Afro-Highlife · Afrobeats · Warri, Nigeria
LONGWAVE
Osahon Emmanuel Nkoyenasua sings the truth the way Warri taught him — loud, funny, and impossible to ignore. Horns, hustle, and the questions nobody else will ask out loud.
Longwave
Warri · Delta State
The Story
Osahon Emmanuel Nkoyenasua
Longwave was raised on the sound of his uncle’s record shelf in Warri — Rex Lawson on Sunday mornings, Fela on Friday nights, and whatever was playing at the bus stop in between. By fifteen he was writing verses in the back of an exercise book; by nineteen he was playing horn-section gigs at weekend owambes for transport money and a plate of food.
He calls his sound “highlife with its sleeves rolled up” — live horns and guitar lines from the genre his grandfather loved, built over the low-end and cadence of modern Afrobeats. His writing doesn’t flinch: money, faith, hustle, heartbreak, and the everyday corruption that Nigerians joke about because the alternative is screaming.
His 2024 single “Who Dey Waste 9ja” turned him from a local favorite into a national conversation, and “Religion Na Scam” confirmed he wasn’t going to soften up. Longwave still records most of his vocals in a converted storeroom two streets from where he grew up.
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Single
Religion Na Scam
A slow-building, gospel-tinged confrontation with the pastors selling miracles for offering envelopes — Longwave's most talked-about record, banned from two radio stations and blessed by every comment section.
Single
Who Dey Waste 9ja
The breakout street anthem calling out the ones milking the country dry while the common man carries the weight — over a horn-driven highlife groove built for the last bus home and the first dance at owambe.
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