clip. My homebu for anybody. My homeboo for anybody. I said, Whiskey, I'll beg now. You don't achieve you don't achieve. Allow me to actually, you know what? Ashake said something that is very important in one of his, and you say, uh, I just blew, but I know my set. These guys are not different in age. Whiz is 35, Ashake is 31. It's not like a difference in age gap per se. Now, just who first blew. So I'm sure they relate like brothers, like real brothers. There's not much listening to them. But going back to the album, if you notice, two songs we started, Jogodo and Alaye, then two songs Ashake started.

SPEAKER_01 45:32

Yeah, they balance it off. Yeah. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 45:34

Turbulenza and Iskolodo. So I think they were just trying to like let us just enjoy these balance stuff. Nobody's trying to be ahead of the other one. And I think this project is important because a lot of people are going to copy from these, where like people have been in the industry longer will start like working with the you know, established, but in the moment, two people, like this was kind of like passing the button to Ashake at this point. Like, okay, I am done. I think I'm just going to take up this OG status as it is now, and I'm passing it to you to like rule from here on, and which is kind of important. So I would expect something like this from like um Bonner and Shahi Vibes also in the future. If they're listening, Bonner and Shahi Vibes, get in the studio, give us something. That would be interesting. Oh, you know who will be interesting also? Maybe a Bonner and Ben scene. Oh my god.

SPEAKER_01 46:36

Yeah. That one is literally father and son kind of thing. It should be good. It should be good. I what I really like. Yeah. What I like about this project is the fact that obviously it's probably the but I doubt. I stand to be corrected. It's probably the song with the most numbers because it was released first, Jogodo. But what I like about it is the fact that when you talk to people, they don't mention Jogodo first. And it was released pre-the album. A lot of times it's always that single that comes out before the album that carries the project going. But this one is always always between turbulence, is coludo. Like Jogodo comes maybe second best or third best. Then Alaye is is like it reminds me of Ashake's Oh Yeah. So like I don't know if that was Ashakes' plan with the song. But when you hear Alaye, I just remember that it's oh yeah. Oh yeah, like the static, they have the same kind of vibe. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 47:40

I didn't realize that until now. That's interesting. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 47:46

It's a good project.

SPEAKER_02 47:47

I think I think it's nice. It's so do you want to rate the songs? Like which one is your favorite? How would you rank those songs on the project? The top four.

SPEAKER_01 48:00

Just because I don't want to put Jogodo up there. I'll go with Turbulence, Alayi, Iskolodo, then Jogodo. Jogodo is last. I mean, everybody with rings and repeat and repeated the song prior to the release of the. Ideally, Jogodo will be the second, but let's just leave it. Let me leave on for a bottom first.

SPEAKER_02 48:27

I think it's a good ranking, but you know, I don't agree with Iskolodo's placement.

SPEAKER_01 48:35

You know, we have a mutual that said, I don't know what Dele is saying. This EP is one, two, four. He did not even say like Iskolodo was on the EP. He just said, I don't know what this Delhi they talk with. This is EP now one, two, four.

SPEAKER_02 48:49

He's skipping Iskolodo completely. No, please don't do that to me. Please, please, please, please, guys, guys. You see, Iskolodo is first, then Turbulence, then Jogodo, then Alaye.

SPEAKER_01 49:03

Then Alaye.

SPEAKER_02 49:04

Yeah, Alaye is last. Not like I hate the song, but I mean it's just a four-song E P, so something needs to come last.

SPEAKER_01 49:13

Yeah, yeah, definitely. So the time we say something is last, it doesn't mean guys for listener. It doesn't mean it's a bad song. It's just our least favorites. It's a good song, but yeah.

SPEAKER_02 49:25

I'll quickly do my rating. Um creativity-wise, they didn't push the they didn't push like buttons, they didn't, they didn't like it. There was no creativity. It wasn't, it wasn't, it wasn't anything. It was it's always what we've always expected more from our shakes. The only times in times of creativity, I'll say is we're still being able to hold his own on a production that would always suit Ashakem. Yeah, that's the only thing I would say, but production was excellent. Production, you know, the sample on um what's it called? This colodo, the production on turbulence. Wow, come on. And then you see why you see why it's the favorite, my favorite song. Then, no, you know, why is Colodo comes first for me is just the lamba. I really enjoyed whatever Ashake was saying on that song, and the way they were hyping themselves, you know. When Miss Verse came on on Iskolo, he said, um he was hyping himself also, which is interesting for me. Yeah, and the retention, it's a four-song EP. Come on, the retention.

