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Re: Wizkid's Accent In Interview With UK’s Channel 4, Nigerian Twitter Goes Berserk by skitkid2(m): 9:45am On Apr 15, 2017
2shur:
Send me your acct nos
When dj khaled
Rick ross
Birdman
Nikki
Milli
Dmx
And other rappers in america start speaking in our naija ascent.
I'm so ashamed to be a nigerian.
Fake lives everywhere.
Some niggi be jumpin over 25m
Wen we dey pick above 25m steady
Everyone wan speak phonetics
By fire bai force.
No wonder whites call us black monkeys

Fake asses everywhete.
Wannabez everywhere
Fucking retarded country.
We are naija.
We speak english very clear.
We raise our tongues
And not speak through our nose.
Fools been copying the wrong things 4 eva men
Why don't you type in Yoruba or Igbo?
Is English yours?

You sound so dumb with this comment.

This is exactly why we are behind,

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Re: Wizkid's Accent In Interview With UK’s Channel 4, Nigerian Twitter Goes Berserk by youngjoy(f): 9:50am On Apr 15, 2017
Wiz my everyday crush
Re: Wizkid's Accent In Interview With UK’s Channel 4, Nigerian Twitter Goes Berserk by ephi123(f): 9:51am On Apr 15, 2017
mykeljosef:
sounding like a broken record


he's trying to balance British ,white American and Australian accent together


but wetyn consign me


cheesy grin

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Re: Wizkid's Accent In Interview With UK’s Channel 4, Nigerian Twitter Goes Berserk by Nobody: 9:53am On Apr 15, 2017
Frolic:
He has learned it, earned it, so, let him use it. So, what accent do u have? German intoned accent? cheesy

Kind of lol. Just a mixmatch of everything lipsrsealed
Re: Wizkid's Accent In Interview With UK’s Channel 4, Nigerian Twitter Goes Berserk by ademusiwa3r: 9:54am On Apr 15, 2017
Re: Wizkid's Accent In Interview With UK’s Channel 4, Nigerian Twitter Goes Berserk by Frolic: 9:55am On Apr 15, 2017
lovelygurl:


Kind of lol. Just a mixmatch of everything lipsrsealed
Looking forward to it someday... out of curiosity by the way cheesy
Re: Wizkid's Accent In Interview With UK’s Channel 4, Nigerian Twitter Goes Berserk by Nobody: 9:55am On Apr 15, 2017
mykeljosef:
sounding like a broken record


he's trying to balance British ,white American and Australian accent together


but wetyn consign me











grin I think the "American 1" came out stronger. But the "tune" of it was British, I guess the lady confused him grin

I didn't hear anything Australian though. Just a Nigerian accent in the beginning grin

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Re: Wizkid's Accent In Interview With UK’s Channel 4, Nigerian Twitter Goes Berserk by Nobody: 9:55am On Apr 15, 2017
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Re: Wizkid's Accent In Interview With UK’s Channel 4, Nigerian Twitter Goes Berserk by Nobody: 9:56am On Apr 15, 2017
Frolic:
Looking forward to it someday... out of curiosity by the way cheesy

Lol grin
Re: Wizkid's Accent In Interview With UK’s Channel 4, Nigerian Twitter Goes Berserk by Frolic: 9:57am On Apr 15, 2017
lovelygurl:


Lol grin
Im serious tho
Re: Wizkid's Accent In Interview With UK’s Channel 4, Nigerian Twitter Goes Berserk by Sharplakezy(m): 9:58am On Apr 15, 2017
if moving forward is ur own definition of losing it, let him continue losing

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Re: Wizkid's Accent In Interview With UK’s Channel 4, Nigerian Twitter Goes Berserk by metallisc(m): 10:00am On Apr 15, 2017
Oliviaxx:
Nigerians can beef over nothing sha oooo


like you are beefing twitter shey? cool

Re: Wizkid's Accent In Interview With UK’s Channel 4, Nigerian Twitter Goes Berserk by Niseed(m): 10:01am On Apr 15, 2017
I find this his new accent and persona very false and pretentious and this is what our problem is in Nigeria, always quick to distance ourselves from where we come from once we see white people or see a little bit of money.

there's a difference between speaking clearly enough for your intended audience to understand and faking a combination of 3 fake accents because you want to show you have arrived.

can you imagine how stupid a French person will sound trying to put on an American/English accent ? this is exactly what wizkid is doing.

I was born and lived the best part of 17 years in the .uk and I don't have a fake accent, same goes for my siblings.

this young man goes for less than 6 months and develops a 3 way accent. I cringed when I saw that Glo advert on tv.

Anyway, whatever works for him sha

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Re: Wizkid's Accent In Interview With UK’s Channel 4, Nigerian Twitter Goes Berserk by Smooyis(m): 10:01am On Apr 15, 2017
I see nothing wrong with the guy's accent. So you people expect him to be speaking local accent at an international stage there. English language was never a local language, and there is nothing wrong if it's spoken the way it should be spoken and understood by his targeted audience which in that interview was never we Africans.
Naija wise up.

