tansho: How many times has the Queen of England travelled since you were born and compare that to the Ooni's travels. Or compare him to the Oba of Benin. Honest answers, pls
Why are our former oppressors the bar used by which we measure ourselves in the first place?
Trash. Anytime glad I did it with doing more than white they came in and destroyed it. Look at Tulsa Oklahoma for example. Black Wall Street. Look at what the jealous whites did. And it's a story that has replayed it so everywhere. African nations I still under financialized colonial. Using black proxies to do their bidding
Does the look like a domincan neighborhood to you like his fake ass said?
Crown heights is a West Indian and African American neighborhood along with a smattering of Jews. That clown is phony as all hell and googled his way into talking Brooklyn
sammhi: I think Ooni should bother more with how his IFE town will look like the country he is visiting so that other kings too would or can visit him. Running to another man country to display your magic is quite absurd..they should visit you and behold your wonders in your own place ... in the bible , kings from far and near viisted Solomon due to his wisdom and wealth.....that is greatness
I don't get this. He's in DC for an economic forum to revive Ife, and is leaving with a deal to build a health care island in the city and you still post this?
kendrick9: As a ruler of a kingdom, your utmost priority should be how u can better the life of your subjects/people...This ooni it seems doesn't have that in his dictionary,he's too busy galavanting and taking pics. And people are hailing him as if he's d secomd coming of jesus, nigerian mentality.. Smh
he just signed off on a multi million dollar health care island in Ife on Friday
Shym3xx: Loool. You are a circus clown (I won't even address you as a yank cos you're a naij clown that got dropped off the boat there lol).
I actually thought you're hood but your bummy arse is from Crown heights of all places. A place that won't even make top 5 hoods in Brooklyn and definitely not top 20 in NYC lol. I know of Bed Stuy, Brownsville, Flat Bush, East New York, and Red Hook. You are a nerd, so stfu when I speak.
I don't need to act hood cos I'm from Peckham the Narm, the grimiest hood in London (only Brixton can compete but my pygs pressured them on their own blocks)...Se15 with a 45 in ya face. The place where US come to pay for protection when they're out in London, you puzzy. A real one with scars, stars, and stripes from back in the day when I was active. I'll slap you in Crown heights and spit in ya face. What do you know about hood? You never banged; never shot food; don't know what a birdie is; never busted a 44 through a 4-door; and sure never learnt no street codes. So what the fvck is ya neeky arse telling me about hood for, you internet nerd?
Even proper yanks know those words are stolen British lingo. The same way they left their baggy clothes for our fashion style. I bet ya bum arse is going to claim the new urban fashion of slim fitted clothes popularised in the US by Kanye and ASAP Rocky after stealing our shyte in London. Heck, I have been seeing "Stone Island" which is our ghetto fabulous designer on US rappers, ASAP rocky, Game, Chris Brown, and Drake lately. Very soon when they popularise it - your bum arse would come here and claim it that it's US hood fashion, you neek lol. Also, all the biggest US hits today have the British sound and the generic form of our house music, created in London. And even the two biggest US hiphop tunes "One Dance" and "Panda" have British sound. I bet ya bum arse would soon claim them as US sound looool.
Yanks stole our words, our fashion, and our sound. "Nigger" and "Snitch" are British words started in the UK and they're part of our urban vernacular, you bum. And you're claiming Crown heights - the softest place in Brooklyn...stop claiming being hood, you neek. Chat shyte and get ya face slapped in Crown heights lol.
I've been all over Brooklyn and I've got cousins born and raised in Brownsville (Van Dyke projects). Been to the projects and jammed with real Brooklyn thoroughbreds and it's all love cos real recognise real. And every time I meet real yanks who are about that life, it's all love cos real recognise real. They don't tell us we stole their words cos they're enlightened enough to know that they're British words and they know about the hoods in London.
Fvck outta here, puzzy lool. Read ya books and stop watching too much hood movies loool.
sukkot: yeah I know crown heights. my american girlfriend in the past is from there. its lots of jews there. lots of friction between blacks and jews in the past when she grew up there. but yeah me myself I only talk that nigga shytt on the net. lol. in real life i try to keep it very sophisticated. but you know in a faceless forum you can be as crazy as you want lolzzzz
Lol...
