Lagos-via-Peckham famous person Naira Marley – hailed by NPR as “one of many best and most celebrated artists performing and producing within the Afrobeat scene as we speak” – returns with model new single “Vawulence”.
Produced by Vibez Ace and that includes London’s BackRoad Gee, the monitor is the primary in a brand new Marley-created style he dubs Gangpiano and marks the primary new launch from Marley since his critically acclaimed debut album God’s Timing’s The Finest launched in Could of this 12 months. The monitor additionally follows Naira’s characteristic on a model new WizKid monitor “Wow” alongside Skepta. Accompanying Marley’s new single is a brand new video directed by Keasy and set in Paris.
One of many greatest artists throughout Africa and a real pioneer of Afroswing, Naira Marley has established himself as an icon of the African vanguard. “Vawulence” is traditional Marley; chaotic, enjoyable, humorous, witty; a UK rap-infused banger drenched in sunny Amapiano that pays homage to each Naira’s transcontinental upbringing throughout Peckham and Lagos.
After years of solidifying his status as each the pioneer of Afro/Hip-Hop and a distinguished voice of the streets, Marley has continued to develop his music, marrying the uncooked, unpolished tones of UK rap, the Yoruba language, and the sounds of the diaspora as heard on God’s Timing’s The Finest for an uncompromising and unpredictable and sonic palette debut in stark distinction to the saccharine commerciality of the Nigerian AfroPop mainstream.
About Naira Marley
With over 12 million mixed social media followers and 300 million streams throughout DSPs and YouTube, Lagos-via-Peckham famous person Naira Marley is certainly one of Nigeria’s most infamous Afrobeats and Hip-Hop artists who has single handedly created one of many largest cult followings on the earth – a neighborhood affectionately termed the “Marlians.”
The pioneer of AfroBashment, Naira’s 2014 debut monitor “Marry Juana” was the primary to fuse the slang and accent of his start metropolis of Lagos with the floor-filling rhythms of Jamaican Bashment – all delivered with the charismatic highway swagger of his adopted hometown of Peckham, South London.
The final two years have confirmed the President of the Marlian Nation is on the highway to stardom. He is given electrifying performances at WizKid’s StarBoy Fest @ London’s O2 Enviornment, fashioned his personal immensely profitable Marlian Music label, headlined his large Marlian Fests drawing in upwards of 30,000 followers, skyrocketed from 100k to 7 million Instagram followers, and launched a sequence of native chart-topping hits together with “Am I A Yahoo Boy” – the notorious satirical monitor about fraud that noticed Naira jailed by the Nigerian authorities in 2019.
Impressed by the success of his first US tour in December 2021, lead GTTB anthem “First Time in America” gave the Marlians a style of what to anticipate from his dynamic debut album and continued his ascent throughout the globe. On the explosive standout “Coming,” which has surpassed 20 million streams globally, Marley joins forces with South African singer Busiswa.
Kicking off 2022, Marley debuted the visible for his festive Detty December jam, “Kojosese”, following a viral TikTok problem that noticed 20 million views. Marley’s sound has eschewed the saccharine commerciality of the Nigerian AfroPop mainstream, proving that hit information can nonetheless be unpredictable, wild affairs.
