"Ma'Gyptian" (Magician Remix) is a song by Nigerian rapper

Ice Prince Panshak Henry Zamani (born 30 October 1984) better known as Ice Prince Zamani or just Ice Prince, is a Nigerian rapper, hip hop recording artist and actor. He rose to fame after releasing " Oleku", one of Nigeria's most remixed songs of all t ...

. It features vocals from Jamaican

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singer

Gyptian Windel Beneto Edwards (born 25 October 1983), better known by his stage name Gyptian (), is a Jamaican reggae singer. He often appears with roots reggae songs within the reggae subgenre dancehall. Early life Born to a Seventh-day Adventist mo ...

. Released on 4 March 2012, the song first appeared on Ice Prince's debut studio album, ''

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'' (2011). It was produced by

Jesse Jagz Jesse Garba Abaga (born 10 August 1984), known professionally as Jesse Jagz, is a Nigerian rapper, record producer and songwriter. He signed a record deal with Chocolate City in 2010 and released his debut studio album ''Jag of All Tradez'' that ...

and released under Chocolate City.

Background and recording

In an interview with Adeola Adeyemo, Ice Prince was asked about his collaboration with Gyptian. His response was: "The collaboration was put together by a company called Spinlet, an online music store. I have a song on my album that has a

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n Reggae feel so they thought it would be nice to have a Jamaican artiste jump on the remix. And Gyptian is one person that I'm a big fan of and he came to Nigeria to do a show at Calabar Carnival. So we kidnapped him, brought him into the studio, recorded the song and shot the video on the same day. The studio that we used was an all round studio, it had a music studio and a visual part so as we were recording the song, Clarence was in the visual part setting up and when we were done, we just came there and shot the video."

BBC Radio 1Xtra airplay

In an interview with

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studio, Ice Prince introduced the song to Radio 1Xtra listeners.

Music video

The music video for the song was directed by

Clarence Peters Clarence Abiodun Peters (born 27 July 1978) is a Nigerian music video director, filmmaker and cinematographer. He is the founder and CEO of Capital Dream Pictures, a production company that specialises in the realms of the performing arts, fil ...

in Lagos. It was released on 20 March 2012, several days after the audio release.

Track listing

; Digital single

References

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