Nigerian producer extraordinaire, Pheelz aka Pheelzonthebeat, known for his riddim-ma-cool-la-yor tag releases his debut EP as promised and trust me, it is definitely work the worth. The EP has the title—Hear Me Out.

On reasons behind choosing Hear Me Out as the title for his debut project, Pheelz (born Phillip Kayode Moses) explains, the world has heard his beats, his sound, now is the time for the world to hear the voice behind the Rii tag

HEAR ME OUT !!! Out Now Worldwide https://t.co/K1S6Yvqp7g 🤘🏾🖤🔥. #Hearmeout #HMO pic.twitter.com/llMQ9xY5QW

— Pheelz (@Pheelzonthebeat) February 18, 2021

Hear Me Out is filled with five songs that is sung across different genre of music but Pop as their foundation sound. ‘Wayward Girl’ blends Pop with Afrobeat (Afro-Pop if you may); ‘Somebody’ mixes electronic with Pop; ‘La Vida’ brings back the Afro-Pop vibes; on ‘One Life’, Pheelz visits the surging Amapiano sound from South Africa; with ‘Many Men’ Pheelz explores the Carribean-born Reggae sound.

While keeping the lyrics cordial, sensual and carefree according to the subject matter of each song, Pheelz really did an excellent job on his debut project, not forgetting the fact he did all this without features, even making it more impressive.

Another impressive feat, Pheelz accomplished apart from being the sole and only producer on his debut project, he also stands as the sole songwriter on Hear Me Out (according to credits).

Probably if I could change or add anything as a suggestion, it would come on the second track – ‘Somebody’. I would have loved to hear more of the electronic production, instead of Pheelz who opt to add the electronic guitar instrumentation majorly at the beginning of the track and to close it.

Listen to and stream Hear Me Out:

Nigeria Afrobeat and Pop, coined into Afro-Pop phenom, David Adeleke, known worldwide as Davido makes the grand list for the 2021 TIME100 NEXT by Time Magazine.

Proud to be included in the inaugural #TIME100NEXT list!!!! @time pic.twitter.com/m4jo7kugSc

— Davido (@davido) February 17, 2021

Speaking on what Davido has achieved so far in his career, Laycon who gave the speech translated into written words, said: “You can tell Davido puts 100% into every song he makes. And the results are clear . . . Afrobeats is a worldwide phenomenon, and Davido is one of many Nigerian artists who has made that possible.” “By bringing Afrobeats to the global stage, he’s paved the way for people like me.” Laycon concluded

Davido continue to soar as one of the few Nigerian artistes to have gone global yet stuck to their roots. Like the piece from Time Magazine says, “the results are clear”; one of Davido’s latest achievement is having his 2017 released smash-hit—“If”— achieve Gold status in the U.S i.e. the record has sold a cumulative over 500,000 units or its equivalent in streams.

My 2nd Gold record !!! Oh God I am Grateful !! The Only two Afro beats solo singles to go Gold in the USA in Afro beats history !! God is good !!! ❤️❤️ 🇺🇸 🇳🇬 MORE TO COME ! pic.twitter.com/INmeSMeuaZ

— Davido (@davido) February 17, 2021

Although Davido did not make the “ARTISTS” cut on the ‘2021 TIME100 NEXT’, he got inducted through the ‘PHENOMS’ category for his role in making Afrobeat a global genre of music enjoyed by a vast array of music listeners.

Other Nigerians to make this year’s list are: FK Abudu, Odunayo Eweniyi and Damiliola Odufuwa under the ‘ADVOCATES’ category for the role they played during the #EndSARS protest; Flutterwave CEO, Olugbenga Agboola for being one of the breakout and outstanding ‘INNOVATORS’ in 2020 and Nigerian-American writer, Ijeoma Oluo made the ‘ADVOCATES’ list.

Check out the write-up on how and why Davido made the ‘2021 TIME100 NEXT’ here.

Nigeria former Minister of Finance and current Director General (DG) of World Trade Organization (WTO), thereby becoming the first woman to head such position.

Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala (apart from being a former Minister of Finance in Nigeria), had previously served as Managing Director at World Bank, spending a fruitful cumulative 25 years there.

