dopeJemi: Na so, make him come tell him wetin the song dey about before I believe
I listen to the song on YouTube na.....
White guy took verse one basically talking about how blacks always feel victimized and hate to be called niggers by whites cuz dey racist. A black guy responded by saying the white guy don't know shit about being black n how it feels being profiled as a criminal cuz you black. That when the whites call them niggers they take it as an insult cuz of the slavery but when a black man calls another black guy nigger it's all good cuz they are brothers n it's not disrespectful.
joeace2020: Good morning guys. I recorded, mixed and mastered this at home so not 100% great but your criticisms please, even the destructive ones are permitted.
I commend you for your effort and appreciate you for doing your best as regards your music career and to put yourself out there.... let me quickly share the areas I think you may need to improve on;
1) audibility : It was a struggle trying to pick out the words you were saying which shouldn't be..... especially for the type of music(conscious music) you just did. The words, your words, need to be clearer for people to get the message that you are trying to pass across. I actually feel you were trying to fit in too many words in a line which could have resulted in your words not being clear enough.
Solutions: You can try to use fewer words in a line. You can also try as much as possible to use words that you can easily and clearly pronounce. After recording a song--- make sure you play it outside your recording studio, in an open place or preferably in a bar with good sound systems.... it will most likely show or tell you if the quality of your sound is good enough and if your words are clear enough.
2) Attitude : It is not so much about how well you can sing or your word plays or melody in the song but how you sing or deliver your lines bro! Delivery(attitude) is very key bro. By the way I think those sounds or intro or whatever it is before you started singing wasn't necessary....kindly remove it
Music is an art...a form of poetry for me. You need to be able to make people see or believe or buy into any message you are selling or trying to sell through your words and delivery. I should be able to mentally picture whatever you are trying to tell me through your music..... That I couldn't do with this particular song but to assume what you were trying to do.
3) Identity: What type of music do you really want to do or which area are you likely to fit in? I may be wrong but listening to this song makes me feel like you are yet to find who you want to be in the industry. If you are still struggling with your identity, please know that most people will struggle to relate or identify with your music too. You need a unique sound or you have to be better than those who do similar music with you.
4) Nigeria Factor : I am assuming you are doing music for the CASH and the rest reasons.... If you want to do music in nigeria and make it, you need to know the way the market works and the people you intend to sell your music to. If you like do just RB, Conscious music like reggae, hip hop, afro etc you must choose one bcuz gone are the days you can do a song without choosing and maintaining a lane in nigeria music industry. If you don't have a lane or cant maintain your lane....you may end up like the iyanyas of this world, Praise etc....
I hope I was able to communicate my points in the right way....
dopeJemi: Why you no go like skepta, no be there you dey stay, I sure say you sef go don dey get their accent. I am pretty sure Joyner Lucas is one of the two. I will leave you with just one song
Joyner Lucas - I'm not racist.
Diggz, download this song abeg, this night if possible sef. Ycee had to feature the dude for juice remix and he totally murdered it
dopeJemi: I just hate them abeg, their players are the dumbest in the world, agidi with no brain, I hate their accent, I hate their rappers like mad, I can never take a rapper with a British accent seriously. "sex so good I forgot to sleep and eat". Imagine wetin one idiot dey rap for that stefflon Don song. All their footballers and rappers are bumbling idi.ots
lol...
Cc chic2pimp please preach to this guy...Thank you sir.
dopeJemi: To be honest, even with all the activity forming and unnecessary dribbles, Hazard played better than De Bruyne today. I have never seen Kevin play this bad
Kdb usual plays rubbish for Belgium team.....no be today e start...
dopeJemi: Benin tight oh, I dey flex the town seriously, I no believe say Benin gather plenty fine girls like this, left for me I ready to stay here for another month sef but I gass enter Lag this month end, Been wan make quick stop for my hometown waffi, but na waste of time
larride: The 10k pain me gan, but I had to sacrifice something so I can leave there as it was getting late already. Them don stop me for Ojota before sef but I have to confess those were the best SARS I have ever met in my life, the way they talked with me and the way I was responding back, they didn’t bother searching me sef, they just check my expired school ID and check the file I was holding and saw it was application letter and my credentials, they told me sorry for wasting my time and that they pray I find work soon. I just smiled and left them.
I was wondering, why will you stop a young man on low cut with shirt and tie walking on the street?
Abeg you guys should be careful please....God go dey protect us all.
raumdeuter: Ask sodick he will tell you about the place
Sod09 come explain mbok!
sod09: if [b]they catch him na kidnap[/b]oo,just follow him well. My brother Dan run go back school sef after collecting his money He they beg me for phone make I help am transfer the money
raumdeuter: I go don see you before sef for that big Cocacola building for Ilorin not far from Ibrahim Taiwo road
Lol....I no sabi that one oh! I bin do bestman for my friend wey marry years ago for Ilorin which was my first and only time there....but I fell in love with the town even though na few days I spend there.
larride: I remember when I was going to Iwo from Lagos, I stopped at Ibadan iwo road to go enter bus to where I was going. I was stopped at that iwo road roundabout because I was carrying a bag and using earpiece. They were happy the moment they saw I was using iPhone 6, they searched through my phone without seeing anything incriminating, they even checked my WhatsApp and Facebook messenger. They checked my mail attached to my phone and saw I was into bitcoins, na so them baba say make I bring 500k, the kind laugh wey I laugh that day I no fit forget for my life, their leader said I was making fun of them and that they will take me to the station, I come dey ask them if I be thief or I resemble thief for their eyes, I told them I was in a hurry to where I was going and that I can give them 5k and nothing more, then drag me so the extent I told them we should be going to the station, like play like play them carry me enter the van they carry me go station, one of them sitting beside me was telling me I should give them 50k and they will let me go that if the case gets to the station, I will cough out more than 500k. I say make we dey go the station now, we got to the station and instead of them to take me into the main building, they took me to the building besides the man building and was telling me I was doing strong head bla bla bla and that I will spend the night there and they will rop me that I be kidnapper, I had no back up and yet I was just laughing like these people never know anything. After about 1 hour wey those bastards don waste my time, they calm down when they see say I no ready to do anything and I no Dey shake, na so there leader tell me to add something to the 5k, we drag for another 30mins before I agree to add another 5k because those I wanted to go meet at Iwo were already calling me and they won’t allow me pick my calls. Na so them stop bike man for me, collect my phone say make I go withdraw come since I had no such money with me. I sha went to bank and withdraw the money, when I came back their oga was telling me they won’t collect less than 100k from him because they have seen alert when I collected the money from the ATM, na so me sef tell them say I no even get the 10k again sef? Make them come me enter station make i go write statement. Last last them collect the 10k like that say I be werey make I Dey go.
SARS are the new armed robber in town
Cc sod09
Read this story well and understand how to bargain or follow these criminals talk....larride even try to drop 10k sef....tho I understand say na bcuz of him people wey dey wait for am that's why him add 5k join the money...cux if na person like me anything wey carry me reach station....one naira wey wash I no go drop!