#MusicWeDeyFeel: All-time Favorites, including these from P-Square
While the likes of Angelique Kidjo were making lots of money playing to foreign and mostly white crowds, P-Square was also making serious money playing to Nigeria, African and black crowds on the continent and beyond. They were the first African act doing popular youthful African music to really go global, alongside 2Face Idibia. And they could perform! I once went to their concert in Oakland, California and they were worth every price of admission.
They released a string of hits in the first decade of the 21st century and continued to remain at the top. They have many classics to choose from. Here are my top 3.
No One Like You (2007)
One of the best African wedding songs ever. The video is spectacular. P-Square is probably the biggest African act ever and tracks like this prove their standing. Their use of Pidgin English and regular English is great and the lyrics to this song is great too. The song starts off really well in my opinion, "Hello how you doing; My angel, my one and only the only one that am missing". Aww.
Is it not so beautiful?
I was personally going crazy when they started singing 'This is my favorite song'. It's not lyrics to any song, but it was in reference to 'No one like you'. "Hello, how you doing?" It's arguably the best African wedding song ever. The ladies were feeling it too. The Okoye brothers did ask the ladies, "Who wants to marry my brother" earlier in the show.
I Love You (2009)
Another love classic.
This is my jam. This is a Partycrewgh anthem. Akon featuring on this song solidified P-Square's arrival on the global stage. It meant they were going to chop more money all over, and not just on the continent.
Clear the floor. Pushaaa! We cannot wait to hear that part and to do the kick!
Honorable Mentions: Ifunanya, Possibility, Personally, Do Me, Kolo, Bizzy Body, Temptation, Alingo, Story, E No Easy Ei, Roll It, etc
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