Don't get me wrong,i love to collabo with Bunmi at kay's place or what's wrong with going bumper to bumper with Aminat at Volar but hey,it's really been a long time i heard a Nigerian hip-hop song with lyrics that really speaks sense to me.Unfortunately,you have to help make up the lyrics for some Nigerian so called hip-hop songs not only because the lyrics is meaningless but also because we simply can't hear what the artist is saying.
I grew up listening to Yusuf Olatunji screaming out of my dad's turn-table.At other times,it will be Sunny Ade or Ebenezer Obey with some very meaningful sweet songs.Shina Peters and Barrister also comes along with voices that will make you dream of heaven but no matter what's playing every morning,be sure the king himself,Baba Fela will crop up somewhere.Even as kids,the lyrics of these songs makes sense to us and these songs gave us a clearer picture of the future ahead and how best to cope with the challenges that will come along with it.Pick up a Fela's Album or a Yusuf Olatunji's in the next 50years and see if it won't still make sense to you but play yourself Face's kolomental track just a few years after and see if you won't feel crazy for ever dancing to that track.
I am a big fan of Nigerian music,i am happy Nigerian artists now earn good money like their counterparts in other countries but i love to hear songs with good lyrics too.Even if i love to dance to DJ Zeez's Fonkasibe or D'banj's suddenly,i still want to listen to songs with lyrics that will suddenly fonka to my head.Songs i can dance to and also relate with at the same time,inspiring songs,soulful songs,songs that speaks about real life events,real life situation,songs with lessons,songs about struggle and survival and not only with danceable beats.
Music with good lyrics is now facing extinction in Nigeria,i wonder if any five year old will be able to sing a song with deep meaning but as young as they are,they know about kokolets and mamalet's,they know how to fall in love,them sabi how to enter the place and how to yahooze,they know how to open their arms like they want to fly away to dance Alanta.If you ever hear a five year old sing a meaningful song,it has to be a gospel song.
The question is who is to blame?it's you and i,we prefer to pass me your love with AY than to warn that there is fire on the mountain with Asa,we prefer to listen to hotter than fire by Sheyman than to listen to Tuface's outside.We appreciate songs with bad contents and meaningless lyrics.As long as the beat is danceable,we totally ignore the lyrics.
Personally,i thing it's time for a change.While these Artist keeps up dancing in the clubs and shaking our head in our cars,we still want to hear a little something that makes us reflect and think.....Yeah,something that makes sense.
I grew up listening to Yusuf Olatunji screaming out of my dad's turn-table.At other times,it will be Sunny Ade or Ebenezer Obey with some very meaningful sweet songs.Shina Peters and Barrister also comes along with voices that will make you dream of heaven but no matter what's playing every morning,be sure the king himself,Baba Fela will crop up somewhere.Even as kids,the lyrics of these songs makes sense to us and these songs gave us a clearer picture of the future ahead and how best to cope with the challenges that will come along with it.Pick up a Fela's Album or a Yusuf Olatunji's in the next 50years and see if it won't still make sense to you but play yourself Face's kolomental track just a few years after and see if you won't feel crazy for ever dancing to that track.
I am a big fan of Nigerian music,i am happy Nigerian artists now earn good money like their counterparts in other countries but i love to hear songs with good lyrics too.Even if i love to dance to DJ Zeez's Fonkasibe or D'banj's suddenly,i still want to listen to songs with lyrics that will suddenly fonka to my head.Songs i can dance to and also relate with at the same time,inspiring songs,soulful songs,songs that speaks about real life events,real life situation,songs with lessons,songs about struggle and survival and not only with danceable beats.
Music with good lyrics is now facing extinction in Nigeria,i wonder if any five year old will be able to sing a song with deep meaning but as young as they are,they know about kokolets and mamalet's,they know how to fall in love,them sabi how to enter the place and how to yahooze,they know how to open their arms like they want to fly away to dance Alanta.If you ever hear a five year old sing a meaningful song,it has to be a gospel song.
The question is who is to blame?it's you and i,we prefer to pass me your love with AY than to warn that there is fire on the mountain with Asa,we prefer to listen to hotter than fire by Sheyman than to listen to Tuface's outside.We appreciate songs with bad contents and meaningless lyrics.As long as the beat is danceable,we totally ignore the lyrics.
Personally,i thing it's time for a change.While these Artist keeps up dancing in the clubs and shaking our head in our cars,we still want to hear a little something that makes us reflect and think.....Yeah,something that makes sense.
