British-Nigerian rapper, Joseph Adenuga, better known as Skepta, was awarded the UK’s prestigious Mercury Prize on Thursday for his album “Konnichiwa”, in recognition of a resurgent homegrown genre.

Skepta muscled out late rock legend, David Bowie, to clinch to top prize.

The award ceremony, which held at London’s Eventim Apollo, saw Skepta win the £25,000 award price for self-released album Konnichiwa, which covers topics including police harassment and his anger at British politics.

Skepta, who featured in Wizkid’s Ojuelegba remix, belongs to a Hip-hop genre called the Grime, a genre of music that emerged in England in the late 90s to early 2000s.

It is primarily a development of UK garage and jungle, accustomed with heavy instruments and is mostly homemade.

“The internet has given a lot of opportunities to people who are not built for big corporations,” he told the BBC after winning the award. “It allows you to speak to fans directly. To make things from your bedroom and give it to them.”



source:http://www.premiumtimesng.com/arts-entertainment/music/210549-nigerian-born-uk-artist-skepta-wins-britains-prestigious-mercury-prize.html

Kul!

Nigerian-born

Congrats to him, Nigerians doing great things both home and abroad

Brown roofians, making Nigeria proud abroad.

another amala and ewedu eating boy from the brown roof republic doing great things abroad



proud omo oduduwa!

Afonjas i hail oo. Oya come and tell us how this award is better than an Oscar.

NCAN Bonny branch heartily facilitate with an afonja who has worked to be a beam of light in a dark and perverse afonja nation

Who get the gist, make e helep me?

God bless your hustle bro

its about time

E jhor e wo tun ni mercury price.

Good luck to him but not Ebele

[quote author=oenamus1 post=49435634]Good luck to him but not Ebele [/quote@Shatank],sidon dey type in the range tribalism.

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SharkTank:
Afonjas come and hail oo. And tell us how this award is better than an Oscar.

At least it's far better than being executed in Indonesia
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It's you guys that always start all these, by the time you are now served in your coin in your thread, you tag the person a tribalist or hater.

Nice one

Nice one.

I loved his Konnichiwa album. Grime is really fun to listen to.

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SharkTank:
Afonjas come and hail oo. And tell us how this award is better than an Oscar.

Has any of Nigerian origin won Oscar award?

Tell me I pray d.

When one hears stories about Nigerians making exploits elsewhere like this, one begins to feel more Nigerian! There are great minds here, na the place no just good! For instance, Nigerian music is formidable in global music!

Nigerians are smart, good and intelligent people. We just have bad and greedy government since 19kokoro....so painful!

dats one of my fav grime artistes, boy better know. big ups to all the black guys holding it down in the grime scene: chipmunk, tinchy strider, giggs, sneakbo, wiley, stormzy, wretch 32, devlin, professor green etal etal.

we will soon see that bellicose pugnacious nigga Shym3xx in this thread. the nigga is the number one skepta fanboy

I don't know why man's callin' me family all of a sudden
Like hmm, my mum don't know your mum
Stop telling man you're my cousin
I got day ones and I got new ones
No fake ones, trust no one
It's Boy Better Know 'til I die

Man like Skeppy

Is ok

Bolustic:

At least it's far better than being executed in Indonesia
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It's you guys that always start all these, by the time you are now served in your coin in your thread, you tag the person a tribalist or hater.

When Yoruba stop topping the chart of most wanted 419ers and conmen in the UK.

congrat to him