Firstly, I’d have to admit I don’t listen to Nigerian music, and it isn’t a defer but a resignation, I grew up on a lot Nigerian music but I saw the downward spiral they were on and focused my mind on a better listen, the same way I don’t see Nigerian movie for what i can only refer to as the ‘psyche hindrance’, You can just tell a mind that has been fenced with orthodoxy and religion and years of if I slap you. Not wanting to imbibe some of, I open my mind to better things and not allow petty sensationalism limit me and… -” if this is a Nigerian blog why don’t you support and upload Nigerian music” - Eh many of them are not really good, don’t have return value and are quite similar. They sound alike.
It isn’t far from the chuck on the education the deliberate and continued dumbing of the youth that have made the average Nigerian sub human. Our music peaked when Bez sang Super Sun, Paul Play sang Delicious, Burna sang Tonight and Soundcity had us on constant repeat. We were young and brilliant our phones had music of a proud listen which consist Asa, Jeremiah Gyang, 9ice 2face et. Al - wonderful, lyrics written and sung straight fro their heart, Mode 9 and Terrytha Rapman, Sample Beautiful Nubuia , K’ore, Labagba and we were on our way to having our own musical sub genres
Something happen along.. money happened and became a thing and the Nigerian musician left the myriad thing to discuss to focus solely on money and hedonism when Olu Maintain glorified cybercrime and touting living right foolish. The youth agreed and today rent is high in major cities in Nigerian because those same boys out-rightly pay exorbitant money for house. These boys, uneducated and bored decided to invest in music without understanding of truly listening they buy out everything so it’s an industry supported by money gotten from cyber crime , the problem with these boys is that they cant wait to make a good album or know the process required to make good art, they want a fast return on their investment or launder and they want it now, so they ask certain hungry hopefuls posing as artist to sing something fancy, hip, trendy, jivy, sex, slangs, and “kpokotua” and let’s tide them over. They buy out the radios outright forcing them to replay the music to tide people to a subconscious acceptance, the very song you can’t stand you find yourself singing by heart.
I can say for a fact that the same drummer have been drumming for most of the Nigerian hip hop songs for the past 15 years we no longer have our blues in songs a la Like Can you love me, Malaria, quiet music, everything is dance and dance and its all about sex and money, In this festival or folly without end.
Baby girl I want to fuck you
you know I have the money to fuck you,
come baby girl
J’ en gbe e de be
You and your friend there.. I mean they are obsessed with rhyme scheme; Must you rhyme? And yes it has made our music infantile, the dance tune of the world and the sheer listen to Nigerian music could be profiled as a lack of maturity. They complexity devolve and the foundation of not only our greats in Fela, Olayia, Sunny Ade but contemporaries like Paul play, Black Magic, Dare Art Alade and Obiwon who oncen made us buy music lyric books that composed our love letters.
If not subconscious acceptance how can today’s youth feel like the repeated howling of an Igbo girl’s name is music, still with the gut to even cry when they didn’t get a Grammy as if that has anything to do with good music, Bob Marley never got one and Exodus album is forever and ever
Alte genre could be more but it is limited by the lackey towards the chic alone; as Odunsi Star Signs, Santi Mandy and The Jungle are good but because of a refusal to mature, the genre is practically stuck, One I feel still owe credence to people like Black Magic and W4, surprisingly even Sample and Black Faze would have taken the gagala movement to a Nigerian reggaetton anti-establishment movement, They had a niche, with the Danfo driver et. al. (kinda like patoi and suffering music).
But these rich fast guys with radio pay will lnot allow us advance or even branch out and explore all style of music that our rich musical culture could have afforded us, they stopped following the good Nigerian and African musicians, For if they actually followed in the footsteps of greats of Fela, Femi, Lagbaja and Tony Allen would have had something by now. But the death of the Nigerian Jazz scene means many of them just don’t’ listen both literally and metaphorically, they just don't. Don’t get me started on gospel music and the hypocrisy I detest all form of chrisitian gospel music so Nigerian gospel grate my ears.
