Album: Gbagada Express Album by BOJ

Nigerian singer and songwriter, BOJ makes a big return as he dishes out his highly anticipated album titled "Gbagada Express".

Written and recorded during the most restricted periods of 2020’s lockdown, BOJ’s third solo album sees the DRB Lasgidi alum and alté pioneer at his most collaborative yet most introspective. “I grew up in a place called Gbagada, Lagos. During the lockdown, I was just there, and I soaked in the whole environment,” BOJ (real name: Bolaji Ojudokan)tells Apple Music. The album (which shares its name with the area’s main highway) serves not only as a dispatch from his hometown, but also a vehicle for a deeper connection to it—a complicated idea for an artist born in London and raised in Lagos, and who’s spent much of his adult life moving between the two. “‘Home,’ for me, is where you feel the most comfortable, where you feel most yourself,” BOJ explains. “In lockdown, I really tapped into myself and found a new way to express myself.”

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