Zaylevelten

BIO

With hip-hop making a fierce comeback within Afrobeats, Nigerian rapper and producer Chisom Okoro, professionally known by his monikers Zaylevelten (rapper persona) and Tenski (producer persona), broke out last year with his self-produced Trap-fusion album, then 1t g0t crazy. The album rings with heavy synths, trap flows woven in gritty street vernacular, and a litany of self-styled ad-libs Maye and Yami, which have since entered pop-culture lexicon. His core community, largely made up of Gen Z listeners, populated his Detty December shows, mosh-pitting and singing along with high-octane energy.

As a producer, Tenski represents a new front guard of artists rewriting harmonic rules through heavy trap percussion and off-beat vocalisation. He’s what Ken Carson might have become if he grew up in Ikorodu and hustled through Lagos’ unforgiving streets to achieve stardom. With multiple co-signs — including Davido, Zlatan, and Odumodublvck — over ten songs surpassing a million streams on Spotify, and a growing alternative fanbase, Tenski/Zaylevelten is stealthily inching his way to Afrobeats’ mainstream limelight in 2026.