Bankulize

Mr Eazi and Dre Skull team up for new single “Sekkle & Bop” featuring Popcaan.
On “Sekkle & Bop,” Dre Skull cooks up the kind of bashment riddim that has always resonated on dancefloors around the world. Minimal, with soundsystem ready low end and anchored by an earworming flute melody, it serves as the foundation for Mr Eazi and Popcaan to take control. Both vocalists ride the riddim with signature charisma and ease–effortlessly trading flows that conjure up timeless dancehall classics, commanding dancers and continuously building the energy.

Sekkle & Bop

Sekkle & Bop (feat. Popcaan)

Mr Eazi returns with “Personal Baby,” the simmering second single from his as-yet-untitled forthcoming album. The song was produced by Grammy-winning Nigerian hitmaker Kel P (Burna Boy, Wizkid, Angelique Kidjo),  Ademola Falomo directed the video which sets “Personal Baby” in a dystopian, Blade Runner-esque future. 

A dark and moody love song co-written with afropop superstar Teni (“Billionaire”) “Personal Baby” reimagines the smooth, mid-tempo Banku Music sound that Mr Eazi defined with hits like ‘Skin Tight” and “Leg Over.” The track follows June’s “Legalize” as the second single from Eazi’s as-yet untitled debut album — a project that’s nearly a decade in coming.

Personal Baby

Global music superstar and business visionary Mr Eazi has shared “Legalize,” the first single from his forthcoming debut album, and one of his most personal tracks to date. 
Produced by an international team of Michael Brun (Haiti/USA), E Kelly (Nigeria) and Nonso Amadi (Nigeria/Canada), “Legalize” and its accompanying video celebrate Eazi’s love for his fiancée, the Nigerian actress Temi Otedola. The couple were engaged in April when Mr Eazi proposed while shooting the video in Venice, Italy. 
That city’s famously romantic canals, bridges and architectural gems form the backdrop of the luxe “Legalize” video, directed by Italy’s Federico Mazzarisi. Notable landmarks used in the making of the clip include the Ca’ Sagredo Hotel and the Punta Della Dogana and Palazzo Grimani museums. 
Mr Eazi sees his as-yet-untitled debut album — a project that’s nearly a decade in the making —  as a collection of art pieces. (Eazi considers his earlier full-length projects, Life is Eazi, Vol. 1: From Accra to Lagos and Life is Eazi, Vol. 2: From Lagos to London as mixtapes). Each single from the album will be represented visually by uniquely commissioned pieces from different African contemporary artists. These pieces will be tokenized and shared with the public through specially curated metaverse and physical events. 
For “Legalize”, Eazi tapped Benin’s Patricorel, whose painting by the same name simultaneously captures the intimacy of love, submission, vulnerability and the finality of death. The artwork was created at an intimate, invite-only event in Lagos at which Eazi also performed “Legalize” for the first time while Patricorel painted atop a black canvas.

The Evil Genius

Legalize

Patek (feat. DJ Tárico & Joey B)

Patek (Remix) [feat. Falz, Major League Djz, DJ Tárico & Joey B]

Patek (Solo Version)

Patek (Solo Version) [feat. DJ Tárico & Joey B)

See Something

See Something (feat. Shatta Wale, DJ Neptune, Medikal & Minz)

Werser

“Wena” is the third single from Mr Eazi and his Choplife Soundsystem’s forthcoming, South Africa-inspired mixtape project, Choplife Soundsystem Vol. 1: Mzansi Chronicles. The track continues the amapiano wave that Mr Eazi has surfed on his latest drops “Patek” and “Werser,” but its moody production from DJ Tárico takes us even deeper into the Choplife matrix. 
Eazi recorded the project, his first new body of work since 2021’s Something Else EP, between Cape Town and Johannesburg, tapping in with some of South Africa’s most exciting vocal talent. “Wena” features the intoxicating vocals of singer Ami Faku, one of the country’s most streamed artists, who delivers a heartbreaking message in Xhosa, as Eazi responds in English. Theirs is a story of would-be lovers who never quite consummate their connection, a tragedy that can only be resolved in the glow of the dancefloor. 
Choplife Soundsystem Vol. 1: Mzansi Chronicles serves as an official introduction to Choplife Ministries, a new entertainment lifestyle brand curated by Mr Eazi. The ministry, which takes its name from a West African pidgin slang that means ‘enjoy life,’ is focused on creating moments that spark feelings of happiness, wellness and enjoyment, promoting positive, carefree vibes through media, music and events.

