chiogo:

Afrocynic, I don't know who N!gga raw is but if you understood igbo, you'd understand the acronym Asha 80 just gave you for the n!gga raw dude.

Nig-nigerian
g-guy
a-anakpo
r-raw

Basically, the above means 'a Nigerian guy they call raw'

And you mentioned something about American rappers not being able to use such acronym. FYI, 2pac did. His definition of NIGGA was:
N-never
I-ignorant about
G-getting
G-goals
A-accomplished

Thought you were a hip-hop head, u coulda fooled me.

AfroCynic:


How else i'm i supposed to get the message out to the readers whom are of different ethnicities?

@ Fayasoul, this is exactly the point I was inviting you to demonstrate in my last comment to you. Now if you have to use English to get your message (of  a few sentences) out to just a handful of people here of different ethnicities, why do you criticise (Igbo) musicians for using English to do the same thing, when they have many fans they want to appeal to?

Have you ever thought that maybe some Yoruba people dont mind that people who are not Yoruba dont understand when they speak? Maybe they are not in fact speaking to everyone.

Dotman01:

Lets stop decievin ourselvs, if u dnt ad yoruba to ur chorus or lines in ur song. U aint gonna make it in d south west wch is wer d makt is. D easterners do sell d music while d westerners are d consumers period.

Dotman01:

Lets stop decievin ourselvs, if u dnt ad yoruba to ur chorus or lines in ur song. U aint gonna make it in d south west wch is  wer d makt is. D easterners do sell d music while d westerners are d consumers period.

jaguda:

make we kukuma rename this thread Afam4eva vs Others, afam, e don do, u be woman, if dem no gree hear ur own, must u punish all of us here.
some serious questions for the house:  

1. wetin make musician make songs?
2. d song make sense?
3. d artiste gain acceptance?
4. d artiste make money?
5. who d song appeal to?

dese na wetin matter for artistes. Singing in anoda lingua makes u look versatile. make una no bring Biafra and Oduduwa come here ooooo

Afam, sheath ur sword or i go issue warrant of suspension from Seun to you.

Abeg, abeg, abeg, make una help beg that guy wey dey use snake as avatar/picture/wateva say jaguda fear snake well well,(my hand dey even dey shake as i dey type) make e change am, abeg. S-E-U-N plssssssssssssssssssss do sumtin ooooooooooooooo

Oga, u no serious, wen Pasuma dey mix english with fuji, no probelm for there abi? who are the westerners? how many yorubas dey Lagos compared to other tribes, abi u think say evribody wey speak koroba na koroba person? Waffi say any which way, frog must jump, appeal to Lagos market and not some bloody illiterate westerners. if u want appeal to westerners, go sell ur music for Ekiti, Ondo, Oyo and Osun. Lagos is cosmopolitan, u hear. how many so called westerners dey buy english songs or songs from english artistes, go Mushin and check wetin dem dey buy? Paso, Obesere, saheed Osupa and co. dese guys get their own  superstars (koroba superstars), so tell me, how one or two lines of koroba in a song go appeal to dem? the target market different.

egheleghe:

This thread dey laf me.how can you stay inside those ancient yoruba villages with rust roof and laterite mud bricks to presume that we listen to yoruba music. Here in ph all those una yoruba songs no dey make sense.duncan mighty sold the most last year and he sang in ikwerre and igbo.nigga raw na 2nd and flava na 3rd.na only dbanj and 9ice we buy and dem no follow for top 10.we prefer igbo songs.

egheleghe:

This thread dey laf me.how can you stay inside those ancient yoruba villages with rust roof and laterite mud bricks to presume that we listen to yoruba music. Here in ph all those una yoruba songs no dey make sense.duncan mighty sold the most last year and he sang in ikwerre and igbo.nigga raw na 2nd and flava na 3rd.na only dbanj and 9ice we buy and dem no follow for top 10.we prefer igbo songs.

Dotman01:

@eghe abi na wetin u kal urself i was in ph 4 almost all of last yr, nd dem dey dig gongo aso lyk galala nd its d same wit all other yoruba music 4 ph. U say dem prefer igbo music? Why u dey lie nw.
Na u no dey make any sense,

AfroCynic:

That's good for you, but I meant name one artist who who has blown without using Yoruba either in their chorus or in verse, plain and simple. I could give a damn about some dude who wants to call himself a N!gga, that's on him.

romeo:

How could you be shouting ethnocentrism is this thread while mainting that ur Yoruba language make songs popular in Nigeria?

Tuface became famous because his "African Queen" was sang in Yoruba?
Faze's Kolomental was sang in Yoruba?
P Square did all their hit tracks in Yoruba?
Timaya did "Dem Mama" in Yoruba?


If anybody is deluded it's you.

afam4eva:

Thanks for answering that ethnocentric tribalist

egheleghe:

@afrocynic.2face did african queen in igbo.timaya did dem mama in igbo,p square did ifunanya in igbo,d banj did igwe in igbo.2face and timaya particularly exclaim in igbo in most of their songs(chineke me!).i'm not igbo but i'm only being real.in the east and niger delta,we have an entirely different stars that sing in other languages.do you know asuo ekiye?korkormikor?m trill?frank d nero?chinweike(estar)?nwaba?desperate chicks?soty?ibiso?or you only consider lagos based as stars.

AfroCynic:

Lol @ someone being an ethnocentric tribalist, abeg no be by force, if you now how to talk am, just leave the grammer be.

P sqaure have had mad songs using Yoruba words, I have both their albums. As for Timaya, I just hear a song by dude called 'Iywao mi' Tuface did not have a song called 'Ole' or am I dreaming? Oh and 'Faze alone' didn't know have Yoruba in its chorus? hmmn!

Never did I say one would have to make an entire song in Yoruba, I said either the chorus or some words in the verse, why does that pain Afam so much?