Collaborations Nigerians are proud of we didn’t expect that happened

Nigerian entertainment and especially the music industry has evolved over the years with new acts coming up and old acts rebranding themselves and giving back to back hit tracks and thrilling tunes, beats and soul touching lyrics that has kept Nigerians, Africans and the world in general on their feet just like their counterparts in especially the USA. Being on a track or collaboration with an international act (especially acts from the USA) has been a dream for some 20 or so years ago but today some Nigerians has achieved this feet and we are going to be looking at some of them especially the ones that came as a surprise

     1.      P-square ft Rick Ross,

After a collaboration with their then new signed artist MayD and Akon, “Chop my money” Remix, this twin gave a full album of international collaboration with the likes of Rick Ross, T.I, . This was after a failed attempt to release a track with Usher a few years earlier. The unanticipated collaboration on the album and the Album as a whole  was a proud export of Nigeria

    2.      Wizkid ft Drake

After a while anticipating a song from the friendship brewing between Drake and Wizzy, Drake finally released a single featuring Wizkid, ‘One Dance’ and although most people laughed at it claiming that Wizkid was barely in the track, Wizkid gave a response by featuring Drake on his track titled ‘Closer’. Let’s hope that Wizkid is getting ‘Closer’ to the Grammy 

    3.      R -Kelly ft Wizkid

Still on the Wizkid matter, 2016 was a great year for the music sensation who added a number of  laurels to his cap. Including the first Nigerian artist to be on the top of the I-tunes chat and of cause the collaborations with Drake, he also was featured on a track with R-Kelly ‘I just want to thank you’.

   4.      Frank Edwards ft Don Moen

International collaboration is not just for circular music and Frank Edwards has proved this by releasing two wonderful tracks with Music Icon, “Musevangelist” (I just made this word up) and award winning song writer Don Moen. The song whose chorus is written in Igbo language got so many attentions as the Veteran Musician Don Moen thrills fans with his articulate pronunciations of the Igbo words with ease

   5.      Nathaniel Basssey ft Micah Stampley

Nathaniel Bassey (click for other articles on Nathaniel Bassey) has been known for dishing out wonderful gospel songs and one of such songs is the 3^rd track on his ‘This God is too good’ Album titled “This God is too good” featuring Micah Stampley. I guess this God has been very good to Nigerian music.

Nigerians have since done more collaboration with international stars but these once were the ones that blazed the trail. It is also important to note that a number of Nigerian artist like D’banj, Samsong and  host of others, before this time had performed on stage with international acts but with no song recorded with said artists.