Ybnl Boss and Versatile Music artiste, Olamide aka Badoo is one of the most respected and recognized artiste in the Country...

His versatility to rap and sing and also fit into different genres of music from trap to reggae to fuji and many more has distinguished from The crop of talented artistes in Nigeria today..

This brings one to the reason why the artiste has not been duly recognized internationally and outside Nigeria alongside his peers like Davido and Wizkid..

Why is Olamide name lacking in most international awards and the talented artiste not getting deserved attention from the outside World..

Note - Doing indigenous music is not an excuse for lack of intl recognition. 9ice was invited to nelson mandela and MOB0 and Yousuf won a grammy with his local songs.. So doing local or indigenous song is never an excuse..



1) Quantity Over Quality - Olamide has made quantity is main goal..Flood the scene with songs and songs till you reach a point of equilibrum and then start to decline...

Olamide has failed to allow the people thirst for his songs and his releases are not up to expectations too...

It gets to a point listeners are no longer gingered to listen to what the artist will say as artist becomes monotous and repititive.

The rapper is even gearing up to release a sixth studio album.

2) Branding - Branding is also very much .... The Kind of brand Olamide potrays is of the not too internationally minded artist. He hardly dresses corporate and potray his versatility in his brand..

He has even gone ahead to Brand himself a Local Rapper. This type of image projected is the way he is addressed..

He has even refused to meet up with more influential managers and more serious minded and music experts ..... The lack of Expertise on the side of the management and consisting of influential managers does bear its mark.


3) Appeal - While deviation from indigenous music is not the point. Appeal is very paramount..... Olamide style is not appealing to the outside world.. Sometimes balancing works.. I wonder if Hausas listen to olamide songs ? But i bet more listen to 9ice ? Why

A little of more mature songs and english lyrics might do the trick....Do something appealing to every one and yet dont forget the minority. You dont waste international features with Wale on songs like papilo you go make us proud....

Give them what they love.. Trap,pop. Feature more of their artistes and seek for international features....


Olamide is a Legend and will remain one... However , breaking into the international market Like Wizkid is not an easy job......

Olamide has too much talent than to be labelled a local rapper... We want to see him topping the billboard chart and copping his own BET award soon too... Enough of the Headies and NEA awards.


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How many people do you think understand his Yoruba lyrics?

Obiorathesubtle claims he uses juju to make his songs "sweet"

slyIsaac:
Obiorathesubtle claims he uses juju to make his songs "sweet"

lmaooo how true can dat be
Obiora come here o

Goin international doesn't really matter.. Since he's still gettin pay hia in nigeria, atleast he is far better dan some of our artist whu speaks english on their lyricz..



Baddo all d way

Every one has his/her own style, dont expect him to sing like wizkid or davido.
I believe the style he is doing now is the magic that works for him. Every artist has a target audience and this dude is really doing well in the african music.

Its better to be a king at home than to be a boi boi internationally. He is really making impact. So far he is the most consistent naija artiste.

I disagree with you on wat u said that being a consistent act is not the best because if he had just one hit people would still complain that olamide has just one hit,

i still think is time,he still has wat it takes to get all the international recognition he deserves wen his time comes to get there am sure he will.or maybe his juju cannot travel overseas

Well, As much as I hate the Nigeria music industry and the artistes. Olamide tends to be worst in limelight because he gained popularity off indigenous language and models of Nigeria interactions such as slangs, salutations, Nigeria street appeal, Apparel, photo Pose, Flows and flowery, Misongynistic potray of women and the likes.

So why isn't he recognized internationally.

Reason is those indigenous factors aforementioned is difficult for the international community to understand but it makes sense to Nigerian, Not just any Nigerian but the gullible and half baked educated once, the street hustlers, touts, loosed girls and club house.

As a 21st century man who relies on his brain for responsible living, Olamide is a bad influence to me and youngsters looking up to him. Wizkid and Davido are also bad influences but the difference is they use understandable pidgin/English and mostly sing about love to women , club and burning money but in English so the international community easily understands what they saying.

Warning- To you parents who dream of raising the Einstein, Tesla or Bill Gates of tomorrow then Wizkid, Davido & Olamide are all bad influence to your children.

slyIsaac:
Obiorathesubtle claims he uses juju to make his songs "sweet"

no be me talk am o.. Na Mrs. kemi ooh.. Madam aproko..

slyIsaac:
Obiorathesubtle claims he uses juju to make his songs "sweet"

why Evils ? Obiorathesubtle wetin happen ?

aaronson:
Well, As much as I hate the Nigeria music industry and the artistes. Olamide tends to be worst in limelight because he gained popularity off indigenous language and models of Nigeria interactions such as slangs, salutations, Nigeria street appeal, Apparel, photo Pose, Flows and flowery, Misongynistic potray of women and the likes.

