Apple Music recently announced rising Afro-urban contemporary duo, Ajebo Hustlers, as the first artistes to be featured in Nigeria’s local ‘Up Next’ programme, Apple Music’s artiste initiative geared towards identifying and showcasing rising talent.
‘Ajebo Hustlers’ are rapper George Dandeson (a.k.a Knowledge) and singer, Isaiah Precious (a.k.a Piego) whose unique blend of Afrobeat, highlife and street slang was developed growing up in Port Harcourt in Nigeria.
After dropping their first single in 2015, it was only in 2020 that the duo broke onto the scene with ‘Barawo’, a song that became an unofficial anthem in response to Nigeria’s End SARS protests, attracting the attention of Afrobeat giant, Davido, who they teamed up with to release a smash hit remix.
“All we can say is dreams actually come through, we have been putting in work for sometime now and there’s no better joy than seeing all our hard work become success stories. We really don’t think we have been this excited before! First cover star for first Up Next: Nigeria Artiste? Wake us up please. We have seen other ‘Up Next’ artistes from other places and we are super excited to have it now for Nigerian artistes. It’s time to take this music to the world.”
Ajebo Hustlers’ latest single, ‘Pronto’ featuring Omah Lay, is featured on Apple Music’s ‘Afrobeats Hits’ and Sub-Saharan Africa Honours ‘Black Music’ playlists.
Ajebo Hustlers will be featured across Apple Music’s Nigeria ‘Up Next’ playlist. The curated ‘Up Next’ playlist features a dynamic class of new and emerging artistes, thoughtfully hand-picked by Apple Music editors from around the world. The playlist is genre agnostic and represents a line-up of artistes their global editors are passionate about and eager to expose to a larger audience.
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