Apple Music’s Africa Now Radio with Dadaboy Ehiz this Friday with Pabi Cooper

This Week’s Episode Features a Conversation With Pabi Cooper, the 5 Hottest Tracks of the Week, Africa Rising and Dadaboy Ehiz’s Favourite Track of the Week!

Tune in to Africa Now Radio with Dadaboy Ehiz this Friday, October 14th at 9a Lagos/London / 10a Johannesburg/Paris / 1a LA / 4a NYC on Apple Music 1.

Cover Star Interview
South African amapiano star and all-round entertainer Pabi Cooper joins Dadaboy Ehiz via FaceTime on Apple Music 1 to talk about her latest track, “Waga Bietjie (feat. Mellow & Sleazy).” She also discusses the making of her debut album, ‘Cooperville,’ and exploring her versatility.

The Big 5
Dadaboy Ehiz shares the 5 hottest new African tracks of the moment. This week’s selection includes new tracks from Blaqbonez & JAE5, T.I BLAZE, Sizwe Alakine, Small Doctor & Mr Eazi and DJ Vyrusky feat KiDi & Camidoh.

Africa Rising 
Nigerian Afro-R&B singer-songwriter Kaestyle—Apple Music’s latest Up Next: Nigeria artist—is the latest artist featured from Apple Music’s Africa Rising playlist, a campaign which shines a light on the next generation of African superstars, and this week’s show features his singles, “True Love (feat. Victony)” and the Omah Lay collab, “Blessings.” Listen HERE.

Dadaboy’s Song of the Week
Each week, Dadaboy Ehiz chooses his favourite track from one of Apple Music’s African playlists. This week he spotlights Ghanaian rapper Black Sherif and his single, “Oil in my Head,” from Apple Music’s Afrobeats Hits playlist. Listen HERE.

Tune in and listen to the full episode this Friday, October 14th Lagos/London / 10a Johannesburg/Paris / 1a LA / 4a NYC on Apple Music 1 at apple.co/_AfricaNow.

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Pabi Cooper on ‘Cooperville’

There’s different Pabi Coopers on the album – there’s singing Pabi Cooper, there’s rapping Pabi Cooper, there’s a way I also deliver some of the lyrics. I’m basically nervous and a bit excited to deliver my body of work, because I didn’t want to rush it. That is why I kept releasing singles, because I didn’t want to rush a project until I’m confident enough to know that people will know Pabi Cooper for the music, not just as a dancer.

Pabi Cooper on her writing camp

How this whole project came about is so crazy, you could say God was part of this, the angels were walking with us. I wanted to do a studio session, a camp where I have different artists coming to my camp to record. I sent out invites then I had to just wait for everyone, I just had to wait and see who was gonna pull through.

Actually it worked out because around 40 artists came to my camp. I swear I sent around 20 invites but artists were just coming to have good vibes. That’s how we made all the music that’s on the project, there’s more songs I couldn’t put on the project, so [they’re for] my next project.

Pabi Cooper on finding her sounds

Ever since I started doing music, I’ve been taking everything step by step because I still want to get to know Pabi’s sound. I feel like Pabi’s sound is Bacardi – the genre is mostly produced by Mellow & Sleazy. ‘Waga Bietjie’ on the EP is Bacardi, that’s the Pabi sound.

Pabi can hop on anything. Pabi is a versatile artist. That’s what I’ve learned about men in music. I can literally hop on KO’s sound, which is a hip-hop song on the EP. There’s like three different sounds.