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What we see mostly in nowadays music is whack, very sorry to say this, someone said it's not compulsory for you to be an instrumentalist but either you like it or not you must be able to play either directly or indirectly, what I mean by indirectly is your ability to control your instrumentalist while playing any of it to your song, in case you don't know, the no. 1 producer to any music should be the musician himself/herself followed by other producers who will add their ideas to it, the last generation who will understand this are those born in the late eightys. Have you seen BABA FELA video on stage, he controls and dictates to his band, same with Bob Marley, his producer once said Bob was always on top of it while producing, he correct him (the producer) while the the studio session is going on, same with Adewale Ayuba, you don't just go in and beat the drum cuz it matches what he sings likewise King Sunny Ade. All these sets of people were good at it cuz they had a broad knowledge about music instruments.

Nowadays, the producers are the real musicians cuz they are in total control of everything, including the voice of the musician.

As for those who compare Burnaboy with Wizkid, the truth remains that Burnaboy is better than Wizkid. Burnaboy is more artistic than Wizkid, the day I heard Burnaboy live performance was the day I gave it up for him as the ODOGU of music.

Bros and Sis, music goes beyond what we an average human hears from music, does anyone even know that every instruments also talks just like the musicians do in music and in most cases our musicians do not follow, imagine a musician using an anger beat for a dance hall music, what the poster should have written is which musician do you love most cuz that's what I can conclude with the list of musicians he chose as most talented.

Most times I choose Fuji, juju and other local musician as professionals over most of our hip hop musicians cuz they are always in total control of the music, band, instruments when the music is on.

I'm sure some might think drew sentiment into choosing burnaboy but I'm not, for those who care to know I only love his music, his personality actually disgust me but when I see a person doing well in his field regardless of his character I'll say it. I once loved Wizkid music cuz he was once one of the best, but to me I think he couldn't keep up, As for Davido, I think he wasn't doing well as a professional at the beginning but I was happy to see him stepping up his game, using what he has to get what he wants, he is getting there.

This is just my own opinion based on my observation.

Peace be unto everyone.

kanupapilo:
Who do you think is the best Nigerian musical artist talentwise?

I am not talking of commercial success the likes of Davido,Rema and Burnaboy have enjoyed. I am talking about raw and natural musical talent that hardly misses with the tracks they release.

My top 5 in order of talent and who create consistently good songs:

1) Fireboy DML
2) Wizkid
3) Reekado Banks
4) Idabanton
5)Omah Lay

If am am to choose based on professionalism I'll choose
Burnaboy
MI
Vector
Kizz Daniel
Olamide

that's probably the price you pay for standing out among others. it's not just about the fabrics alone, the brains behind the creative works also determines the price, just imagine the numbers of designs that would have been submitted and cancelled before this particular one was selected, you got to pay for those stress also, just imagine the name given to the color, tsunami color lol I'm sure achieving and certifying that color by professional wouldn't have been an easy task. Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying it's too expensive neither am I saying it's cheap, I'm only giving reason why I think LV gave it the price tag, those who agree to it in one way or the other and can afford it will buy it.

one reason why no politician should be taken for their words. so what happens to the reasons he pushed out for closing the factory. how I wish the world could do without politics, but we can't, a leader comes out and project his own interests as the masses interest and so many innocent people believe and him foolishly, later drops them after accomplishing his mission, this ain't fair but nothing can be done, we just hope whatever policy brought out should favor us.

Peace be unto everyone.

do we call this an insult or compliment

this is not fair, making your security insecure. i think all these orderly get it wrong from the first time the carry bags, umbrella, opening doors for whoever they are securing.

you forgot to add eye blindness. sleeping with makeup for a very long time will make the eyes go blind. I read a case of a lady who wore makeup to sleep for 30years and over, when she was over 50 she started having eye problems and visited an optician, after several surgeries, washing of the eyes it was discovered that some bacteria from the makeup she was always wearing to sleep caused her blindness. it was too late for her to recover her sight now she is 100% blind.

with all sincerity, please I need someone to tell me what he did that's still making Abia State University not go on strike up till today.

