Hailing from Hamilton, Ontario, Jamila B. was always surrounded by music. Within her short career she has opened for the Clipse, Choclair, and the legendary Ink Spots. With only a mixtape added to her name, Jamila is constantly doing shows locally and is ready to expand. Saturday mornings as a child consisted of music blaring which ranged from the likes of artists such as Keith Sweat and Bobby Brown with their new jack swing style, pop divas like Mariah Carey, The Gap Band for the funk fix and reggae. Jamila also includes Aaliyah, SWV, TLC, and Robyn as her main influences for her R&B/Pop sound.

With the on-going confusion over the whereabouts of Nigeria’s president; the recent violence and destruction in Jos, the murder of a former gubernatorial aspirant in Ogun State, and the reported dispute between Lagos Governor and his predecessor, there’s no beter time for singer Etcetera to release his new single ‘Ring The Alarm

Here is a track called ALL DAY from Phizzle aka Oloro Mr Rapper upcoming IBADAN/LAGOS/LONDON mixtape which drops on Feb 9. It’s a different kind of naija rap song. I you’re a fan of Kanye West or Kid Cudi you’ll enjoy this!

Jonathan Chukwuemeka Emmanuel Obi Mbu also known as JaeCee Mbu is a young rapper based in Abuja and North London who is currently a first year student in the University of Sheffield. As a rapper his style is based on wordplay and punchlines and a distorted fast rhythmic delivery. He worked with Jesse Jagz in the summer of 2009 on various tracks; the tracks “Ready To Go” and “Temgbele” were produced by Jesse Jagz. He is currently juggling being a university student while working on his sophomore mix-tape Leader of the New School.

Phildizzle is a new Nigerian artiste. He grew up in Nigeria but is currently schooling in University of Cincinnati. He just made this new single called “Vibrate” .ft Madskillz and Rapon” He is currently working on a mixtape which will probably come out next month.

Two of Africa’s biggest emcee’s on the same track. HHP from South Africa and Naeto C from Nigeria both need no introduction to the African Hip-Hop scene. HHP who just won the Mtv award for Best Video, was in Nigeria to perform for the second time in his career at the MTV road to MAMA’s show in Lagos recently. Before this he was here last year to perform at the 1st edition of the Mama’s.

K16, UK based Nigerian rapper has shown his support for the Light Up Nigeria Campaign by creating a theme song, he is one of the growing voices of Nigeria’s youth campaign for a better future through steady power supply. LightUpNigeria is a movement which has arisen out of necessity in reaction to the current problem with power supply in Nigeria. The movement aims to highlight the problems caused by the lack of constant power supply in Nigeria and raise awareness of the situation globally. Through the awareness raised by this movement, it is highly anticipated that the current policy or policies governing the generation, distribution and transmission of power via the national grid service in Nigeria will be reviewed and reformed.

Here’s an offering from a son of the soil that we are mighty proud of. Wale is a prolific American rapper with Nigerian roots (like you didn’t know before). From working with The Roots and other industry big wigs to dropping his own reallllllyyy dope mixtapes, Wale has shown time and again that the expectations and anticipations for his upcoming album is not all hype.

Listen to a song he did (though unfinished) and dropped for all Naija people to ‘feel’

If you thought 2009 was turning out to be a ‘slow’ year for Nigerian music, we sincerely need you to pause and have a quick rethink. The song below is a remix of Darey’s song (Style Na Style) featuring 9ice. Jesse Jagz comes in heavy to complete the mix of talents that made this song a really really good listen. Enjoy…

Wow! this just came in. It’s the P master, the man that made your girlfriend listen to Nigerian rap. Yep ! they call him Naeto ! Naeto C. On this track he says…well, listen and find out yourself. Can’t wait for dude to drop his new album. Enjoy…