{"id":34567,"date":"2024-06-11T15:45:18","date_gmt":"2024-06-11T15:45:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=34567"},"modified":"2024-06-11T15:45:38","modified_gmt":"2024-06-11T15:45:38","slug":"rick-ross-teases-upcoming-collaboration-with-nigerian-rapper-blaqbonez","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2024\/06\/11\/rick-ross-teases-upcoming-collaboration-with-nigerian-rapper-blaqbonez\/","title":{"rendered":"Rick Ross Teases Upcoming Collaboration with Nigerian Rapper Blaqbonez"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>By Oratokhai Jesusemen O.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>American superstar rapper Rick Ross has shared a preview of his upcoming collaboration with Nigerian rapper Blaqbonez. Ross posted a snippet of the new track on his Instagram story on June 10, 2024, featuring a verse from Blaqbonez.<\/p>\n<p>This collaboration is part of Rick Ross&#8217; larger project of creating an African album that will showcase various artists from across the continent. Earlier this year, Ross expressed his enthusiasm for African music, giving shout-outs to Nigerian street hop star Portable and rapper Odumodublvck. He even joined Odumodublvck in an Instagram live session, where he received a crash course on Afrobeats and praised Odumodublvck&#8217;s single &#8216;Wotowoto Seasoning&#8217; featuring Black Sheriff, which has been gaining traction in the United States.<\/p>\n<p>The track with Blaqbonez is anticipated to be one of the first releases from Ross&#8217; African album. In addition to Blaqbonez, the Miami rapper has shown interest in collaborating with other prominent African artists, including Nigerian Grammy-nominated star Ayra Starr, Ghanaian dancehall star Stonebwoy, and Tanzanian superstar Diamond Platinum.<\/p>\n<p>This move to collaborate with African artists is a significant moment for Rick Ross, who previously featured on the remix of P-Square&#8217;s hit single &#8216;Beautiful Oyinye&#8217; in 2011. His continued engagement with the African music scene highlights his commitment to bridging the gap between American and African hip-hop cultures.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Oratokhai Jesusemen O. American superstar rapper Rick Ross has shared a preview of his upcoming collaboration with Nigerian rapper Blaqbonez. Ross posted a snippet of the new track on his Instagram story on June 10, 2024, featuring a verse from Blaqbonez. This collaboration is part of Rick Ross&#8217; larger project of creating an African [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":34568,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[179],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34567","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34567","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34567"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34567\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34569,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34567\/revisions\/34569"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34568"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}