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<\/figure>\n\n\n\nMade in Lagos featured artistes spanning genres and geography \u2013 Projexx and Damian Marley from Jamaica, Ella Mai and Skepta from the U.K., Tems, Burna, Tay Iwar, and Terri from Nigeria, and H.E.R. from the U.S. The album has been breaking records internationally, streaming over a billion times.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
It\u2019s also produced Africa\u2019s first \u21161 top 10 hit on the Billboard Hot 100. More so, on August 31, 2021, Wizkid\u2019s \u2018Essence\u2019 with Tems became the most searched song on the music search platform, Shazam. It also went platinum in the US. In some circles, \u201cEssence,\u201d a global smash by the Nigerian pop star, was the only serious contender for the song of the summer. A Justin Bieber remix released in August surely didn\u2019t hurt the case. \u201cHe loved the record, and I just wanted to hear what he would do on it,\u201d says Wizkid of the Bieber collaboration. \u201cAnd I heard it and it was dope, so why not?\u201d Wizkid told Rolling Stone magazine a fortnight ago.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cEssence\u201d and its remix undoubtedly raised Wizkid\u2019s profile abroad, but he\u2019s been making bright Afropop for more than a decade, and Western stars have been taking notice for years. In March, he took home his first Grammy, for his role in the music video for Beyonc\u00e9\u2019s \u201cBrown Skin Girl,\u201d a Lion King: The Gift track on which he\u2019s featured; before that, he appeared on Drake\u2019s 2016 hit \u201cOne Dance.\u201d With his fourth studio album, Made in Lagos, Wizkid solidified his standing as one of Africa\u2019s most notable artistes, with a vision and reach that stretch far beyond his home.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Originally published at Thisday<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" By Ferdinand Ekechukwu Superstar singer, Wizkid, last Tuesday night, bagged five nominations at the 2021 Soul Train Awards. His partner in \u201cEssence,\u201d Tems also bagged four nominations. Wizkid\u2019s and Tems\u2019 nominations come in the Song…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5893,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6],"tags":[1751,1940,1432,978],"class_list":["post-5892","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment-art-culture","tag-award","tag-soul-train","tag-tems","tag-wizkid"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"yoast_head":"\n