Iconic Nigerian rap duo Show Dem Camp has released a new album, “PalmWine Music 3” which is the final instalment of their ‘PalmWine Music series’.
With a career spanning over a decade, Show Dem Camp have established themselves as Nigerian rap monarchs by deftly gliding between moods, eras, and soundscapes with the ease and panache of skilled curators. The “Clone Wars” series, populated by gritty, forthright reflections on life, politics, religion, and tribalism has served as a repository for the bulk of their most candid and explosive work—while the more sonorous, hiplife-influenced “Palmwine Music” series opened a new chapter for SDC, providing an outlet for the duo’s more carefree reflections and rambunctious desires as well as housing some of their most catchy, radio-friendly output.
Billed as the final leg of the trilogy that began in 2017, “Palmwine Music 3” is another languid showcase of SDC’s flawless rap techniques and pristine storytelling bound together by their joie de vivre. Importantly, the duo want to close this era out with love. “I think it is important that we end it with love”, Tec stated in a press release. “If this is where it ends, it’s important that this project is about love. I think it might open a realistic take on love and relationships. At the end of the day, love and relationships, whether of family or love of friends or love of partner or love of children, I think it’s very important. I think what we were able to do with Palmwine Music is create a community where other artists come to shine, feel safe, and feel there’s a spotlight on them, and we grew it out together.”
Played out across 14 songs and three skits, “Palmwine Music 3” is uplifted by a roll call of guests like Oxlade, Bellah, and MannyWellz. With the experience of running their pandemic-era Instagram Live show, Palmwine Radio, “Palmwine Music 3” is crafted in similar style and the skits–sequenced after Lagos radio station phone-ins–offer a chaotic yet truthful approximation of the highs and lows of love and romance in Nigeria.
Listen here.