Joey Akan
@JoeyAkan • 125,214 subscribers
Journalist & Creator Host of @AfrobeatsIntel & @joeyakanxp Democratizing African Music. MGMT: [email protected]
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" I was looking for money for beer, we were broke, I and my best friend Wunmi we were serving and just wanted to go drink and smoke weed. "They said there was an audition going on down the street. I walked in there and froze. I froze because I thought this was a walk in the park...." — Jim Iyke
Joey Akan159,827 views • 2 months ago
"Show promoters don't want to pick me for shows because I left a label..." - Mohbad, August, 2023
Joey Akan1,595,006 views • 3 years ago
Llona: "I am still homeless...after I record each song, I take a walk and cry."
Joey Akan781,438 views • 1 year ago
A beautiful thing happened after the Wizkid concert in Algeria while I was enjoying a smoke. After performing for over 40 minutes, Wizkid left the hall to a waiting car, flanked by security guards, and lots of people trying to get his attention for photos. After security got him into the car, a little girl was outside crying for a photo. Wizkid stopped his entire protocol, came down took a photo and did a video with the girl, and just the girl. And got back into the car. When he left, I asked the girl what that meant to her, and she couldn't speak. Just hopping, skipping and dancing. Immense joy written all over her face. It made me feel warm for her. Thanks Wizkid, for being a correct guy.
Joey Akan242,846 views • 1 year ago
When Nigerians adopted hip hop, we made it ours, homogenised it into our dance-heavy melodic soundscape and turned it into today's Afrobeats. And with each passing year, the difference between Nigerian hip hop and the rest of the world becomes stark, as we shift closer and faster to our local ideal of what it means to be a Nigerian hip hop artist in 2023. It means authenticity. It means the product of experimentation derived from mixing the bluster of rap, with the groove of dance and drumming. Whether we're rocking Balaclavas with Isi Agu print, or Etibo, or spreading our peculiar signatures via graffiti and expressing our endemic zest for life via dancing and vibing, we're embodying the spirit of the root genre, which we adapted from the USA. And much later, the UK. Drill comes from that rich history. And as it takes it's flight into Nigeria, no one embodies the cross-cultural spirit of 21st century Nigerian hip hop culture as much as KIING LU. Part accomplished music industry exec, part executive producer, and super creative, he's unleashing a campaign to soundtrack and blueprint drill in Nigeria, using Nigerian sounds, and UK spirit. I can't wait for you to see and experience more.
Joey Akan563,564 views • 3 years ago
