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	== Summary ==		== Summary ==
	Phyno is a Nigerian rapper and producer whose music centers Igbo expression within [[Hip-hop\|hip-hop]] and wider [[Afrobeats]] production. His work draws on [[Highlife\|highlife]], gospel and the listening culture in which he grew up.<ref name="phyno-interview">[https://www.mixtapemadness.com/blog/interviews/in-conversation-with-phyno Daniel Gaston: Phyno interview, Mixtape Madness, 21 January 2024]. Accessed 23 October 2026.</ref>		Phyno is a Nigerian rapper and producer whose music centers Igbo expression within [[Hip-hop\|hip-hop]] and wider [[Afrobeats]] production. His work draws on [[Highlife\|highlife]], gospel and the listening culture in which he grew up.<ref name="phyno-interview">[https://www.mixtapemadness.com/blog/interviews/in-conversation-with-phyno Daniel Gaston: Phyno interview, Mixtape Madness, 21 January 2024]. Accessed 23 October 2026.</ref>

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== Summary ==
Phyno is a Nigerian rapper and producer whose music centers Igbo expression within [[Hip-hop|hip-hop]] and wider [[Afrobeats]] production. His work draws on [[Highlife|highlife]], gospel and the listening culture in which he grew up.<ref name="phyno-interview">[https://www.mixtapemadness.com/blog/interviews/in-conversation-with-phyno Daniel Gaston: Phyno interview, Mixtape Madness, 21 January 2024]. Accessed 23 October 2026.</ref>

== Life and career ==
He first built a career producing for other Nigerian artists before becoming a recording performer in his own right. In the interview, he describes cultural identification as a positive resource: using Igbo allows him to represent where he comes from while addressing audiences beyond that language community.<ref name="phyno-interview" />

== Music and style ==
He links his musical development to a highlife neighborhood and locally heard gospel. Rap, melody and a producer's attention to the beat meet within that background. On ''Full Time Job'', indigenous rap remains central while collaborations introduce highlife, amapiano, R&B and other textures.<ref name="phyno-interview" /><ref name="phyno-fulltime">[https://music.apple.com/us/album/full-time-job/1769348135 Phyno / Penthauze: Full Time Job, distributor notes and release metadata, 2024]. Accessed 23 October 2026.</ref>

== Works and performances ==
'Do I' and ''Full Time Job'' (2024) provide a useful pairing of single and album. The album includes 'Men Don Show Face' with [[Flavour]], 'Deep' with FAVE and 'Back Outside' with Cheque. These different settings show how local-language delivery can remain constant while production and collaborators change.<ref name="phyno-interview" /><ref name="phyno-fulltime" />

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