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Remember back in the days when we’d attend
birthday parties and the DJ would play a hit
track like ‘Awilo logomba‘ and everyone would
start to dance as if they were possessed by
demons, those were the good times. Anyways,
we all ­assumed that by the time we’re older we’d
outgrow that demon that made us dance like we
were possessed but apparently that’s a fat lie.
5. FREE MADNESS by Terry G
Another song that revolves around dancing like
a lunatic, sounds crazy but hey, we loved it back
then. He even went further and did a remix of the
track and as usual everyone ate it like hot buns.
4. SHOKI by Lil Kesh
This song takes us back to 2013, arguably the
number one track that year. All the club and rave
Below are 9 Nigerian songs that if you hear parties jammed this track. It was the song that
anywhere you’d be forced to dance like a child shoved Lil Kesh into the limelight. The original
with no home training.
track was a hit but when Lil Kesh did the remix
with Davido and Olamide it became more p
­ opular
9. KONKO BELOW by Lagbaja
and all the Lagos clubs couldn’t get enough of it.
The oldest song on this list but it’s still gold. One
of the evergreen Nigerian songs that will pass the
test of time, it’s not as crazy as the other songs 3. SHAKITI BOBO by Olamide
on this list but if you’re a 90s baby there’s no way This is a fan favourite of Olamide Baddoo. It’s
you’d hear this jam and not dance to it. Seems a mellow song that invented the shakiti bobo
like Lagbaja is on a sabbatical leave and his son dance. Arguably one of the biggest song of 2016,
‘Prince Laado’ plans to fill his father’s shoes.
then again is there any year that Olamide doesn’t
drop a hit track.
8. ALANTA by Artquake
This song takes us way back to 2009. The 2. WO by Olamide
Artquake group were smart enough to jump on This is arguably one of the hottest songs in N
­ igeria
the dance trend ‘Alanta’ and turned it into a song at the moment. If a party is dead, all the DJ has
and the formula worked for them.
to do is put this music on and everyone would
go gaga. The video of this track was ­temporarily
7. YAHOOZE by Olu Maintain
banned on Nigeria television because it ­indirectly
This song was the biggest song in 2007. Like promoted the smoking of weed, still, everyone
Alanta it was also a dance step that an artist starts to jiggle when the track comes on.
jumped on and quickly turned into a musical.
One would argue that this track is Olu Maintains 1. PENALTY by Small Doctor
biggest track. This song was the starter pack “If you no get money, hide your face”, the ­moment
song for those who were learning how to dance everyone hears that line they start jumping and
because the moves were very easy to learn.
twerking to the beat of the song. Some would say
this song is more litt than ‘Wo’ by Olamide, well,
6. KOLO MENTAL by Faze
maybe we agree. But any Nigerian that hears
This song was the epitome of the phrase ‘Lose this song and doesn’t dance should have his
your home training dance’ as the theme of the ­citizenship revoked.
song is to dance like a mad person. It was hot
back then and is still hot now. Faze is one of the
formerly defunct plantation boys trio which had
Tuface and Black Face as members.