Zico0:
Nigerian songs are as crappy as weezy's lyrics or dat of rozay and the likes if you try to take meaning out of eachword. Most times, we r only impressed and marvelled at their perfection in putting words together in sweet rhythm, to use rap as an example.

What's ur point?

Nigerians like to be given a presidential suite at another person's expense.
Why don't Nigerians start their own music channel and promote Naija music?

adconline: Nigerians like to be given a presidential suite at another person's expense.
Why don't Nigerians start their own music channel and promote Naija music?

Are you saying we don't have any?

ortopazz:
am guessing u dint watch The Last B.B.A those guys were feeling Goldie's musique like madt, and ur comparing them to us, imagine o!
Goldie's video was crazy mehn they felt her, goldie o! E b lyk u de blind u do kno!

Don't mind that omo ale jare, what does нє know about music in africa generally, ιѕ he talking about ltdo, hhp, luquideep,jozi? Combining them together, they can't reach psquare.
Our music ιѕ bomb αη∂ hit...

mrhansome12: mr man trace and Mtv are nt SA own company they just have their African outlet at SA

that Gave them the advantage

sheyie2007:
What's ur point?

Help me ask him o, coz I don't comprehend every single word of his piece at all o,

"I look in the fridge my shit lookin scarce i get a knock at d door dey say my rent overdue nd why my n.i.g.g.as sell dope and don't know what else to do" by its own it sounds like a wack Mc doing nursery rhymes. But let rozay do it.....Americans know how to package their crap. The nigerian beat has improved immensly so much that it can be rocked anywhere. Tho we still slip up sometimes in terms of lyrics,its not enough to say we fail totally in music. Or we expect our artists to be preachers. "I no com lagos kan preach",Timaya

amosy007:

that Gave them the advantage

As in, that gave the so called SA artistes and advantage?

Zico0: "I look in the fridge my shit lookin scarce i get a knock at d door dey say my rent overdue nd why my n.i.g.g.as sell dope and don't know what else to do" by its own it sounds like a wack Mc doing nursery rhymes. But let rozay do it.....Americans know how to package their crap. The nigerian beat has improved immensly so much that it can be rocked anywhere. Tho we still slip up sometimes in terms of lyrics,its not enough to say we fail totally in music. Or we expect our artists to be preachers. "I no com lagos kan preach",Timaya

It seems you don't understand yourself sef...make I leave u wit ur your tots

Hayjaycity:

It seems you don't understand yourself sef...make I leave u wit ur your tots

i wasnt tryin to make any1 undastand. You and yur tots

Zico0:
i wasnt tryin to make any1 undastand. You and yur tots

Then you are not suppose to be here. You and ur tots!!!

you people should keep ranting like mad dogs, its obvious the crap you call Nigerian music affecting your Iqs. SA has produced international music legends, we have only fela. With the crap music coming from Nigeria everbody will soon be tired like before. Someone said nigerian artists are a force to reckon with in the word stage. Am laughing off this thread with that statement.

FreeGlobe: you people should keep ranting like mad dogs, its obvious the crap you call Nigerian music affecting your Iqs. SA has produced international music legends, we have only fela. With the crap music coming from Nigeria everbody will soon be tired like before. Someone said nigerian artists are a force to reckon with in the word stage. Am laughing off this thread with that statement.

From the way I'm seeing you, it seems you are one of those boys that spend the whole day at the African Shrine, WEEDING OUT!!! Change ur username to Freeweed nah!!!

FreeGlobe: you people should keep ranting like mad dogs, its obvious the crap you call Nigerian music affecting your Iqs. SA has produced international music legends, we have only fela. With the crap music coming from Nigeria everbody will soon be tired like before. Someone said nigerian artists are a force to reckon with in the word stage. Am laughing off this thread with that statement.

"SA has produced"... Dude think ahead..it's about who's dominating the game. Tell me, what sort of songs do you have on your ipod aside american songs? Shakashaka? bra hugh?

sheyie2007:
"SA has produced"... Dude think ahead..it's about who's dominating the game. Tell me, what sort of songs do you have on your ipod aside american songs? Shakashaka? bra hugh?

Ignore him jare,even SA big boiz respect naija artiste,that why u see d likes of El tido and Jozi featuring naija artiste.The question is,why haven't these SA guys step up there game by featuring US artiste?cos they know what it entails.

If i owned a Nigerian music station with an office in South Africa, i think i'll strive to promote more Nigerian than SA music. I don't know what the grouse of the writer is. Afterall there are Nigerian music channels like Soundcity, Nigezie etc that play mostly Nigerian music. Why must it be Trace urban?

tony4244: [color=#000099][/color]NIGERIANS BOYCOTT MTV BASE AND TRACE TV. WATCH ONLY SOUNDCITY AND AFIC (THEY PLAY MOSTLY NAIJA JAMS ). WHEN THEIR VIEWERS REDUCE THEY WOULD WAKE UP AND PLAY OUR JAMS AGAIN!!!!!!!!!

On point jare

But u guys have to remember trace urban and mtv base channel show in more african countries and exposes nigerian music to an wider african audience

soundcity is just in nigeria and only exposes artists to an nigerian artist, as an african artist u dont just want to be successful in ome country u want to be successful all over africa

More exposure to more african countries = more money and shows in the long run

Look at p-square and how popular they are all over sub-saharan africa, they get shows in zimbabwe, sierra leone amongst other places thats why p-square albums always sell millions of albums because their fanbase is way bigger than nigeria

There is already sound city which play naija music non-stop so obviously they have to regulate the amount of songs by each country due to fair exposure but at the end of the day it doesnt matter because i would still say nigerian music is more popular than sa music

Here in the uk sa house music only just started to show its face in clubs when DJ Cndo's song terminator became popular in the clubs last year which made people have an interest in sa house but they still dont get played half as much naija music which has been rocking the clubs for years

Aside from Trace and Mtv,Super sport did it too during the olympics. They kept going on and on about SA's athlete, Blitz kept on talking about them including the athletes that didn't win any medals or have a good position and it bored me. The only way to keep being at the top is to keep being the best that way no matter what they do our head will always be high up.

