In 2025, Nigerian music videos are doing more than showcasing convoys on Lagos roads or painting dreamy landscapes in Cape Town. Today’s artists and directors are pushing beyond the familiar aesthetics — bubblegum parties, yacht scenes, and slow-mo club shots — to build visual universes that reflect deeper stories, identities, and cultural pride.
Music videos have evolved from mere promotional tools into powerful storytelling mediums — spaces for experimentation, bold visuals, and intentional world-building. Whether it’s surreal narratives, striking choreography, or cinematography that feels like a moodboard of emotion, these videos are redefining what it means to watch music.
Here are the 10 most Nigerian music videos of 2025 (so far).
10. “All The Love” — Ayra Starr
Running time: 3m 10s
Director: Elle Ezeike
Genre: Afrobeats
Ayra Starr’s “All The Love” video is a dreamy, sun-soaked celebration of self-worth and emotional liberation. It follows her through breezy, everyday settings, driving a vintage car, lounging in open fields, shopping in a local store, and dancing barefoot in the water. In the video, Sabi Girl finds joy in solitude. In one of the most striking sequences, Ayra is in the backseat of a convertible, throwing her hair back and soaking in the sun.
The final shots return to nature: her silhouette against the horizon, arms spread wide. The last moments are less about the setting and more about how she owns the space. There’s no dramatic climax, just quiet affirmation. She’s not waiting for love anymore. She is love.
9. “Taxi Driver” — Joeboy
Running time: 2m 38s
Director: Sumsaa
Genre: Afrobeats
Joeboy steps into the shoes of a cab driver navigating more than just Lagos traffic; he’s steering through heartbreak and hope. The video starts with Joeboy driving, shaping an intimate space where passengers, including familiar faces like Asher Kine, Taooma and IsBae U, pour out their pains from the backseat.
Set against neon-lit streets and warm, dreamy tones, the video doubles down on those vulnerable, confessional moments, capturing themes of longing, emotional fatigue and the yearning for solace. This video is like you’re sitting in a taxi, riding through someone’s inner world.
8. “Only Fans” — Young Jonn
Running time: 2m 29s
Director: Perlicks Definition
Genre: Afrobeats
If King Solomon were a non-royal, Lagos-based Afrobeats artist with many women lying around his house in 2025, he might as well be singer-producer Young Jonn in this music video. True to the title “Only Fans,” which is about “self-indulgence,” this video, although it tries to be decent, showcases a parade of women of all shapes and sizes having fun in his vicinity.
Even though it feels like larger-than-life, it executes the song’s idea in a relatable Lagos-Island big boy fashion.
7. “Update” — Burna Boy
Running time: 3m 27s
Director: UAX
Genre: Afrobeats
In “Update,” Burna Boy invites us to an ultra-stylish world filled with the best-dressed people having the best time ever. We first meet Burna in the VIP section of a high-end 90s New York club. But as the camera pans, we begin to see that just like the lyric (on a normal day/ dem no fit touch my energy), the director UAX has brought us here to show him in all his power.
With crisp cinematography, the video celebrates wealth, influence, and power but never excess, a huge break from the last decade when Afrobeats videos were all about popping bottles and bathing vixens with alcohol.
6. “In The Chair” — Odeal
Running time: 2m 18s
Director: Sahra Zadat and Levi Turner
Genre: R&B
Odeal wraps viewers in a lush, intimate black-and-white atmosphere that matches the song’s slow-burning sensuality. Against a backdrop of warm lighting and minimalist set design, every frame is deliberate: a lingering glance, a caress, a moment suspended in time.
Here, the focus isn’t on dramatics or sensual storytelling; it’s on the mood, the feels, the presence and emotional depth. As Odeal croons about connection and quiet ecstasy, the music video lets the viewers inhabit that space right beside him. “In the Chair” is a whispered invitation that calls to sit down, stay awhile and savour the moment.