I'm from Franklin Avenue, Crown Heights. Mostly Carribean and African American crown heights. The clap at you part of crown heights. I reaaaaally get annoyed hearing Nigerians talking hood knowing what I grew up around in crack cocaine 1980s through the 90s where bodies were being dropped left and right. Especially being around for real "Niqqas" on that talk that Nigerians and Nigerian Brits are forcing it into their vocabulary. For real "Niqqas" you see around the way knowing they have bodies on their resumes. For real "Niqqas" who when you're waiting for your Chinese food, they walk into the restaurant and you're PRAYING Chin Lee finished with your order because you want to get the hell outta there as fast as possible before he has a reason to notice you. For real "niqqas" you're relieved to hear that someone else bodied them. Dudes who aren't rappers.
So understand why I'm annoyed. I made it out of that trash alive. It wasn't an outfit to wear. It's still a part of who I am. That's why I get annoyed at Nigerians appropriating that language. They wasn't raised through this type of gun culture hell.
Shym3xx: Lmao...you're a clown! Who gives a shyte about where you were born and raised? I bet you don't know that the word "nigger" is an European word (Latin) and there were black slaves in England, before they were moved to Virginia, when King George decided to start a cotton plantation there and move them there, no? And they were called "niggers". And "snitch" is an English word from the word "snitcher" which can be substituted for "informer". So cos these words were popularised by the hiphop culture (hiphop isn't even really an American thing despite the fact that it started in the Bronx - it had more Caribbean influences at the beginning) - you think it's a US hood thing, yes? You're a clown!
You must think black people in the UK only eat tea and crumpet, and we don't have hoods here - effing clown. Hood vernacular is hood vernacular and most of these words are English words popularised by Americans. Just as the new fashion trend of wearing skinny/slim jeans and fitted clothes are European urban fashion from way back when Americans were wearing baggy clothes. Now they've copied our style and popularised it and I bet ya clown arse would also call it US fashion - hysterical.
If you want to know what London is like cos you're stuck in the US...watch and read the following:
^^^Those are ya New York "hood" nyggahs getting pissed on in London lool. Young Joc also got robbed for his big arse chain in London. Come to London and chat shyte, clown.
No one gives a damn about all that. "Niqqas" get Robbed everywhere. just stop fronting with black American talk. You're not from here . No one wants to hear Nigerians front saying "nee-gah" (that's how our people back home say it.)
Stop it. Speak your own lingo. It's a clown show hearing Fam speak that when not raised here.
sukkot: bruv i grew up on the mean cold streets of chicago. when i talk like dat its because i have lived it
NO CHICAGO!!
Bwahahahah I'm from Crown Heights, Brooklyn, born and raised.
The irony of that clown posting something from Dipset considering it was somebody that I knew that shot and Robbed one of them, now doing a life sentence for murdering one of their bodyguards. I take this niche is nonsense very seriously because I've seen actual African-Americans and other blacks die over it.all of this cute "niggah" talk is annoying. I had to put my half-brother in Nigeria in his place for trying some front like he's an American trying to talk to me. If you came here Trying to talk like that there wolves here would eat him alive.
Shym3xx: Lmao @ this delusional nyggah after I left you to bleed to death, whilst confused like the innate idiot you're.
Anyway, are you a snitch now as well cos I tormented ya life on this thread? My "SirShymexx" handle has been banned for a month cos I called you a monkey. What part of the game is that? You started shyte, got smacked, and now you had to snitch, my nyggah?
Snitches get stitches...stop snitching, biitch arse nyggah. Don't run ya mouth if you don't want to get smacked.
Being that I'm born and raised in New York, hearing Nigerian or Nigerian Brits speaking in U.S. Venacular (talking hood) is beyond embarrassing and is laughed at.
Please....all this "niqqa" talk, "snitches get stitches" doesn't sound right coming out of your mouths. Worse is me knowing folks who live here state side that have actually LIVED OUT that slang you so cutely mimic.
bayooooooo: That's great. We are interested in Ooni's activities because he is not just a king, he is the spiritual head of the Yoruba race and we don't want to see that throne demystified.