A sincere question for who cares to answer, do we consider a man of 61years contesting for president as a youth, I would have been happy if after the end of endsars protest, the youth came out with a political party filled with youths with the eldest age being 45 or 50 cuz all I see here is just one single character bearing three different names which are Lucifer, Devil, and Satan. No one should take an offense, it's just my opinion. Peace be unto everyone.

I could remember the day I read an article on a site named livescience.com, the title was Difference between "Gender and Sex", this article explained why some people behave like their opposite gender, why we have LGBT.

after reading this, I ended up rebuking any evil spirit that will make me believe what they wrote in it. Whatever was written in it I stand no to believe it, even though the article was 100% convincing enough. lol this life no balance at all o.

Are we now saying teachers should stop flogging their students when parents have refused to discipline their kids, the truth is nowadays teachers are having a very extra hard time in teaching this children cuz of lack of discipline, imagine a child being at home since 4pm and did not work on his assignment until night and when he finally decides to get it done, the father collected his phone which he was using as torchlight. the parent should also be punished for giving the teacher a hard time. most children lack home training and when teachers decide to correct or train them parents start calling it torture. Nigerians, which way.

selling your mother's house for master in UK doesn't guarantee you a better life, it can only increase your chances of having a better life, don't you have tenants in the house, if not, look for who to lease it to. what if you finish your study and you don't get a job there after the two years grace given to you by the government, then you come back home to nothing. it's not a good decision and will never be, so many people have sold their properties all in the name of traveling and at the end of the day they come back to meet nothing and also come along with nothing.

what I suspect is someone was doing that to her, but she decided to say it's you cuz he doesn't like you or cuz you shun her. what I will suggest is never play or call a little girl in private, whatever play you will play with her let it not be much and be in the public. so many wrongs are happening to little girls of nowadays and when they are caught they just mention whatever name that comes into their mind, these names are always names of outsiders close to them. in fact don't play with them at all in order to avoid embarrassment.

what I will comment is, school has gone beyond just business, school owners should sit tight and add more to their responsibilities and activities in order monitor and curb all these attitudes cuz if not so many schools will go down if these keep happening. before it used to be charity begins at home, now parents have left their responsibilities and handing it over to schools without letting them know. This is just the beginning, more are to come in among the children in schools, parents needs to do serious work on their children before it becomes rampant just the way teenagers now go into rituals. what schools are enrolling nowadays are rotten children.

whoever came across my comment on a pastor condemning Hollywood movies, will relate this to what I talked about, now this so called man of God has been brainwashed to the level that he thinks he is not worthy of heaven. I said it before, the told us Satan is black and evil, while Jesus is white and good. same set of people now cone out with Devils doing good for humanity in their movies. This so called religion, one has to be wise and intelligent before following up on all doctrines. I pity those fanatics who will believe and act according to what their religious leaders say without giving it multiple thoughts. Like I said in my last comments, I'm not just talking about Christianity alone but the two most popular imported religions in our country that did not even pay importation fee before coming in. Peace and Love is what I pray for all around the world.

