₦airaland Forum

YOU KNOW WHAT? I DONT THINK THE LINKS ENOUGH. SO HERE YOU GO

IN YOUR FACE
(and these are the words of a perfectly neutral foreigner, a seasoned hip hop head. not some biased internet pseudonym. are you still talking huh? i didnt think so)


Mode 9 :: Pentium IX :: Questionmark Records
as reviewed by Jordan Selbo
Forget the fact that Mode 9 was born in the UK and now reps Nigeria—whatever else you know or think about dude, know that he is PASSIONATE. In the effort he applies to honing his craft of emceeing, in his desire to keep Nigerian Hip Hop quality, as well as in his blatant disrespect for those that opt to perform and support lazy commercial rap. It's the passion of an assured veteran, the kind that speaks through actions. It's appropriately then that Mode 9's newest project, a 21-song mixtape that rivals anyone else's most carefully polished and sequenced major label release, is a supremely dope slice of Hip Hop. In the best sense, this boom bap flavor is timeless, skillful and universal. Seriously, if it weren't for Mode's slight French-inflected accent and his occasional references to his city of Lagos, I'da sworn this was released alongside "Hard to Earn," "Illmatic" and "Liquid Swords." And though it's not quite as classic as those albums, it does have the same flavor and swagger.

To start with his lyrics I gotta start with the voice: Mode 9 possesses an instantly recognizable and imminently strong instrument, both gravelly and deep (sounding similar to RA the Rugged Man) but also pleasingly melodic (due no doubt to his subtle accent, which comes off as a Wyclef-when-he's-not-singing-wack-shit vibe). His flow is airtight, never even slightly slipping off beat or sounding strained. The content varies considerably, covering everything from social commentaries ("Lagos State of Mind," "Pain", to relationships ("Gentle Wind", and even global economics ("419 State of Mind Pt. 2 Revisited". But clearly Mode's specialty is straight get-up-in-dat-ass battle raps. He excels with lyrics heavy on punch lines, sprinkling in the occasional scientific or technical jargon, packed to the gills with clever metaphors and cultural references. Examples of amazing lines from just one recent listen include: "throw sand in your food if you ever try to crunch me/ you got weak lines but still wanna bungee" to "making more headlines than cornrows and partings" to "I'm off the hook like wack singers on the chorus." Seriously, the dude puts more thought into any one16 bar verse on "Pentium" than most commercial cats put into their whole joints. He often comes with so much craft that it's easy to miss how clever seemingly throwaway lines like "play the wall like Peter Parker" are. It's also important to note that it's clear Mode is one intelligent and well-versed cat, but he manages to be himself and sneak plenty of knowledge into his raps without ever sounding preachy or egghead.

Beat wise, it's even more apparent that Mode takes his inspiration from the second renaissance of East Coast Hip Hop (circa '94-'96). The boom bap vibe includes a liberal use of scratched choruses (a la Premo), basslines that are understated yet chunky and whole, and beats in that New York state of mind. Besides keeping your head nodding, there are also enough interesting flourishes to keep you pressing rewind. Just a few highlights include the gentle guitar loop on the aforementioned "Lagos State of Mind" (big ups on the clever flipping of Nas' original title, by the way), the eerie vocal chorus on "Elbow Room," and the mournful violins of "360 Poetry." I could go on…

In short, if you're a fan of that NY aesthetic of the mid-90's, or of clever and fresh lyrics, or of quality Hip Hop in general, "Pentium IX" is definitely recommended. Matter fact, I'm confident enough to say that anything by Mode 9 would probably be dope. Because it's a mixtape, "Pentium" does lack some cohesion (but as the songs keep coming up dope, I didn't seem to even notice). And my copy is edited, but thankfully expletives are relatively sparse and the censorship of them is creatively undertaken. Never falling to that mass appeal, and straight from the heart, the man is on a mission to almost single-handedly raise Nigerian Hip Hop out of the muck of east money pop rap bullshit. And he just may be skilled enough, and yes, passionate enough to do it. Some haters may claim that in doing so he seems mired in nostalgia for that mid-90s East Coast sound (and maybe the cultural dispersion from US to Nigeria makes this more than merely a choice), but if that's the case, I'm not complaining!

Music Vibes: 8.5 of 10 Lyric Vibes: 9 of 10 TOTAL Vibes: 8.5 of 10

Originally posted: November 21, 2006
source: www.RapReviews.com

Gbade.X you really got this up yours for real now. did you check the link from kaydee yet? i didnt have time thats why i didnt include it in my post when i referred to it.

well here it is again for good measure
http://www.rapreviews.com/archive/2006_11_pentiumix.html

and one more time for the heck of it

http://www.rapreviews.com/archive/2006_11_pentiumix.html

when u thru reading it delete /2006_11_pentiumix.html from the url and it takes you to the archive page. then look for sauce kid, read his review and come back , then we can talk

oh my bad !! he's not listed there? damn!! i thot he was the illest, a true hip hop authority, a force to be reckoned with?

