In anticipation of his debut album, we sit with Tim Lyre to discuss his journey into music, navigating the music industry, his crew, and future plans. With us, he dives into the intricacies of an album release while also discussing his musical influences, the international recognition Nigerian music is currently receiving and even touches on the recent wave of billionaires going to space.
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We're back with another special guest, Aisha Salaudeen. Aisha is a journalist and TV producer, she shares her journey into Journalism, picking your career as a Nigerian kid between vibes, Medicine and Engineering, and a host of other topics.
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Stefan and Idris use this episode as an opportunity to share their thoughts on gatekeeping, globalisation and losing cultural identity. They go further to discuss how the pandemic is forcing deeper friendships as well as a letter from renowned author, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, surrounding cancel culture and social media.
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Podcaster, playlist and content curator, Jess Finesse joins us on episode 4. Jess talks us through her journey being raised in America, attending secondary school in Abia, Nigeria for two years and eventually deciding to move to Nigeria on a more permanent basis. We also touch on her journey navigating the Nigerian creative scene and the cultural nuance.
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Our next guest and long time friend of the hosts, Youtuber, vlogger, content creator Uche.
Uche seats with us to discuss her content creation journey in Nigeria, cryptocurrency, Burna Boys Outsider build up and leveraging different social media platforms for content creation.
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Our guest this episode is award winning producer, sound engineer, creative director, and DJ; BigFootInYourFace. BigFootInYourFace discusses music, the creative scene and balancing a 9-5 with his creative work.
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Idris and Stefan catch up on the little break and talk about the expectations for the new season.
On our 20th episode of 2020, we're joined by a good friend of the pod, Tejj. With the end of the year cutting close and only a day after we release the episode, it was only right we spoke about some of our 2020 victories and goals for 2021. We also touched on the new covid strain, new year's plans and the vaccine. Lasty, we close the pod with some bars from our guest.
We hope everyone has a fulfilling New Year!
As always, we hope you enjoy it. Follow us on all socials @BantsToTheBone @theabisolab @idris_a @uruemu.a @tejjtheblogger
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Idris and Stefan get together to talk about some of the notable event this year. In particular, we touch on the vaccine, notable deaths, #EndSARS and trust we didn't forget the banter!
As always, we hope you enjoy it. Follow us on all socials @BantsToTheBone @theabisolab @idris_a @uruemu.a
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As we get to the tail end of the year our hosts Abisola and Stefan discuss coping mechanisms and how they've bn able to stay sane in what has been a rather unique year for all of us. A host of other topics made the cut!
As always, we hope you enjoy it. Follow us on all socials @BantsToTheBone @theabisolab @idris_a @uruemu.a
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The gang is back for episode 16! Right off the back of Thanksgiving celebrations in the states and because anything that happens in America doesn't stay there, we couldn't help but share some of the things we're thankful for as the remarkable 2020 draws to a close. Tales of the education system and Burna Boys Grammy nomination all make the cut, with the latter leaving us with one question, does a Burna Boy Grammy win make him the biggest African artist right now?
We'd love to hear what you think! As always, we hope you enjoy it. Send us your thoughts on our socials @BantsToTheBone @theabisolab @idris_a @uruemu.a
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The gang is back for the 15th episode.
For our last episode for the week of November (because November went by way too quick), we touch on a couple notable topics around social media. Chimamanda, domestic abuse and Burna's reaction to Wizkid's live all get touched on this episode.
As always, we hope you enjoy it. Follow us on all socials @BantsToTheBone @theabisolab @idris_a @uruemu.a
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On our 14th episode, we're joined by Simi Badiru.
Simi is a young creative navigating the vastly growing afrobeats industry. Simi gives us insight on podcasting, what it's been like working in the industry and adds her voice to some of the things we've wondered about surrounding afrobeats. We also delve into the UK afrobeats connection and Grammys as a metric for afrobeats success.
Lastly, the episode won't be complete without talking about Davido's latest release "A better time".
Follow Simi on socials @SimiBadiru and checkout her podcast F&S Uncensored @fsuncensored
As always, we hope you enjoy it. Follow us on all socials @BantsToTheBone @theabisolab @idris_a @uruemu.a
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Still not over Wizkid's "Made In Lagos", we're gearing up for the next big afrobeats release, Davido's "A better time". The gang give their expectations for Davido's entry to a hotly contested couple months album-wise and thoughts on what the album could mean for Davido in the conversation for afrobeats biggest artists.
We also talk about the slowly concluding US elections. Kamala Harris' groundbreaking Vice Presidency as a woman of colour and America's first Female elected to the Oval Office leading us to reflect if Nigeria might be close to her first female President.
As always, we hope you enjoy it. Follow us on all socials @BantsToTheBone @theabisolab @idris_a @uruemu.a
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On this episode, we got a surprise appearance from PresIdris. PresIdris is an upcoming rapper making his way up in the Toronto music scene. We got to hear his thoughts on activism, social media, and the US elections.
Of course, we rounded up discussing his music career, upcoming projects, and thoughts on the new Wizkid album.
As always, we hope you enjoy it. Follow us on all socials @BantsToTheBone @theabisolab @idris_a @uruemu.a
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Welcome to our 11th Episode.
We decided to release this episode a week later in solidarity with the #EndSARS protests across Nigeria. It's been three weeks since the #EndSARS protests began and the movement is still going strong until we see the end of SARS and the toppling bad governance in Nigeria. Everyone contributing physically and virtually is playing an important role in getting us there, and we're proud to be part of it.
On this episode, we sat with Aije, a lead data scientist and career mentor. Aije opened us up to her story from her university experience to career choices to balancing a career and her side gig, AijeTalks. She shed light on some of the crucial factors that have helped shape her up to date and how beneficial it is for more people to apply them in their careers.
We hope you enjoy this episode as much as we did.
As always, give us a shout on our socials @BantsToTheBone @theabisolab @idris_a @uruemu.a we'd love to hear from you :)
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#EndSARS #EndPoliceBrutality
Our 10th episode coincides with an especially important movement going on in Nigeria right now. Police brutality and abuse of power has been rampant through the country for as long as we can remember, and the people have reached their tipping point. In the last week, Nigerian youth took to the streets and airwaves to express their rage at the terror that has come from the Nigerian Police Force's Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS) unit. Idris and Stefan sit together to discuss the issues and share their thoughts on what's next for the movement.
As always, we hope you enjoy the episode. Follow us on all socials @BantsToTheBone @theabisolab @idris_a @uruemu.a.
Shoot us a message and let us know what you've thought so far. We'd love to hear from you :)
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Would you want to be born in the same country in the next life? For the hosts, it's yes but with a catch, so in summary; no.
Welcome to our ninth episode. Today your hosts discuss police brutality in NIgeria, Trumps Covid diagnosis and the rather interesting selection of politicians we're faced with every election season. Lastly, we play a little game of Music Tag to hear the songs that get our hosts going.
As always, we hope you enjoy the episode. Follow us on all socials @BantsToTheBone @theabisolab @idris_a @uruemu.a.
Shoot us a message and let us know what you've thought so far. We'd love to hear from you :)
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The gang is back our 8th episode discussing social media fame, success and the everything that come with it. Lastly we discuss the roles our friends play in sharing and promoting our work and, suggestions to why some seemingly don't want to play that role. Do you feel your friends need to actively share and promote your work? Why do you think they don't?
As always, we hope you enjoy the episode. Follow us on all socials @BantsToTheBone @theabisolab @idris_a @uruemu.a.
Shoot us a message and let us know what you've thought so far. We'd love to hear from you :)
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