WHEN OUR PARENTS AND SYSTEMS SEND US TO SCHOOL AN WE ASK WHY..THEY SAY WE ARE GOING TO GET KNOWLEDGE. "KNOWLEGE IS POWER": THIS IS THE SLOGAN THEY USE TO JUSTIFY THE ACADAMIZATION OF YOUTH SOCEITY.

BUT WE THE YOUTH MUST BEGIN TO ASK OOURSELVES QUESTIONS..WHERE DOES ONE REALLY GET THIS KNOWLEDGE THAT GIVES POWER?? FROM THESE SCHOOLZ?? IF SO THEN WHY IS IT THAT MOST OF US "EUCATED" YOUTH ARE SO POWERLESS THAT IT HAS BECOME NECCESSARY FOR US TO KEEP ATTENDING AN INCREASING PLETHORA OF FORUMS AND SEMINARS ON EMPOWERMENT..EMPOWERMENT.. EMPOWERMENT AND MORE EMPOWERMENT..EVEN AFTER THE MSC.s AND BSC.s AND PHD.s THAT WERE SUPPOSED TO GIVE US POWER WERE AQUIRED??

CUD IT BE THAT ALL THE SCHOOLS OR TERTIARY INSTITUTIONS IN THIS COUNTRY (NAIRA LAND) HAVE NOT BEEN EQUIPED WITH THE WHERE-WITH-ALL THAT IS REQUIRED TO EMPOWER THE YOUTH? OR CUD IT BE THAT WE HAVE MISSED IT SOMWHERE?? MAYBE WE DONT KNOW WHAT KNOWLEDGE MEANS?? IF WE DID. WE WUD HAV A BETTER IDEA OF HOW TO AQUIRE IT??

THE TRUTH IS..THAT KNOWLEDGE CAN GIVE POWER. OR KNOWLEDGE CAN CAYAE THOSE WHO HAVE AQUIRED IT TO BE POWERFUL. BUT TO KNOW IF IT CAN BE AQUIRED IN SCHOOLS OR TERTIARY INSTITUTIONS..OR EVEN IN UNIVERSITIES WUD INVOLVE FINDING OUT THE REASON WHY THESE SCHOOLS AND LEARNING ESTABLISHMENTS HAV BEEN SET UP IN THE FIRST PLACE.
THE SCHOOLZ MIGHT BE XPECTED TO EMPOWER THE YOUTH..TO EMPOWER STUDENTS.. .BUT SUPPOSING THESE SCHOOLZ HAV NOT BEEN SET UP FOR THAT PURPOSE??
ONE WAY OF FINDING OUT THE OBJECTIVES BEHIND ANY ENTERPRISE..OR WHY SOMTHING IS BEING SET UP.. IS TO FIND OUT WHO SET THAT THING UP.
QUESTION: WHO IS RESPOBSIBLE FOR THE FEDERAL UNIVERSITES U HAV IN NIGERIA.??
ANSWER: THE GOVERNMENT!!
OR BETTER STILL THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT FOR THE FEDERAL UNIVERSITIES WHILE THE STATE SCHOOLS CAN BE TRACED TO THE STATE GOVERNMENTS.
WHEN WE BEGIN TO LOOK AT ACADEMIC ESTABLISHMENT FROM ITS RUDIMENTARY STAGES THEN PRIMARY SCHOOLZ AND EVEN NURSERY SCHOOLS ARE CALLED TO MIND, COMPREHENSIVE SCHOOLZ, GRAMMAR SCHOOLZ AND THE LIKES, COLLEGES OF EDUCATION AND TECHNOLOGY,..THESE-MORE TRADITIONALY-WILL BE TRACED TO FEDERAL/ STATE GOVERNMENTS AND A MYRIAD OF RELIGIOUS ESTABLISHMENTS LIKE THE ANGLICAN CHURCH, THE CATHOLIC CHURCH, THE PRESBITARIAN CHURCH etc,
IT IS QUITE SIGNIFICANT (THE RELATIONSHIP BTWEEN RELIGION AND GOVERNMENT PROFERED HERE) FOR EARLIER IN HISTORY, CHURCHES AND OTHER RELIGIOUS ESTABLISHMENTS PLAYED THE ROLE OF GOVERNMENT FOR THE VARIOUS NATIONS AND SOCIETIES THAT THE HUMAN RACE HAS BEEN SEGREGATED INTO.
NOW IF (FOR A CONSIDERABLE PORTION OF RECORDED HISTORY) GOVERNMENTS AND CHURCHES/RELIGIONS HAVE SHOWN KEEN INTEREST IN EDUCATION OF THE MASSES/YOUTH, THEN IT IS POSSIBLE THAT BOTH OF THEM HAVE DABBLED INTO THE TEACHIN ENTERPRISE FOR PRETTY MUCH THE SAME REASON.
BUT WHAT CUD THIS REASON BE?? CUD IT BE THAT GOVERNMENT AND RELIGIOUS ESTABLISHMENT HAVE-FOR CENTURIES NOW-BEEN INVOLVED IN EDUCATION OF THE YOUTH FOR THE PURPOSE OF EMPOWERING THEM??
IF SO, THEN WHY ARE EDUCATED YOUTH STEADILY LOOZIN POWER?? IF NOT, THEN WHY DO WE KEEP DECEIVIN OURSELVES THINKING THAT POWER (OR EVEN KNOWLEDGE) OOZES FROM A PHD