So why isn't he recognized internationally.

Reason is those indigenous factors aforementioned is difficult for the international community to understand but it makes sense to Nigerian, Not just any Nigerian but the gullible and half baked educated once, the street hustlers, touts, loosed girls and club house.

As a 21st century man who relies on his brain for responsible living, Olamide is a bad influence to me and youngsters looking up to him. Wizkid and Davido are also bad influences but the difference is they use understandable pidgin/English and mostly sing about love to women , club and burning money but in English so the international community easily understands what they saying.

Warning- To you parents who dream of raising the Einstein, Tesla or Bill Gates of tomorrow then Wizkid, Davido & Olamide are all bad influence to your children.

what is this one feeling like

lol...lo lo lo...local wrapper he already said it and i quote 3millon for ibadan don do me... 200k uk e no do me shey drake hear yoruba? We dont need to en slave ourselve to the whites cus of recognition that is why i love the chinese...they dont Bleep with their culture....going international makes you white slave if you dont know...we love our IBILE artiste like that....wait sef who international recognition epp

2dice01:
lol...lo lo lo...local wrapper he already said it and i quote [b]3millon for ibadan don do me... 200k uk e no do me[/b]shey drake hear yoruba? We dont need to en slave ourselve to the whites cus of recognition that is why i love the chinese...they dont Bleep with their culture....going international makes you white slave if you dont know...we love our IBILE artiste like that....thanks

every artiste goal is for their music to be accepted and not only accepted but accepted by many people....

Not matter how much you love the local olamide ,. You cant tell me he does not wish for global acceptance...

He does not wish to be with chris brown, drake, jcole, kendrick and the rest......

He is too talented to be in the local scene..

A popular crusade banner once said ' dont be tied in the village

op you are 100% right! his songs are for Yoruba touts and street people he speak 90% of yoruba in his song he doesn't carry others in his song he song are just popular mostly in the west

issue of not getting international features and bla bla is due to the fact that he is Local! anyways I still love olamide!

and yeah he need to slow down in the release of song he need to get people to thirst for his song! that's y WizKid doesn't drop singles and album any how he needs to be thirsted for in the industry

lolz
who you EPP
You don baff
who You serve

I do not understand what is going on, can somebody explain to me in detail?

[size=18pt]He is there chopping his millions and you are busy talking Local.[/size]

Olamide rose rapidly to the top by singing jargons and has remained there by signing more jargons. Obviously because we Nigerians are intellectually lazy to critique whatever songs come out. We simply go well with jargons.
Check out his lyrics, does it make any sense to an educated mind? Now compare his lyrics to other African artistes of international acclaim (pls don't mention Davido), then you'll see why he remains a street boy.
PS : Artistes like Wizkid, Iggy Azalea, Lil Wayne, 2face, Kofi olomide began on the street, today they have gone global.

Ok


Weytn concern me Who him epp??

local champion

I enjoy some of his songs but most of em aren't that good tbh....I agree with the oP, quality over quantity

If you don't understand music, Keep shut!!

Who International recognition epp?

D'banj went international, where is the koko master today?

And some of the points are outrightly ridiculous and stupid, because he doesn't dress corporate? Really? Did Fela dress corporate?

These jokers with nothing to write about should go and work on being known in their Local govt first before attempting to throw stone at someone for not being international.

Op who you epp? You don bath? Smellos!

olamide baddo

I no dey understand d guy o. That's why I no dey play hin songs. Branding and acceptability across cultures matters. He really needs to rebrand.

Must we all go international . So anything wey international no approve now is bad. See black man mentality.


Abeg make una epp me vote For Refiner as Miss Nairaland on Saturday ohh. Ejo, biko.

[size=15pt]Mtchewwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww

A wise Artist who struggled to blow will rather remain local, making millions and be relevant for long than to go international and make millions within a very short while and become flop after collaborating with 2Pac and Mohamed Ali . This is the reason why Dagrin rejected shooting his video in UK instead, rejected idea of int.collabo, made up is himd to remain local within 9ja.

IN ettaetta's VOICE, Its better to be a king at home than to be a boi boi internationally.

IN Davido's VOICE, owo ni koko [/size]

He needs to improve on his lyrical content to appeal to audience across board. Also he has to step up his game PR wise to as to fit into the international scene.

I just pray this thread doesnt turn out to be an ipob and yoruba battlefield


And i dont like Olamide tho