Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. WizKid is dropping a deluxe version of his album, ‘Made in Lagos,’ later this month “Essence” is truly coming for song of the ...

Kanye West praises Wizkid's song Essence. On Sunday, Rapper Kanye West said he considered Wizkid's hit song Essence as the best song in music's history. "Best song in the history of music to date," ...

Four years ago, this column posed a question: "Can WizKid Conquer The US Pop Landscape He Helped Create?" At the time, American pop music was sounding increasingly African, in no small part thanks to ...

This year, the song of the summer debate hasn’t raged in any significant way, but for a subset of young, hip, mostly Black people, Wizkid’s “Essence” was the only contender. “Essence” is the fourth ...

Nigerian pop star Wizkid and burgeoning singer Tems take to the colorful streets of Accra, Ghana, in the video for “Essence.” A single from Wizkid’s 2020 album Made in Lagos, “Essence” finds Tems and ...

You might have seen a viral tweet doing the rounds this week suggesting that Justin Bieber has a future making afrobeats music. Today that idea moved one step closer to reality with Bieber joining ...

WizKid put another body on the remix for his infectious single “Essence” remix featuring Tems: Justin Bieber! The Nigerian artist teased “something special” on social media on Thursday afternoon ...

Nigerian breakout artists Wizkid and Tems performed their Grammy-nominated hit “Essence” on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon on Tuesday (Dec. 7). Because international travel is restricted in ...

The Nigerian stars WizKid and Tems are two of the biggest names to emerge from the fast-expanding hybrid pop genre known as Afrobeats, and both of them have become a whole lot more famous stateside ...