N I G G A P L E E E A S E !!!!
ENOUGH ALREADY

you see the funny thing about sauce kid groupies is that they cant type one line of objective ish if only to save their lifes. it must have words like "yansh" "pussy" "ghetto P" and "sauce". ppssst, savages!!!. its like they just programmed. 

gbade.x like i'd expect a saucekid fan to giv me reviews on which and which is mode9's best and worst tracks. , lol

if you follow my posts i've always maintained that Saucekid and Rugged man are really talented, but just not hardcore enough to have a shot at the heavyweight title of best spitter, but you guys, u just naive, biased one sided little p r i c k s. you never give modo credit.

Sauce KID, you great, i know you reading this,you've got real talent, but you need to tone down on the internet hype  man. first time i heard about you it was because of your "beef " with sauce, which modo has till date never truly acknowledged, don't you see that he sees you as a distraction, a nuisance. fine its like the mob, when u appear on the scene, you try to take out the reigning kings and establish your gfamily, but dude this aint New york, shit don't work that way down here. you got to earn respect man, YOU GOTTA EARN IT. and then the internet hype thing, well that just didnt work out for you, great marketing idea but men , you over did that one. in marketing , you don't want to be all in peoples faces, it becomes annoying. if i'd heard you independently of those factors , i'd hav prob loved your ish and then like every artist you'd have grown on me and many more nigerians, but your beef and hype tactics just don't work here in naija, so you alienated a huge chunk of your potential fan base by pulling that ish,

dude its just advice man, you can still turn this around.


and @ thecolonel tupac and biggie took pictures and corresponded with each other at the height of their beefs, it was publicity, now i aint saying that modo and rugged are seriously beefing , but if you don't know that ruggedy baba was aimed at modo and germs at rugged then i seriously do not need to be speakin to you


and i love rugged too, just that mode's got a point on the real hip hop thing.

so this is my official make-up with all sauce and rugged fans and i know modo's fans are with me, yo lets squash this ish and be really objective and support our artistes okay? but soon as anyone starts running their mouths about being the greatest when they aint fought mohammed ali, the gloves are f u c k i n g off


are we square?

djchronic psssstt !!!!!! over here!! quick, take cover!!!! u in the open!!!
check out the meaning of "subliminal" before u post ok?

LEST THE REST OF NAIRALAND KNOWS YOU A DUMB F U C K

if you cant see the lyrics as a jab at rugged, then you lost Foool, or what you think the two little mice intro to the mixtape was about
or are the lyrics a bit too advanced for your weak mind to comprehend?
stirring up shit ? yeah i love to do that !! thats why i mentined sauce(to see his groupies work themselves in an impotent rage, i love that S H I T and you fell 4 it) did you read my post? i mentioned it there! so say something new.

seriously can you read? and who the F U C K said anything about being an artist so whats up with the demo , not every fan is an artist like y'all trying to create false hype about themselves online P U N K

okay i know that the subject is pretty sensational but but conspiracy theorist that i am i cant help but feel that track 10 of the pentium ix mixtape is a subliminal jab at commercial rappers, probably ruggedman, i only added saucekid cos i just love watching saucekid (yeah sauce we know you patrolling the forums when u should be in the studio working on your flows) and his fans get in a defensive frenzy.

anyway here are the lyrics for GERMS , tell me what you think, i'm seriously feeling this song right now, definitely among the best of , i wonder why no one has mentioned the track before, check out the wordplay , punchlines and metaphor, yeah you got it, i'm a mode9 fan, bite me

Go ask your boy, i rock from lagos to sokoto,
pure skill
and i'll never go Jogodo,
for mass appeal
its from the heart like ko ko ko oh oh oh
everybodys gone pop,
commercial rappers always hoping, that i flop,
when i won that award heard you nearly blew your top,
cos i kept it real, and everyone thinks i'm hot,
without the half naked dancers i blow any spot,
through the rooftop, whether they know me or not,
i ain't pac, i dont give a , what you got
attack da mic like an angry, , this is war
you got the peace sign in the air (scream) nooo
your surgeon, better be good at the jigsaw,
cos i'm ripping you to pieces, for calling me a biter,
I'm deadlier with bars than a shaolin pole fighter
dont test i'm coming off the head tighter,
i flash up my lighter,
burn your advice
state the obvious, the world knows i'm nice
while you're cold footed, like a nudist on ice,
step to me , scapegoats, get sacrificed



i rock a mic with d surgical glove
cos i dont like, wont touch, aint feeling germs
if the crowd aint showing me love,they just nothing but fickle minded dumb ass germs

