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Na 50k be that,
100 dollars.
Inflation na real bad thing ooh! I remember when 50k naira was serious money, use am pay rent then. Use 50k buy land. Use 50k travel by air to and fro with extra change. Use 50k buy brand new laptop. Latest Blackberry then na around 50k.

southpole:
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you made a lot of sense. Thanks.

MONEY is GOD.
As if I knew that the whole brouhaha was about money.
T.B joshua kuku no dey declare Im net worth before. So no one knows just how much he commands monetarily.
It will be sad if the whole legacy of SCOAN is mud by financial defaults.
I hope this woman knows what she is doing.

Typical of tonto to enter controversy and drag it out till it wares off, just to enter another one not too long after.
Her and her kpekus of deep regret and sorrow. The kayamata don fade. It is what it is.

China is funding all these things.
china and russia. Their wild card.

Gbam.... honest and true point of view.

GDP is an irrelevant concept to the average nigerian on the street.

"Obi insisted that growth to GDP could only be celebrated in a country when people are happy with their disposable income and be able to take good care of themselves and members of their family."

- that is to say, GDP is only relevant when money still dey for hand after you don take care of yourself and your people dem.

Ask which states generated the VAT now, you will not see Kano and kaduna in top 10. Infact the entire north west no go dey top 15.

Over smuggled rice.
See what GMB turned foreign rice to.
No be cocaine ooh! Rice!!!

I've always liked this particular actress. One of the few whose acting doesn't irritate me. No matter the lighting condition her skin always radiant, her facial expressions are usually on point and her voice is great.
You're perfect for me shaaaa!

I'm yet to see a movie where her acting was bad.

1,950 official boarders and 1,000,000 unofficial boarders.

Our own Grammy winner Burna Boy, Is currently working with Jonbellion, I think Burna boy has gone global more than any other Nigerian artist currently, he dine with bigger artist and he's fans doesn't make noise like Wizkid fans that use comparison like food, Burna boys fans are mostly foreigners whites

amazing! Finally a jon bellion song I might like.
Gone global indeed.
Only Burna boy - sia, pop smoke, justin bieber, sam smith, dave, headie one, stormzy, j hus, DJ snake, rita ora.
The remaining part about wizkid fans was unnecessary.

Probably a line from one of his yet unreleased songs.

In as much as we want to blame government for everything, see what the holy and unblameable doctors are doing to themselves and Nigeria.

Truly amazing, one of the songs from the album that managed to elitize without any form of push. Las las make good music.

Ben ayade komolop chollop. Kom kom komolop chollop.

Henryfocoyo:
broda if you don't know you ask. Essence has already been recorded before tems came in side the picture. If you doubt me go and Wizkid interview or his behind the scenes of madeinlagos

MrBlock:
Essence was written by Wizkid, Tems, Legendary Beatz and Richard Isong.

charleybam:
If you like argue from now till dawn, Bigwiz is a Star and a Grammy winner,stop this your lame logic just because you don't like Bigwiz afro beats

You guys need to see what that thing wrote on the drake ft Tems announcement thread.

https://www.nairaland.com/6732604/drake-features-tems-certified-lover

When you check it, you'll understand that that person you're quoting is mentally deranged.

I just dey shock. This guy claimed that Essense is tems song from her "album" "for broke eardrum." That she featured wizkid and then wizkid put it on MIL.

I clear the guy.

Guess what he replied? That the song is on the deluxe of "broken eardrum."

I just dey laugh. This one don pass my power na kolo mental be this.
I kuku screenshot everything. Hopebringer wey Im life no get hope.

OnlyDeCapPlease:
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but at least listen to that water and garri EP, if there is anything you leave with from this.

Hopebringer:
[s][/s] Are you done ? WizKid and davido suck arse Tems and burna rule Now keep crying

Garbage in, Garbage out.

Hopebringer:
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Sharap it's a bonus track in the deluxe edition

garbage in garbage out.
SMH! You are just typing nonsense. Please use google stop embarassing yourself (na beg i dey beg). I don wash hand commot from your stupidity. Its one thing to be uninformed its another thing to continue wallowing in your ignorance.

