Txmmyily, still only 18, has been quietly building a career that feels less like a strategy and more like a teenager making music because it is the only logical thing to do. Across singles like “Komole,” “Fashion Nova,” and “Ghetto Babe,” alongside collaborations including “Body Work” with Mavo, he has been etching out a sound that is unmistakably his own, building on afrobeats and hiphop, but filtered through something fresher, something new. He said it himself back in early 2025: “gonna make afro music fun again, just watch.” Quietly, he has been doing exactly that.
Now, with his debut EP Milly, he is stepping fully into the room. Signed to independent British label Lizzy Records and Antagonists Music, the project is the natural arrival point for an artist who has been moving with purpose since well before anyone was paying attention. Milly is a confirmation that Txmmyily already knew who he was.
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“Wassup,” produced by Wana, the same producer behind some of Mavo’s most-loved work, is the kind of opener that earns its place: effortless, melody-first, warm in all the right places. Then there is “Shoki ft. Zaylevelten,” which brings in Nigeria’s fastest-growing underground rapper and holds its own.
What makes Milly, and Txmmyily, worth paying attention to is the generation he represents. He is part of a new wave of Nigerian artists who are unapologetically themselves, not waiting for permission, not trying to fit into what is expected. They are doing the music they love, making it the way they want, and an audience is finding them for exactly that reason. He sits comfortably in that current alongside names like Mavo, Zaylevelten, and others collectively redefining what young Nigerian music sounds like in 2026.
At 18, most people are still figuring out the question. Txmmyily is already deep into the answer.
Milly is out now.