When i started rapping ,i wasnt ready for the fame,
wasnt used to the stares, so i stepped up my game
got a killer flow,
marking time, to get the dough
made a lot of sacrifices, no regrets though,
wont let go
till my wall is platinum clad ,
only go pop, when i call my dad,
still got my baggy jeans on , never follow fads,
many rappers compromise skills for the wad,
they need to hang a mind the glass sign on they pad
cos what they write is transparent, how sad
the industry got you getting all your fans mad
they played you , now you all alone lad
when it happens, just shrug it off like 'shoot my bad'
you be talking about who you were and what you had
game over dude, you fell for the stinker
swallowed all the proof, its hook link and sinker
now you trying to come back like i'm a keep it real,
chill too late , no second chance though
you sold out, claiming you got pushed against the wall
instead of fighting back, under it you crawled

i rock a mic with d surgical glove
cos i dont like, wont touch, aint feeling germs
if the crowd aint showing me love,they just nothing but fickle minded dumb ass germs

Kaydee, i'm seriously surprised that you didnt ask that question at the beginning of the thread and save yourself all the stress of arguing with dem sauce kid groupies,
please please please tell me anywhere or any song  where mode9 or any of his fans said antything about originality you dumb F  u  c  k  s. all he says is try and keep it real for hip hop. what if i tell you xhibit was not the originator of his paparazzi beat, do your research

no one says mode9 is or his fans are the final authority on hip hop,
all we saying is that sauce kid and rugged man while talented artistes are just too commercial to be taken seriously
mode9 is the closest thing to serious hip hop we got in naija that can rep us anywhere in the world. Jesus Christ his pentium IX mixtape was equated with "Hard to Earn," "Illmatic" and "Liquid Swords." by jordan selbo of rap reviews, so what the hell are we talking about here.

you guys give it a rest, lets be objective,
if nas and rakim and talib kweli came to naija and  heard ruggedman, saucekid and modenizzy perform , who you think they would identify with? just ask yourselves that and be true to yourselves and we'll squash this beef once and for all

its jerry ma-f**king -guire[i](jerry Maguire)[/i]

there was a time
its 4.30
no you got me wrong, i wasnt asking about the time, i said there was a time
look i just,
see red head over there? pretty foxy isnt she?
she's 70,
if shes a day, but, there was a time, lucky number slevin

charlie chaplin entered a charlie chaplin look alike contest and came out third, now thats a story, lucky number slevin

I see dead people. THE SIXTH SENSE

we can, and we will, braveheart

There are one, the ring and the dark lord, LOTR

There are 2 books on my bedside cupboard lieutenant, the guantanamo bay marines code of conduct and the king james bible. the only proper authorities i know of are my commanding officer col. Nathan R. josurb and the Lord our God, a few good men

seriously i am more alarmed at the fact that you do not know they are scammers and u supposed to be a learned graduate? a cmpany this big uses a gmail account? please, and did you visit their website? guy smarten up and look sharp okay

making love out of nothing at all, Air supply
total eclipse of the heart, bonnie tyler, these are the absolute best and passion filled love songs of all time and are my best.go find them , listen and come back and thank me

Dude what are you posting about.?avril and blidge never retired. please get your facts straight

everyone samples, nothing wrong in that

are you people serious about this topic? i have all the albums, singles and sountracks enya ever recorded. satanic? more like heavenly. so please can we discuss more important topics like why does one of my nuts hang lower than d other?

tosinadeda do you not see that u are indeed the stupid one. see how guilty conscience is catching you. i addressed my post to whoever started the threead and that is skingo and not you . did u see your name in my post, ? shut d Bleep up already, no one spoke to you dickwad

A WORD TO SAUCE KID AND ALL HIS FANS/PSEUDONYMS ON NAIRALAND
sauce fan and nicechick aka saucekid, you should quit already. you have not the single idea about marketing and promotion. you've made more people in these forums hate saucekid more than you've made them like him.OPENING UP MULTIPLE THREADS TO HYPE YOUR SELF SAUCE KID when threads already exist where you are being discussed is stupid. just cos you see people are tired of the old threads and no longer visit them, how stupid can you get. by your gross overhype, when people actually hear saucekid they are severely disappointed and the interest and patience which they would have had for him turns to incomprehension and animosity because they read all your hypes over someone they consider upcoming , commercial and mediocre. so at the end of the day, you thinking you're helping him when all you're doing is hurting him and his career. SHUT UP ALREADY.