Chop Life Soundsystem, Vol. 1 - Mzansi Chronicles

Wena

ChopLife SoundSystem & Mr Eazi - Wena (feat. Ami Faku)

Benin was central to the creation of The Evil Genius, a place for Mr Eazi to discover himself and reset. “[In] Cotonou, there was just peace,” he says. “My ancestry is from Benin. My dad told me his grandfather was from there. It was like going back home, and that’s where I found a lot of the visual artists for the project.”
Much of The Evil Genius was recorded in hotels, sitting rooms, kitchens, balconies – on the go. In Cotonou, Eazi made Eya, a community centre with a dynamic studio, his hub. It was here that he hosted the singer Liya and her team, including the producer KDream, for a series of sessions. “Their energy was so creative ,” Mr Eazi says. “I heard [the beat from “Mandela”], and it just felt so spiritual. I was probably high to be honest. And I just go: I want to live forever like Nelson Mandela.” 
For Eazi, “Mandela” is shorthand for legacy. He places himself in the lineage of not just Nelson Mandela, but Fela Kuti, soccer star Karim Benzema — Africans with larger than life legacies. At this point in the album, Eazi has returned to the mindset on the intro, “Olúwa Jọ̀” and its theme of family and prayer. “I would just remember my dad praying for our futures as a kid,” Eazi says. “My dad fought so many battles for me, sacrificing to send me to the best schools. I feel a lot of these temptations I surmount is not because of my power but because someone prayed for me...”

Mandela

“Fefe Ne Fefe,” the single from Mr Eazi's debut album, The Evil Genius set for release. “Fefe Ne Fefe” is one of several tracks from the album that Mr Eazi recorded in the resort town of Kokrobite, Ghana, with producer Kel-P. With its cool highlife rhythm, smooth sax lead and palm-wine guitar sound, the uptempo yet easygoing track transports listeners to a retro vision of West Africa befitting the beachside locale where it was made.

Another track from the Kokrobite sessions with Kel-P, “Fefe Ne Fefe” carries listeners to a retro vision of Ghana with its cool highlife rhythm and palmwine guitar sound. Fefe Ne Fefe — “beauty is beautiful” — comes from an Akan proverb: Fefe ne fe, se obaa tu amirika ne oso ni nufumua, eye fe, enye se ebe ti ato ntia. In English, now: When a woman is running, she holds her breasts not because they would fall but because she’s a woman. That’s what makes her beautiful. “I have professed my love on ‘Jamboree,’ she told me what she wants on ‘Good Lovin,’ we’ve fought on ‘Lack of Communication.’ Now, I’ve messed up, and I’m trying to make things better. I someday would like to get married, so I’m saying ‘Let’s go meet your dad. I want this to be something more. Then we go to the next song…”

Fefe Ne Fefe

“Exit” is the final track on The Evil Genius but, in many ways, it is the centerpiece of the long-awaited project. Conceived during a period of inner turmoil and strife, it’s one of the Nigerian singer’s most personal and inward-looking songs to date, but also one of his most triumphant. Among the song’s memorable lines is one which Mr Eazi has adopted as his daily mantra: Thank you God for keeping things running smoothly. “When I wrote this song, I was disappointed in everything —the music business, feeling betrayed by my friends," Mr Eazi says. "But, in the midst of feeling disappointed, I was thankful.”

Exit

Exit (feat. Soweto Gospel Choir)

“Chop Time, No Friend” is a playful return to the Banku Music sound Mr Eazi pioneered and popularized with his early singles and mixtapes. “Chop Time, No Friend is a very common Ghanaian saying, something you will see written on the front or side of buses like God is Great,” Mr Eazi says. “It means when you are eating, you don’t think about anybody. You are just focused on your enjoyment.”
For Eazi, it’s a way to express how he doesn’t let haters distract him from enjoying the fruits of his success. “It is touching on how people chitchat on me, but I am still focused on my enjoyment,” Eazi says. “It is a declaration, a celebration of self. I am saying everything I touch turns to gold. You can’t trouble me.”

