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Audu Bey
Nov. 27, 2013 10:00AM EST

10 Nigerian Music Wedding Videos

Okayafrica counts down the top ten best and latest Nigerian music wedding videos, including KaySwitch and D'banj 'Obimo,' and more.

Like it ever lacked in anything, the Naija wedding circuit has another tune to add to the present rotation courtesy of Kayswitch featuring none other than than his big brother and big fish (getting bigger) D’banj. The highlife-tinged "Obimo" is a future staple of Nigerian wedding season. The video directed by Patrick Elis features cuts from a real gathering of romance interspersed with shots of Kayswitch all suited and booted performing as a wedding singer with live band in tow. We also get to see him and D’banj clown around in a show of filial love as well as catch a now increasingly rare performance of the DB Records frontman on the harmonica– we live for these moments. The brothers' latest is of course another classic in a historic repertoire of wedding music in Nigeria– an industry entirely in itself. In honor of the "Obimo"-launched start of the season of "I-do's," we list off ten of our favorite naija wedding jawns. Watch the latest Nigerian music below and scroll through for more ceremonial vibes.

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The new track is a high-octane affair that sees the Ghanaian star rapper delivering some standout rhymes and flows over an afro-fusion leaning production from Nigeria's Rexxie.

The new video for "Bumper," which was directed by Monte Carlo Dream, follows a group of dancers as they show off their moves inside a barbershop.

"Bumper" comes after the release of Sarkodie's latest album, Black Love, which features the likes of Donae'o, Idris Elba, Efya, Mr Eazi, Stonebwoy, Tekno, Maleek Berry, King Promise, Kizz Daniel and several other artists.

OkayAfrica spoke with the artist in November, following his win for Best International Flow at the BET Hip Hop awards. "[The album] is just about love amongst black people and it's 90 or 80 percent based on relationships," he said.

Watch the new music video for Sarkodie's "Bumper" below.

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The BRIT Awards 2020, which went down earlier this week, saw the likes of Stormzy take home the Best Male trophy home and Dave win Best Album.

The night also saw Stormzy deliver a stunning performance that featured a medley of songs from his latest album, Heavy Is the Head. The British-Ghanaian star started things out slow with "Don't Forget to Breathe," before popping things off with "Do Better" then turning up the heat with "Wiley Flow."

Stormzy nodded to J Hus, playing a short bit of "Fortune Teller," before being joined onstage by Nigeria's Burna Boy to perform their hit "Own It." Burna Boy got his own moment and performed an energetic rendition of his African Giant favorite "Anybody."

The night was closed off with a powerful message that read: "A lot of time they tell us 'Black people, we too loud.' Know what I'm sayin'? We need to turn it down a little bit. We seem too arrogant. We a little too much for them to handle. Black is beautiful man." The message flashed on a black screen before a moving performance of "Rainfall" backed by his posse.

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The Twice As Tall World Tour will kick off in May in Atlanta, and will see Burna Boy playing concerts across the US, Canada, Norway, France, Portugal, UK, Netherlands, Sweden, Belgium, Germany, Switzerland and more locations.

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Tickets are available now.

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