Moura7:
Like it's easy to crack hot100 of a foreign white chat when you're not just black but of african citizenship.....I asked you to show me a Nigerian act that's done it before even with foreign features....just one, then show any african song that's made top30 sef. Now, the OG essence cracked the hot100, first nigerian song to do this. Now in the BB charts, the streams, sales, and airplay of a song is accumulated with remix(whenever it drops) and thus makes a song leapfrog in charts, same thing with an album and its deluxe edition too.

alas. Free education exists.

Hopebringer:
It's a tems song from he broke Eardrum album nitwit WizKid featured so it's also on his album.. seriously you are dense

ah-ah!!!!
Make I screenshot this rubbish wey you type.

Guy u are a dullard ooh! The way you are even doing it with confidence, my god

Hopebringer:
Go and look for tems broken eardrum album you dolt and look at song writer credits ..

WizKid and davido lack talent totally. Tems wrote essence it's on her album but WizKid featured so it's on his album too.

Men your IQ level is something else o. Why do you think drake featured tems and not WizKid if he wrote the song?

Rubbish

omo this kind lie is amazing! Jesus....!
First it's for broken ears not broken eardrum. That's the name of tems EP it's not an album.
Secondly Essense is not on any tems album. Tems hasn't released an album yet. But she has dropped an EP.
Essense is Wizkid's song, all this your shalaye no concern anybody wizkid is the only lead artist credited on it. Go and drag with him, if you can.
My IQ level is something else, but your own na Garbage ooh! Garbage In garbage out.
I fear for u ooh!

OnlyDeCapPlease:
What has filling 20k arena got to do with this very song Essence Ft Justin Bieber and Tems? You don't have to pull irrelevant stats to make you point. We are talking about this very song and it's overwhelming that without Tems, it wouldn't have gone anywhere or even got Justin Beiber on it. Anything else you are writing is just clutching at straws

You are just a die hard fan, end of.

Without Wizkid this song wouldn't have gone anywhere.

Moura7:
Lol.....I get their point sha, that Tems did pretty well even more than Wiz, but saying without her on track it wouldn't have gone far?...ah ah that's just wrong now. Some said it even exposed how talentless Wiz is. Not taking anything away from Tems but if Wiz chose to put her on a non promoted song like Smile
would these people still be talking.I remember when this essence came out, it was trending as trash on NG twitter, now the US have embraced it these same 9ja people have come to claim rubbish. Ojuelegba didn't do much on foreign charts because it was released when streaming and song sales were just beginning to find feet in 9ja but still it did madness internationally even without PR and a foreign label. When streaming giants like spotify and apple did their best afro beats songs of decade last year, ojuelegba was no 1 on both of them. See the madness joro did in south america last year.

you can't be more on point.

Moura7:
Lol...now I want you to also mention a song by a Nigerian act, lead or even featured(both by international and local artistes) that have even cracked bubbling under hot100 not to talk of hot100...and mind you, essence cracked hot100 before bieber...I think it did 58 before the remix that pushed it to 16. One dance came with the album views and it was the best song on that album....it was drake's first no1 song on hot100 as a lead artiste and was also had the highest weeks as number as at the time b4 GP...and to think it all this without a video o. Now to his second hot100 hit with Beyonce in Brown Skin girl, was also the best song on that Lion King album that boasted other mad features oo, even our own 9jazz heavyweights. It was the highest peaking song of that album on the hot100 and the only song there to win a Grammy...and now essence is his third and you're saying Wizzy wasn't influential in all these 3?....is it just a coincidence that the songs with him in them happened to do this good? In essence wiz gave tems a platform to shine( not taking anything away from tems, she did madness to the chance she was given). He allowed her to do her thing, she took the first part, did the chorus and even jointly did the third part...that he was laid back and more relaxed on his verse does make it weak at all.

Your answer is even more elaborate than mine. This lazy attempt to write wizkid out of the success of the song. How many coincidences make a fact?

OnlyDeCapPlease:
Listen. I like songs or hate songs. I have little or no time for the artists themselves. Personally, I love live music. Not live performance where instruments are played over a backing track, but complete live performance. For example, although I have no time for Tiwa Savage as a person, I absolutely love her Tiny Desk Concert performance because it was absolutely live and she did 100% justice to it vocally. The only thing missing from that performance was backing singers.

