By Victoria Ige
It’s just a few days to the 10th edition of Nigerian Breweries’ Star Megajam. And the excitement promises to be wild -even weird- as international headliners begin to descend on LAgos from tonight.
A reliable source told NET, that veteran rapper Busta Rhymes will arrive Lagos tonight. His co-headliner Ludacris will arrive with a chartered flight tomorrow morning.
Both rappers and their entourage wil be lodged at the popular Eko Hotel and Suites, in Lagos, sources told NET.
The Lagos leg of the concert is billed for the Polo Club on Friday December 11 while the train will head to Abuja on Saturday December 12.
The visiting acts will be joined by Nigerian hit-makers Psquare, Bracket, Timaya, Faze, 9ice, D’Banj, Wande Coal and MI.
Inaugurated in year 2000, Star Megajam is the longest-running annual music concert in Nigeria. And before the coming of the THISDAY music festival in 2006, Megajam was the only major Nigerian event that paraded the ‘biggest and brightest’ music stars on the planet.
Past international headliners include Awilo Logomba, Shaggy, Usher, Kofi Olomide, 50 Cent, Jarule, Kevin Lyttle, LL Cool J and Akon.
Meanwhile, promoter Sheilla Okonji has brokered a recording collaboration between Busta Rhymes and 2009 winners of Star Quest The Pulse. Busta, a best-selling hip hop act, and multiple Grammy award winner, appears on a remix of Pulse’s debut single ‘so te’. The video for the single will be shot in LAgos this week, and the excited debutants will hit the stage to perform the song with Busta in Lagos and Abuja.
”The collaboration is a big one”, Kennis boss Keke Ogungbe tells NET.
The Pulse’s debut album will be released on the Kennis imprint.
‘It’s another first from Nigerian Breweries, and we believe it will open doors for other Nigerian acts”, Tony Agenmonmen, Marketing Manager Star Lager told NET.
It’s the first time Busta is collaborating with a Nigerian act. An earlier planned collabo with pop stars Psquare did not happen. The twins had called a press conference in 2008, announcing that Busta Rhymes would join them on stage for a peace concert in Nigeria’s troubled Niger Delta, as well as record a duet with them. The deal later broke down, following alleged payment irregularities.
Both Busta and Ludacris are coming to Nigeria for the second time. Luda was the star performer when MTV base launched in Abuja, 2005; and Busta Rhymes made his debut on the Nigerian stage when he performed at the THISDAY music festival in 2006
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Sounds intersting, however I'm not sure about the last part. I just don't like it….
Rubbish, Nigerians are not always invited to perform in the U.S. ODES