Chop Time, No Africa

Chop Time, No Friend

Ghana is where Mr Eazi began his recording career and rose to fame, and he considers Accra a second home, a place where he can always go to cool down. But, even there, the pressures that have built around him can surface. Mr Eazi recorded “Advice,” with its dark, grime-inspired tones, during a particularly heavy moment in his life, as he watched some of his longest-held relationships crumble under the weight of his success. “When you first come up [as an artist], everybody is in love with you,” Mr Eazi says. “Then they want to draw you down. People begin to betray you. If you're able to survive this stage, you go untouchable. But this is the hardest stage.” The lyrically-dense “Advice” namedrops such martyrs as the former Democratic Republic of the Congo president Joseph Kabila and Ken Saro-Wiwa, a Nigerian writer and activist whose 1995 hanging inspired domestic and international outrage. “I was coming from a place of having that energy,” Eazi says.

Advice

“Panadol” was created organically in Ouidah, Benin, when two of Mr Eazi’s most frequent collaborators, the producers Type A and E Kelly, came to visit him with the talented songwriter, Favour Brown, in tow. “We were chilling, trying to catch a vibe, I heard that beat play and I started jumping to the song,” Eazi recalls. Panadol, the drug, is designed to reduce pain and fever, and the song is all about feeling good. It’s where Mr Eazi finally lets bygones be bygones, and settles into his groove, playing with the theme of sexual performance and health. “I am past all that craziness [from the beginning of the album], I’ve said what I said, and now I'm having fun.”

Panadol

Mr Eazi and fellow afrobeats superstar Joeboy have been making magic happen together since 2018, when Eazi discovered Joeboy from Instagram and made him the first artist on emPawa Africa. “Nobody,” their 2020 collaboration with DJ Neptune, is among the biggest hits of both artists’ careers. That chemistry continues on the joyful “Zuzulakate.” Zuzulakate is a gibberish phrase, lifted, tongue in cheek, from an Instagram video by a Nigerian comedian who was parodying the speaking in tongues and fanciful prayer of Nigerian preachers. Musically, the track, produced by Type A and Kel P, revisits the smoothed-out, mid-tempo Banku Music sound of Mr Eazi’s early days — the perfect template for Eazi to “celebrate grace, celebrate favour.”
 “I started making the song in Ouidah on the dining table, but I was joking,” Mr Eazi recalls. “Next thing I knew, the following morning, the boys had started making the song. We made a sketch, and I flew to Rwanda. I am in this thanksgiving phase of the album, and that’s where my mind was. I had just come into Rwanda, I had set up companies there, things were moving nicely. It just made sense for me to record a song like this…”

Zuzulakate

Zuzulakate (feat. Joeboy)

We Dey

InterSpace 087: DJ Xoom

Panadol (Mixed)

Afrohits 2023

Patek(Mixed)

SkinTight - Mr Eazi ft Efya (prod by) Juls

Signature Afro-soul basement from Mr Eazi & Juls this time Guesting Joeyb and Dammykrane 

HOLLUP ft Dammykrane and Joeyb (prod by dj juls)

Perfect blend of African Highlife and RnB 

Mr Eazi Ft Sarkodie - Annointing (Prod By Juls And Team Salut)

SAMPLE YOU REMIX feat Lil Kesh

Accra to Lagos

Skintight uk remix

Skin Tight (uk Remix) Ft Stefflon don & Haile WSTRN

Life Is Eazi, Vol. 1 - Accra To Lagos

Stream

Short Skirt (feat. Tekno)

Fresh off of the forthcoming Happy Boy Tour Collection, GuiltyBeatz assembles Mr Eazi, Pappy Kojo and The ‘One Corner’ crooner Patapaa for this dance anthem ‘Akwaaba’.
 
Akwaaba (the Ghanaian term for ‘welcome’) is the first single from the DJ/producer GuiltyBeatz who is signed to Meister Music. You may be familiar with GuiltyBeatz from the smash Mr Eazi single “Sample You”. Akwaaba sees the duo reconnect and call on Pappy and Patapaa to create another banger that is essential for DJ sets and playlists.
 
You can catch GuiltyBeatz alongside Mr Eazi on some of the Happy Boy Tour Dates across 2018.
 
Watch out for Happy Boy by Mr Eazi releasing on 6th April.
 
Life is Eazi!

