SPINALL

One Liner:  Nigerian DJ funking it up with his Afrobeats

Wikipedia Genre:  Afro-pop, hip hop, R&B, EDM

Home: Lagos State, Nigeria

Poster Position: 12
Both Weekends.
Saturday at 3:20.

IHG Stage.

Thoughts:  DEEEEJAAAAAY SPINNNAAAAAAAAWWWWW!!  According to his Spotify bio, he is one of Africa's most recognizable and successful DJs.  It also says this, which I had to read a few times to comprehend: "Spinall's signature style moniker, a traditional Yoruba cap, fostered the AKA "TheCAP" which also doubles as an acronym for "The Crazy Ass Party," a common reference used by fans after their experiences at Spinall's events."  This is one of those things that would likely be fun in person, but gets repetitive and exhausting in your office.

Oluseye Desmond Sodamola is from Nigeria and claims to be the first Nigerian DJ to have played Coachella and Glastonbury.  He has a BSc degree in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from Olabisi Onabanjo University, but he worked as a DJ at Raypower 100.5 FM and started working on his DJ skillz.  In addition to Spinall, he also goes by Top Boy, which is repeated in just about every song in his catalog.  His first single was released in 2014, in collaboration with Burna Boy, and many of his hits since then are collaborations with other people I have also never heard of like Kizz Daniel and Mr Eazi.

Prolific album releaser - 2015's My Story: The Album, 2016's TEN, 2017's DREAMS, 2018's Iyanu, 2020's Grace, 2023's TOP BOY, and many singles in between.  The most popular track is from that 2020 disc - "Sere" features Fireboy DML and boasts 58.2 million streams.

Fun stuff.  Got that African flair and a groovy beat to it - can't you just imagine getting your groove on in the park to that one?  Third biggest streamer is a remix of that song, which is on the newest album, but the second biggest is a track from the new album called "Palazzo," with 26.8 million streams.  This has someone named Asake helping him.

No clue what the hell he is saying, and honestly not nearly as fun as that other track as far as the danceability goes, but I get the groove.  it is really weird how some words are English, like how randomly it says "she say she like cucumber" in the midst of that other language.  Is that a dick joke, TOP BOY!?!?  Then this: "2 girls for my middle, which one I go lock, and as a badboy I'm single, 20 girls I go lock."  it's like the old school Nintendo games where the Japanese to English translation was totally whack.

Whatever.  I bet this will be a fun show, even though I sort of doubt I would go to it.  I say that, and then remember that this is Saturday, where just about nothing interests me, so who knows.  You may see me up front screaming about how she say she like cucumber.  CUCUMBER YALL!!!