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‘Ritmo Mafia’ EP seems like a project driven by a desire for commerciality with a heavy reliance on Amapiano-driven production. With Hip Hop domestication enjoying a commercial and sonic reinvigoration, Idowest, who is one of Nigeria’s finest indigenous rappers, returns with a new EP where he taps into the lyricism, flow scheme, and technique that made him a co-originator of the Shaku Shaku era of Street music.On’Ritmo Mafia,’ Idowest combines his Hip Hop credentials with party-starting Afrobeats and his Yoruba sonic derivations drenched in street-driven lyricism and phonology for a project ma…