SPEAKER_01 50:31

But don't go there. Some three-song projects might not. You are waiting with this. You just so no, yeah. But I get what you mean.

SPEAKER_02 50:43

In terms of topics, I don't think this is the album a project that really talks on any just vibes, vibes, losing for vibes. This is yeah, apart from turbulence that was a bit pro introspective on whee's parts, you know, whiskey spots. That's all. So for me, I think it's a project I enjoy, two big guys coming together, and it's symbolic, sort of. I would say uh this is this is the seven, yeah, seven. Yeah, um seven.

SPEAKER_01 51:18

So I'm with you on that rating, and why I'm with you is because we have a metric. Like we have what we wanted in terms of what we're using to judge the projects, right? So, in as much as it's enjoyable, if the metrics was enjoyable, we'll probably say it's a 10.

SPEAKER_02 51:36

It's a 10, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 51:38

We needed more in terms of the metrics, so it's a seven, yeah. I'm good with that. Yeah, oh we are good on that tonight. Are we are we on the last one now? Yeah, yeah. The last one is the only album on from this quarter that made the cuts.

SPEAKER_00 51:58

And it's a debut album by Shoe. Okay, you wanna give us the stats?

SPEAKER_02 52:13

Um like you said, Debbie album, released February 6th, 2026. It was released under 5K Records and Sony Music UK. Um, the major producers on these was SB, Rage, J5. A couple of people actually produced on this. It features Kiss Daniel, Taves, IOMath, Bad Boy OML, and it's uh Afro Swing, Street Pop, and RB album. So um let me just describe this album the way I perceived it at first. I have an interesting take on this particular album. You see, going into going into this album when it dropped, I think paparazzi was the single, right? And then you sent paparazzi to me because it had uh what's it called on it? Follower. Follow. Yeah. So I listened to paparazzi. I think, you know, I didn't enjoy it at then I didn't enjoy it. Outside of the album itself, paparazzi didn't stand out for me. I just feel like it's a decent song, but nothing crazy. So when I was going into Shodi's album, I wasn't expecting much, to be honest with you. And I'm surprised with what I came back with. I I had listened to the album, but I was shocked. You know, Shodi D strike me as someone who would take the time to curate like a good album and like be um be very particular about what he's putting out to the public. And one thing I noticed was it was actually it was someone who is thoughtful, or he's someone who is thoughtful and pays attention to the landscape of the industry. Shode is known for you know the street pop songs, you know, a lot of like Yoruba used in his music. So going into this album, the first two songs, a lot of English. I was like, okay, am I listening to Shode? Is this is this Shode? Is is Shode the world singing like in English? And then you know, we have pigeon in Nigeria. There are some pigeons that are very, very close to Yoruba, and there are some pigeons that are very, very close to English. So he was singing in pigeon that was close to English, and I was like, ah, come on. This is something he actually thought of, which I'm sure of. He was like, okay, if I'm going to be very mainstream and big, I need to actually appease to more than the Yoruba people, which I feel like worked well for him on this project. So a lot of songs were in English. I was shocked at first, but I did enjoy them. He had the song with Taves on the album, and Taves did a beautiful job. It was even Taves that was singing in Yoruba. That was the one that was surprising for me. So I was like, okay, we can lie.

unknown 55:15

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 55:16

If I enter studio, Popsy, your voice sweet though.

SPEAKER_01 55:20

You see the friends that are uh they'll deceive you can't sing now. Nobody goes, you can do this.

SPEAKER_02 55:28

You can I'll pay promotion money, don't worry.

SPEAKER_01 55:30

I go do I'm gonna do it.

SPEAKER_02 55:31

I'll be here around the album. Let me be behind the scenes, don't worry. So I think I'll just give my quick breakdown of this album quickly before I pass it to you.

