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  • Watch Nigeria’s Olamide official music video for ’99’ featuring Seyi Vibez, Asake, Young Jonn and Daecolm

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    Yesterday, Nigeria’s beloved artist Olamide released the official music video for his new song ’99’ featuring Seyi Vibez (who people felt was biting Asake’s style in 2022), his protégé and breakout star Asake, Nigerian hitmaker Young Jonn and Southern African artist Daecolm, who has a soothing voice. Throughout the music video, behind-the-scenes clips of each respective artist, sprinkled throughout, of them living their best lives with musical collaborators (Asake and Central Cee onstage and Seyi Vibez and Soulja Boy sharing space), business partners (Olamide and Empire Distribution Founder and CEO Ghazi), and more. The record is from his forthcoming album eponymous album. The self-titled album is set to come forth (June 18) and will feature seventeen bold tracks.

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    Honestly, when I saw an official music video uploaded to YouTube, I became curious to see if Asake would appear in it with a performance shot of his own, but he wasn’t. I am not going to lie. It was a bit disappointing, but that is the hopeful spirit in me. In February 2025, the GRAMMY-nominated Nigerian superstar reportedly left YBNL to start his imprint, Giran Republic, allegedly translated to “a slang term popular in his home state of Osun, which loosely translates to a person who moves differently, a boss, or a leader.”

  • Nigeria’s Olamide enlists signees Fireboy DML and Asake for ‘Uptown Disco’: Watch the visual

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    One of Africa’s most successful independent record label owners and GRAMMY nominated artist, Olamide, paired up with his groundbreaking signees Fireboy DML and Asake for an official video from his new song ‘Uptown Disco’ from his surprise seven-track extended play called ‘Ikigai / 生き甲斐 Vol 1 EP’ named and inspired by a Japanese phrase translated to something that gives someone a sense of purpose or a sense of being. No, we do not know how the inspiration for the name came about nor how to pronounce it, but one of these days, we hope to hear Olamide speak on it and say the name of his project. Until then, check out the ‘Uptown Disco’ music video below. It is fast approaching a million views.

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    If you like what you see and hear in the music video, join the millions of music fans who pressed play on this extended play. Who knows? Perhaps you could be somewhere among the 100,000,000 million plus streamers. It features club bangers like ‘Metaverse’ (over 8.4 million public streams on Spotify), ‘Makaveli’ (2.9 million public streams on Spotify), and more.

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