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Re: Wizkid's Accent In Interview With UK’s Channel 4, Nigerian Twitter Goes Berserk by bolayei: 10:03am On Apr 15, 2017
lovelygurl:


Kind of lol. Just a mixmatch of everything lipsrsealed
NIGERIA ACCENT IS HARD TO UNDERSTAND.
Maybe he got tired of spelling words or repeating himself and he gets oh you meant to say 'water'?
Speak to be understood.
I have a mix of accents, Nigerian, London cockney, East anglia accents and a strong ajegunle pidgin accent that can't be compromised. And no be faking.
The guy is a Nigerian export so should speak to be understood

Oga born and bred most of 17yrs of his life, how do you explain nigerians in UK for 30 years but have a strong African accent? Ans: lack of exposure and inferiority complex.
No be everyone wey go school dey educated
Re: Wizkid's Accent In Interview With UK’s Channel 4, Nigerian Twitter Goes Berserk by Nobody: 10:06am On Apr 15, 2017
bolayei:

NIGERIA ACCENT IS HARD TO UNDERSTAND.
Maybe he got tired of spelling words or repeating himself and he gets oh you meant to say 'water'?
Speak to be understood.
I have a mix of accents, Nigerian, London cockney, East anglia accents and a strong ajegunle pidgin accent that can't be compromised. And no be faking.
The guy is a Nigerian export so should speak to be understood

You think so? I love the Nigerian accent lol. Especially pidgin, man the flow is just soooooo kiss


I have a mixture of German, Nigerian and British (because of our English teacher who wanted to change our accent by force lipsrsealed)

It really sounds pathetic. I can't speak a language without an accent embarassed
Re: Wizkid's Accent In Interview With UK’s Channel 4, Nigerian Twitter Goes Berserk by Omoluabi16(m): 10:09am On Apr 15, 2017
lovelygurl:


I think the accent is fake. There's no way it can't be. It's extremely difficult, almost impossible for teenagers to not have the accent of the language they grew up with.

The fact that he even learned how to make the American accent sound so real! Lol I'm surprised but you know, I just don't think it's necessary.


Oh boy if I had the Nigerian accent grin . I will be rocking it up and down. It sounds like music!
you better stay there and master your hitlerian accent. lol
Re: Wizkid's Accent In Interview With UK’s Channel 4, Nigerian Twitter Goes Berserk by DJMicky(m): 10:09am On Apr 15, 2017
The guy is cool tho... Like that

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Re: Wizkid's Accent In Interview With UK’s Channel 4, Nigerian Twitter Goes Berserk by 2shur: 10:11am On Apr 15, 2017
Ow so we were colonised by who then.
Whose talking abt being behind.
Ive got million zeros in my acct.
So shut d fuc up .
U stupid ass wipe
U feel so frustrated b
Dumbest kid
skitkid2:

Why don't you type in Yoruba or Igbo?
Is English yours?

You sound so dumb with this comment.

This is exactly why we are behind,
Re: Wizkid's Accent In Interview With UK’s Channel 4, Nigerian Twitter Goes Berserk by Nobody: 10:14am On Apr 15, 2017
Omoluabi16:
you better stay there and master your hitlerian accent. lol


Loool let them catch you grin
Re: Wizkid's Accent In Interview With UK’s Channel 4, Nigerian Twitter Goes Berserk by Nobody: 10:19am On Apr 15, 2017
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Re: Wizkid's Accent In Interview With UK’s Channel 4, Nigerian Twitter Goes Berserk by KingRex1(m): 10:27am On Apr 15, 2017
Whoa
Re: Wizkid's Accent In Interview With UK’s Channel 4, Nigerian Twitter Goes Berserk by dederocs(m): 10:28am On Apr 15, 2017
Jobless trolls always got shit to say... Dumb idle zombies.
I love wizkid, great artiste, great style and intelligent.

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Re: Wizkid's Accent In Interview With UK’s Channel 4, Nigerian Twitter Goes Berserk by Smooyis(m): 10:29am On Apr 15, 2017
allrightsir:


do you see foreigners speaking your accent when they come to Nigeria? There is everything wrong with it, it's called Inferiority complex
Is English our language? I know if you see any oyinbo speaking any of our local languages you will be happy.

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Re: Wizkid's Accent In Interview With UK’s Channel 4, Nigerian Twitter Goes Berserk by Omoluabi16(m): 10:31am On Apr 15, 2017
lovelygurl:



Loool let them catch you grin
lol! they can't. German/russian English accent sounds so funny to me tho. The eventual demise of your naija accent is inevitable. You are what your environment is.
Re: Wizkid's Accent In Interview With UK’s Channel 4, Nigerian Twitter Goes Berserk by Temysteve(m): 10:31am On Apr 15, 2017
''Carry poverty like a badge of honour'' got me worried.
Re: Wizkid's Accent In Interview With UK’s Channel 4, Nigerian Twitter Goes Berserk by Nobody: 10:36am On Apr 15, 2017
Omoluabi16:
lol! they can't. German/russian English accent sounds so funny to me tho. The eventual demise of your naija accent is inevitable. You are what your environment is.

Lol the Russian accent is really funny. They always roll their 'r' like rrrrrrrrrrr, they love rrrrrrroling it grin
Re: Wizkid's Accent In Interview With UK’s Channel 4, Nigerian Twitter Goes Berserk by galaxy2020(m): 10:37am On Apr 15, 2017
That's good packaging.
Re: Wizkid's Accent In Interview With UK’s Channel 4, Nigerian Twitter Goes Berserk by thecommunist(m): 10:38am On Apr 15, 2017
why is he using the word "like" after every phrase .?
its like he used that word a zillion times...kilode!
But really, its only sounding british to us because we are not used to real british accent.
That will sound un-british to a real british ear.

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