14 Nigerian Artists Who Made Hits With American A-List Artiste

Arguably, Nigerian Artiste deliver the best music in Africa and are increasing more acknowledgment globally with hot joint efforts with American A-List Artist!Nigerian music has come of age, in the sense that Nigerian music is presently tuned in to around the world.

Few days ago Wizkid ranked 11th in the world on list of music artist listened to worldwide. This shows that Nigerian music stars are really doing a great job by bringing good music to our hears. Many music critics have berated the quality of Nigerian music recently, example is Pulse Ng presenter Osagie Alonge with Instagram Handle @Osagz.

He criticized HKN Label mates; Danagog, B-red and Sinaranbo’s music as been a crap and average crap. This caused a lot of social media outrage amongst the parties concerned.

Aside this recent development, Nigerian artist have proven that they can stand out internationally. This has been proven with top collaborations with well-known American Artist, the likes of Akon, Fetty Wap, Snoop Dog, Meek Mill, Drake, Rick Ross etc… have made some hits with Nigerian musicians.

Here are the 14 music Collaborations in the past few years;

#1. Cucumber. B-red Feat. Akon

HKN’s B-Red released a single “Cucumber” featuring multi-platinum award winning American singer and rapper Akon.

#2. Ojuelegba. Wizkid Feat. Drake and Skepta

I was screaming and shouting in pure bliss when I heard of this remix. I even liked it before listening to it; a fan said. Star Boy himself, featured Award winning rapper Drake and Skepta in this one.

#3. Feeling the Nigga. (Remix) D’banj Feat. Akon

D’banj’s marked his 10th year anniversary in the entertainment industry with this remix. He Released the Remix to the Hit single ‘Feeling the Nigga’ which featured Akon.

#4. Beautiful Oyinye. Psquare Feat. Rick Ross

I love how Ricky killed the beat, especially this line ”we talking about money you talking about nonsense” The defunct duo featured American rapper Rick ross on this one.