Hip hop artist, Laylizzy becomes the first Mozambican artist to get verified by Instagram. As much as there are traditional mediums for marketing and promoting music, social media has become a great and influential platform for numerous artists hence the importance and necessity for them to be verified. Being one of the African artists that are verified on Instagram now, Laylizzy joins quite an influential and successful number of them inclusive of Don Jazzy, Tiwa Savage, Davido, D’ Banj and Cassper Nyovest just to mention a few. This happened after the first day of the successful release of his new single featuring AKA titled “Hello” which was released on the 1st of April 2016.
It is also quite clear that the #HelloLaylizzy music bug did not only hit his fans in Mozambique but all across the continent as messages of congratulations poured in on social media from all over Africa. The craze even made it on the list of the latest trends in South Africa on the morning of its release and is currently sitting at #2 on the South African iTunes Hip Hop Chart, ranking as #1 in Mozambique.
#HelloLaylizzy, @laylizzy is now trending in South Africa https://t.co/RRb6EHG2md
— Trendsmap SthAfrica (@TrendsSthAfrica) April 1, 2016
After feeling like a million bucks with “Tha Crew,” Laylizzy premiered #HelloLaylizzy ft. AKA on Gauteng’s hottest youth radio station, YFM on the day of the release.
In just 3 days, the single is currently sitting on over 18, 000 streams on Soundcloud and is available for download on iTunes.
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“The Money Is Calling, Pick Up The Phone!“ #HelloLaylizzy