i think a music need to be original to make it in the world market like malian,senegalese,and congolese.nowaday nigerians artists are too influenced by r&b and rap with bad english accent lol.

exactly. if you hear a conglese, senegalese, or malian music, you'll know its african music but nigerians copy to much from what they think hip hop/r&b is. it took me a while to get past the accent before i stared to like nigerian music. i grew up listening to old traditional nigerian music with my father and sometimes prefer it more to the more recent music.

naija_diva:

exactly. if you hear a conglese, senegalese, or malian music, you'll know its african music but nigerians copy to much from what they think hip hop/r&b is. it took me a while to get past the accent before i stared to like nigerian music. i grew up listening to old traditional nigerian music with my father and sometimes prefer it more to the more recent music.

Go and sing your own - u this croaky voiced toad.

don't be mad cuz i'm telling the truth. until they get internationally known outside the nigerian community, then you can speak.

Hands down@naijadiva, that's what I am also thinking. Youssou N'dour is one of the famous musicians from Africa. From your comment, which I do agree, my take is that our musicians are perhaps trying too hard to incorporate foreign music into our beat. We are known for doing so. Look at the literary forum and read one of the comments from some guy, who in a bid to reach an international audience is incorporating foreign settings in his novels. I mean for what?

TayoD:

@Ndipe,

I was surprised you mentioned Shade Adu without saying anything about the Grammy Award Winner, SEAL.  You have also left out Tunde of the Lighthouse Family. 

Femi Kuti and Lagbaja are unique Nigerian Brands that are doing very well internationally.

Seal? What remix does he play? Trado Nigerian music or mainstream music? As for Lagbaja, is he popular in the USA? Note, I am not trying to diss any of the musicians. One might say that traditional nigerian music might not be accepted in the mainstream, but look at Youssou who is perhaps the most famous musician from Africa. His beat is derived from his culture. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Youssou_N'Dour

@topic, who knows

Although a lot of people here know "African queen", I doubt many of them know it was sung by a Nigerian.

And what's the name of the Nigerian musician who wrote the African Queen?

http://www.nigeriavillagesquare.com//index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=13608&Itemid=55

Who d hell said pun n fat joe aint american?dem niggas is of puerto rican descent,so they 100% americans.full blooded boricuas baby!!!infact,fat joe's spanish aint even all that,I've heard duke speak it b4 and it aint that good.

@gbengaijot:nas is not nigerian!!!I've heard my nigerian friends say this numerous times and this is wut I tell them:nas' pops changed his name to oludara jones on some afrocentric ish:e was born in mississppi!!!how is he nigerian.I've also heard em say shaq,kobe and a host of others are nigerian.lol.don't b surprised whn I blow n become popular people will say I'm nigerian cus I used to b on nairaland

@rof-lmao shakira is 100% colombiana!who told u she american?ho just learnt how to speak english.wyclef is haitian,he wasn't born here.he might hold a u.s passport now but that don't change ish

@christino:christina aguilera is american!n the reason we aint feelin 'rappers' like dizee rascal is cus we don't understand jack dat they be sayn.he did a track with bun b a while n I swear I didn't have a clue wut he was sayn despite repeated listenings

^^WTF? He just had to reply everyone on a thread that's over 2 years old.

Hey chiogo ugly;I'm not usin the computer so there's no way for me ro c the dates they were posted,u dig?now onto serious biz,my mans in hartford they lookn for a chic that's down for a freakoff,n u came to mind, u'll b paid handsomely.ho

brooklyn99:

Hey chiogo ugly;I'm not usin the computer so there's no way for me ro c the dates they were posted,u dig?now onto serious biz,my mans in hartford they lookn for a chic that's down for a freakoff,n u came to mind, u'll b paid handsomely.ho

Sorry, I don't do oldies. I'm sure you can do the job, just make sure you have enough lube. Have fun

Putting it simply, Nigerians are they own worst enemy, the good news is, things are slowly changing.

Listen here ho,who's the oldie?I bet ur black ass is older than me.wut u say we come pick u up in front of one of those projects in roxbury where u usually hang out?

brooklyn99:

Listen here ho,who's the oldie?I bet your black ass is older than me.wut u say we come pick u up in front of one of those projects in roxbury where u usually hang out?

You're boring, come up with something better. Def still an oldie.

Yah?oldie,huh?suck on dis?

brooklyn99:

Yah?oldie,huh?suck on dis?

Suck on what? I don't see anything.

Suck on dat imaginary cock u fiending 4

LOL how did you know?

Too bad I don't like to share so I'll leave it to you, you need it more.

Nah I'm offering trust me u can have it

*knows this is old*
Because your artists haven't done a lot of collab.s with Jamaicans and American artists 

MzDarkSkin:

*knows this is old*
Because your artists haven't done a lot of collab.s with Jamaicans and American artists 

Though it's an exception, Sade refused to collaborate with JayZ and she is still a success. Akon who is riding on the wave of popularity hasnt (in recent times) collaborated with an American artiste, so, there must be more to the lack of popularity of Nigerian music abroad.

^ Sade is NOT  a Nigerian artist LMFAO! She is of Nigerian descent (her dad) but she is not doing traditional Nigerian music which is what we are talking about. The only reason she was able to turn anybody down (she is not first or last to do so) is because her MULTICULTURAL band put her on the map due to her being a European citizen. Had Sade lived all her life in Nigeria that would be another story.

Akon?! ARE YOU SERIOUS! Akon's first track "locked up" featured on of the hottest American rappers Styles P (who is half South African btw ) not to mention his RECENT (2010) collaboration with Quincy Jones and other artists like Snoop Dogg, Emineim, and dancehall/ reggae artists; etc.


If we talk about Nigerian-American Wale you will see his "adaptation" to and collaboration with American culture/music is why he is one of Americas rising rappers right now. He reps Naija but he's not shunning the world in the process.

Nigerian musicians/ artists tend to want to "keep it 100 percent Naija" and you cannot expect any recognition with that mentality. We Jamaicans and Americans have collaborated with Latin musicians, rock musicians, r&b, country; etc.

Dancehall-Reggae although a relatively foreign music genre to the Americans WILL ALWAYS be relevant because of the sound one, but two our willingness and compatibility with other music genres which is why a reggae artist can have a hit song in the U.S., dissapear for two years and come back with the same love.

James Bond: "Do you expect me to talk?"
Goldfinger: "No Mr Bond, I expect you to DIE!"

Black James Bond @ www.myspace.com/namccbedis1

I found a website i download Nigeria musics from www.naijabambam.com

may be because of they are the ones rating them and if you are also chance to do that I think you will like to bring your first.

Hehe

Our artistes, like psquare and iyanya, I discovered, are making waves in America. Infact, they are gradually replacing "sweet mother" at nigerian functions with kukere and the like. Good job.