SPEAKER_01 55:43

Hybrid, I feel like you, you, you really love this album because you went in disappointed and you came out appointed.

SPEAKER_02 55:51

Yeah. It was kind of going into this fact that I can be a street pop artist and I can also be a proper pop artist, you know. So yeah, and also I can be the guy who uses you know, you're buying my music, and I can also be the guy who uses English. I can be the guy who appeals to the people on the street or the people you call lapo babies. I can also be the guy who appeals to the Nepo babies. A lot of ink playing both sides, and it showed on this album, which I really appreciate. And also it touched on some really important topics on this project. Topics like being broke. The worst thing you can no, no, no, not the worst thing in this world. I don't want to say it that way, but one of the worst feelings in this world is being broke. If you've ever been broke, you would know that is not the feeling anyone wants to have, or that's not the situation.

SPEAKER_01 57:02

I mean, at every point in life, even the richest man would have said, Oh, money no day. So you must have tested brokenness. Yeah. So I feel even no matter how lapo, sorry, no matter how neppo you are, at some point you would have been like, Oh my money no day, my account. Not just because you know, like you you're you know get, but you would have tested brokenness. So it's it's a worldwide pandemic.

SPEAKER_02 57:35

So going back to the album, like the songs, yeah. The one with Taves, very interesting song. I I think I loved what Taves did on that song, and I was able to pull life into that song with his like verse on it. And also, there is a song J5 produced, Soba.

SPEAKER_01 57:55

This song is that not a song with uh poser, is it? Yeah. Oh no, that's no, that's not the one with poser. That's uh okay. Soba is just uh Shodi.

SPEAKER_02 58:06

And then what what what Shodi sounded like in that song? It it sounded like Bonner just at the beginning of that song, and I really love that.

SPEAKER_01 58:16

So um I remember when you told me like I listened the first time. I said, Kilo Day, what's happening? Then you said listen again.

SPEAKER_02 58:27

I said, Who ah, I said, Ah mad, mad, mad. Yeah, who does this sound like? It sounds like Bonnie, right? I think J5 did an awesome production on that song, so but very interesting, and then I'll go quickly to my favorite song on the on the album. So, guys, hear me out on this. He started our song with Eo Babaye, down sorrow me. So Babaye, we call Babaye, Babaye is God. The Yoruba people visit churches regularly, they call Babaye, that's God. So it was like God should answer his prayer. Um, and then he should answer his prayer by giving him one big transaction. And then there was a part in the song where it's like Malaika to miri miredomi, Malaika is angel. So he was saying, Oh, this angel that is going around sharing blessings to everyone, it should be my turn next. And it feels like a prayer. So it starts off with God, please give me a big transaction, and then the angel sharing blessings, share it to my side, and then he went on to say, um, before you say the next one, before you say the next one, that that line, that malaika line, it could mean so many things.

SPEAKER_01 59:56

So you know, Malaika is the lady's name. Okay, whatever the lady is sharing, he wants it to touch him as well.

SPEAKER_02 1:00:04

I've never thought of that actually. Go on, go on. Also, on this song, Bad Boy ML has a verse that I enjoyed a lot. Why? Because he actually paid like homage to Ashake. He used one of Ashake's flow. On the song Ashake has with DJ Spino, Palazzo, he used the flow. He's going, he's going. Kodisoshi, Kodisoshi. Bad Boy ML used the same thing on the song with Shodi. And it was very interesting. I like the fact that he did that. So OBT with Bad Boy ML is my favorite song on that project.

SPEAKER_01 1:00:46

Shake is not just a few years in the industry, and people are already growing with his flow. Almost that's massive.

SPEAKER_02 1:00:54

It's massive.

SPEAKER_01 1:00:55

You really enjoyed the album, to be honest.

SPEAKER_02 1:01:00

I've not even talked about Classablanca. Casablanca is another beautiful Casablanca Mu was on Kashiri, my lot too.

SPEAKER_01 1:01:07

I have, I have, I have a I don't know if I should say soft spots for Iomath.

SPEAKER_00 1:01:14

Okay.

