Shaz:

Pardon me, but I need your opinion on this. Why is it that ever since the "new millenium" nigerian artistes have never ceased to surprise us with meaningless slangs embodied in their songs?

I mean, when it was just 'Tongolo', 'no long thing', 'nothing dey happen' it was cool and refreshing, (I think). Then weird stuffs like 'efrebor' can to the surface, like wth?? Maybe we shoulda seen this coming from the 'woske - yeewo' lady?

I was suprised to go through Nairaland today and found song titles like 'Disco Peperemepe' (are we supposed to move backwards or forwards?), 'skiboropopo', kalangolo.

Others are just obscene like Lala's Idi nla, what the heck is going on? Like seriously.

Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying they have to be 'britiko' or 'yankee-ish' about this but there should be a little bit of reasoning when naming/making a track.

Even things like 'kamakaze on a kentro level', if you ain't going to say what it means, take it out of the song. If it's some cult slang, damn! every listener has been hypnotized. Lol.

But on a more serious note, we need musicians with deep thoughts and not just those that want to make it quick by saying every rude word under the sun? It's good to try to be on the US standard but Americanization is not the key. neither is being RAZZ and vulgar. It's good to try innovative things in songs but nah, too many slangs just kill the whole idea.

Or what do y'all think?

tosinadeda:

thats y u cnt classify such songs as hip hop

A-40:

Those are not hip-hop songs they should be grouped under another genre but definitely not hip-hop

sosanyabee:

please what are you people talking about here as if you would say lolipop by lilwayne is not hiphop


the bottom line is hiphop has evolved. people have short attention span. hiphop understands this. if this means a catchy chorus, or a catchy title, so be it.

sosanyabee:

please what are you people talking about here as if you would say lolipop by lilwayne is not hiphop


the bottom line is hiphop has evolved. people have short attention span. hiphop understands this. if this means a catchy chorus, or a catchy title, so be it.

lalaboi:

shaz


u must be the reason why the song 'lori le by xproject' won the best hip hop song in the nigeria music awards

just because some unaware nigerians call it hip hop doesnt mean u should think its hip hop.

as for me, i will rather cal it naija pop, because most of it have got naija flavour in them!

AfrknKngs:

I agree, they should be classified as "Gbedu or Party Vibe" or "Naija POP" Ah well,

Shaz:



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@Tosin,

Too many meaningless slangs still end up as meaningless.[/color]

Shaz:

So Tosin, what you are saying is the slangs do not get to you at all?

It's had a negative influence on the Nigerians I know, they can't make a correct sentence without interjecting some silly slang.

At the end of the day, the slangs get too much and you'll end up getting confused. . lol.

I was actually expecting someone to ask me 'kini big deal'?. . lmao. . it's not on though. It's more on the razz side, eg. Disco peperempe? Wth?

Shaz:



@Tosin,

See bare kids shouting 'waaaaaH!' like halloween monsters.[/color]

sosanyabee:

since you are the almighty authority in what hiphop is, please school us, educate us on what we should call hiphop, o mighty one

A-40:

The game is to be sold and not told go and do your research anyone that knows hip-hop would not call songs like Tongolo,Yahoozey hip-hop i am not claiming any authority but i know what i know

@Shaz
Their songs have been mistakenly identified as hip-hop but it is so not hip-hop they should be creative and come up with another name e.g Jamaicans started with Reggae and as time went on another sound evolved which although was sang by Jamaicans didn't necessarily make it Reggae and that's how dancehall came around or would you call Sean Paul,Elephant Man or Beanie Man Reggae Musicians?

Another example Ghanians have their own style of songs too that involve their language and slang and some of them rap too but they don't call it hip-hop do they? they call it hip-life
South Africans have Kwaito and so on and so forth

tosinadeda:


AND WE CALL OURS, ?

Hiphop . . Ain't that what I was saying? If I didn't say nigerian hiphop, how would you have got my drift in the first place? Lol

That's besides the point tho. Like what exactly is whiskolo whiska supposed to mean?

tosinadeda:

hiss