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Unpacking Naira Marley's Soapy

Naira Marley knows how to ride the wave of pop culture.

Adams Adeosun
Aug 31, 2019
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Naira Marley

In Burna Boy's continent and Rema's year, Naira Marley continues to swerve left. His post-jail song, ‘Soapy’, plus its video, which crossed the hard one million YouTube views milestone barely a week after its release, is a statement of the artiste's zeitgeist. Naira Marley's Soapy pushes the boundary of acceptable content further along, ente…

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