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MI Abaga releases new album, ‘the guy’

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MI’s the Guy has 12-tracks featuring A-list artistes including NAS, Olamide, Duncan Mighty, Phyno, Cavemen, Wande Coal, BNXN, and Temi Owo, Lord Vino, Ossi Grace, Chillz, Ice Prince, and Jesse Jagz.

Ace rapper, and chief executive officer of Incredible Music label, MI Abaga, has dropped his seventh studio album “The Guy.”

MI announced the album’s release with a trailer shared across his social media handle. He captioned the post “Thank you all for riding with me… #TheGuyAlbum is out! My prayer is that this album makes number 1 & produces a number 1 record! Say a prayer for yourself in the comments.”

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Earlier this week, he unveiled the album’s tracklist to his social media fans.

The 12-track album includes features by both international and national artistes including NAS, Olamide, Duncan Mighty, Phyno, Cavemen, Wande Coal, BNXN, and Temi Owo, Lord Vino, Ossi Grace, Chillz, Ice Prince, and Jesse Jagz.

MI first teased his new album back in July 2022, revealing that he would be retiring his stage name “Mr. Incredible Abaga (MI Abaga)” in preparation for his forthcoming album.

He further revealed that his last performance as MI Abaga would be on July 10th 2022 as he celebrates his legacy as Africa’s greatest rapper.

About MI (culled from Wikipedia)

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MI is born Jude Lemfani Abaga on October 4, October 1981. 

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He rose to prominence in 2006 when his song “Crowd Mentality” became popular in Jos, Nigeria. His debut studio album Talk About, was released in 2008. Four years later, he released The Chairman as his third studio album. Abaga released the playlist Rendezvous in February 2018. In August of that year, he released his fourth studio album A Study On Self Worth: Yxng Dxnzl.

MI was CEO of Chocolate City from 2015 to 2019. In March 2020, he announced his exit from the label and launched his own record label Incredible Music.

He won Best Hip Hop and Best New Act at the 2009 MTV Africa Music Awards,and was nominated in the Best International Act category at the BET Awards 2010.

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