Wednesday, 1 February 2017
VIDEO: AU-Pro – “Drop It”
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Nigerians deported from U.K arrive Lagos safely (photos)
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“Don’t go out to protest,” — Blackface makes passionate appeal to Nigerians
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“I will kiss Falz, I will marry Adekunle Gold and kill myself” – Singer, Simi
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I Wouldn’t Call What We Have A Music Industry – Zaaki Azzay
Zaaki Azzay, rode the waves of fame and popularity back in the 90’s as he successfully gave the listening masses hits to dance too.
The ‘Rosie’ crooner, who is a year older today talked opened up on the state of the music industry in a new interview with LIB.
Read Excerpts form the interview:
On the music industry today, he said
“We have a lot of problems with the music industry. I wouldn’t even call what we have a music industry, I’ll call it a music scene. We have not grown to the level of a music industry. Can you imagine a whole Nigeria, we don’t even have one single recording company. When I started we had three recording companies, but now what we have are just labels. We don’t really have a music industry because there is no structure. What we have is just the content. We have artists that are hustling, trying their best to put out good music, but there’s no structure, no marketing, no distribution, there’s no record company that can invest in this music and take it global.
“Now the artist has to hustle by himself and try to push the music. Music sales is a mess right now, artists have to take their music and pay for them to bootleg and pirate it. People are downloading for free songs artists worked hard to put out. How do we call that an industry?”
He continued:
“I try to follow up on what our Performing Musicians Association of Nigeria, PMAN, is trying to do because if anything is to change, it has to change as a collective effort.
“There’s a lot of squabbles in PMAN right now but we are hoping that with the new leadership, we’ll be able to untangle a lot of this underdevelopment that is taking place in the music scene. My duty is to follow up on what PMAN is doing and try my best to participate as much as I can so that we can all put heads together and chart a way forward.”
“What I’ve noticed with a lot of sounds these days is that everybody is following one lane. Everybody is playing the same beats. When we started we had music producers, now they have beat makers who just make the beats and that’s it. Most of the music these days do not have soul.
“That’s one thing I’ll love to change, for artists not to be afraid to stay on one particular genre of music. Ask artists today what genre of music they play, they’ll tell you I play a little bit of funk, a little bit of pop, a little bit of dancehall… they’ll mix every single thing. When you have event ceremonies coming up even the event organisers don’t even know who is under what category. The average artist wants to join all genres just to play it safe.
“I’ll like to encourage artists to build on one genre and then have the confidence to push that brand of music forward. When you get involved in all genres you lose your identity over time.” He advised.
So far, it’s been ten years since his fans have had the pleasure of his music and Blackky told LIB that he hasn’t stopped performing in all that while. He also promised that he has returned to the studio and he’s working on an album which will be released soon.
He said: “Still music, still live performances… those are what I’m up to. I did the Ajebutter live concert, I performed in the Lolo concert two years back. I was at the Love like a movie concert last year and at the Classic FM concert, so I’ve just been performing.”
On Tuface and Blackface fight, was renewed just a day ago and Zaaki gave his opinion on that,
“It’s important that if you are an artist that really represents your art and you are conscious of the music that you are posting, it’s important always to feel the pulse of the masses and be able to always go out there and speak on the masses’ behalf. If you feel the government is shortchanging the citizens and downpressing the citizenry, you as an artist, it is your job to be able to use your voice to amplify the people’s frustration.
He added, “So any artist who takes that step without any financial motivation, but solely for the humanity of the country in which that artist dwells, he should be encouraged.”
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“Pay me ₦59k and I will impregnate you” – Kenyan man tells women
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Harrysong And Manager Re-arrested Last Night
Singer Harrysong, has reportedly been re-arrested.
The ‘Reggae Blues’ crooner, was said to have been arrested alongside his manager, Desmond Ike, with both according to a source who spoke to LIB, passing the night at the Zone 2 Police Command, Onikan, Lagos. They were picked up on fresh criminal charges and might be charged to court this morning.
‘They were re arrested on fresh criminal charges of fraud, forgery and impersonation. I heard them saying they forged E-Money’s signature to collect money from a brand‘ the source said.
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See this adorable photo of Chacha Eke’s second daughter
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Gov. Fayose joins 2Face’s protest against the Federal government
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VIDEO: Timaya – Woyo
After the successful release of dancehall tune ‘Bang Bang’, Timaya a.k.a ‘The Original Soundbwoy’ kicks off the year 2017, with a new track titled ‘Woyo’.
The song was produced by Orbeat, and the video was shot and directed by Unlimited LA.
Stream audio below
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Harrysong and his manager re-arrested, spends the night in police custody on fresh charges
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Photos: Comedian Akpororo Dry Humps UNILAG Girl On Stage
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Who Is To Blame For The Death Of Hip-Hop In Nigeria, The Artistes Or The Fans?
The Nigerian music industry is growing to astronomical heights but one of it components, hip-hop, is on the flipflop motion. The industry is growing increasingly afropop monopolized as other music genres, but hip-hop particularly suffers near ostracism. There seems to be added volume to bang, bang popping sounds while hip-hop sounds are declining in audibility.
The caricature hip-hop music in circulation has met loud criticism from hip-hop critics but no one seems to be responding. Perhaps Nigerian rappers of today are trying to avoid playing the character of the story we all know too well. The story of the lyrical firebrand in Nigeria that hawked hip-hop on his head for years before taking a seat at the back, out of the frustration of poor patronage.
Since then, only few have made good attempts at filling the void left by Modo. Notable among them is Dagrin and MI Abaga who became hip-hop vanguards of their own era. Many other rappers came after and most of them struggled with the dynamics of the system, some took their foot off, others joined the pool on the afropop side.
The migrants then started the practice of rapping in pop style. They made what I like to call Rop Music, a blend of rap and pop music of course. This became widely known as commercial rap and the demand that was low in the Mode 9 era, skyrocketed in the rop era, championed by Olamide and Phyno.
The experimentation of rap with afropop music by Nigerian rappers is not the sin committed against hip-hop but the aped manner it is done. The music that became an industry trend, rop music, was presented to lack the cultural and organic elements of true hip-hop. Artistic depths and creativity became increasingly substituted for shallow rhyming in very insipid ways. This has led the few core hip-hop artistes and fans to mourn the death of hip-hop in Nigeria.
Considering the angle of thought of most Nigerian rappers, the commercialization of rap is solely to meet the picky taste of the industry. It therefore implies that Nigerian hip-hop is dying because not enough people love it. This suggests that Nigerian fans holds the power to breathe back life into hip-hop in the country.
Written by Ibironke Oluwatobi
@ibironketweets
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