So sad Hitv didn't have the financial strength, power to slug it out with Dstv.

MTV-Africa CEO is Nigerian, so what's the fuss?

sheyie2007:
Are you saying we don't have any?

We do, but why should we use your own subjective experience to meaure how SA stations based in Naija work? Do you know the the difference between company policy and government policy? These stations are privately owned, thus , can put policies in place to attract other non-Nigerian viewers by using quota system...

TRACE responds to the article ‘TRACE Urban,MTV Base’s And South Africa’s Conspiracy Against Nigerian Music’ by Stanley Nwabia

On the 20th of October, an article written by Mr Stanley Nwabia was brought to our attention.
We are making this statement to restore the truth following the numerous untrue and false statements written in Mr Stanley Nwabia’s article.

The writer claimed to have spoken to some friends of his whose videos where turned down by TRACE and was also informed by a “Non-Nigerian Insider” who works at the TRACE Urban Nigerian Office, that “TRACE Urban has been put under pressure to promote their African host country’s music”,meaning South Africa.


In response to the above claims, TRACE would like to make several statements:

- TRACE Urban receives videos from all urban artists. We request videos to be submitted in a preferred format which is soft copy. Videos are selected on a number of criteria, including the popularity of the artist and song, the quality of the production, but never the nationality of the artist. There are no quotas at TRACE Urban and no pressure to promote any country more than another one.


- In response to the journalist’s claim that “the popular Africa 10 Show on TRACE Urban is bombarded mainly with South African music”, we respond that TRACE Urban’s AFRICA 10 is dominated by top Nigerian and South African but also Angolan, Mozambican, Ghanaian and Kenyan tracks. It is industry knowledge that in the English speaking part of Africa, the dominant music industries are Nigeria and South Africa. Many Nigerian tracks have made it to number 1 and remained there for several weeks, such as, for example, D'Banj "Olivier Twist"; Naeto C "5 and 6"; Flavour "Nwa Baby"; J Martins ft Cabo Snoop "Good tym"; Mo Cheddah "See Me"; Ice Prince ft Gyptian "Magician remix"; Davido "DamiDuro"; P Square "Beautiful Onyinye" and the likes from East Africa Camp Mulla "Party Don't Stop.


- The article claims that "TRACE Urban has just introduced a new one hour show called BEST OF SA HIP HOP, showing on Saturdays and Sundays. One hour of non-stop South African music, nothing on Nigeria". This is not true. ‘The BEST OF SA HIP HOP’ was a one off FOCUS on the best Hip-Hop artists & songs South Africa has to offer. We have featured top Nigerian artists in the past on our most popular programmes, FOCUS and GUEST STAR, such as D Banj& P Square and TRACE Urban is busy preparing a 'Best of Naija Hip Hop' that will be aired soon.


- South Africa is not TRACE’s host country. TRACE’s host country is the world of music and talents. TRACE has operation in 180 countries and TRACE Urban is ranked #1 music channel in over 60 countries. TRACE has only one headquarter in Paris, France. TRACE opened an office in Lagos 18 months ago with a Nigerian partner and has just opened an office last month in Johannesburg, South Africa.


- There is no non-Nigerian staff who works at the TRACE office in Lagos. The writer was here referring to the TRACE Nigeria M.D – Mr Sam Onyemelukwe - who is of mixed raced and who clearly states that he has never made such a statement to anyone. TRACE has always promoted diversity and is proud to have staff from 40 different citizenships. Talent, expertise, passion, professionalism, dedication are the qualities TRACE is looking for. Race will never be a criteria to employ people at TRACE.


- Finally, TRACE did not receive any request for an interview from the writer and would be glad to explain to him our accurate process of choosing videos that air on the channel. TRACE is dedicated to promoting Premium African content to the world, without favoring any nationality. Since its launch 9 years ago, TRACE has been the most effective and efficient tool to promote Nigerian music all over the world, first in the rest of Africa and then in the USA, in Europe etc. Some Nigerian artists have been exposed to tens of millions of TRACE viewers globally and this exposure has dramatically changed and accelerated their careers. There is not one club or urban radio in France, in RDC, Senegal, Cameroon, South Africa, Germany, UK, the USA that is not playing one or more Nigerian tracks and TRACE has played a key role for this promotion and recognition. No other music channel in the world has given so much exposure to Nigerian artists outside Nigeria.

Read below the reactions of Nigerian artists to Mr Stanley Nwabia’s “article”. They speak for themselves.

“The article contradicts itself, even a blind man can watch TRACE and feel the impact it has made for the growth of Nigerian music across the continent”- FLAVOUR

“I've achieved a lot this year and TRACE Urban have had a lot to do with that. They were a Media Partners at my Album launch concert earlier this year and have been very supportive in premiering and rotating my music videos. For all that I'm extremely grateful” - DAVIDO

“Since TRACE Urban was made accessible to us via the Lagos office, it has made Nigeria the center of quality for other African countries. I strongly disagree with the credibility of that article” -IYANYA

“Before now, TRACE was only another channel on Satellite TV but now its opened up the world to us and exposed us to the world. Need not say more cause it’s a visible change” - TIWASAVAGE

“TRACE Urban has sold Nigerian music to the world via numerous channels not limiting us to only Africa and we say this because we are a part of this movement” - PSQUARE

To read TRACE Urban’s CRITERIA FOR VIDEO SELECTION, please click this link ---> http:///VDKSce

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