Orblonde: Nice one MI but can you and your fellow artists start doing political songs that identify with the suffering of the masses and also taget our civilian rulers who are corrupt to the point that it is now evil. They are the ones that keep the people in the mess. I think that will be a better sevice to society than those Indecency lyric that Nigerian artist like you are obsessed with. Just a thought.

Dark Five:

Still a savage in your words

shymexx: These clowns stay writing 'pieces' when the country is in abyss...

Are there no activists in Nigeria?? If African Americans were writing 'pieces' during Jim Crow laws and civil rights movement - there would still be segregation in America... Fight for your country and your future, and stop writing nonsense... We know you can write, we need action... Get busy, or shut the fvck up...

Go hard, or go home..

shymexx: These clowns stay writing 'pieces' when the country is in abyss...

Are there no activists in Nigeria?? If African Americans were writing 'pieces' during Jim Crow laws and civil rights movement - there would still be segregation in America... Fight for your country and your future, and stop writing nonsense... We know you can write, we need action... Get busy, or shut the fvck up...

Go hard, or go home..

imiski: hw mny artiste shwd dia sympaty to d vitims i knw u would b one of those science students hu shiver at litreature nd neva had of d wrd dirge my advice to u shut ur f***k up

inurmind:

Dude do u think if he dedicated just ten seconds he would be able to write that or even bother to?

Understand figures of speech bros, figures of speech.

violent:




MI was kind enough to have dedicated "all of 10 seconds" of thought to it! He even wondered "briefly"!!!

Most people, me including, probably spent a couple of minutes after watching the video, with our hearts in our mouths and our eyes agape whilst screaming silently "OMG, how could this have happened"

In MI's case, he dedicated "all of 10 seconds".

10 seconds!..after which life went on as usual. I woke up this morning not remembering how 4 young boys were beaten, and forced to watch their death coming in a most gruesome manner in the hands of a mob who are so eager to see their flesh roast up in flames. Their human flesh roast up in flames!

Perhaps I'd take a different stance from MI on this. The hope was never the worst part of it all! The lack of humane feeling is!

A corpse they say, is just a corpse until that corpse is your pops! While the families of these boys will have to go on with the rest of their lives with the realization of how the lives of the people they cared for came to an end, MI and I (and perhaps many others) have simply spared '10 seconds shedding a tear' and then moved on with our lives only with an occasional reference to the incidence and some faith that Justice will be served.

In a much civilised environment, the public will be outraged by this singular act of savagery, so much so it may threaten the stability of the government of the day. People wouldn't just sit back and wonder...and curse...and hope...and pray...and write fancy notes and then move on with lives. In those communities i described, there's a genuine humane feeling, borne out of the realization of the knowledge that we all share a common heartbeat.


The story of April a girl of 4 who went missing in the UK comes to mind. The immediate community reaction was forceful, hopeful, urgent and pronounced with hundreds of people volunteering to help the police in their search. This is a community where true humane feelings are found in the minds of people. In my own country, where four men were beaten to a pulp and burnt to death by their own friends, people simply dedicate "10 seconds of full thought"...then curse...then wonder...then hope...then pray...then life simply returns to normal!

#ashamedtobeNigerian!

shymexx: I'm out here fighting against injustice where I live - Nigerians in Nigeria need to do the same...

When you guys are ready for a change, hit me up - but for now, stay writing 'pieces' and making tunes that dumb down the IQ...

shymexx:

BWahahahahahahaha

I'd be jealous if the guy can actually write lol... And from what you wrote up there, I see why that 'piece' got you excited lol... The impromptu writings I post on NL daily, without proof reading, and spell checking, are better than the junk MI wrote up there...

Let me educate you on how great poets get down:

- Benjamin Zephaniah - one of the greatest black poets ever is also an activist... He doesn't just sit there and write, he goes out and protest all the time... This great man also rejected a MBE from the Queen - that shows how 'militant' he is...

- Maya Angelou - one of the greatest poets ever used to be an activist as well... She was part of the civil rights movement, and she also travelled around Africa with Malcolm X... She stood and fought with her people..

- Wole Soyinka - I don't need to tell you much about him since you're Nigerian...

I do it all: write, protest, and I fight against injustice...

oubi:

Na Ʊ dumb pass.. Ђφw could Ʊ tink dat M.I is a poet

iyeyemi:
Bros...effecting change is a sum total of actions, omissions and commissions directed at creating such an impact. It's assuming that there is only one way to change things that is responsible for the inertia and unwillingness to move forward. He wrote his mind and he makes sense, sense enough to make a few folks concerned about the issue. That's a step, it may not be enough, but it is still a step. He has a voice and he is using it to speak in condemnation...bro whichever way you want to dice it..that's a step.

shymexx:

But for how long, though?? If the slaves never revolted en masse, do yu think slavery would have stopped when it did?? They had to stop because it wasn't as viable as it used to be, and slaves were revolting - they were not writing 'pieces'.

African Americans had to protest and fight with their blood, sweat, and tears - to end segregation, and get to where they're today... They had to fight for it, they didn't just sit there and write 'pieces'.

In the UK, London was pissy poor and dirty like 100 years ago with homeless people everywhere - the people had to fight the elites before social reforms were introduced... And they had to build council houses for them, to shut them up... Black people in the UK also fought for most of the things they're enjoying today...

Why can't Nigerians fight in their own country?? The country belongs to them, and the people ruling them look like them - why are they scared?? Writing crap won't do nada!!!!

shymexx: These clowns stay writing 'pieces' when the country is in abyss...

Are there no activists in Nigeria?? If African Americans were writing 'pieces' during Jim Crow laws and civil rights movement - there would still be segregation in America... Fight for your country and your future, and stop writing nonsense... We know you can write, we need action... Get busy, or shut the fvck up...

Go hard, or go home..

markovnikoff001:

Why do people make statements and think they are exempt from the same movement they are trying to promulgate? Shymmex, how hard have you ever gone for Nigeria? So I say....practice what you preach or vamoose!

shymexx:

You're a dolt!! Why can't you read the context in which my post was made?

The guy said I was jealous of M.I's 'literature', and I showed him that most of the great black poets/writers are also involved in activism, just to buttress my point..

No one cares about writing crap, get involved in activism, or shut the fvck up, period...

markovnikoff001:

Why do people make statements and think they are exempt from the same movement they are trying to promulgate? Shymmex, how hard have you ever gone for Nigeria? So I say....practice what you preach or vamoose!

iyeyemi:
Technically the 'african slavery' you speak of lasted for nearly 500 years. Nigeria as a nations is not 60 years old yet. So we muct always put things in proper perspective. How many of our religious leaders who have the ears of the people in government ever speak up against misrule? How many of our business leaders and elite say anything adverse against the establishment? So expecting MI to do more than just 'write' for me is stretching expectations a bit. Would he wake up and start demonstrating all the way to aso rock because he wants to effect a change?

shymexx:

Technically, Nigeria has been in this sorry state since 1914, no?? Slaves were revolting right right from when slavery started - Nat Turner got busy with his guns in the 1800s, Igbo landing in virginia, Jamaican Slave Revolt in the 1800s, the Brazilian slave revolt in the 1700s, Haitian Revolution in the 1700s - bear in mind that these people were powerless, but they still fought with lives against injustice... Don't disrespect these great black men and women - they were 'bravehearts'..

M.I is part of genre of music, which was created by activism - Hip Hop = fighting against injustice... He has the tools, and he has to lead by example, not writing worthless crap... Get people together and fight... Time is of the essence, fight the power and make a change...