What a crazy/funny world we live in, first, they came into Africa to convince us that almost all about our culture is evil so that we can patronize what they brought, after buying all they sold, they went back with ours which they called evil, study it, and still sell it out to us. (I laugh in Swahili), this was same way some religions were condemning being a King in Africa, they say it's occultism, forgetting that one of the most beloved person in the Bible was also a king (I mean King Solomon), still went on to fornicate, having so many wives and concubines, now it has bounce back and a pastor of our time has been crowned a king, he is now looking for every means to justify his preaching. Who am I to judge those who produces and act movies, mine is to watch and get entertained, whatever meaning it gives to different individuals has nothing to do with me, afterall they told us it's a free world and we all have equal rights. All I can say is when you try to convince people that the good is bad, always remember that what goes around comes around (I don't blame the pastor who is condemning, it's what they sold to us at the beginning, now about to hunt them). They preached about Sodom and Gomorrah still yet they give us homosexuality, bisexuality, transgender, Feminism etc, they come and tell us Jesus is White and Satan is Black, and Satan does bad, still yet most of their characters, paintings in the movies are Sanatn doing good. Believe me, I can't stop laughing after reading this post. I'm not just referring to Christians alone, I'm talking about the two most popular imported religion of our time. As long as you do good, and leave bad, your religion doesn't matter to me. Peace be unto every religion, tribe, color, race in this lovely world. Happy Easter to all my Christian friends, may we all stay alive to celebrate more years of Easter (I mean every religion) cuz I've always been humanity before religion.

I've never been a fan of iPhone but without being biased iPhone won. the truth is iPhone is no overhyped as many do say, the only reason why most say so is because we find it hard to cover up to 50percent of what makes up the features of this so called iPhone. Afterall there are android phones that are more expensive than iPhone. it is the features and amount of research done on Phone that makes a phone expensive, the level of research from iPhone company and other top grade phones companies is higher than the upcoming or youth android phones. If you are buying an expensive brand of phone, believe me you are not just buying the name, you are also buying the features which some people might not use till the end of the phone lifecycle. Now most people hype tecno and other smaller brands in the industry of producing a cheap phone meanwhile they don't know most of their phones cmes with factory, programmed bugs which pops up ads and generates billions of dollars into this companies account, some even go to the extent of designing bugs that will sell out your information to research companies, some parts of some cheap phones depreciates and stop working well after some months, a good example is tecno camon series, some of the teco camon models have problems with their cameras, they fade after a short period of time. You keep complaining about high usage of data and blame your network provider for it when your tecno or infinix has a bug that pops up ads and waste your data. By the time we Africans get to know all these, it would have been too late. Anyways I do not blame us for these cuz most of us are not tech gurus, this includes me, I blame the government and regulatory body in charge of this for not being active not to talk of pro-active.

I don't blame those who condemn these pastors when such thing happen, afterall it's what they've always preached against, now their preachings are going against them. These are the set of people who has made us feel everything about our culture is evil, now God is trying to open the eyes of people through the so called men and women of God. With these, the wise ones should know the difference between the good and the bad in our culture. He has now automatically become the head of all idol worshipers, witches and wizards in ogbomoso and he will be carried along with the tradition. so many people wouldn't have seen anything wrong in this if only they never condemned these cultures and tradition because they want to gain followers. Peace be unto everyone.

Dear Lord if ya hear me, tell me why Little lady like Chinelo, had to die She never got to see the bullet, just heard the shot Her little body couldn't take it, it shook and dropped Now I'm screaming � Bleep the government and the terrorist This ain't fair, the masses keep paying for the wrongs of our leaders. May her soul rest in peace.

going after the landlords is the wrong move, why don't they go after their parents. what makes them think the landlords are not afraid of them. who wants to enter his house and get butchered one day cuz he witnessed where a rival cult member who is his tenant is being butchered.

After reading a post where a Russian athlete proved defenaive by putting the Z alphabet on this leotard, I think we all should have an idea of how an average Russian reacts to intimidation, and why the their President is reacting to what is going in such a disastrous way.

Based on stories, histories, propaganda, Russians are one of the most stubborn and resistant human, when you intimidate them, and get them angry in the process, they are never backing out, and would rather die than succumb to whoever they see as an enemy.

If what happened between the Russian athletes and his Ukrainian colleagues still doesn't give NATO an insight of how Putin thinks, then I will conclude that they are hypocrites, the athletes just showcased the true color and character of an average Russian.

The war against Ukraine is never going to end until Putin wins or die while fighting, and if he dies in the process it is 100% certain whoever is taking over will be more brutal than him cuz the Russian Oligarchy are not ready to succumb to USA/NATO or give them the opportunity to rule them. They are two parallel lines that can never meet.

