{"id":42576,"date":"2025-08-01T00:45:48","date_gmt":"2025-08-01T00:45:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/2025\/08\/01\/rema-drops-new-single-kelebu-with-10000-dance-challenge\/"},"modified":"2025-08-01T00:45:48","modified_gmt":"2025-08-01T00:45:48","slug":"rema-drops-new-single-kelebu-with-10000-dance-challenge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/2025\/08\/01\/rema-drops-new-single-kelebu-with-10000-dance-challenge\/","title":{"rendered":"Rema Drops New Single &#8216;Kelebu,&#8217; With $10,000 Dance Challenge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p>When teasing his third release of 2025, Rema asked fans to create some easy steps to the song for cash<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div>\n\t\t<!-- do not apply CSS styles to this element! --><\/p>\n<div class=\"pmc-paywall\">\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tAfter building anticipation online all week, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-features\/afrobeats-global-rise-1282575\/\">Afrobeats<\/a> star <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-features\/rema-heis-wizkid-davido-burna-boy-1235298485\/\">Rema<\/a> has released \u201cKelebu,\u201d a raucous, horn-driven new single. \u201cOk ..I want y\u2019all to DANCE this summer!\u201d he <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/heisrema\/status\/1949049686939127816\">posted<\/a> on X on July 26 as he teased the song online. Nigerian culture publication the Native <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/thenativemag\/p\/DMsjFpqt9vB\/?img_index=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">pointed out<\/a> that \u201cKelebu\u201d blends influences from, Bouyon, a high-octane dance music from Dominica, as well as Makossa from Cameroon and Coup\u00e9-d\u00e9cal\u00e9 from C\u00f4te d\u2019Ivoire, all French-speaking countries across the Caribbean and Africa.\u00a0<\/p>\n<section class=\"brands-most-popular \/\/ recirculation-modules trending-in-article lrv-u-margin-tb-2 lrv-u-border-a-2 u-box-shadow-5-5 lrv-u-padding-lr-1 a-span1 u-padding-b-1@tablet u-overflow-hidden\">\n<h2 id=\"section-heading\" class=\"c-heading larva  lrv-u-text-align-center u-border-color-black a-font-theme-primary-xxs lrv-u-color-black lrv-u-text-transform-uppercase u-letter-spacing-0063 lrv-u-padding-t-050 u-padding-b-0375@tablet lrv-u-padding-b-050@mobile-max lrv-u-border-b-2\">\n<p>\t\tTrending Stories<\/p>\n<\/h2>\n<\/section>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tWhen <em>Rolling Stone<\/em> asked a representative of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/rema\/\" id=\"auto-tag_rema\" data-tag=\"rema\">Rema<\/a> what \u201cKelebu\u201d means, Rema provided the following statement: \u201cGrowing up, I didn\u2019t have a phone to create my music taste, my household had different music tastes, I listened to what everybody played. In school parties, we used to dance to a lot of Caribbean and Francophone bounces. We didn\u2019t care about what they were saying because most of them were not even in our local language in Nigeria. They just kept repeating one word with a fantastic instrumental backing it up, and we all danced. Making music now, I\u2019m reliving those moments by expressing it with my art.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-spotify wp-block-embed-spotify\">\n<p>\n<iframe title=\"Spotify Embed: KELEBU\" style=\"border-radius: 12px\" width=\"100%\" height=\"152\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"\" allow=\"autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; fullscreen; picture-in-picture\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/embed\/track\/6aoKNOL481xVNuqeayQjPj?si=158c147d40ba407e&amp;utm_source=oembed\"><\/iframe>\n<\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tOn July 27, Rema <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/heisrema\/status\/1949515807521718774\">offered<\/a> a major incentive to get people moving. \u201c$10K for whoever come up with a EASY dance for KELEBU. out this Friday!\u201d he posted on X. Since then, there have been around 14,500 posts using a clip of the sound on TikTok. In one<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@sanndrine_\/video\/7533283661265833246?_t=ZP-8yUzFIq02v9&amp;_r=1\"> video<\/a>, a creator wrote, \u201cMe explaining to my friends the thing we could buy with $10k if they can stop being shy and dance with me on the internet,\u201d while conducting to the song\u2019s dramatic opening synths with what looks like a make-up brush. When the beat dropped, she list things like \u201cBuy Nigeria\u201d and \u201cBuy our enemies.\u201d<br \/>\u00a0<br \/>\u201cKelebu\u201d marks Rema\u2019s third single of the year, following April\u2019s \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/rema-bout-u-1235315003\/\">Bout U<\/a>\u201d and February\u2019s \u201cBaby (Is It a Crime)\u201d, which earned nearly three million streams on its first day, and has since tallied over 62 million streams on Spotify and 20 million streams on its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-features\/rema-baby-is-it-a-crime-video-halimotu-made-in-africa-1235301029\/\">official music video<\/a>. \u201cI didn\u2019t really spend much time on the comments or reception, trying to feed my ego or something,\u201d Rema told <em>Rolling Stone<\/em> the day he was interviewed for his April <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-features\/rema-heis-calm-down-afrobeats-nigeria-1235293402\/\">cover story<\/a>.\u00a0 \u201cI\u2019m that guy who\u2019ll post something and just go to bed.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><script async src=\"\/\/www.tiktok.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/rema-kelebu-single-dance-challenge-1235398133\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When teasing his third release of 2025, Rema asked fans to create some easy steps to the song for cash After building anticipation online&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":42577,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42576","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pop","article","has-excerpt","has-avatar","has-author","has-date","has-comment-count","has-category-meta","has-read-more","thumbnail-"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42576","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42576"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42576\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42577"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}