{"id":41866,"date":"2019-03-28T19:40:51","date_gmt":"2019-03-28T17:40:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/rema-the-nigerian-rising-rap-star-releases-debut-ep\/"},"modified":"2021-03-02T11:03:18","modified_gmt":"2021-03-02T10:03:18","slug":"rema-the-nigerian-rising-rap-star-releases-debut-ep","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/rema-the-nigerian-rising-rap-star-releases-debut-ep\/","title":{"rendered":"Rema, the Nigerian rising rap star releases debut EP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe  class=\"pam-featured-content\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/EJIDnsi7r8o\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h4>Young rapper release\u00a0self-titled EP with blazing visuals for \u201cIron Man\u201d.<\/h4>\n<p>Recently signed by Don Jazzy\u2019s Mavin Records, Rema is\u00a0making a name for himself. The 18-year-old rapper\u00a0shared\u00a0freestyle clips and confirming on his Twitter that he contributed vocals for \u201cTurn Up\u201d, the DJ Tunez, Wizkid and Reekado Banks collaboration from last year.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #333333;\">Read more:\u00a0<a style=\"color: #333333;\" href=\"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/rema-mavin\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Rising: The Politics of Rema\u2019s Mavin Deal<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><iframe src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/playlists\/735022500&amp;color=%23ff5500&amp;auto_play=false&amp;hide_related=false&amp;show_comments=true&amp;show_user=true&amp;show_reposts=false&amp;show_teaser=true&amp;visual=true\" width=\"100%\" height=\"300\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Released on March 22nd, <em>Rema<\/em> is a delicious four-track EP with a sonic palette that goes from Afropop, Trap and smooth Bollywood soundtracks. His passion for Hindi singing was first\u00a0established on \u201cTurn Up\u201d. But\u00a0it is on track \u201cIron Man\u201d that things gets more interesting. You can watch the music video above.<\/p>\n<p>Now his\u00a0EP is number 1 Album in Nigeria on Apple Music, and his song &#8220;Dumebi&#8221; is also number 1 Song.<\/p>\n<p>Listen to\u00a0<em>Rema\u00a0<\/em>on<span style=\"color: #333333;\">\u00a0<a style=\"color: #333333;\" href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/album\/2S0vU69yNYqOkHA62JSjT8?si=ajCAzpshQxWVkxZxZqr9rg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Spotify<\/a>,\u00a0<a style=\"color: #333333;\" href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/album\/rema-ep\/1455903943\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Apple Music<\/a>\u00a0or\u00a0<a style=\"color: #333333;\" href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/mavinrecords\/sets\/rema\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">SoundCloud<\/a>.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333333;\">Find Rema in our One Dance playlist on\u00a0<a style=\"color: #333333;\" href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/user\/panafricanmusic\/playlist\/5fzbLUbqLiEvriBPMlLNbf?si=RZRQ3sZCS1WjzfXYj5vzPg\">Spotify<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a style=\"color: #333333;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.deezer.com\/en\/playlist\/2316095842\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Deezer<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<h5><span style=\"color: #333333;\">Read next:\u00a0<a style=\"color: #333333;\" href=\"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/rema-bad-commando-ep\/\">Rising sensation Rema flaunts his skills on his new EP, Bad Commando<\/a><\/span><\/h5>\n<h5><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-23032\" style=\"font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit;\" src=\"https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Rema-Iron-Man.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1227\" height=\"641\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Rema-Iron-Man.jpg 1227w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Rema-Iron-Man-759x397.jpg 759w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Rema-Iron-Man-1010x528.jpg 1010w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Rema-Iron-Man-661x345.jpg 661w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Rema-Iron-Man-465x243.jpg 465w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Rema-Iron-Man-375x196.jpg 375w\" sizes=\"(min-width:1010px) 759px,100vw\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/h5>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Young rapper release\u00a0self-titled EP with blazing visuals for \u201cIron Man\u201d. Recently signed by Don Jazzy\u2019s Mavin Records, Rema is\u00a0making a name for himself. The 18-year-old rapper\u00a0shared\u00a0freestyle clips and confirming on his Twitter that he contributed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":23032,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3944],"tags":[6226,23461],"location":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41866"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41866"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41866\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23032"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41866"},{"taxonomy":"location","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/location?post=41866"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=41866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}