{"id":2125319,"date":"2025-10-30T18:42:55","date_gmt":"2025-10-30T18:42:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2125319"},"modified":"2025-10-30T18:42:55","modified_gmt":"2025-10-30T18:42:55","slug":"mr-eazi-drops-soulful-new-ep-maison-rouge-celebrating-banku-music-roots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/mr-eazi-drops-soulful-new-ep-maison-rouge-celebrating-banku-music-roots\/","title":{"rendered":"Mr Eazi drops soulful new EP \u201cMaison Rouge\u201d celebrating Banku music roots"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Mr Eazi has unveiled his highly anticipated new project, the <em>Maison Rouge<\/em> EP. This seven-track solo project is an intimate homecoming to the Grammy and Latin Grammy award-winning musician and creative innovator\u2019s signature Banku Music sound, a mellow fusion of Ghanaian highlife and Nigerian chord sensibilities, and serves as a love letter to his day-one fans.<\/p>\n<p>Named after the Cotonou house where he lived while crafting the new music, the <em>Maison Rouge<\/em> EP is designed to evoke the warm, soulful glow of early Afropop essentials like \u201cSkin Tight\u201d and \u201cBankulize.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10030658 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thelagosreview.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/music.png?resize=825%2C1020&amp;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"825\" height=\"1020\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thelagosreview.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/music.png?w=825&amp;ssl=1 825w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thelagosreview.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/music.png?resize=243%2C300&amp;ssl=1 243w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thelagosreview.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/music.png?resize=770%2C952&amp;ssl=1 770w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thelagosreview.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/music.png?resize=500%2C618&amp;ssl=1 500w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thelagosreview.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/music.png?resize=293%2C362&amp;ssl=1 293w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 825px) 100vw, 825px\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Mr Eazi, known for his resonant, story-first songwriting, balances this nostalgia with inventive contemporary soundscapes, reconnecting with his core audience while welcoming a new generation into his Banku Music universe.<\/p>\n<p>The project\u2019s sonic palette is rich with warm grooves, palm-wine motifs, and lilting guitar work. The lead track, \u201cViolence,\u201d produced by frequent collaborators P.Priime and E.Kelly, unfurls on a mellow Afrobeats groove, delivering a quintessentially romantic Mr Eazi vibe.<\/p>\n<p>Other highlights include: \u201cMake E No Tey,\u201d a buoyant, body-moving rhythm that brings pure sunshine, \u201cBusstop,\u201d which channels upbeat Ghanaian hiplife into a kinetic Afrofusion earworm built for radio and dancefloors, and \u201cCasanova,\u201d a cheeky ode to choosing commitment, produced by TXMO and Kel-P.<\/p>\n<p>With over two billion streams and 15 million social media followers, Mr Eazi frames Maison Rouge as a full-circle reset. It is his seminal sound presented with renewed intention; intimate, romantic, and resolutely authentic. As the artiste and entrepreneur stated, <em>Maison Rouge<\/em> is more than a collection of songs; it\u2019s a house of memory and melody where the global star reconnects with why he started.<\/p>\n<p>The EP\u2019s release follows Mr Eazi\u2019s critically acclaimed debut album, <em>The Evil Genius,<\/em> and solidifies his role as an artiste, entrepreneur through his emPawa Africa ecosystem, and a global advocate for African creativity.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><h3 class=\"jp-relatedposts-headline\"><em>Related<\/em><\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source thelagosreview.ng \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mr Eazi has unveiled his highly anticipated new project, the Maison Rouge EP. This seven-track solo project is an intimate homecoming to the Grammy and Latin Grammy award-winning musician and creative innovator\u2019s signature Banku Music sound, a mellow fusion of Ghanaian highlife and Nigerian chord sensibilities, and serves as a love letter to his day-one [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2125320,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25179],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2125319","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-music"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Mr-Eazi-drops-soulful-new-EP-Maison-Rouge-celebrating-Banku.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2125319","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2125319"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2125319\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2125321,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2125319\/revisions\/2125321"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2125320"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2125319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2125319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2125319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}