What happened to the Plantashun Boiz Reunion aka Plan B? What has been Faze's most challenging song to write? Faze aka Richard Chibuzor Orji answered these questions for us in an interview with Museke.com. He also put to rest the whole shebang about 'See me so' and 'Letter to my brother'. Read what else he had to say in this interview transcript.

Museke.com: How are you?
Faze: I’m good and u

Museke.com: Can you tell us about your background and family?
Faze: I’m the 4th born of my family of 11, 6 boys 3 girls my mum and dad

Museke.com: How did you get into music and what was your first break?
I’ve been singing right from secondary school days but I took it as a profession 1995

Museke.com: How did you guys get together to form Plantashun Boiz?
Faze: It started with black face and 2 face. Then I was called lyrical Urge because I used to rap but when I joined the group I had to change my name to faze to blend with the group name.

The MTVBase Africa chart is back! Kenya's Jua Cali and Nigeria's Eldee da Don join the countdown for the first time and a certain Nigerian act stays at the top of the countdown. There's even an experience from Nigeria's beloved Ayo. There are some tracks from Museke.com's spanking new African music list as well. These are the African music videos that are the buzz on MTV's Africa Channel. Click the active links to watch the videos.

And so the countdown goes....

10 Shank (Nigeria) - 2 Late

9 Jua Cali (Kenya) - Ngeli Ya Genge

8 El Dee (Nigeria) - Bosi Gbanga

MTV Base Africa and Shell have partnered in another initiative to shoot some excellent music videos for a number of African musicians. They have already shot videos for Ghana's Tinny (Incomplete), South Africa's HHP (Music and Lights) and Kenya's Nikki (Kipofu).

The first MTV Making the Video Challenge with Shell partnered Little X, the Toronto-born music video director behind cutting edge music videos with Sean Paul, Jay Z and Rihanna, with South African video directors, Kwaito artist Bleksem and Mozambique's Dama do Bling on their exciting single collaboration, 'Wena Uthini' (also known as Thula Uzoyiboma). Bleksem has been riding high on the success of his 'How low can you go' track with DJ Cleo. Dama do Bling is one of Africa's best female emcees and she has also released singles from her new album (Chamadas para a Bling), including 'Gimme love'.

Arguably the biggest Nigerian musician this year, 9ice, has won his first major international award. He was named the recipient of the award for the Best African Act category at the 13th annual Music Of Black Origin (MOBO) awards, held at Wembley Arena, London, on Wednesday, October 15, 2008. Abolore Adigun Akande emerged victorious with almost half of the votes cast over Asa, P-Square, D'Banj, Jozi, Wahu, HHP (Jabba), Jozi, JuaCali, and Faze.

9ice has had a remarkable year on the back of the ever popular Gongo Aso hit, as well as tracks like Street Credibility featuring Tuface Idibia, Party Rider, Photocopy and Wedding Day. He also got married to Oluwaseun Toni Payne-Akande.

The full list of award winners at the British Music of Black Origin (MOBO) awards are

Museke had a chat with Nigerian singer (and one-time banker), Obiwon about his music and Nigerian music as a whole. Below is the interview transcript. Intelligence just oozes from his answers :-)

Museke: How are you?
Obiwon: Great!!

Museke: Is Obiwon your real name? Can you tell us about your background and family?
Obiwon: My real name is Obiora Nwokolobia-Agu. I actually bear the stage name Obiora a.k.a Obiwon now. I guess u can decode the Obiwon thingy arose from the similarity between my real first name and my childhood sci-fi hero. I grew up in a middle class Christian family in Enugu, Eastern Nigeria. I’m the 3rd out of 4 kids- 2 boys and 2 girls. I did all my schooling in the east graduating from the University of Nigeria, Nsukka in 2001. I then migrated to Lagos the music capital in 2002, worked a nine-to five till 2006, same year I dropped my debut album. Before then I had a stint as part of the Thorobreds of the StreetHop fame and had released a solo EP in 2005.

Of course, we had a countdown coming for Africa's most populous country after Ghana and South Africa made an appearance. Nigerian musicians have been ruling charts all over and taking over Channel O and MTVBase Africa. What are the top Naija songs out there? (other than the African Remix of Lil Wayn'e Lollipop called Lick my fingers, of course). We got a list for you, you should check out these songs.

Here is the menu for the month of July

9ice - Gongo aso, Street Credibility
Dare Art Alade - Carry dey go, With this woman
Asa - Bibanke, Jailer
X-Project - Lori le
P-Square - No one like you, Ifunaya

Like most rap artists around the globe, Teria Yarhere a.k.a Mtrill knew that he had the tendencies of putting words together to form rhymes before he ever knew he could rap. So when he embarked on a mission of writing lyrics for his elder brother, little did he know that he was laying a foundation for a career that will bring him this far. Born into the family of Mr and Mrs Yarhere on the 18th of May 1979,Mayjah thrill joined the hip hop movement when he was in Federal Government College Odogbolu. Although he knew how to rap, he was never on the fore front, instead he began exerting his energy into organizing hip hop shows.

From 9ice's myspace; Gongo Aso is now available for purchase on CD Baby, below is a direct link to get one of the hottest CDs of 2008.
http://cdbaby.com/cd/9ice. Other places to purchase online include Nigerian Entertainment Store. COMING SOON!! 9ice - Gongo Aso will also be available for digital purchase at the following places: iTunes, MSN Music, Music Match, Napster, Rhapsody, Verizon VCast, Audio Lunchbox, Buy Music, EMusic, Interia, Last.fm, Island Beats, Loud Eye, Monster.fm

And lots more!! We will keep you updated once it is available

There are a ton of music award shows all over Africa these days. The Nigeria Music Awards held over the weekend in Imo State claims to be the official awards ceremony in the wake of countless ceremonies around - Nigerian awards in UK, USA, other organized by Hip Hop World, Soundcity among others. We will need to see continuity in this NMA's to christen it the official one. (There is also the AMEN awards)

Here are the winners anyway, watch this space for more information