SPEAKER_01 1:01:15

So why is that obviously? I don't know, because I've told you one of the other songs I like, the one with Ladico. I've told you I like that song. Like, why? I like it's maybe because it's by uh because of Iomath. I don't know.

SPEAKER_02 1:01:26

And it was also an Edge of Edge or you like his verse on Edge of Edge or Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 1:01:32

So I think your favorite song is the ultimate Adura song that's been released this year. That's a typical Adura song, begging, begging for God's mercy, baba. So my well, I'm here and there with the album, right? And so my on my first listen, right? I listened through, right? And I was like, okay. So this is the thing for any music listener, right? Sometimes you always still have to give like a second try to whatever you listen to. So my first, to be honest, my first time listening to the album, I did not really feel it as much. Like Lily went with an expectation that it's Shoday. So I went in with an expectation that Shode will model the beats, like murder the album from start to finish. Because in 2025, Shoday was Shode was on an ultimate run. Probably a run that nobody really spoke about. Shoday was on a song, well, it was more like a feature run. He was on a song with Spyro, the sweet song. He was on a song with Poco Lee, the Hey Jago song. He was also on a song with Rybina. He was also on a song with Joe Boy all through 2025. He was on a song with Adequole Gold. So he was coming with that fire. And on these songs, mind you, both the song and his verses, they were all right. Yeah. So I will, and then obviously in January, he was on the remix with Akonuche. I'm even, I flew too far. Willili Dili, uh, that's that song that goes. Shod was on that song. Nakupenda.

unknown 1:03:41

Yes.

SPEAKER_02 1:03:42

The one with Zla.

SPEAKER_01 1:03:43

So all of this is in 2025. So you can imagine the fire I was going into with the album. So obviously, it's a good thing when artists do it. Every artist do it. They do the waterfall strategy where they release a few singles prior to the album. Right. When I after the first lesson, I said, let me just look at these songs on this album. Because this is my take. It might probably be a hot take. One in every four singles. Uh I'll explain. Should they released six singles prior to this album? And it's a 14-track album. So Show has gone past the one in four, if you get what I mean. So you're releasing 42% of the songs on your upcoming album as singles. So I'm really like, I cannot go past four songs without listening to a song that I've already heard before. So when I saw it, I was like, Show the come on now. Screaming, Screaming Beauty or Casablanca, one of them, is from 2024.

SPEAKER_02 1:04:56

Yes.

SPEAKER_01 1:04:56

The one with Kiss Daniel, Show de Kilo Day, Paparazzi.

SPEAKER_00 1:05:04

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 1:05:06

Uh six of them, anyways. They were all prior to the album. So if you're looking at it, six over 14, that's 42%. I don't know. It's literally putting songs that have already been out to carry the album. But notwithstanding, glamour of fame is a good song. Your sober song is also a good song. The song with tapes, it's a good song. But when you look at songs that are already on the album, we've heard me, I have heard all of them. The one that I don't know why he did it was the OBT song. The album was released, I think, 6th of February and he dropped that song two days before the album. And paparazzi was already in the limelight, was already moving. So I was just of the opinion that OBT is not a bad song, right? But it would have just left it because that would have been five out of 14. I say, okay, that's calm. But yeah, hybrid obviously. Street pop, uh normal pop, show the was good with that. He was it was alright. Uh it's an alright album, right? It's a good album. It's a good album, right? But what I just don't like was the fact that he had already released most of the songs on the album. And it just it didn't sit well with me, to be honest. But yeah, I like the album I like the album. Not like like I like the album.

SPEAKER_02 1:06:34

Okay, I think what made me enjoy this this particular album so much.

SPEAKER_01 1:06:40

You hadn't heard any of the singles.

SPEAKER_02 1:06:41

Yes, I wasn't paying attention to Shodi. I wasn't a big fan of Shodi at first. I was like, okay, what is this boy doing? Okay, Showday, Showday, show. I had like I told you, when I heard paparazzi, I was like, mm, okay. But I'm surprised how well it all flowed while listening to the album. It didn't feel like this particular song was out of place. It felt like, oh, he was trying to push something that was important. He was trying to push that he's a person who can diversify, who can try new sounds, who can try the street pop, who can try different sort of sounds. So the good thing for me was that I didn't know a lot of this song existed until I listened to the album. I think that worked from the show.

