Bants To The Bone

In anticipation of his debut album, we sit with Tim Lyre to discuss his journey into music, navigating the music industry, his crew, and future plans. With us, he dives into the intricacies of an album release while also discussing his musical influences, the international recognition Nigerian music is currently receiving and even touches on the recent wave of billionaires going to space. Follow us on Instagram: @bantstothebone @timlyre @idris_a @uruemu.a

We're back with another special guest, Aisha Salaudeen. Aisha is a journalist and TV producer, she shares her journey into Journalism, picking your career as a Nigerian kid between vibes, Medicine and Engineering, and a host of other topics. Follow us on Instagram: @Bantstothebone @nanasalaudeen @idris_a @uruemu.a

Stefan and Idris use this episode as an opportunity to share their thoughts on gatekeeping, globalisation and losing cultural identity. They go further to discuss how the pandemic is forcing deeper friendships as well as a letter from renowned author, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, surrounding cancel culture and social media. Follow us on Instagram: @bantstothebone @idris_a @uruemu.a

Podcaster, playlist and content curator, Jess Finesse joins us on episode 4. Jess talks us through her journey being raised in America, attending secondary school in Abia, Nigeria for two years and eventually deciding to move to Nigeria on a more permanent basis. We also touch on her journey navigating the Nigerian creative scene and the cultural nuance. Follow us on Instagram: @Bantstothebone @jessjessfinesse @idris_a @uruemu.a

Our next guest and long time friend of the hosts, Youtuber, vlogger, content creator Uche. Uche seats with us to discuss her content creation journey in Nigeria, cryptocurrency, Burna Boys Outsider build up and leveraging different social media platforms for content creation. Follow us on Instagram: @Bantstothebone @teerisa @idris_a @uruemu.a

Our guest this episode is award winning producer, sound engineer, creative director, and DJ; BigFootInYourFace. BigFootInYourFace discusses music, the creative scene and balancing a 9-5 with his creative work. Follow us on Instagram: @BantsToTheBone @BigFootInYourFace @idris_a @uruemu.a

Idris and Stefan catch up on the little break and talk about the expectations for the new season.

On our 20th episode of 2020, we're joined by a good friend of the pod, Tejj. With the end of the year cutting close and only a day after we release the episode, it was only right we spoke about some of our 2020 victories and goals for 2021. We also touched on the new covid strain, new year's plans and the vaccine. Lasty, we close the pod with some bars from our guest. We hope everyone has a fulfilling New Year! As always, we hope you enjoy it. Follow us on all socials @BantsToTheBone @theabisolab @idris_a @uruemu.a @tejjtheblogger Intro instrumental: AFRO | Fashion by JayBenJay

Idris and Stefan get together to talk about some of the notable event this year. In particular, we touch on the vaccine, notable deaths, #EndSARS and trust we didn't forget the banter! As always, we hope you enjoy it. Follow us on all socials @BantsToTheBone @theabisolab @idris_a @uruemu.a Intro instrumental: AFRO | Fashion by JayBenJay

As we get to the tail end of the year our hosts Abisola and Stefan discuss coping mechanisms and how they've bn able to stay sane in what has been a rather unique year for all of us. A host of other topics made the cut! As always, we hope you enjoy it. Follow us on all socials @BantsToTheBone @theabisolab @idris_a @uruemu.a Intro instrumental: AFRO | Fashion by JayBenJay

Bienvenue. On the helm today, we have Idris and Stefan. The duo attempts to flex their multi-lingual muscle before we got into today's topics. Our hosts share their thoughts on therapy and being vulnerable as a man before wrapping up with a review of the just announced Headies Award nominations. As always, we hope you enjoy it. Follow us on all socials @BantsToTheBone @theabisolab @idris_a @uruemu.a Intro instrumental: AFRO | Fashion by JayBenJay

The gang is back for episode 16! Right off the back of Thanksgiving celebrations in the states and because anything that happens in America doesn't stay there, we couldn't help but share some of the things we're thankful for as the remarkable 2020 draws to a close. Tales of the education system and Burna Boys Grammy nomination all make the cut, with the latter leaving us with one question, does a Burna Boy Grammy win make him the biggest African artist right now? We'd love to hear what you think! As always, we hope you enjoy it. Send us your thoughts on our socials @BantsToTheBone @theabisolab @idris_a @uruemu.a Intro instrumental: AFRO | Fashion by JayBenJay

The gang is back for the 15th episode. For our last episode for the week of November (because November went by way too quick), we touch on a couple notable topics around social media. Chimamanda, domestic abuse and Burna's reaction to Wizkid's live all get touched on this episode. As always, we hope you enjoy it. Follow us on all socials @BantsToTheBone @theabisolab @idris_a @uruemu.a Intro instrumental: AFRO | Fashion by JayBenJay