Akwaaba

Akwaaba - GuiltyBeatz x Mr eazi x PappyKojo x Patapaa

Doyin (feat. Simi)

Tony Montana

Mr Eazi, Tyga - Tony Montana

Afropop superstar MR EAZI teams with talent from his emPawa Africa mentorship program to drop One Day You Will Understand,  a set of melodic, emotive Afrocentric tunes. The four-track EP, MR EAZI’s first new project since 2018’s acclaimed Life is Eazi, Vol. 2 - Lagos To London, features collaborations with MIKEL, an alum of last year’s inaugural #emPawa100 class, who co-wrote the lead single “I No Give Up On You”; C NATTY, of emPawa’s freshly minted #emPawa30 class, who appears on “Baby This Your Body Na Gòbe Fine Fine Sweet Òkpéke”; and Ghanaian highlife star KING PROMISE, a client of emPawa’s new digital distribution arm, who adds his dulcet tones to the opening track “Baby I’m Jealous,” produced by fellow Ghanaian and emPawa producer, GUILTYBEATZ. 

To emphasize the group effort, Eazi is releasing the project not under his own name but as EMPAWA AFRICA & MR EAZI. In addition to GUILTYBEATZ — who recently issued his debut EP, Different, via Banku Music/emPawa Africa — the project features production from an all-star team of Africa’s top producers including BLAQ JERZEE, NONSO AMADI, and LEGENDURY BEATZ.

emPawa Africa, Mr Eazi & King Promise - Baby I'm Jealous

emPawa Africa & Mr Eazi - I No Go Give Up On You

Nigerian afropop superstar MR EAZI and Colombian reggaeton icon J BALVIN reprise their cross-continental connection on the smooth and infectious “Lento.” The track is the pair’s third collaboration, following 2019’s “Como Un Bebé” with Bad Bunny and 2020’s “Arcoíris” (off J Balvin’s Latin Grammy-winning LP, Colores) and the first to see release as a single. 

Giants in their respective spheres, MR EAZI and J BALVIN bring their worlds together on an undulating beat from Nigerian producer KILLERTUNES, trading lyrics in Spanish, English and Yoruba (and nodding towards Elvis Crespo’s merengue classic “Suavemente”) as they build towards the track’s climactic crescendo.

“Since we connected in 2018, J BALVIN and I have been like brothers,” MR EAZI says of the partnership, which began after Balvin selected Eazi to be the opening act on his 2018 North American Tour. “He’s been bringing me into his world of urbano and reggaeton, and I’ve been introducing him to mine. It’s been a cross-cultural interplay and marriage between what I feel are cousins. It’s in that spirit that we made ‘Lento,’ one of many records we’ve recorded together.” 
“Lento” follows “Oh My Gawd” with Major Lazer and Nicki Minaj and "French Kiss" featuring Tega Starr among singles from Mr Eazi. His latest project, the One Day You Will Understand EP with emPawa Africa, was released in June.

Mr Eazi - Lento (feat. J Balvin)

Oh My Gawd is a fusion of dancehall, afrobeats and EDM sounds which takes lyrical inspiration from reggae classics by Black Uhuru and Baby Cham, is the first single from Mr Eazi’s Something Else EP.

“This record was really fun to make,” Mr Eazi says, “and it’s crazy how it went from hearing a K4mo intro in the studio with Fred Again, to me jumping on it and then Diplo hopping in! And Walshy hitting me up to say it’s a banger—next thing Nicki is on it! Been a journey really, like two years in the making and I can’t wait to perform it at my next festival!”

Mr Eazi & Major Lazer  - Oh My Gawd (feat. Nicki Minaj & K4mo)

Tega Starr & Mr Eazi - French Kiss

Saudi Arabia

MR EAZI is the creative and business visionary leading African music into its future.
As a recording artist, the Nigerian multihyphenate is the voice behind afropop hits “Pour Me Water,” “Skin Tight” (featuring Efya) and “Leg Over,” as well as groundbreaking collaborations with the likes of Beyoncé, Bad Bunny and J Balvin. A serial entrepreneur, he’s also the founder of emPawa Africa, a talent incubator program which funds and mentors emerging African artists, and the digital music aggregator emPawa Distribution — initiatives hailed by CNN, Rolling Stone, Billboard and Forbes for their forward-thinking approach. Mr Eazi’s ascent into global stardom has seen him clock over 4 billion streams worldwide, making him one of the most streamed African artists worldwide. 

