Buckwyld N Breathless: 14 'Breathless' moments you missed at the concert

Though the show didn’t disrupt in terms of starting as at the scheduled  time, the performances made up for it in immeasurable ways.

From the not too familiar faces to the established and familiar ones, here are the moments that practically took our breaths away at the much anticipated concert.

Ace tune's performance

New kid on the block surfaces and wows the audience with his love song rendition that had naughty lyrics, with comic theatrics from the emerging act that left the audience cracked up.

DNMT dancers' show

Dance group Dance na the main thingshowcased their latest five additional team members who mesmerized the audience with scintillating dance moves never seen before. It was a delight to watch.

Terry Apala's showcase

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The new school artist brought his uniqueness to the forefront perfoming his hit song ‘Champagne showers’ a fusion of ‘Apala’, ‘Hip hop’  and ‘Trap’, leaving the audience asking questions about the new wave setting before their very eyes, that is Terry Apala.

Ckay's upbeat performance

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The newly signed Chocolate City act introduced us to a new catchy sound that goes a little something like “Nkechi turn up if your market sell eh le le le..” . He sure held his own on stage getting good reception from the audience.

M.I Abaga’s stylish entrance

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It all started with a creative display on screen, to usher in Mr Incredible, a creative plot in which the organisers  borrowed a leaf from the Mission impossible movie and crafted his into Mission Incredible.

This ushered in the ‘Action film’ single featuring Brymo where he takes out bad guy ninjas in a series of martial arts and flying kicks on stage that sure got the hearts of the crowd pumping. The song for me in particular had me at some point wishing Brymo was on stage to shine on the hook of the song. Nonetheless, M.I’s grand entry for what was expected to be a spectacular night was amazing.

M.I gets earth-shattering lap dance

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Then there was the lap dance moment, Yes you heard right, M.I and Michael of Dance Na The Main Thing crew were given a major treat by two endowed ladies, twerking and grinding on the pair, leaving so many in the audience with mixed feelings of jealousy and excitement.

M.I's  performances

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There was also the brilliantly scripted moment where MI called up a fine lady seated in front row up to the stage, and was teasing her about taking her home for the night, and stuff leading up to the moment the seemingly innocent lady changed clothes and was joined by other dancers to rock to M.I’s ‘Teaser’.   The rapper left the audience wanting more as he performed an array of his hit songs including ‘Anoti’, ‘ ‘short black boy’, ‘Beef’,  ‘One naira’ with the beautiful vocalist Waje and more.

Chocolate City reunion

His collaborations with Chocolate City family Ice Prince, Jesse Jagz, Nosa and Djinee brought back so much cherished memories, and evoking feel good emotions.

Some of the songs they performed blowing the audience away were ‘Safe’,  ‘Overkilling’ and  ‘ Nobody test me’ while Jesse performed his ‘Wetin dey’, Ice Prince did his thing with ‘Oleku’, ‘Brother’ featuring Nosa who performed an acappella of his admired song ‘Pray for you’.

It was an unforgettable moment of reunion packed with emotions for the Choc City family as M.I took us back to how Djinee gave him, Jesse and Ice shelter for two years when they came into Lagos from Jos, how Ice Prince challenged him to a battle back in Jos, praising the star he has come to be now, and showering praises on his brother Jesse Jagz as one of the greatest talents he has ever known.

The rapper also paid respects to the trio of Eedris Abdul Kareem, Modenine and Rugged man the rappers he described as “the giants on whose shoulders he stood on”, playing briefly each individual rapper’s hit songs – Eedris’ ‘Jaga Jaga’, Rugged’s ’Baraje’, and Modenine’s ‘Cry’.

M.I and Kelly Hansome reunion

The once controversial rapper also brought on nostalgic memories for the audience of his ‘Maga don pay’ hit song after acting out a short drama between him and MI based on the history of their ‘beef’ in the past. He also goes on to show his skills on the guitar at some point later in the show.

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2baba’s grand entry 

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2Baba and MI disrupt Lagos

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No doubt, the night wasn’t going to be complete without 2baba’s anticipated point of entrance onto the stage, and the audience wasn’t disappointed on this one.

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It started with another ingenious scripted act involving three personalities Osagie Alonge,Editor-In- Chief at Pulse Nigeria, AY the comedian and actor, and Emma Ugolee Presenter of Hip TV’s ‘The Gist’ show.

Things get heated up when the personalities all started to talk about journalism bringing down the careers of entertainers, up to the point where AY made reference to 2Baba as still being in the game despite all the drama, which saw the singer who was disguising as the camera guy capturing them unveil himself dramatically on stage with the song ‘Nobody’ featuring M.I, leading him to the stage.

This led to a series of his other hit songs such as ‘For instance’, ‘African queen’, ‘ If love is a crime’, ‘True love’, ‘Ole’ among others. In between he goes deep with sober spiritual songs.

2baba’s tribute performance with OJB’s son

 

 Paying tribute to OJB, 2Baba brought one of the late producer’s sons, Ayokunle to perform ‘Searching’ one of OJB Jezreel’s biggest songs. The young man put a good performance with his vocals and stage command, making it an unforgettable duet with 2Baba and a sweet sounding melody OJB would definitely be pleased with.

Ruggedman’s OJB Tribute 

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Ruggedman also came through with a tribute to OJB, and although he said he wasn’t out to rap, RuggedyBaba ‘killed it’ with his wordplay. A memorable phrase in his words went something like “…he (OJB) made me a sultan of sound like Fasasi” referring to Sound Sultan whose birth name is Olanrewaju Fasasi.

Cobhams Asuquo’s artistry/driving at event

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Producer maestro gave a beautiful performance of 2Baba's 'Blood on the dance floor', honouring 2Baba and also giving shout-out to M.I, Sound Sultan and others.

He  also gave a blunt song rendition talking about the challenges that come with the fame, and how celebrities really want to be seen as regular people too and not have to put up fake appearances every other time.

An unprecedented feat that saw Cobhams driving at the venue of the event few metres to the stage was put up on screen.

Waje's undeniable voice

 

The lovely Waje shines through on her hit song ‘I wish’ with  her breath control and amazing range of high notes reaching to the heavens, not breaking a sweat at it. She stood there like the diva looking like an angel with invisible halo hovering round her head. She was simply amazing to listen to.