My conclusion is if Ukraine, America, NATO, EU thinks the only person they are fighting is Putin, then they must be making a very big mistake cuz they are actually fighting RUSSIA as a whole.

I've seen and heard people drop all kinds of sentiments based on propaganda from all parties involved in this Russia Ukraine war currently going on, the one that finally pissed me off is someone saying if Israel should go to war with Russia, they will win.

When I heard this, I told the person it's impossible and we kept dragging until I told him, he was judging based on the western propaganda from the west and Ukraine saying Russia is loosing battle and Ukraine is winning.

I asked him if it's true Ukraine is winning, why are their major cities taken over by Russia, why is their nuclear power plant taken over.

I'm sure he must have also said this cuz he hears about Israel winning war against Palestine and also he could have drawn his sentiment from the religious part.

The truth about this is, a country who could stand against the whole European union, NATO, America and the only thing they could come up with is just sanction and not waging a physical battle against him shouldn't be seen as small country or fragile country.

When judging, let's always put sentiment aside so that we don't end up looking like a fool regardless of our level of education and wisdom.

I know some people might come out to say I'm one of those Russia puppets who believe and love Russia, but I'm declaring now not because I don't want people to bash me but cuz I don't draw sentiment in my judgment.

When we see a person who has an attribute of a devil, let's leave him on his/her own and not look for trouble, even God never killed the devil despite all his atrocities, he left him on his own, God even said "Give what belongs to ceaser to ceaser", If Putin has proven to be ceaser in all aspects of this war, why don't we give it to him, afterall ceaser was also asking for what was rightfully his and God gave him the approval by telling people to give him his respect which didn't affect the respect for God.

We all understand what power, looks like, what it takes to retain it and what it feels like loosing power.

Only a person in the position of Putin will understand what it takes, e.g. are people in his Oligarchy. It's a pity some of these super powers understands and knows what Putin is doing and can also testify that he is fighting for what is rightfully his but they decide to be hypocrit when they know if they were in same position they will do same.

how I wish NATO and Putin could login to nairaland to see the kind of war they've caused

Does anyone remember what was written in the documents seen in Osama Bin Laden cave after his assassination. Directly or indirectly it is happening.

Let us not be fooled by America watery mouth speech, Russia is as deadlier than Coronavirus. Russia is just fighting for his interest, Ukraine joining NATO is a big threat to Russia and if care is not taken we might see the come back of Soviet Union, Russia will keep gathering nations through war and force.

The come back of Soviet Union will be the end of all other Super Powers.

For those who didn't know or remember what were Osama's strategies let me give you a glimpse.

His strategies was America was getting weaker, a time will come USA will call back all his soldiers outside back into the country due to one reason or the other which I can't remember and after that he will only focus on killing the current President who was Barack Obama, after the execution he will sit back and look what will happen.

What he expected to happen was Biden who was the vice president to become the president which he knew was not ready for the position, this will bring disagreement among the Parliament, from here onwards USA will split and no longer become a super power.

Biden has been showing sign of weakness in reacting to Putin's threat against Ukraine and this means America is weak, same as NATO.

Now, Osama's prediction that America was going to become weak at a time is becoming reality. Now they want to defend their NATO allies and not fight back. Does this mean Russia is stronger than NATO?

If this is really true about Africa, then I will say the tribe I belong to is not in Africa I mean the yorubas, what do you call ORO IDILE, and some rituals performed in order to know if a child is bastard or not, all these were done before the British colonization. I beg this elder that knows no history should sit one side and let the youths tell him what he missed when he was young.

