Musician
Solid Star, took to Instagram to rant about the state of
things in the
Nigerian Music industry saying a lot of artistes are jealous
of each
other and don't support real talent.
Read what he wrote below...


Donald
Trump won the US election against all odds, and we
were all blinded by
the lies, propaganda and hype of the media. The media
even blinded
themselves bringing out polls and predictions that The
probability of
Trump winning against Hillary with all his scandals was
30:70. But at
the end he won and shamed everybody
This
is the same issues we have in our entertainment industry
in Africa, the
media have succeeded in blinding the fans from what is
real, pure and
good, from what real talent and good music is about. They
hype their
family and friends and ignore the ones that don't text
them good morning
everyday and form fake friendship with them. I am not
about the life of
faking or acting a friend in your face and do otherwise
behind your
back that is why I have little or no friends in the industry
cos even
the artists are jealous of each other and they don't
support real
talents because they don't want to be exposed.
This
is not directed to anybody or media house. It is a general
issue that
we all have to look into. Imagine an AWARD ceremony that
calls itself
credible, giving one artist an award and even made him
make a video
which was broadcasted on the screen at the award
thanking them and later
withdrawing the award to give to someone else. This
shows the
irregularities, partiality and mediocrity in the whole
system.

An
award organizers recently released a list and even though
I was
nominated I wasn't satisfied because the main category
that would have
meant a bit to me was missing on my nomination which is
best
raggae/dance hall. I can only pick one song out of the
whole bunch that
did a bit better than Wait refix ft Patoranking and Tiwa
Savage for
their year in view. No disrespect to any artist nominated
or the
organizers but somethings are just so wrong.
A
lot of talented artists have been ignored for so long that
they even
start doubting themselves. Even the Grammys which is
also not 100
percent credible have their flaws but try as much as
possible to
recognize real talent
These
African Award organizers bring together some bunch of
unqualified music
critics and whatnot to set up the nomination list and that's
where the
problem starts from and it leads to artists fighting on
social media
over a category. My management sometimes force me to
solicit for votes
for awards am nominated for because it doesn't impress
me at all and I
DONT like awards. Most of these guys you have awarded
ahead of me, met
me in the industry and today they are no where to be
found. I've been
regular and consistent since the day I dropped my first
single One In A
Million ft 2face Idibia and I have never gone a year
without dropping a
popping meaningful song. At the end of the day the award
plaques are
just meaningless and useless cos them go burn or rust
one day. And the
whole ceremony and intentions of the organizers is to
make money without
regard to the artists that put in their best to their craft.
I have never been the type to speak out about issues like
this. Just thought I should just free my mind small.
My name is SOLIDSTAR
and I have survived many years without your hype, even
though you think
my fan base is small, my fans are die hard and real and
they will
defend my music every day and everywhere whcih means
the World to me. I
have an album out on all platforms and the street
featuring the best
names and real talented artists with a few missing. #WEED
available
everywhere. Smoke on it, drink on it, sleep on it if you like
but please
support by buying it. God bless you. #SHABA

Source:https://www./post/3489/solid-star-rants-on-instagram-compares-nigeria-s-music-industry-to-trump

Lalasticlala

Nice 1 solid star. Lovely write up

Tobani kin duro.....mo ma duro o
Igba to ba se tan
ko je kin mo o…..je kin mo
Tobani kin duro, ife mi mo ma duro
Igba to ba se tan ko je kin mo

I love solidstar....absolutely no doubt he gat raw real musical talent. Reason why I follow him on instagram. What he said, undoubtedly is correct, infact absolutely correct.
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But he went too emotional with his outburst, he was also incoherent in his comparism with the Grammy award...expected him to appraise d Grammy with little credibility in his supposition, then I will tell him he is very very wrong.
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World over there is no award of such magnitude that is devoid of bias, politics or favouritism.....even if the process is arguably credible, fans or artist on the unfavorable end will create a picture of incredibility....
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Wizkid was just stripped of his latest mtv award, am glad u mention dat in ur post...daz pure politics at play, Kanye west had to ridicule Taylor swift and accused officials of bias in one of her major award...will that stopped thier shine as artist? ...absolutely No.
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So rather than make more enemies in d industry and within award organizers by labelling them incompetent...Allow ur work speak 4 you so that ur fans will do d bidding 4 u......Techno post wasnt up to 3 sentence in respect to his headies nomination on his instagram page but u could see d magnitude of disciples magnifying d whole tin on his behalf...eventhough some did it out of proportion.
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Solid star...u gat d stuff, I love ur music....u gat da musical talent bro

First of all, are u a Reggae/Dancehall artiste?
You should help Reggae artiste protest for not been nominated in that category.
Cynthia Morgan and Pato Ranking are wonderful Reggae/dancehall artiste but d songs dat got dem nominated are not dancehall songs.
Olowo and No kissing are kpokrikpor Naija Afro.
The only true Reggae/dancehall song on that category is Pam Pam by Ketch up.
Solid Star go sidon one place.

everything was OK till this point


"my name is SOLIDSTAR and I have survived many years without your hype, even though you think my fan base is small, my fans are die hard and real and they will defend my music every day and everywhere whcih means the World to me" ? .

True true,i no read that epistle

Bye!

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