SPEAKER_01 1:07:30

I mean, that's that's the advantage you have.

SPEAKER_02 1:07:31

It was that crazy that I know Shode Kilode was popping at one point. I know I knew when paparazzi dropped, but I didn't know OBT dropped prior to the album. The funny thing is, I think Casablanca was also a single at one point, but I didn't know. So finding it imagine finding Casablanca on that album. I was like, what is this song? This song is so good. So that made it enjoyable for me. And I think this kind of speaks to the fact that sometimes you need to just trust yourself. You need to trust the fact that I can make a good album and you don't need to release all the songs as singles. I mean, just believe in yourself a bit, and maybe two songs as singles is okay. Two, three songs.

SPEAKER_01 1:08:16

Me, I I think one in every four songs. That's my that's my own template. One in every four songs.

SPEAKER_02 1:08:23

Because I think our experience was is different because due to the fact that you listened to a lot of the songs before the album dropped, and I found most of the song on the project, which's what's giving me like minus points, or that's what will give the album minus point.

SPEAKER_01 1:08:41

If I went with your own narrative or with your own like listening ears, I hadn't heard any of them.

SPEAKER_02 1:08:49

The album will be like the shock value, you know, the new song.

SPEAKER_01 1:08:53

42% is a lot, in my opinion. 42% of the songs on your album already out of single. Absolutely. I have a question for you, Dilly, because it's like this is your amazing album.

SPEAKER_03 1:09:04

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 1:09:05

So, you know how we said if we say worst song, it doesn't necessarily mean the song is bad, right? It's just your least favorites. What's your least favorite song on the album? I mean, you said your best, obviously. What's your least favorite song on this album?

SPEAKER_02 1:09:18

That's the song before Casablanca. What's the name again?

SPEAKER_01 1:09:22

Harley.

SPEAKER_02 1:09:24

That's just that one right before Casablanca. It's a song that I didn't really care for it. If it was left of the project, I I wouldn't mind. Because it was such a downer in between listening to Bad and Bougie with Taves and then Casablanca writes so bad and Ali. And then Ali just stuck at like a sore tomb. So it it it wasn't my vibe. I didn't enjoy that. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 1:09:57

Um I'm stuck. I'm stuck between the song with Poser or the song with Kiss Daniel.

SPEAKER_02 1:10:06

Oh no, the song, you know, I'm not a big fan of Kiss Daniel, but the song with Kiss Daniel is not bad. Come on. No, don't do this side. You know his least favorite. It doesn't mean it doesn't mean the song is bad, but it shouldn't be your least favorite when Ali is right there. Come on.

SPEAKER_01 1:10:21

So, Harley, I think it's personal for Showday because he said he wanted to use Harley as an intro, which I'm happy he did not, because glamour and fame is the perfect intro to that album. Yes, he said old. And the topic he touched me.

SPEAKER_02 1:10:38

The topic he touched on on glamour and fame was really important.

SPEAKER_01 1:10:43

Yeah, so it was a perfect, it was a perfect one. Album at I'm not sure what Shody's win. Is that skeleton? I'm not sure, but I get the color scheme.

SPEAKER_02 1:10:59

But you know, you know, um Shodi has always been eccentric. He has always been like a style. He was different. He had this patch on his face for one of the photos.

SPEAKER_01 1:11:12

That's like pre-album. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 1:11:15

Yeah, it's just it's just um so it was interesting. The album art for me I didn't like so much because of yellow. I just don't like the color yellow. Why yellow?

SPEAKER_01 1:11:26

Somebody say yellow, Miriam, I know you're you and I don't like yellow. Yeah, it's not it's not, it's just an it's just the album art is just there, to be honest.

SPEAKER_02 1:11:39

You want to talk about some songs that you've enjoyed so far in the past couple of months? Okay, because I have some that I really want to talk about. I'm like eager to mention them. So I have Fuji Explosion. You know how many times I sent you this Fuji Explosion one of none.

SPEAKER_01 1:12:07

Oh my god. Okay, I think for the quarter, right?