CalabarPikin:
Okay



Ebonyi people, them say them go waka house to house come flog una come outside



I have a kid sister who behaves exactly the way IPOP is doing. Anytime mum tries to school her when she misbehaves (just talking oh) babe will get angry and refuse to eat the whole day some time two days.....I'll always ask who lose

don't be surprised if she wakes up one day and angrily decides to move out of the house because you people refuse to meet up with her demands, same way ipob is doing right now. (just joking o)

For those saying she never demanded for the sketch, I beg my question is, do you go to Coca-Cola factory to demand for coke or Fanta before they go into production, I beg make all of una get sense. Those of you doing online advert and marketing, do you wait for a demand before you start your advert and production. As for the price, it is what it worth to the artist. If I'm told to summarize this, I will say the guy advertised his service/goods on social media and Okoro abi Okoro saw it, loved it, asked for the price, the artist gave him and she wasn't please with it cuz she taught it should go for a lesser amount and instead of her negotiating she started blabbing about the coins she has in her account.

Psalmistproject:
Some of the worlds most expensive Art work is not a function of how beautiful it looks but the information/memory/mood it conveys to the viewer.
Hanty you lack exposure, and class.
Just 100k+ value to an art you are winning like piglets. People like you go sabi do unacceptable araroro.
Imagine how your fame for dey trend if you gave her a million naira instead just to build value for the art.
Abeg I hate when illiterate wan show say dey can speak grammar!!

thank God, at least I have someone who share same thought with me, if I were the lady, it will be 120k or nothing, with her rejection and nonsense talk, I will say she just created a history along with the portrait, if I were the artist I will keep it as part of my collection and whenever I take it to art gallery I will also add how she rejected it. I might name it "THE REJECTED PORTRAIT FROM BLESSING OKORO". the funny part of them is when the get into the house of someone who values art, they will be saying wow, it's beautiful as if the know the value of what they are talking about. Yeye, dey smell. she should go and ask what Monalisa original painting sells for today.

I've read some comments where people wrote that the salary is too small for such expenses. Let's look at it this way, what if the man looses his job and couldn't find one for more than a year, won't she take care of the house with the 80k you call little. I know a wealthy old man whom I thought with his his level of wealth and connection, he should be the only financier of the family, to the greatest shock of my life someone close to him told me he had an agreement with his wife which was, I take care of anything that has to do with the kids while you take care of every other thing about the family and now all the kids are graduates. I also had a street sister whose husband lost his job for over a year and was the bread winner throughout the period. What I expect ladies to pray for is a man who is hardworking, and most importantly appreciates what the lady's contributions, nothing is too big for one's family.

Hope we all haven't forgotten the story of a mam who sent his wife packing all because he saw 3milion naira in his wife account and their child died of sickness which they needed 25k. this all happened because the wife was thinking "my husband should be able to get this money, afterall he is the head of the family", now the child is dead and the husband sent her packing.

Some might say I'm saying this because I'm a man but it's not, even if we are willing to dodge from this the economic situation we find ourselves today will prompt us, back in the days our elders will say why are they working if not for their children, so that their children can return the care to them when they are old same way.

Another instance was when my dad had a surgery and couldn't work for a year and some months, whose money do you think was being spent on the house throughout that period, it was my mum's money.

Nothing is too much to contribute in our marriage, what matters is having a partner who values all our efforts.

Peace be unto everyone.

I don't know much about America but I've always told people that with the conversation I've had with few black Americans and news I've read, if only Africa was a developed continent, so many black Americans will trace their root and come back. Traveling to Abroad for greener pasture could be compared to the fame, wealth in the World music industry, the percentage of those who make it to the top in the music industry is not up to 1% compared to those who are still looking up to God. What I will say is, all countries are good and bad, proper planning is what you need before you leave so that you don't end up being disappointed. A guy once asked me if a certain country was okay to relocate to and I told him every country in the world is good for relocation, it only depends on what your plans are. I asked him if he even knows that the war ravaging countries are even a good flourishing country for some people to relocate, and it is because they go there to sell ammunition, child trafficking, necrotic deals and other bad stuffs. I'm not saying Nigerians should travel or not but first and foremost make sure you have an 80%-90% idea about where you are going and also have a concrete planning like julius berger construction. Peace be unto everyone of us.