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<blockquote data-quote="UPROXX" data-source="post: 35062" data-attributes="member: 81"><img src="https://uproxx.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/ckay.jpg?w=1024&amp;h=436&amp;crop=1" alt="ckay nigerian" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />Getty ImageOne of the rising trends in pop music has been the explosion in the popularity of international music in America, especially <a href="https://uproxx.com/pop/billboard-afrobeats-chart-bieber-sheeran/" target="_blank">Nigerian Afropop</a> (also known by the confusing moniker “Afrobeats” or by <a href="https://uproxx.com/music/burna-boy-headlining-show-madison-sqaure-garden/" target="_blank">Burna Boy</a>‘s chosen appellative, “Afrofusion”). But as international music becomes more mainstream stateside, one barrier still remains in bridging the gap between America and the world — namely, the language barrier. Thanks to stars singing in their native languages of <a href="https://uproxx.com/music/j-balvin-metallica-wherever-i-may-roam/" target="_blank">Spanish</a>, <a href="https://uproxx.com/pop/twice-live-review-los-angeles/" target="_blank">Korean</a>, and three or four Nigerian dialects, being a music fan is starting to mean becoming a polyglot.Fortunately, <a href="https://uproxx.com/music/ckay-interview-cover-story-love-nwantiti/" target="_blank">Nigerian star Ckay</a> is more than willing to help his growing US audience learn his favorite Igbo phrases. He recently stopped by the Uproxx Studios in LA to help give us a “Pidgin English for Dummies” lesson on TikTok with the help of Uproxx’s own Cherise Johnson. Check out the video below, where Ckay explains “nwantiti” — as in, his hit song “Love Nwantiti” — “mezebu,” and “wahala.” He even shows us how to use them in a sentence, mixing English and Igbo for some useful phrases that can help unlock the infectious grooves of Afropop with a little more context for those of us who didn’t grow up on jollof and moi moi.Ckay is a Warner Music artist. Uproxx is an independent subsidiary of Warner Music Group.<a href="https://uproxx.com/music/ckay-teaches-us-pidgin-english-for-dummies/" target="_blank">Continue reading...</a></blockquote>

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