On our 14th episode, we're joined by Simi Badiru. Simi is a young creative navigating the vastly growing afrobeats industry. Simi gives us insight on podcasting, what it's been like working in the industry and adds her voice to some of the things we've wondered about surrounding afrobeats. We also delve into the UK afrobeats connection and Grammys as a metric for afrobeats success. Lastly, the episode won't be complete without talking about Davido's latest release "A better time". Follow Simi on socials @SimiBadiru and checkout her podcast F&S Uncensored @fsuncensored As always, we hope you enjoy it. Follow us on all socials @BantsToTheBone @theabisolab @idris_a @uruemu.a Intro instrumental: AFRO | Fashion by JayBenJay

Still not over Wizkid's "Made In Lagos", we're gearing up for the next big afrobeats release, Davido's "A better time". The gang give their expectations for Davido's entry to a hotly contested couple months album-wise and thoughts on what the album could mean for Davido in the conversation for afrobeats biggest artists. We also talk about the slowly concluding US elections. Kamala Harris' groundbreaking Vice Presidency as a woman of colour and America's first Female elected to the Oval Office leading us to reflect if Nigeria might be close to her first female President. As always, we hope you enjoy it. Follow us on all socials @BantsToTheBone @theabisolab @idris_a @uruemu.a Intro instrumental: AFRO | Fashion by JayBenJay

On this episode, we got a surprise appearance from PresIdris. PresIdris is an upcoming rapper making his way up in the Toronto music scene. We got to hear his thoughts on activism, social media, and the US elections. Of course, we rounded up discussing his music career, upcoming projects, and thoughts on the new Wizkid album. As always, we hope you enjoy it. Follow us on all socials @BantsToTheBone @theabisolab @idris_a @uruemu.a Intro instrumental: AFRO | Fashion by JayBenJay

Welcome to our 11th Episode. We decided to release this episode a week later in solidarity with the #EndSARS protests across Nigeria. It's been three weeks since the #EndSARS protests began and the movement is still going strong until we see the end of SARS and the toppling bad governance in Nigeria. Everyone contributing physically and virtually is playing an important role in getting us there, and we're proud to be part of it. On this episode, we sat with Aije, a lead data scientist and career mentor. Aije opened us up to her story from her university experience to career choices to balancing a career and her side gig, AijeTalks. She shed light on some of the crucial factors that have helped shape her up to date and how beneficial it is for more people to apply them in their careers. We hope you enjoy this episode as much as we did. As always, give us a shout on our socials @BantsToTheBone @theabisolab @idris_a @uruemu.a we'd love to hear from you :) Intro instrumental: AFRO | Fashion by JayBenJay

#EndSARS #EndPoliceBrutality Our 10th episode coincides with an especially important movement going on in Nigeria right now. Police brutality and abuse of power has been rampant through the country for as long as we can remember, and the people have reached their tipping point. In the last week, Nigerian youth took to the streets and airwaves to express their rage at the terror that has come from the Nigerian Police Force's Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS) unit. Idris and Stefan sit together to discuss the issues and share their thoughts on what's next for the movement. As always, we hope you enjoy the episode. Follow us on all socials @BantsToTheBone @theabisolab @idris_a @uruemu.a. Shoot us a message and let us know what you've thought so far. We'd love to hear from you :) Intro instrumental: AFRO | Fashion by JayBenJay

Would you want to be born in the same country in the next life? For the hosts, it's yes but with a catch, so in summary; no. Welcome to our ninth episode. Today your hosts discuss police brutality in NIgeria, Trumps Covid diagnosis and the rather interesting selection of politicians we're faced with every election season. Lastly, we play a little game of Music Tag to hear the songs that get our hosts going. As always, we hope you enjoy the episode. Follow us on all socials @BantsToTheBone @theabisolab @idris_a @uruemu.a. Shoot us a message and let us know what you've thought so far. We'd love to hear from you :) Intro instrumental: AFRO | Fashion by JayBenJay

The gang is back our 8th episode discussing social media fame, success and the everything that come with it. Lastly we discuss the roles our friends play in sharing and promoting our work and, suggestions to why some seemingly don't want to play that role. Do you feel your friends need to actively share and promote your work? Why do you think they don't? As always, we hope you enjoy the episode. Follow us on all socials @BantsToTheBone @theabisolab @idris_a @uruemu.a. Shoot us a message and let us know what you've thought so far. We'd love to hear from you :) Intro instrumental: AFRO | Fashion by JayBenJay

Abisola, Idris and Stefan, young but wise beyond their years or so they'd like us to think, are back on the 7th episode. On this episode, we discuss some of the hot topics over the last week. First on the playlist is Kanye West's latest of never-ending rants, this time around music record labels and fair deals for artists. Next up Netflix's wave making release "The Social Dilemma" leads us into a conversation around social media's data collection and how much of it we're not aware of including a new report about Instagram taking unsolicited pictures of users after certain interactions on the app *screams silently*. Finally, enter in the philosophers. Abisola and Idris share some of their wisdom, and Idris becomes our second entrant to #BTTB Matchmaking. Idris tells us his criteria for the perfect match including "sleepless nights" so if you make the cut, hit us up on our social media and our in house dating psychologists will be more than happy to attend to you ;) As always, we hope you enjoy the episode. Follow us on all socials @BantsToTheBone @theabisolab @idris_a @uruemu.a. Shoot us a message and let us know what you've thought so far. We'd love to hear from you :) Intro instrumental: AFRO | Fashion by JayBenJay