"Dem prefer me when I been be/ hard core/
Like when I dropped What If and split the air waves/
Bur financially that left me grounded like Nigerian Airways /
What if I tell you say I only do one or two shows/
What if them no pay me well enough to buy one good shoe or some good clothes?/"

Gbade.x i would really love to believe that you are educated. let me give you the benefit of that doubt. what about the above quote do you not understand?? so where do you get off saying i'm reconstructing my own meanings from it. its written in english abi? and ytou said it yourself, no metaphors and innuendos so its clear to all.

dude i only used the word snitching because thats the term u guys have been bandying all over the thread so lets not argue semantics okay. you know what the thread denotes by snitching, dont even argue english with me, you dont want to go there

i love rugged man so dont even say i'm looking for ways to hate him but the dude just aint hardcore and neither is he keeping it real. like someone said higher up in the thread it doesnt matter what u bust in as long as you do it the right way. and the right way is metaphors and punchlines, thats what hiph op is about, rugged man is a commercial rapper , at best an entertainer, but we love him for it


and thank you for saying battle rappers do lyrical battle all the time.
case in point: mode9 is not a battle rapper and yes he is a bigger boy. sauce kid is too small for him,

you heard recently that to in an attempt to give himself more street cred and to aid his lil bow wow to bow wow transition, his promoters advised him to call out battle and he picked will smith and publicly disses will. while we all know that will smith aint no hardcore rapper but he is a legend and a hip hop pioneer and deserves respect. did you see will smith engaging in lyrical battles with the kid? no way. because as soon as he mentions bow wows name in a song , he has given him street cred and has endorsed him as a lyrical contender if not equal, so will smith ignored the little twit.

thats the same thing with modenine and sauce. sauce is just a lil twit .

gbade.x i'm not one to get into beefs and dissing but you really have to be objective about this whole ish.now i love rugged mans songs , i feel he can be a very talented and real rapper if he wasnt sooo commercial but he is a self proclaimed sell-out to hard core rap or are you not listening to the lyrics of rugeddy baba. i advise you scroll up and read it properly. he knows he is a sell out and is just giving excuses as to why, and yes he rose to the top of the scene snitching out on rappers eedris and maintain and rasqui, now no one is saying that the snitching wasnt a good thing, but it was snitching alll the same.

and its exactly the same kind of shit that sauce kid, ghetto P and their lame ass whack crew were trying to pull on the ninestine. they heard naija music was blowing up and the way they felt they could appear on the scene was by calling out battles with naija's finest, read the forums and see how he, under his pseudonyms which we see thru hypes himself on killing gino ina freestyle battle and allegedly calling mode9 out to battle. its all marketing and i'm sorry you cant see thru all this. mode 9 saw thru it and wouldnt be bothered, like he said in one of his interviews, if you feel that you're all that pay your dues and make your name and dont try to piggy back your way to the top.

its easy to sling insults and to tear people new arseholes lyrically, any idiot can achieve that, ,.i'm just glad mode9 was the bigger man and ignored their childish antics

are we oin the same planet. The game is still with Dr. Dre so you guys find out facts before starting threads okay.

it was by text message

omo i wrote the test too and the place is really kool and i'd love to work there but still waiting on them. just have hope sha, if its yoiurs nothing can take it away. 1love

thats paycheck. payback is mel gibson

okay i am soo loving this thread. pity i've been a member and i havent stumbled upon it. i think navigation in this site should be improved and people please i'm a movie buff, lets not just mention okay films.i'e the film is okay and the film is cool .lets mention only movie that you really do not need to die without seeing. rock your socks off , blow your mind away movies.
my all time favorites that everyone should see before facing God are:

A few good men (Jack Nicholson, Tom Cruise, Demi moore, Kevin Bacon)
the best court room drama movie ever, tom cruise and demi moore are great in the love-hate roles they play. contains such classic lines as "you cant handle the truth" and the last tirade by Jack nichoson is one of the best known  in movie hiustory

contact (Laura linney, james woods, angela basset)
excellent science fiction movie for sci-fi buffs and intellectuals only who arei isaac asimov followers tired of seeing aliens depicted as homo sapien look alikes with green skin , multiple appendages and corrugated foreheads. its long and has an anti climatic ending so mediocre will not like it. great movie

mystic river (sean penn laura linney tim robbins james woods samuel L jackson)
oh my God. if you havent seen this movie you really cannot kick yourself enough. Clint Eastwoods directorial debut and he ultimately kills . another full lenght movie sean penn is a piece of work as the lovable gangstar jimmy. it will blow your mind away. YOU NEED TO SEE THIS MOVIE. CONTAINS CLASSIC LINES AS "the death part you do on your own but i could have helped her with the dying" "my daughters car is covered in blood and you got dogs. shawn. why you got f**king dogs? you looking for my daughter shawn?" sean penn proves why he is still one of the greatest


lord of the rings.
you want a review ? are you serious. the ultimate must see movie

Conspiracy theory (Julia roberts and mel gibson)
excellent movie featuring the two stars at their best performances ever. a subtle and concise mixture of humour and serious thriller type stuff , its an entertainer.