SPEAKER_00 1:12:14

My topic will be what's his name solace by the request boy calling.

SPEAKER_01 1:12:25

So he has solace one and solace two with Joe Boy. I'm not sure which one I like the most. It's just Calm, you know. Obviously, the name of the title of the song is Solace. So that would be like a good song for me. Then when I'm in the mood to just be like Jay Lo, I go with Ladipose Motowaka. Not everybody I've I've told about this song, like this song, so I guess it's just a nuko thing then.

SPEAKER_02 1:12:52

Yeah, it's a nuko thing. You send that song to me, I'm like, okay, okay, okay, okay. I I mentioned I mentioned Fuji Explosion. I love Fuji Explosion, and my second song is going to be uh the one beat Artsagul and Black Bones. Black Bones owns the song, and Artsagul was featured on it.

SPEAKER_01 1:13:17

Also, bah oh, there was this one they dropped. Uh okay, I thought I thought it was the one you were gonna say. There was this other one they dropped, church, church something.

SPEAKER_02 1:13:27

Okay, that's an Artsagul song. That's the it that's an Artsag song.

SPEAKER_01 1:13:31

No, one is Black Bones song, one is uh the other guy. I used to try to pronounce these people's name. Yeah, I'm not about that. Yeah, I thought that's what you were gonna mention.

SPEAKER_02 1:13:41

Yes, it's also I'm talking about that's my song. Oh, okay. You called it another thing.

SPEAKER_01 1:13:47

Yeah, that's a good that's a good pop as well.

SPEAKER_02 1:13:50

You know, one of the reasons why everyone likes he said, face me, I face you for eje.

SPEAKER_01 1:13:57

I lived in ejector, and it's really it's easy to get you once they mention your Lugu, you four.

SPEAKER_02 1:14:08

No, I I love that song, and then you know it's it's it was like the same thing that happened with Wheez and Ashake. Um, we're saying something else, Ashake was saying something else. So Bad Boy was uh Blackbones was talking about hustling, having not having money to go for Vector's cipher, and then Atsago came on the song, and it was like, ah, you know, they see the lapo for his face, and now he has money to carry, you know, models. I was like, what is this one talking about? This module.

SPEAKER_01 1:14:42

And they're still in hustle now. Everybody did their hustle in that, bro.

SPEAKER_02 1:14:47

What okay, and but I think Artsago really did well on that so because that is not the typical Artsago lane. Artsago would prefer the normal rage trap vibey songs, sort of. So, but he really did well holding his own with black pants. I enjoyed those two. Fuji Explosion, Hossupa, those are my top two songs from the quarter so far. Really love them.

SPEAKER_01 1:15:14

Well, uh I mean thinking of it, maybe I gave Jules EPA a bit too much of a ranking ball. I mean, it is what it is. So I I won't lie, I won't lie. There's not a lot of uh projects that I would say I'll go back to that from the first quarter. And this is this has nothing to do with what I always say, like recensive buyers that people forget about what was dropped earlier in the year. So what we what we what we planned myself and Delhi was whichever EP or whichever project from each quarter is we agree it's our best. We have to agree first, first, because me and the agree for Delhi normally. We have to agree that it's our best. We carry over that project, maybe that project or another one, to quarter two, and whichever project is the best, battles the best project in quarter two, and on and on until the end of the year. Then we probably crown the best albums, but we'll see. But yeah, that's the that's the plan. I hope you guys really enjoy the ranking. Let's know which projects we enjoy.