The Highlight of todays’s Highlife features the Cavemen, laughable as frivolity subsume the most poetic and potent genre to have come out of Africa, if only they took time to history listen to Yebowah, Smart Williams, Oriental brothers, Mororoco Maduka, and the likes to even guys in Juju and Akpala like Ayinla, Barrister among others, but the Nigerian youth are inn the fray of the noise called Trap; which is basically rubbish from the United States and the same drumming pattern songs about sex and money here
Making it in the Nigerian music industry is no walk in the park and some of them still hold on to the grudge and allow it spill over and stain their lyrics with the bitterness they faced with certain producers and managers, their eventual wealth don’t still wash off the resentment. And truly there are haters which should be pushed aside for an understanding beyond hate;“I want to make a music that would stand the test of timewith lyrics that will make sense 20 years from now”.
Sadly a lot of yours don’t cut it, I mean a lot. As your audience will mature but your songs won’t as the smallness of your lyrics will not reach the person at 26. They stopped thinking about topics to write. While a young man with a drum is in a village begging women to abandon the cut in Eritrea, Edna Ogholi sang about crossing the road, they sing only about sex and money Osadebe, De Coque sang about life and the patience, today’s lot are simply thirsty and confused. The very lack of intent is why their music have no return value no one can listen to WizKid’s Don’t dull and still feel something but Michael Jackson’s Billie jean is 51years old and moon walking.
They stopped writing, they stopped caring even. Those who strive and want to make good music are overshadow by the rich ignorant who run the radio game. To say the Nigerian music industry is very messed up, is to say the very least. With all these music about prosperity, One need ask did we really become poor or poor in spirit?. throat singers in Tuvalu would smirk at the noise we call music, because they lack intention and intellect.
Hoping they reconsider, gather themselves to put a stop to their own impending implosion. They should really listen to what music feels like, do a research before making music. If thirst will allow the up coming and if pride the established from the fast paced devolution.
I am not far off when I say the entire Nigeria music industry in the last 15 years is a playlist of a 100 good songs and we could do better. Fela, Majek, Lagbaja, Ebenezer and others are proof that we can if we take our time and put our minds. stop the fast devolution of Nigerian Music, To lead one must follow. The music must equally make time to listen.
e5
It isn’t far from the chuck on the education the deliberate and continued dumbing of the youth that have made the average Nigerian sub human. Our music peaked when Bez sang Super Sun, Paul Play sang Delicious, Burna sang Tonight and Soundcity had us on constant repeat. We were young and brilliant our phones had music of a proud listen which consist Asa, Jeremiah Gyang, 9ice 2face et. Al - wonderful, lyrics written and sung straight fro their heart, Mode 9 and Terrytha Rapman, Sample Beautiful Nubuia , K’ore, Labagba and we were on our way to having our own musical sub genres
Something happen along.. money happened and became a thing and the Nigerian musician left the myriad thing to discuss to focus solely on money and hedonism when Olu Maintain glorified cybercrime and touting living right foolish. The youth agreed and today rent is high in major cities in Nigerian because those same boys out-rightly pay exorbitant money for house. These boys, uneducated and bored decided to invest in music without understanding of truly listening they buy out everything so it’s an industry supported by money gotten from cyber crime , the problem with these boys is that they cant wait to make a good album or know the process required to make good art, they want a fast return on their investment or launder and they want it now, so they ask certain hungry hopefuls posing as artist to sing something fancy, hip, trendy, jivy, sex, slangs, and “kpokotua” and let’s tide them over. They buy out the radios outright forcing them to replay the music to tide people to a subconscious acceptance, the very song you can’t stand you find yourself singing by heart.
I can say for a fact that the same drummer have been drumming for most of the Nigerian hip hop songs for the past 15 years we no longer have our blues in songs a la Like Can you love me, Malaria, quiet music, everything is dance and dance and its all about sex and money, In this festival or folly without end.