Scarface
arguably the best crime/ gangstar movie ever made

Payback
a lot like conspiracy theory as in humor and thriller, another great movie

The Devils Advocate keanu reeves and al pacino and charlize theron
now i know these movies are not too recent but my next post i'll talk about some of the newer movies which are must watches,

and thief of hearts you are sooo right. guys are sooooo not supposed to like desperate housewives, i can hardly stay in the same room its being shown in.

Now this review is kind of long, but i assure you its well written, comprehensive and entertaining. so if you didnt go for the show just read it and you'll get a feel of what you missed, if you went, read it to see if you have a difference of opinions with me. anyway just read it, its entertainign at the very least.

okay, this year i'm spending xmas away from home(asaba). thats because my 2 sisters both got married this december and i just can't stand to do the 6 hour journey from lagos to asaba a third time so i decided to hang out with my newly wedded sis and her husband. (i aint a spoil sport, they asked me to stay plus its a large house so they still got room for whatever, whenever, you get what i mean. )

anyways i got to teasing them about having become their parents,  all serious, money talking and land buying adults when i knew them less than 3 years ago in school as suya eating club hopping types, so i was entrusted with the task of picking one of the many shows being organized in lagos  and thanks to silverbirds aggresive marketing( they own the station, what you expect) i chose rhythm unplugged for us to attend. plus in the tv commercials i saw lots of flesh baring , butt shaking girls doing their thang, and seriously, you can never go wrong with half naked twitching asses. lol.
i'm sorry, on to the review. anyway we got there at 7 on the dot as advertised on the nicely printed 3k admission tickets and went through the whole admission process which included the putting on of the one wear adhesive identification wristwear and then a bunch of scantily clad christmas gear wearing playboy bunny looking hotties accosted me and i was tagged with a translucent thingy. funny i didnt see any of the girls faces, i was too busy looking elsewhere(hint on how scantily clad they were. )

anyways we got to the venue deep within the hotel in a courtyard thingy, place was well arranged, white seats directly in front of and aroung a well arranged stage with usual deckings of promoters banners, mtn, macleans, guiness blah blah blah. suya man smoking up a storm at the back, drums of drinks ranging from smirnoff ice to water.
we sit and wait for two hours and show starts at nine , two hours later with the rhythm unplugged soundtrack and a bevy of dancing beauties, which i missed because my brother and his seriously underaged date appeared on the scene and asked me to come get them at the gates , just my luck. anyway i get back just in time to miss them so you realise how peeved i am at this point. but everything went uphill from there.

the show started with 5 finalists of the rhythm unplugged talent hunt auditions. the first guy a strong voiced ghetto soldier with enough talent to make him the next african china. next up an absolutely talentless decked in red mediocre rapper with absolutely no skill, hardcore or commercial, the guy was a dud. next up was a really talented guitar player but you know how nigerians are, classic works but we love head bobbing. next up was a sweet toned usher dancing like youngster with an easily identifiable commercial hit track if properly produced "if na me". sang well, stage performance beautiful and the crown loved his dancing but to me he had just enough touch of feminity in his moves for me to actually question his sexual preference, but hey, he was singing about chicks , so whatever. last up was a young man singing a yoruba flavoured xmas themed song keresimesi, hope i spelled that well, yoruba peeps forgive me. he was great, would make a perfect addition for the olorioko singing infiniti, he sang that way. anyways the crowd goes wild for everyone xcept for the red wearing twit but time for voting and the usher guy wins, a recording contract with ojb as producer and promised massive airplay of tracks and videos on stv radio and tv. he gives props to his mum and the crowd goes wild when she stands up,,dude i swear i was checking out this babe when i came in, she was that hot and trust wildchild of rhythm 97 to hit on her.

then the show begins and the anchors okey bakassi and julius agwu are simply spectacular, easily complimenting each other and feeding off each others jokes and punchlines. their mceeing alone was worth at least 1k of the ticket price. then they begin announcing celebrities , musician and comedian interchangeably. now i can't remeber the exact sequence so i'll just give my impressions on the noteworthy ones.

Omo baba starts and is absolutely loveable from opening tag line "sexy nigga, fine boy" to his last joke about oasanjo. he was awesome

Teju Baby Face: the list of clebrities were a mile long so each was was allowed a few jokes or a couple of songs. Teju baby face was great, i think i loved his jokes best, Asa came on and put on an a passion filled performance, sadly of her only hit track Aya dara if i spell right, i think shes great but she needs to work on her music. eryka badu wasnt made on just "on and on" or tracy chapman on "what's the song again?". aya dara can only get her that far before people get bored.

