Rihanna’s DJ group hopes to work with Wizkid

Over the weekend, some members of the four times Grammy award winning Jamaican seven-man DJ group, Black Chiney, who are also Rihanna’s DJ, were in Lagos courtesy of Heineken’s Green Party.

In a chat with Saturday Beats, the group said that it was its first time in the country and that Nigeria has so many talents. It hinted that Wizkid is the first Nigerian artiste it would like to work with. The DJs also told Saturday Beats that their favourite Nigerian song is Johnny by Yemi Alade.

“We love the singer (Yemi) because we have seen her video. We look forward to meeting her. Wizkid, Timaya, P-square, they are all amazing artistes. Given the chance, we would love to work with all the established Nigerian artistes because they are all so talented. Nigeria has a big pool of talented artistes. Wizkid is on our number one check

list. We need to work with him immediately. Wizkid would be the first artiste we would love to work with in Nigeria because there are some ideas that we have that would suit him well,” they said.

Although only two of the seven man team could make the trip, they were able to get Lagosians to dance to their rhythm as they took turns behind the wheels of steel.

They said, “We are happy to be in Nigeria and we have been shown a lot of love which we will give back in the club. Just two of us are in Nigeria because we are the most important ones. Plus we play in about five different countries in one night, so we have to split sometimes because of that. We are happy Heineken brought us to Nigeria and we appreciate it because it is an experience of a lifetime.”

Talking about their experience since they came to Nigeria, the DJs said, “Before we got to Nigeria, we had learnt that they have good food here but we haven’t eaten the jollof rice that was promised us. The perception the western world has of Nigeria is that it is a bad place but visiting here, we have found out that it is not true.”