Jay Z's Ascension album featuring Olamide, Sarkodie, Femi Kuti and Nasty C is an April Fool prank

Nigerian music blog Notjustok.com started the April Fool prank about a Jay Z album titled Ascension which features African artists like Olamide, Sarkodie, Femi Kuti, and Nasty C.

The prank about a 15-track surprise album from the hip hop heavyweight worked out too well. Within five hours there were already tens of thousands of tweets about the album and its cover art was already everywhere online.

It showed the rapper featuring other internationally successful acts like Beyonce, Vanessa, Rick Ross, H.E.R and Lighthouse Family. However, a little digging around took the lid off the April Fool’s prank.

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On Notjustok.com website, we found that they had intended it as a joke all along. See screenshot of the proof below:

Some big news platforms however, already fell for the elaborate prank.

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Jay Z has on several occasions revealed his respect for African musicians and in 2009, he worked with Jada Pinkett Smith and Will Smith to produce the play Fela!, a musical that celebrated the work of late Fela Kuti. He also mentioned that the power of Fela’s work and his story inspired his own music journey.

Thus, Jay Z featuring African artistes doesn’t seem that far-fetched even if it’s not happening at this time.