SID comes on stage and mouths off to his cd with full vocals playing in the backgroiund so its hard to appraise his true talent level or stage representation. his songs were dipped in vulgarity and one had serious sampling of Dbanj's trademark  lingo "long thang" and "the koko" which was in my opinion a minus for him. he struck me as not being different from the average wannabe on the street only that he had more connections and money to get him great beats. he had to soften the crowds reaction by first mentioning that he was a trybesman albeit unknown. but thats debatable. he didnt leave either until he let us know he was justus esiri's son. fine. can you sing?

infiniti comes on next and render a truly brilliant  live performance of their hit track olorioko. you could actually hear them singing with just instrumentals playing in the background and this helps reaffirm my earlier conclusion that these dudes are talented. the crowd visibly enjoys their performance as indicated by heavy singalongs and concluding applauses. serious contender for performance of the night.

obiwon comes next all decked in white, dancing too v igorously as usual and performs get em off me and onyinye. he is however unable to say the entire chorus of get em off me in one breath as is erroneously portrayed in the audio and video versions. a minus for him. okay performance

other comedians come on including AY and some others but i'm not a huge comedy fan so i'll say great jokes were told although basketmouth come on unprepared , sweating, panting and in a general state of "dishevellment" and then insults us by trying to pass it off as part of the act. great jokes anyway, as usual and didnt fail to promote his own show on boxing.

back to music. African China comes on and does his thang by performing his two hit tracks mr president and the one about the job and laughter thing. great performance but he kept referring to his attempted rape incident in london that made people start to question his innocence. but it was all good, he is truly one talented musician , makes me wonder how he was beaten by marvellous benjy for best reggae at the HHW awards, well i guess we should thank the long hand of kennis music for that.

tosin martins comes on and performs his olo umi track and that gets my sister a trite excited considering the song was her weddings theme song. great performance.

Niyola comes on, an artist previously unknown to me but blows me away, the crowd doesnt really feel her, as is normal with female R' and B singers but you can see real talent there, plus shes got a great frame, sexy sized waist and a washboard tummy. seriously had me "junior adjusting" with her dance rhythms.

Kafee comes on with her team of guiness book of world record winning partners and entertains with great dance sequences most notable being a sequence where the guys grab the girls tits from behind and the girls feign anger. i wonder what got my attention in the move,  which reminds me , i hear a titty bar is opening in lagos this christmas i'e strip joint but its exclusive membership and not just walk in  off the street entertainment. guess that should have to do with the legality of strip clubs in naija. but i'd love to be an exclusive member if you get my drift so anyone with details please let me know ok.

and then the heavies start to come on.Danfo driveres come on and rip the crowd apart with earth shattering stage performances of danfo driver and kpologo. serious contenders for performance of the night.

next is the sauce kid. now i don't know why i'm mentioning him as part of the heavies but he came after mountain black and mad mellon so i guess someone considers him a heavy. not me though. i finally catch the twit in a live performance. he comes on with a group of trouser on the hip wearing chain decked back up show me love and mad props type figures. he gives a nice freestyle at the beginning and well a passable performance of his ye ba ri ba song. now the guy is good but with his nigerian wannabe version of commercial rap, he should please stop making challenges at modenine and gino for king of rap in naija. this cat is anything but hardcore and true kings anywhere in the world are hardcore, true to the game. case in point talib kweli and nas. so sauce kid , shut up already get paid and leave greatness to kings.

Ashionye of Orangootan comes on and performs her hit track "party tonight". nothing spectacular except for the figure hugging, great legs revealing dress she was wearing. that girl was definitely eye candy. i'd have enjoyed her performance if she came and stood on the stage without making a sound for all of the 7 minutes she spent on stage.

next up, the surprise artist is announced and who comes walking through the crowd and passes right by me but the king himself lagbaja. definitely taller than i thought. and brave too as we had groupies touching him along the length of his frame and giggling to themselves. Girlssss. his performance is great as can be expected and he performs "so far away" with ego live onstage. he ends it by inviting us all to egos graduation party at motherland next week. i'm guessing theres a gate fee, hence the open invite.

Tony tetuila is next and does two tracks , always reiterating that he is a free soldier with no commitments. conspiracy theorist that i am ,i'm guessing it was a subliminal jibe at the primetime brothers keke and D1 who were in the audience. whatever. the crowd slams and he leaves a happy man. another conquest over the primetime brothers.

how could i forget., blackky. he perfoms  first, definitely not a heavy. he was first start performer. he starts with his latest track delilah but the crowd aint feeling him and so he brings out his overused ace, his hit tracks of almost ten years which unfortunately he has failed to replicate in more recent years.blackkys skank, bang belly, rosie etc and the crowd goes wild. i'll give it to him the dude knows how to work a crowd but serious, he needs to give it up as a singer and remain known as a pioneer and legend rather than as a failed comeback kid.