5. “Kai!” — Olamide Feat. Wizkid
Running time: 3m 5s
Director: Jyde Ajala
Genre: Afrobeats
The video for Kai! opens with a nod to The Great Gatsby—a glamorous, high-society world where couples stroll hand-in-hand toward a casino glowing with allure. Inside, Olamide and Wizkid aren’t just musicians—they’re the main attraction, performing for an elite, poker-obsessed crowd.
Bathed in dim, moody lighting, the video oozes class and quiet opulence. Women sway with feathered fans and elbow-length gloves, while the men sport sleek double-breasted suits. Every frame feels like a whispered story about wild nights and shared secrets, perfectly matching the track’s suave rhythm and understated swagger.
4. “With You” — Davido feat. Omay Lay
Running time: 2m 2s
Director: Dammy Twitch
Genre: Afrobeats
This is one of the most popular tracks on Davido’s new album 5IVE, and the artist has wasted no time making a compelling visual for it. This video starts with Omah Lay singing and dancing on a plain background. It slowly descends into a colourful party gathering of choreographers, Davido’s associates like Cubana Chief Priest, vixens like rapper Dero Black and highlife veteran Bright Chimezie, whose 1984-released song “Because of English” inspired “With You.”
The design is grandiose but simple; the energy is warm but carefree. This music video excellently depicts the “outside” lifestyle personality that’s synonymous to the Davido brand.
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3. “SHAOLIN” — Seyi Vibez
Running time: 2m 25s
Director: TG Omori
Genre: Afrobeats
A Nigerian street-focused reimagination of Mad Max comes to life in this TG Omori-directed music video. Hyperactive, powdered-face boys in red goggles, masquerade-looking riders and dancers and an astronaut-styled Seyi Vibez stomp up dust with speedy Mara dance moves as the sound blasts out like it needs chasing. Instead of a desert wasteland setting of Mad Max, Seyi Vibez and his goons choose the streets of Lagos mainland as their playground.
Although this music video similarly shares the post-apocalyptic colour effect of Mad Max, Seyi Vibez’s high fashion and the sultry woman make it look like a world kept alive by sound and dance. If you’re looking for a dystopian Nigerian music video, press play.
2. “Kese (Dance)” — Wizkid
Running time: 2m 56s
Director: Wizkid and JM Films
Genre: Afrobeats
The video begins on a moody theatre set, where dancers rehearse choreography under soft lighting, watched intently by Wizkid. This opening scene nods to performance art and discipline, grounding the video in intentionality. The scene shifts to a rowdy Lagos-style house party. Wizkid glides through the crowd, leading the vibe with confidence as the beat drops.
These scenes capture community spirit and celebration. Towards the end, Wizkid stands in a gallery populated by elegantly dressed Black models posing before bold paintings. This visual asserts sophistication and perhaps gives a special nod to Black beauty. As Wizkid’s self-directed debut, this music video leans into his vision.
1. “The Traffic Song” — Cobham Asuquo
Running time: 5m 25s
Director: Dika Ofoma
Genre: R&B
This song by Cobham Asuquo, which speaks about the frustration of being stuck in traffic, particularly the Lagos traffic, gets a befitting video treatment from rising director Dika Ofoma. It goes around the clock, capturing early morning congestion, long lines of vehicles tardily moving, and the impatience of 9-to-5ers trying to get to work. The sunlight shines on the traffic, leaving drivers and passengers with a reluctant, long-drawn-out patience that affords them time to have a mini-brunch of gala and a cold soft drink.
It’s Lagos, and the traffic is never-ending. Dika takes us into the evening and nighttime, when people are exhausted and on their way back from work, school, and outings, longing to reach their homes quickly. However, they are doomed to a heavy traffic jam, which they either escape from by taking the rest of the journey by foot or sitting still till the road eases up. The video features Tosin Okupe and actress Uzoamaka Power.
This is Lagos and its chaos brilliantly delivered with Cobham’s masterful piano performance footage inserted in the video at intervals. If you’re looking for a Nigerian music video that does more than selling lifestyle, that is, tells a story, watch this.