SPEAKER_02 1:16:35

So, Dylan, which projects are the best? There are two I would eliminate quickly. So we we have to eliminate albums, right? Only one can go with us to the next quarter. I think the first thing I'll take out is real. Not because I don't enjoy it, it's probably a project I'll go back to a lot. It's enjoyable, but if you're going by the criteria we've listed out, I don't think there was any form of crazy creativity in that project. Uh, there was no real topic discussed per se. Then they were not like pushing, they were not pushing like borders exactly. It was just two big boys enjoying themselves. And for what it's supposed to be, just an enjoyable project, it did well, but with our criteria, it's not moving on, I think. Yeah, so I agree 100%. Rule is out. The next one I'll probably eliminate again, which I'm not doing this with an happy face. I'm really sad about this. Um, it's hybrid because everything you said made sense. Yes, it it's it's it's the one I enjoyed the most. I really wanted to move on to the next quarter, but everything you said made a lot of sense. Um, it had way too many singles before the album dropped itself, and uh people went into the album, like you explained, and didn't get much anymore. They already listened to most of the songs before the album dropped. Exactly. And one other thing I can thought that album for was the production. The productions were not insane. I mean, the Carrie job itself were from Shoday being you know meticulous with his vocals and the um the features on it. The features were great. Taves did a great job, iMap did a great job, and Bad Boy ML did a great job. But the only problem is these were already singles. So assuming we went into the album not knowing these were singles, it would have been awesome. So I breed is out also. And the next one, I think sorry, no, it's okay, it's okay. I can I can live with it. Um, this one I'm also doing it, and I don't think I'm happy about it, also. If we could go with two albums to the next quarter, I would have loved for these two, the last two to go, but I think Gimba needs to leave. Probably due to the fact that it's also really short, just four songs. Um it's it's barely a project, and the songs are like really short, also. So it stayed true to the sound, it stayed true to topic, the retention value is insane. I mean, I you can listen to the four songs like twice, like three times. It's insane. Um, I think it did a bit of creativity was there with this um album tracks, the title, all starting with S. Um, going through like the different stages of trying to get a woman. At one point, you're flirting, at one point you're serenading, at one point you're missing the woman. At one point, it's like, I'm trying to prove myself to you. So the topic discoursed were very important, and the lyricism is great. A lot of standout, you know, um quotable quotes on that project. But then again, I feel like the topic that was mentioned on Jews, the production on Jews EP was just better than Gimber Shi. So that's why I think for me, um Jews should move on to the next quarter.

SPEAKER_01 1:20:30

Yeah, I agree with you, to be honest. I agree with you. I'm sorry, I I'm sorry you let Shude down, just like Jacob let us down.

SPEAKER_02 1:20:42

I don't know, man. I'm too, you know, just for this, after this recording, I am going to just spend time listening to that album again. Just say goodbye, my lover. Oh, well, it's all good.

SPEAKER_01 1:21:01

It's I can leave it. Well, I'm I'm I'm pretty sure, I'm pretty sure that quarter two will have more albums. Like we already know Angelina Kijo, Omale, probably Santi. So those might be things that are.

SPEAKER_02 1:21:17

I am waiting for King of the Bounds. I want to talk about King of the Bounds. I really hope he makes it to the to the second quarter. He makes it to the albums we're discussing. Yeah, I'm looking forward to it.

SPEAKER_01 1:21:31

Let's go see. So, guys, let's also know you guys' favorite albums or favorite projects from quarter one. It wasn't really the best of quarters in the music year, to be honest. But well, I think Jiggy Jiggy Volume 1 came out top.

SPEAKER_02 1:21:53

Um, should we pick the song of the week?

SPEAKER_01 1:21:56

Of course. If we don't pick the song of the week, some people will come from my head and I'm uh I can't explain every. So yeah, let's pick a song of the week.

SPEAKER_02 1:22:05

Let me pick it, please. Give me the opportunity to pick the song of the week.

SPEAKER_01 1:22:09

Yeah, because show days out. You you have the opportunity to enjoy this episode more.

SPEAKER_02 1:22:14

There is no, there is no there is no contention for this. We don't have a runner up. I just have one song. I just have one song this week, and that is OBT.

SPEAKER_01 1:22:28

Hey, of course. If you know Peter one, I don't know.

SPEAKER_02 1:22:31

Show the featuring bad boy OML OBT. That's the song of the week, guys. Please listen and enjoy it.

SPEAKER_01 1:22:40

Guys, please, because this might be the last time you ever hear show the from me on this podcast.

SPEAKER_02 1:22:47

Come on, it shouldn't be the last time, bro.

SPEAKER_01 1:22:49

OBT, OBT means one big transaction. I pray as you go into your week, you have one big transaction. See you guys in two weeks.