Born in Port Harcourt, Nigeria and raised in Lagos, Mr Eazi began his music career while attending college in Ghana, where his side hustles included promoting concerts and running a concierge service shuttling wealthy kids to parties. His first-ever recording, made on a whim, became an accidental local hit, prompting him to self-release a mixtape, About to Blow, in 2013. Blending touches of Ghanaian highlife music and Pidgin slang with Nigerian chord progressions and R&B vocal inflection, he soon developed a mellowed-out spin on afropop which he dubbed Banku Music, after the popular Ghanaian comfort food dish. 

After returning to Nigeria to work a corporate job in engineering, Eazi decided to make music his full-time focus, using a $1,000 gift from friends to fund the video for his breakthrough 2015 single, “Skin Tight.” Arriving just as afrobeats was exploding into global consciousness, Eazi quickly became an international figure, performing across Africa, Europe and the United States, pouring his travels into the critically-acclaimed  mixtapes Life is Eazi, Vol. 1: Accra to Lagos (2017) and Life is Eazi, Vol 2: Lagos to London (2018). These projects and their resulting hit singles, along with Eazi’s fashion-forward personal style, helped land Eazi in the pages of Vogue, THE FADER, Paper and other influential outlets. 

Fiercely independent and digitally savvy, Eazi has resisted opportunities to sign with major record labels, instead choosing to operate his own companies and steer his own fate. Since establishing his career, he has answered the call to mentor and support other emerging artists from Africa. Taking inspiration from his own experiences participating in tech incubators as a young entrepreneur, he launched emPawa Africa in late 2018. In its first round of investment, emPawa Africa provided US$300,000 —or US$3,000 each — in funding for 100 artists from 11 countries, launching the careers of rising stars like Nigeria’s Joeboy and Ghana’s J.Derobie. The initiative’s success led Eazi to form additional companies like emPawa Distribution, the first digital music aggregator focused solely on servicing African music to the global market; and emPawa Live, a college concert series, to support this growing ecosystem of talent. 

2019 proved to be a watershed year for Eazi, on several accounts. April saw him make his debut at Coachella, where he was one of only two African artists to play the world’s most prestigious music festival. He was featured on two tracks from Beyoncé’s The Lion King: The Gift album, and appeared alongside Latin superstars Bad Bunny and J Balvin’s on "Como Un Bebé," from the duo’s collaborative album Oasis. He has started 2020 once again on a high note, releasing the striking video for “Kpalanga,” and collaborating with DJ Neptune and Joeboy on “Nobody,” which has topped charts across several African countries while reaching #7 on Billboard’s World Digital Songs Sales Chart. One Day You Will Understand, a four-song EP of mellow afro R&B followed that Summer, with another EP, Something Else EP released in 2021. In May of 2020, Eazi appeared on the cover of Billboard’s Africa Now issue, the U.S. music bible’s first ever issue dedicated to African music. Forbes Africa also included him in its annual 30 Under 30 issue spotlighting the continent’s young thought leaders. 
Always thinking beyond music and looking at the bigger picture, Mr Eazi has founded and financed groundbreaking business ventures through Zagadat Capital, an pan-African venture capital fund whose motto is “Investing In Cool Shit.” Through Zagadat Capital, he invests mainly in Africa-founded tech startups that look to solve fundamental problems. Among these is pawaPay, an Africa-focused peer-to-peer payment platform which he invested in through its $9 million seed round in 2021, and which he believes could potentially reach a $1 billion valuation in the next two years. As a public figure with a large platform and voice, Mr Eazi believes it is duty to advocate for his fellow creatives and entrepreneurs.  
Even as he grows his business empire and doubles down on his goal of expanding opportunities for African creatives, Mr Eazi has not lost his thirst for creating music. In 2023, he will be releasing two full-length album projects. The first of these, titled Chop Life, Vol. 1: Mzansi Chronicles, was released in May 2023 and is the debut album from ChopLife SoundSystem, an Afro-dance music collective consisting of Mr Eazi and DJ Edu. 
After two mixtapes, two EPs and over 4 billion streams, the Nigerian afropop star will finally release his debut solo album, The Evil Genius, on Oct. 27. In a first-of-its-kind fusion of African music and art, each track on the project is represented by a unique, physical art piece, which Mr Eazi commissioned from a different contemporary African artist as he crossed the continent recording the album.

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