Blaqbonez finally has a No. 1 on the Official Nigeria Top 100, and he clearly isn’t letting the moment cool off.
The song that got him there, “CHANEL” with Asake, now sits inside NOMADINHO: 4TH PRIME, his fifth studio album, which landed Friday, October 16, 2026.
The 15 track project arrives through Chocolate City Music, the label he has long called home. It follows his 2025 album No Excuses and the deluxe edition that dropped in April 2026, so the turnaround between releases has been quick.
Asake is the headline name here, and he shows up twice. Alongside “CHANEL,” the pair’s other collaboration “IKEBE 3000” also made the tracklist, keeping a partnership going that has given Blaqbonez some of the biggest commercial wins of his career.
That chart moment matters because Blaqbonez has spent years presenting himself as one of the loudest rappers in Nigeria.
Topping the national chart with an Asake feature says a lot about where the money and the attention sit in the local scene right now, and it explains why so much of this album leans toward Afrobeats energy.
The album opens with “I LOVE THIS,” featuring Igwe Aka, before running into “CA$H EVERYDAY,” the previously released single “BIG PERFORMER” and “MAZZA.” From there the guest list widens out considerably.
Victony appears on “YAHOOZE,” a title that will raise eyebrows for anyone familiar with the slang it borrows from.
Ruger turns up on “JUSTINA,” TML Vibez joins him on “FINESSE YOU,” and Monochrome features on “FYP.”
That spread is the other angle worth watching. Asake, Victony and Ruger are proven names with big streaming audiences, while acts like TML Vibez, Igwe Aka and Monochrome give the record room to put newer voices in front of his fanbase.
For longtime listeners, the question is how much of the rapper they first followed survives on a project this melodic.
NOMADINHO: 4TH PRIME keeps working the line between Nigerian hip hop and Afrobeats, and some fans will hear that as growth while others may miss the harder bars of his earlier work.
The commercial logic is hard to argue with, though. After years of chasing a chart peak, Blaqbonez found it by stepping into the center of the Afrobeats lane, and this album reads like a deliberate attempt to stay there.
There’s also the release pace to consider. Putting out a new album roughly six months after a deluxe edition suggests an artist who wants to stay in heavy rotation rather than vanish between eras.
The “4TH PRIME” part of the title hints at how Blaqbonez sees this stretch of his career. With a No. 1 single already folded in and three of the album’s tracks familiar to fans before release day, the real test is which of the new songs catches on next.
All eyes now turn to the Victony and Ruger cuts, the obvious candidates for the next push. The album is out now on streaming platforms.