now back to the heavies. OJB one of the true talents and powerhouses behind the advance of nigerian music and the most underated talent in naija comes on and acts like he's in a hurry. he performs searching and hurries offstage like he had some head giving groupie offstage somewhere.

and then kemistry , the not too attrractive radio dj/singer of rhythm 97 comes on and is fitting announcer to the best thing in naija hip hop the ninestine himself, aka modenizzy aka modenine. he enters to the theme song of kings, jay z's encore and delivers his bars and punchlines as usual. he does lagos state of mind but not without first playing the song he sampled the beats from, i think it was a track by ebenezar obey, i was too enthralled with his commanding stage prescence to pay attention. then he does cry with nnena live on stage, performer that he is. sadly the crowd doesnt feel him as such, though they are excited at cry. a few true hip hop heads can be seen though, yours truly inclusive, singing and generally feeling him. he does one of his new tracks and exits. i love that guy.

Naija ninja , sound sultan comes on and does his thing, "singing back in the days" and "motherland". the crowd loves him and sing along with him line for line beginning to the end. another true talent

the king of pop in naija and africa is next, the greatest himself 2face Idibia and he is stunning in his performance of his new tracks from grass to grace. not everyone knows the wordings but you can feed off the love flowing from the crowd to this our son that has done us proud. this guy is too good for kennis. i keep saying it. though i'm not so naive as to overlook the fact that their marketing has contributed to his commercial success. he is given about 5 times the time allocated to other artists, well done kennis music, and every second is worth it. he leaves "for instance" till the end and begins it with a long acapella diatribe , a perfect showcase of his unquestionable vocal abilities. The crowd goes insane and sing with him, it obvious. WE LOVE THIS GUY.

Rugged man is next and he enters to the soundtrack of rugeddy baba but doesnt perform it just yet. his short skirt wearing black undies showing dancers have boys feigning dropping their phones just to get a glimpse of you know what. a flash of black , sometimes i wonder the thing that drives us. he gives a nice performance and then he drops rugeddy baba and the crowd goes wild. but his performance makes me realise than the song's merits are really the chorus handled  by watchout kid 9ice and not necessarily ruggeds lyrical ability. he turns off the music and asks to do the third verse acapella. he makes us listen to his gripes and arguments about keeping it real and at a point he asks the crowd whats the definition of keeping it real, it took the man in me to keep from screaming "MODENINE" but i didnt want to open that can of worms, plus the crowd was feeling him too much and i was acting the gentleman trying to impress this incredibly leggy chick sitting next to me. so he is spared that embarassment of arguing with a hardcore modenine fan and i come off as a responsible guy doing his service in lagos, which eventually earns me a phone number, a date and an incredibly warm hug. like 4 hours later, but who cares, everyones happy.

jazzman olofin comes on and does his thing. his dancers give him a stiff competition for crowd attention but he comes off as truly entertaining and talented. a true heavy.

and lastly like the organisers knew what they were doing p-square are the last to perform. people slept during ruggedman and 2faces performance, but oh my God, the crowd was alive when the twins who are "one no be two" appeared onstage. you could feel the electricity building up. technical hitches helped to murk their peerformance though as they had just got the crowd to the peak of the fever , the high point before the fall when their mics went dead. it happened twice which had people screaming murder and threating mass action. but eventually they did great and stole the show. Perfomance was definitely the performance of the night.

for 3k , the show  was a steal , plus the eye candy there "na fire". leggy and chesty gals everywhere , brown skinned girls aplenty, kids of responsible parentage, the crowd was massively civilized. no fights no stolen phones no attempted gropings, it was a great show that had people wanting to pay an extra 2k at least. if you missed it, cop the vcd and make sure you attend next years own.

downside: i spent 300 naira on a medium sized bottle of water. that leaves you guessing how much i spent on my two bottles of smirnoff ice and suya. you'd kill me if i said. my big boy moves on the leggy chick better pay off, or else

please can someone who has been called for a chat let us know when they wrote their test, so we can know if its the same one we wrote last at all seasons plaza on the 25th of nov.has anyone who wrote that day been contacted? pray tell . the suspense is killing me

Hi Obeto, sorry for BEING A BOTHER cos i know that you getting a lot of requests but i'd like to add mine. i'd love if you could send me dumps on oracle 10g (OCP) administration 2 (1Z0-043). I'D REALLY BE GRATEFUL. THANKS A LOT.

CHUKKY76

@neoteny
i dont think u shld even bother with neanderthal daviddylan. if he can even have an out of body experience and listen to himself think, he'd know that he's full of S**t.

