Dive: Recent Episodes
Bounce Networks
Hosted by members of Bside, the editorial arm of Bounce Networks, DIVE is a podcast aimed at dissecting and analyzing relevant music topics and various mainstream and subcultures. Listen to DIVE and enter into the wonderful world and brains of the individual members of the Bside team.
This week, Boluwatife, Jasmine and Clarence have a chat about the hottest artist of the year, Asake. They discuss the year he's had so far and the build-up to his highly anticipated debut album Mr Money With The Vibe
This week, Clarence and Martin once again join host Boluwatife to discuss a couple of new releases: Fireboy DML’s Playboy, Bnxn’s Bad Since ‘97 and NATIVE SOUND SYSTEM’s debut compilation project NATIVEWORLD.
For this week’s episode, Jasmine and Clarence join Boluwatife to discuss TikTok’s impact on the Nigerian music industry. The trends, the “short-termism”, its effects and how it levels the playground for everyone.
Boluwatife and Sayo discuss the meteoric rise of Tems. With her recent feature in the new Black Panther: Wakanda Forever trailer, the 26-year-old's blossoming career has exceeded expectations at every turn proving time and time again the viability of African made R&B.
In this episode, Boluwatife, Martin and Clarence discuss three new album releases: Love, Damini, Boy Alone and AYLØ’s For Good Reasons. They gave concise opinions about the different projects, what they loved and hated about them, and briefly touched on the artists themselves.
For too long, performances in Nigeria from artists have been well below par, only a handful visibly investing time and resources into their stagecraft. Staff writer Clarence and intern Folasayo join Boluwatife to express their frustrations and share their different opinions on this pressing issue. They reference the recently concluded AfroNation festival and other noteworthy performances.
In this episode, Jasmine and Chiamaka join Boluwatife to discuss allegations against Burna Boy and how men tend to handle rejection.
The two guests share some personal experiences, reiterating that no means no and explaining the fear and uncertainty that sometimes comes with turning down men’s advances.
Host Boluwatife is joined by staff writer Clarence to discuss the art of crafting albums, why certain artistes are not suited for them and how artists need to figure out what their strong suit is and apply it to their strategy.
On the third episode of Dive, Adeoluwa, a visual artist and curator and Trill Xoe, an audio producer join Boluwatife to discuss drug use and its relation to the creative industry. The creative industry has fostered a very harmful drug dependency culture which promotes the myth that drug use is somehow beneficial to creativity. We dissect be this myth and subjects surrounding it.
In this episode, Martin joins Boluwatife once again, this time to discuss the controversial state of rap in Nigeria. They touch on how it has evolved over the years, why it seems to have taken the back burner, what an hip-hop artiste looks like in this day and age juxtaposing that with what a lot of people normally expected from an hip hop artiste back in the day.
On the pilot episode of DIVE, Martin joins Boluwatife to pick over the bones of parenting and guardianship, especially in the context of secondary schools. In light of the unfortunate Chrisland incident that took over the internet weeks ago, they also briefly touch on the various dangerous cultures and actions that are constantly nurtured and perpetrated in many secondary schools in Nigeria.