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P-Square P-Square was a defunct music duo made up of Peter and Paul Okoye, twin brothers. They worked with Square Records to produce and release their albums. They signed a record contract with Akon’s Konvict Muzik label in December 2011. P-Square signed a record distribution contract with Universal Music Group in May 2012. The party dissolved on September 25, 2017, according to several news outlets. After Peter allegedly sent a termination letter to the group’s lawyer, there were reports of a split. Prior to this article, the pair had split up in 2016, allegedly over a dispute over their manager’s position. Peter and Paul split up to pursue solo careers but one has to acknowledge that the pair made great music together.
At the turn of the last decade, Nigerian music on the last leg of real-life music consumption. The internet slowly started to take over, Twitter garnered more followers and the life of millennials and later, Gen Z slowly started to be dictated by virtual reality.
The definition of beauty was replaced by
Instagram Face, music found more aggregated conversations, stan culture became more toxic and ‘Afrobeats to the world’ gathered pace. More importantly, the importance of media as a ground for documenting Nigerian pop culture took on another dimension.
In 2010, Nigeria Hip-Hop witnessed a golden era and a change of guard which brought in the frontrunners for the last decade. 2011 was their first year to put down markers and they did that. Nonetheless, some of the old guard refused to simply lie down. The niche artists also laid down the gauntlet.