Now back to the matter. That song was written by Wizkid, Tems, Legendury Beatz (Uzezi & Okiemute) and Richard Isong. It was produced by Legendury Beatz and P2J. How many people involved? 5. Okay, let's give the producers who made the killer beat 50%, and give writers 20%. Wetin come remain? 30%. Okay, we all agree that vocally Tems killed it on that song, so we conservatively give her 20% for vocal performance. Wetin come remain for Wizzy? 10%, which is generous considering how weak his performance was on that track compared to Tems. So 14% influenced 90%?!

Now, please name one Wizkid song (not one where he was featured) that has gone as far as this song has gone?? Cracking top 20 in the main main US chart. Billboard 100, the holy grail of charts. Name just one? Even if you wan do ojoro mention "One Dance", he's performance on that song was reduced to a sample of a few seconds long. Basically non existent! Drake himself has a couple of number 1 hits in main charts all over the world where he didn't feature any artist or was featured.

If Wizkid's influence was so "great" (and I acknowledge that he is a gifted and talented performer) then why must he rely on featured artists? Can't he do it alone?

If at all anybody's influence is pushing the song, the it's Justin Beiber, just like Drake before him.

All in all, congratulations to all involved

- I don't really care about that whole first part. Wonder why you even brought it up.

""""Wetin come remain for Wizzy? 10%, which is generous considering how weak his performance was on that track compared to Tems. So 10% influenced 90%?!""""

Dude that 10% you put up there that "weak" performance is from one of the biggest Artists of his generation. Were not talking about speedarlington or joeboy here. So yeah 10% influenced 90% that is why his name is on the album.

Now no wizkid song has gone as far as essense no tems song either. But wizkid has come so far. Billboard is just a new plus for wizkid, you're talking like everything he is achieving now isn't a culmination of years of work. Essense isn't the first song on the album to gain popular notereity, the album itself has outlasted everything else put out last year.

"""Wizkid's influence was so "great" (and I acknowledge that he is a gifted and talented performer) then why must he rely on featured artists? Can't he do it alone? """"

- he is a benevolent giver who loves putting people on. His influence is so great he puts people on for chops.
Songs like joro and many other wiz songs are typical examples of wiz doing it alone it might not have been a BB100 hit but it's huge. Thanks to songs like that wiz has built Influence to even be in the conversation for a BBhot100. Thanks to songs like that wiz has a fanbase that streams and buys his songs. Thanks to songs like that wiz has sold out a 20k capacity arena 2 times in the past and 2 times in a year. So yes his influence is That Great.

Hopebringer:
When I told people that the song exposed how talentless WizKid is they were arguing Davido and WizKid are as talentless as wet paint Only burna and tems matter

who is this please. Someone call the circus, we have a clown on the loose.
A wizkid song on Wizkid's album going global shows how talentless wizkid is why are Burna fans so faux and depthless.

africandollar:
Name one please with the quality of voice Tems has. The only reason Wizkid featured her was because of her unique talent not because she dey sing like an average artiste. That girl sounds like Koffee and Burna Boy combined…her voice is what is getting her recognized, simple! It was just a matter of time for her to get the recognition she deserved.

that girl doesn't sound anywhere near Burna please. what is this, like are you people delusional or what?

Hopebringer:
Word
Not those talentless WizKid and davido . Once it's not burna or tems , count me out

wizkid & davido>>> burna

bobowaja:
But that her influence no fit blow "Mr rebel" and "try me". Una don carry Una simping enter music too?

simping

OldSkoolHeadBoy:
This gurl will go further than all those you have mentioned because her song and LYRICS has international appeal. For a long time I did not know that she is even a Nigerian. Tiwa Savage started very well too but she has lowered the standard by joining them to sing PANGOLO songs. The title of her latest effort; WATER & GARRI is a big turn off for me.

oga. About Tiwa savage. You typed nonsense. Go and listen to the EP, I doubt you have listened to it. But you have an opinion.

OnlyDeCapPlease:
Please that track will have gone nowhere without Tems on it. Its 100% Tems influence

that track will have gone nowhere if it was only tems on it. Just like her other songs. Explain that away, bolo!