@daviddylan
cant u keep to your own words and just leave this alone. what kind of person goes back on his word. a prideless, spineless one. you win arguments by coming up with your propositions and bringing up facts. all i've asked is empirical evidence that a particular tribes brains are genetically superior to anothers and i'll shut the F*** up. but since u cant present that then u need to be a man and shut the hell up. u musnt win all arguments. it takes a real man to realise he's erred. the more u keep at it the more we're exposed to the fact of your mediocrity . YOU NEED TO STOP NOW. cos ur about at chimpanzee level right now and believe me, it can get worse

davidylan i dont know how old you are and what u've achieved and i really dont care but u seriously delusional when u think you the only one with ambition. meet me here in five years and we'll measure dicks

At davidylan. My point exactly. thanks for proving it. instead of shutting up . you spoke now everyone knows how unintelligent and stupid you are. the harder u try the worse it gets. you think using a lot of big words make u smart? all you did was argue semantics. any idiot knows that technically intelligence is not an attribute, its a post not a phD thesis, i do not run to whip out my dictionaries because i want to speak with you!!! dude please unlike u i have a life. while u were arguing your semantics you did nothing to disprove my claims so i guess i was right the first time. You need to shut your tribalistic mouth and go sit in the corner. Personal attacks? dude u need to read your initial post to me and see who started it. i aint even replying you no more. one cant argue with a loon else he rubs off on you. so post all you like , not wasting one more minute with you. you need to read yourself. never with so many big words has someone still been able to sound stupid. you've perfected it. Nuff said. I'm out

davidylan its safer to sit quietly and let people think you are dull than opening your mouth and helping them confirm it. you must have a serious reading and understanding disorder and your sense of reasoning as can be deduced from your analogy leaves a lot to be desired. Saying "intelligence is distributed fairly equally" among all tribes is sooooooooooooooooooooo not the same thing as saying talents are distributed fairly equally among all humans!! intelligence is one attribute that is being distributed at random among a population and involves probability. your analogy on the other hand refers to a collection of atrributes being distributed equally in every member of a populace. how any sane person possibly equate both situations leaves me at a loss. the closest analogy you can equate with my statement would be saying that intelligence is distributed fairly among blacks and whites which thankfully we all know to be through. whites are not smarter than us, neither are we smarter than them. and non development of full talents doesnt count as long as the potential for intelligence exists.
you highlighted my words but didnt understand them . i didnt say intelligence should be
distributed fairly equally among all tribes . what i said was intelligence is distributed fairly equally among all tribes so unless you can bring me the reports and details of a research work that shows a greater number of yoruba people have genetically more advanced brains than the ibos or hausas or vice versa you need to stand in the corner , read the posts and fight the urge to post pretty daft statements that accrue from a failure to understand peoples statements. Kappish??

G-reycells in case u are not familiar with the phrase "the exception proves the rule" you need to look it up because your Financial standard example is the exception that proves the rule (in a game of ludo chances are that rarely we'll throw a pair of sixes, five to seven times in a row or consecutively but it doest happen that often. so financial standard is just that, a rare occurence). plus the fact that shes yoruba and employing igbos doesnt rule out tribalism because she could have a prejudice for and not against igbo people. i know a lot of people that dont particularly fancy their tribesmen. but i'm just fishing.

the only thing i mentioned which was disputable was the fact that intelligence is distributed fairly evenly across tribes and since u are not disputing that then dont even speak to me.

According to you we are all biased in one way or the other and so we are all ethnic jingoists including you.
please!!! its called trend spotting, even an illiterate would spot a trend when he sees one. the fact that charles spotted a trend doesnt make him a tribalist but only reaffirms the reason why we are at the top of the food chain. INTELLIGENCE. how do you come about your conclusions?
your self conceit has blind sided you to your own mediocrity. mr know all. try thinking through your conclusions and affirm their rationality before posting okay?

right now intercontinental bank is looking for an IT student for 6 months to work in branding department of head office. so u could give it a shot. go to the head office though and speak to their human resources people

ok well its one of two things . its either the bank and its executives are really tribalistic c'mon lets call a spade a spade or else its born out of neccesity. i am serving in sagamu about to finish but i wrote a test at a bank for nysc , i passed and was one of the hightest but i was not taken and the person at the desk told me why and i understood. sagamu is primarily a yoruba speaking town and the position were they wanted to use corpers had extensive contact with a clientele base of predominantly yoruba speaking people. it would have been meaningless hiring an ibo boy that i am.

but however that guy in rochester ranting on about a bank being a for profit organization and not having to employ deadwood just to be politically correct should please be objective and try speaking with some common sense. intelligence is distributed fairly equally among all tribes so if the necessity to speak yoruba as a result of having a yoruba speaking clientele base is not an issue, then please a fair employment process will bring people from across the board in a fairly even distribution. so if its not becos of the yoruba speaking clientele then i'll say the execs are just prejudiced pricks