With every bone in our body, we regrettably (regrets to the bone) didn't release an episode last week for technical reasons but on a positive note, we're back for our 6th episode!! We missed you and we sure hope you missed us too! The initial plan was to be collectively responsible for the lack of an episode last week but Abisola69 had to rat them out, so you all know who to talk to. Today, we share the story of the late Barbara Tommey (R.I.P.) who's was murdered in cold blood by her husband after separating following an abusive marriage. This leads us to discuss our thoughts on what is needed for the world to be safe for women and our concluding topic, how much is too much of an age gap in a relationship? We hope you enjoy it. As always, follow us on all socials @BantsToTheBone @theabisolab @idris_a @uruemu.a Intro instrumental: AFRO | Fashion by JayBenJay

A few weeks back, a new campaign against human rights abuses made waves in form a slightly familiar hashtag with familiar connotations to the original campaign. #ZimbabweanLivesMatter was born out of Zimbabwe as a result of a wave of human rights abuses that has seen a number of activists missing or in hiding for fear of repression from thier government. Today, we got Ruvimbo M as our first ever guest to talk about this particularly important issue. Ruvimbo is a Zimbabwean and maintains close ties to her family who are based there, as such she isn't far from the effects of any issues back home. Ruvimbo holds Master of Arts in Political Science which gives her a wealth of knowledge at her disposal to see these issues in-depth beyond face value. We hope you learning as much as we did. Ruvimbo can be found on all Instagram @rumuty and on twitter @rumuty13. As always, follow us on all socials @BantsToTheBone @theabisolab @idris_a @uruemu.a Intro instrumental: AFRO | Fashion by JayBenJay

Man down! Man down!! On this episode, we welcome Abisola back from her exciting trip west with Idris MIA due to technical difficulties. The excitement from Abisola's return was rather short-lived as she's looking to go back on a more permanent basis this time with the right "conditions". Here at Bants To The Bone, all we see is opportunity so we started our new arm "Bants To The Bone Matchmaking" with our first client in-house. The episode wouldn't be complete if we didn't discuss the packed week of new releases we just had so the gang dive in and give their thoughts on the new music out over the last two weeks before wrapping up with a few last notes. Before we wrap up Stefan states his case after he finds out he's been blocked on twitter for (mis?)chatting on the TL and we discuss the reception to Megs statement over the past week. We hope you enjoy it. As always, follow us on all socials @BantsToTheBone @theabisolab @idris_a @uruemu.a Intro instrumental: AFRO | Fashion by JayBenJay

Lady down! Lady down!! Today, Idris and Stefan sit at the helm and hold fort while Abisola is out east basking in the sun (Abisola remain small enjoyment for us plsss). Our first discussion today is in the job market since the start of the pandemic. We explore the impact in Canada in contrast to the motherland, Nigeria. Idris shares his experience job hunting back home after uni. Last and definitely not the least, we discuss Twice as Tall by our one and only African Giant, Damini "Burna Boy" Ogulu. As always, we hope you enjoy it. Follow us on all socials @BantsToTheBone @theabisolab @idris_a @uruemu.a Intro instrumental: AFRO | Fashion by JayBenJay

Welcome to episode two. We hope you enjoyed listening to our first episode. On today's episode, Idris, Abisola and Stefan discuss our favourite sitcom "Nigeria". Recently on our favourite sitcom, the Minister of Education announced that several billions have been spent to feed school children this year even though schools have been shut down since March due to the pandemic. Somebody's eating good and we definitely don't think it's the school kids. Up next, we discuss 2020 and some of the most notable events so far (note: so far) before moving on to the story of Izu. Izu was a young Nigerian boy who took his life after being accused of sexual harassment. His sad passing led us to discuss the ways in which he was accused and, whether it could have been done differently. As always, we hope you enjoy it. Follow us on all socials @BantsToTheBone @theabisolab @idris_a @uruemu.a Intro instrumental: AFRO | Fashion by JayBenJay

First things first, welcome to Bants To The Bone! Bisola, Idris and Stefan get settled in for our very first episode, do the intros and waste no time getting into it. With barely a few days from the biggest release in a little while, we share our thoughts about Black is King and how it represents African culture. We briefly touch on the religious semblance of Beyonce's craft. Lastly, another topic across the airwaves was a little paternity trouble that reached across. We hope you enjoy it. Follow us on all socials @BantsToTheBone @theabisolab @idris_a  @uruemu.a Intro instrumental: AFRO | Fashion by JayBenJay

Bants to the Bone releases August 6th. Follow us in Instagram & Twitter @BantsToTheBone to keep up! :)