If you truly appreciate hip hop music from and/or in Africa, there’s no way you do not know who A-Q really is.
A-Q’s name doesn’t need any introduction whatsoever, his rap skills are way above anyone you might imagine, and he’s only getting started going mainstream owning everything and everyone along his part.
A-Q’s impressive discography has a total of 12 projects so far, including a joint album with one of Africa’s foremost rappers M I Abaga.
With multiple awards wins for his music like Lyricist on the Roll and Rap Album of the Year, A-Q is currently charting a new course, managing a music incubator program for African artistes that aims to be an enabling part of the next crop of music success stories across the African continent.
With his highly impeccable penmanship and hunger to continually push the envelope in the music industry today, a lot can be expected from A-Q going forward. With both the music and his passion for breeding upcoming talent in consideration, A-Q is about to take over the African hip hop scene.
The Multi-award winning rapper whose real name is Gilbert Bani but professionally known as A-Q in the music circles finally got to release another highly acclaimed album dubbed ‘Golden’ much rave reviews and has been dubbed by many as the best rap album released so far this year.
The ‘Golden’ studio album is an intimate masterpiece made up of 7 tracks that see A-Q carving out a lane for himself with his soul-bearing lyricism and touching on deep subjects like spirituality, overcoming hardships, and social injustices.
A-Q known for his tack sharp pen game does not disappoint as he once again lays out nothing but facts on his musical arsenal on the ‘Golden’ studio project supported by a solo feature from Chiké on lead single dubbed ‘Breathe’. A-Q is constantly looking to raise the bar and set the standards high with his music and creative direction which comes across seamlessly on the ‘Breathe’ hit record.
A-Q talks about a lot of stuff in the ‘Golden’ studio project that most upcoming and established artistes in Africa dare not to talk about.
This studio project isn’t a project that you can listen to in one sitting, it grows on you, the more you get to listen to it, the more it seamlessly resonates with you.
A-Q opened up to Biggest Kaka about the ‘Golden’ studio project saying that it was inspired by his random thoughts of what’s going on in his native country[Nigeria] where there’s great potential for everybody to be great but due to a terrible economy, nothing seldom comes to fruition. He also talked about the poor world policies, racial, and tribal discrimination.
“I don’t rap no more, I make statements,” says in the ‘Hardwired’ record and he’s very right about that statement.
The talented rapper also got inspired by the effects of social media and cancel culture. It’s not every other rapper who is as bold, and so direct as A-Q. It’s like he summoned the spirit of Nas on this studio project.
“GOLDEN for me was a lot of random thoughts, hunted by life in a nation with so much potential but a terrible economy, hunted by poor world policies, racial and tribal discrimination, Hunted by the adverse effects of social media and cancel culture,” A-Q told Biggest Kaka talking about his latest ‘Golden’ studio album.
Here’s the official tracklist of A-Q’s ‘Golden’ studio project that has two powerful features.
1. Abraham’s Blessings featuring BabyBoyParis
2. Shoot the Messenger
3. Breathe featuring Chiké
4. HeLa
5. System Failure
6. Hardwired
7. Read the Room
The ‘System Failure’, a song taken from the ‘Golden’ studio project is a song that will never go out of style, it will still make sense in the next 100 years as it is relevant today.
A future politician who gets to listen to this project will be a better leader in the future thanks for the gems that A-Q is giving out in the ‘GOLDEN’.
All things considered, this studio project is really golden in whichever way you look at it, and you cannot afford to miss out on it. You should stream it, and not stream it only once. This project takes you to a humanity class that you didn’t know you needed to attend but you’ll be grateful that you did.
Stream the ‘GOLDEN’ studio project below on your preferred DSPs as performed by A-Q with beautiful assistance coming from BabyBoyParis, and Chiké on two hit records.