Nigerians (and Africans by large) have come out en masse to celebrate her milestone and congratulate her on making history via their various social media apps and this has given birth to a challenge trending at No. 1 on Twitter NG, known as the: #BeLikeNgoziChallenge.

The #BeLikeNgoziChallenge gives Nigerians, mostly ladies the opportunity to dress up in attires, predominantly traditional, already donned by Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala herself or styled in similar fashion while others make videos speaking like her when addressing crowd in public or conferences. Check out some of their posts below:

#BelikeNgoziChallenge.
They even look alike.
This is fire, girls let's rock this challenge🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 pic.twitter.com/MOYgvzm3AX

— Edu (@EduEle5) February 15, 2021

This is my entry for #NoiGoesToWTO #BelikeNgoziChallenge
I told you @temite I had a special entry. Please vote for us guys. @NOIweala we are so proud of you. Thank you for giving my daughter and so many African girls someone to look up to. pic.twitter.com/Vr3wN34c78

— Tolulope Adeleru-Balogun (@tolulopeab) February 15, 2021

#BeLikeNgoziChallenge throwback but yeah 🤩 pic.twitter.com/zG6dcYtuBk

— Olori. (@TheDeraaa) February 15, 2021

What a way to honour & celebrate an icon @NOIweala as the next WTO Director-General.
The first woman & the first African woman to lead the WTO.

Love to see this challenge flood the timeline
Super proud of all the amazing Nigerian women celebrating with NOI#BeLikeNgoziChallenge pic.twitter.com/NH2EwB217P

— Betty Buzo (@bettybuzo) February 16, 2021

Am honored to take this challenge…. Our girls come out and take this challenge….I know is not some ladies usually kind of challenge😂 but do it to honor her…. Love from the north #BeLikeNgoziChallenge pic.twitter.com/WhuSwmYu2s

— SassyBee🔥 (@tinom_j) February 16, 2021

My baby's entry for #BelikeNgozichallenge pic.twitter.com/ip2aMSlfal

— Jime_vieve (@jime_vieve) February 16, 2021

I'm happy to join this challenge to celebrate the phenomenal NOI @NOIweala. It's also cool because my mother who bears NGOZI too is a trailblazer in Engineering and Technology

PS: Don't talk about my scarf mbok 😀🙄😩 #BeLikeNgoziChallenge pic.twitter.com/G6aMBqngBn

— Chiezugolum (@OdilinyeChizzy) February 16, 2021

Respect to an Amazon! @NOIweala@honilatte #BeLikeNgoziChallenge pic.twitter.com/vshPZZG0al

— Chibuzor M. Azubuike (@mimichil) February 15, 2021

Congratulations Ma! 🎉 @NOIweala #BeLikeNgoziChallenge#WTODG pic.twitter.com/nRKygYopfR

— Genevieve Njoku (@Geneve_vaa) February 16, 2021

“I believe that when you find problems, you should also find solutions.” – Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala.#BeLikeNgoziChallenge pic.twitter.com/cOZKkpiAjw

— Dr RIHANAT “FRUIT SPACE” SONA KDRAMA WITH RIH (@rihanat_sona) February 16, 2021

It is the head tie that is making plenty of people not to jump on the #BeLikeNgoziChallenge

That head tie need to be studied in Harvard pic.twitter.com/SZ6oPIsNo9

— Northern Cake Plug 🎂🍰🧁 (@JattoGodween) February 16, 2021

UPDATE: Twitter users in a fashion challenge celebrate Okonjo-Iweala as she emerges new DG of WTO.

Some Twitter users have dressed up like Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala in a fashion challenge tagged #BeLikeNgoziChallenge and #NoiGoesToWTO to Celebrate the first African to lead WTO pic.twitter.com/2OCbZ3Ri6g

— Today FM 95.1 (@TodayFM951) February 15, 2021

Couldn't decide, so here goes two of the 1000000 poses I tried.#BeLikeNgoziChallenge #NoiGoesToWTO #justlikeNgozi pic.twitter.com/1HBUbBgWnS

— moyin 🇳🇬 (@moyheen) February 16, 2021

Because my mum’s name is Ngozi #BeLikeNgoziChallenge pic.twitter.com/8hkC1F5MqX

— Goodness Adeosun 😃 (@GoodnessAdeosun) February 16, 2021

Congratulations to Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala on her historic appointment as DG of WTO from us at Wavyvibrations.