Baby girl I want to fuck you
you know I have the money to fuck you,
come baby girl
J’ en gbe e de be
You and your friend there.. I mean they are obsessed with rhyme scheme; Must you rhyme? And yes it has made our music infantile, the dance tune of the world and the sheer listen to Nigerian music could be profiled as a lack of maturity. They complexity devolve and the foundation of not only our greats in Fela, Olayia, Sunny Ade but contemporaries like Paul play, Black Magic, Dare Art Alade and Obiwon who oncen made us buy music lyric books that composed our love letters.
If not subconscious acceptance how can today’s youth feel like the repeated howling of an Igbo girl’s name is music, still with the gut to even cry when they didn’t get a Grammy as if that has anything to do with good music, Bob Marley never got one and Exodus album is forever and ever
Alte genre could be more but it is limited by the lackey towards the chic alone; as Odunsi Star Signs, Santi Mandy and The Jungle are good but because of a refusal to mature, the genre is practically stuck, One I feel still owe credence to people like Black Magic and W4, surprisingly even Sample and Black Faze would have taken the gagala movement to a Nigerian reggaetton anti-establishment movement, They had a niche, with the Danfo driver et. al. (kinda like patoi and suffering music).
But these rich fast guys with radio pay will lnot allow us advance or even branch out and explore all style of music that our rich musical culture could have afforded us, they stopped following the good Nigerian and African musicians, For if they actually followed in the footsteps of greats of Fela, Femi, Lagbaja and Tony Allen would have had something by now. But the death of the Nigerian Jazz scene means many of them just don’t’ listen both literally and metaphorically, they just don't. Don’t get me started on gospel music and the hypocrisy I detest all form of chrisitian gospel music so Nigerian gospel grate my ears.
The Highlight of todays’s Highlife features the Cavemen, laughable as frivolity subsume the most poetic and potent genre to have come out of Africa, if only they took time to history listen to Yebowah, Smart Williams, Oriental brothers, Mororoco Maduka, and the likes to even guys in Juju and Akpala like Ayinla, Barrister among others, but the Nigerian youth are inn the fray of the noise called Trap; which is basically rubbish from the United States and the same drumming pattern songs about sex and money here
Making it in the Nigerian music industry is no walk in the park and some of them still hold on to the grudge and allow it spill over and stain their lyrics with the bitterness they faced with certain producers and managers, their eventual wealth don’t still wash off the resentment. And truly there are haters which should be pushed aside for an understanding beyond hate;“I want to make a music that would stand the test of timewith lyrics that will make sense 20 years from now”.
Sadly a lot of yours don’t cut it, I mean a lot. As your audience will mature but your songs won’t as the smallness of your lyrics will not reach the person at 26. They stopped thinking about topics to write. While a young man with a drum is in a village begging women to abandon the cut in Eritrea, Edna Ogholi sang about crossing the road, they sing only about sex and money Osadebe, De Coque sang about life and the patience, today’s lot are simply thirsty and confused. The very lack of intent is why their music have no return value no one can listen to WizKid’s Don’t dull and still feel something but Michael Jackson’s Billie jean is 51years old and moon walking.
They stopped writing, they stopped caring even. Those who strive and want to make good music are overshadow by the rich ignorant who run the radio game. To say the Nigerian music industry is very messed up, is to say the very least. With all these music about prosperity, One need ask did we really become poor or poor in spirit?. throat singers in Tuvalu would smirk at the noise we call music, because they lack intention and intellect.
Hoping they reconsider, gather themselves to put a stop to their own impending implosion. They should really listen to what music feels like, do a research before making music. If thirst will allow the up coming and if pride the established from the fast paced devolution.
I am not far off when I say the entire Nigeria music industry in the last 15 years is a playlist of a 100 good songs and we could do better. Fela, Majek, Lagbaja, Ebenezer and others are proof that we can if we take our time and put our minds. stop the fast devolution of Nigerian Music, To lead one must follow. The music must equally make time to listen.
e5
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