I put the itinerary together for the event at MoCADA. Invited are the Hitchens, Studio Museum of Harlem, Dance Africa (America's oldest festival dedicated to African dance) and other black organizations from the Diaspora. MoCADA is also moving to a $12million facility next year. They are looking for Yoruba artists to place their footprint in the museum. the intention is to forge ties with the diaspora and spread our culture.
bayooooooo: It's not pragmatic to expect Ooni to be given the same treatment as the Queen of England. Much same way a Buhari would not be given the same treatment as Cameron. Also, you are addressed as you dressed; and with the type of socio-economic conditions prevalent in Nigeria at the moment, I don't see how an Ooni or any other traditional ruler from Nigeria would command the sort of respect that some deemed to be standard. After all, Yoruba is not an independent nation; it's just one of several components of Nigeria.
Having said that, I implore our people to get past Owanbes when arranging this sort of visit for a prominent king like Ooni. I don't see the wisdom in Ooni having a reception at Whitehouse when he had not be specifically invited by Obama.It doesn't make sense. Why not secure a slot for him to give a lecture on Yoruba Culture in Diaspora in a top rated university like Harvard and then from there visit other places. That to me will reify his place as a sort of authority on Yoruba tradition than anything else.
Also, he needs to also stay in his palace and get a proper briefing on behavior befitting a king of his STATUS, at least within Nigeria. It is an eyesore for a king of his status to be visiting individuals the way he did. If he is interested in having conversation with Obafemi Martins, the proper thing to do is invite him to his palace. If he is not careful, demeaning stories of his activities, gossips about him, would soon populate tabloids.
I have members from the Hutchins center of African and African American research at Harvard coming to MoCADA to meet with Ooni on Monday. Also, there is a Yoruba/Ife historian who isn accompanying Ooni at MoCADA.
Ihuomadinihu: Just a point of correction, African diaspora tends to allign herself with Yoruba religion because it survived outside Africa but tends to key into the Eastern Culture or way of life. A lot of them see some facial and physical resemblance in Igbo people and assume their ancestors were igbos. I've seen some of them get genetic test just to see if they share dna with Igbos.
In the U.S., yes. Black Americans in particular look like Igbos. My current wife people are Geechie (South Carolina, U.S.) and are from originally from Sierra Leone.
SirShymexx: STFU kiddo, you think everyone has time to celebrate nonsense when it comes to what they're passionate about? You clowns are just fooling yourselves.
You stay desecrating thing ya forebears took millennials to build on the alter of idiocy and stupidity with superficial tripe and, you think I would be a party to that nonsense, yes? You must be out of ya cotton picking mind.
Just tell that clown to sit his wandering arse down, if he has nothing important to contribute to the culture and tradition.
Bwahahahahah. I don't think for everyone nor do I claim to be their spokesman. Bottomline, he's doing what you asked and you will move the goalpost to the next reason to be mad. You remind of a Kobe comic strip I wrote about a black sports writer trials and tribulations in a white newsroom.
SirShymexx: Stark illiterate, after that, he should sit his arse down with the who.re he turned into a housewife and stop using the throne to wander around in his quest to be a celebrity. Effing porch monkey.
Monkey, post pictures of both Odunde festival and Oyotunji when he visits both. I'll laud that. But stop making useless noise about nonsense he did as a tourist.
I'm done here. You talk sideways over the safety of the web when your very points came back to bite you.
SirShymexx: Porch monkey and dirty swine with amala for brain matter, create a thread for that when he graces the festival - not some useless noise they sensationalised. And tell that nyggah to sit his arse on his throne and be the proper custodian of the gods and culture, rather than wandering around like a bleating goat.
SirShymexx: You're an idiot for calling me dumb, you swine with village mentality.
Open ya fvcking brain for once and see stupidity when it strikes you in ya face.
You don't have to be a herd for everything. Use ya brain sometimes. That's the same way you worship Tinubu and Obaanjo, who're the two worst Yoruba leaders ever.
It's obvious you're a fool. Even your own "what he should be doing" criteria is coming back to bite you. He will be at Oyotunji village in that backwards part of South Carolina you're asking for.