The Dark Knight

Five years on from his first Dazed cover, Afrobeats’ own Rave Lord is in a league of his own: he talks to author Eloghosa Osunde about tapping the art of his ancestors, his connection to bats, and following his muse down ever-more mysterious pathways

Whether Rema’s music first finds you on a radiant night out with friends, or alone at the edge of yourself, or at a gathering where his voice slithers through speakers, you will at some point come to understand that his sound is skilled at coursing through the body. With a stack of hits that convert a still person into a mover, a moshpit into a stampede, people around the globe want to know: who is this person and where did he come from? How is it that when songs from his EP, Ravage, or his Grammy-nominated album, HEIS, play in whatever city you do nightlife in, they make the space you’re in suddenly feel like it’s plausible that wings might burst out of every back in the room, ravers circling…

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Dazed & Confused (Digital) - 1 Issue, Spring 2025

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