FIRST OF ALL, ANY ONE WHO SETS UP ANYTHING HAS SET UP WHAT SO EVER IT IS TO PROTECT HIS OR HER INTEREST. OR TO FOWARD ONE PERSONAL CAUSE OR THE OTHER.
PEOPLE HAVE ALL KINDS OF NOBLE REASONS FOR ESTABLISHIN THINGS OR INITIATING DIFFERENTS PROGRAMMES OR NGO's OR FORUMS AND WHAT HAVE U..BUT THE BOTTOM LINE IS..NO MATTER THE "NOBLE" FRONT THAT HAS BEEN GIVEN TO ANY INITIATIVE... THAT INITIATIVE HAS BEEN INITIATED IN THE BEST INTEREST OF THE INITIATOR. EVEN IF THE SAID INITIATIVE IS A SECONDARY SCHOOL, A HIGH SCHOOL, A COLLEGE, A NURSERY SCHOOL, A UNIVERSITY OR EVEN A DAY CARE CENTRE.
IT MUST THEN FOLLOW..THAT IF GOVERNMENT HAS INVESTED TIME, MONEY, MANPOWER AND OTHER RESOURCES TO ESTABLISH AN EDUCATIONAL SYSTEM, THEN THEY HAVE DONE THAT IN THEIR OWN BEST INTEREST AND NOT IN THE INTEREST OF THE YOUTH OR THE SO CALLED "LEADERS OF TOMORROW"
AND ANY HUMANITARIAN FRONT SHOULD BE SCRUTINIZED FOR EMBEDDED SCAMS.

TO REALLY GET TOO THE HEART OF THE MATTER.. YOUNG PEOPLE WOULD DO WELL TO FIRST OF ALL GET A KOUPLE OF THINGS KLEARED UP. 1. WHAT ARE THE FUNTIONS OF A GOVERNMENT?? 2. WHAT IS THE MAJOR PREREQUIZITE FOR A GOVERNMENT TO PERFORM THESE FUNKTIONS?? 3. WHAT IS POWER?? 4. WHAT IS AUTHORITY?? 5. WHAT IS KNOWLEDGE??
BEFORE WE BEGIN TO DEFINE THESE WORDS.. IT IS IMPORTANT THAT NOTE IS TAKEN OF THE FAKT THAT ALL PREVIOUSLY ASSUMED DEFINITIONS OF THESE WORDS KOME FROM THE SAME AKADEMIK INSTITUTIONS THAT HAVE FAILED TO EMPOWER US YOUTH. AND KAN THERE-FORE NO MORE BE TRUSTED.
FOR EXAMPLE WE WERE TAUGHT IN OUR AKADEMIK KURRIKULUMS THAT BUSINESS IS SET UP FOR THE SOLE PURPOSE OF MAKING PROFIT. BUT I-PERSONALY-HAVE DISKOVERED THAT BUSSINESS IS AKTUALLY SET UP PRIMARILY TO RENDER SERVISES. WHILE THE ASPEKT OF PROFIT MAKING SERVES THE PURPOSE OF REWARDING A BUSSINESS MAN OR WOMAN FOR SERVISES EFFISIENTLY RENDERED.
AND ALL FROM PRIMARY SKHOOL.. .THRU UNIVERSITY..THE KONSEPT OF PROFIT MAKING HAS BEEN PRESENTED TO THE YOUTH AS A PURPOSE.. AS A WORTHY GOAL TO BE AKOMPLISHED..INSTEAD OF "AS A REWARD" FOR HAVING ATTAINED WORTHY GOALS. FOR THIS REASON..WE WILL NOT LOOK TO AKADEMIK QUARTERS FOR THE MEANINGS OF THE WORDS LISTED ABOVE. WE WILL LOOK TO KOMMON SENSE AND THE LOGIKAL REASON THAT KOMMON SENCE CAN INSPIRE.

1. WHAT ARE THE FUNCTIONS OF A GOVERNMENT:

A GOVERNMENT IS SET UP TO UNITE A SOCIETY AND TO ORGANIZE SAID SOCIETY.
THE GOVERNMENT IS TO LAY CREATE AND LAY DOWN LAWS AND PRINCIPLES THAT WILL SUSTAIN UNITY AND HARMONY IN THE GOVERNED SOCIETY.
THESE LAWS AND PRINCIPLES WILL INCLUDE REWARD FOR THE CONSTRUCTIVE BEHAVIOR OF MEMBERS OF SOCIETY AND PUNISHMENT FOR DESTRUCTIVE BEHAVIOR IN MEMBERS OF SAME SOCIETY.
THESE LAWZ AND PRINCIPLES ARE ALSO TO OVERSEE THE RUNNING OF THE VARIOUS STRUCTURES SET UP FOR EVERY FEILD OR WORK OF LIFE THAT ENGAGES THOSE HUMAN RECOURCES INHERENT IN ALL MEMBERS OF SAID SOCIETY.
THIS IS THE BASIC FUNCTION OF "A GOVERNMENT" AND IS A THREAD THAT RUNS THROUGH ALL CONCERNS/OBJECTIVES OF ANY GOVERNMENT.

THIS THESIS ON ACADEMIC INSTITUTIONS AS A SOURCE OF KNOWLEDGE CONTINUES SHORTLY.
IT BECAME NECCESSARY TO TAKE A LITTLE BREAK TO AFFORD THOSE WHO WERE TAKIN NOTES SOME MUCH NEEDED BREATHIN SPACE. THANX NAIRA LANDERS !! PEACE !!

NOW THAT WE HAV GRASPED THE BASIK FUNKTIONS OF "A GOVERNMENT" WE WILL NOW ATTEMPT TO IDENTIFY WHAT IS REQUIRED FOR "A GOVERNMENT" TO PERFORM THIS BAZIK FUNKTION.

BEFORE WE CONTINUE, SIGHT MUST NOT BE LOST OF OUR SUBJECT MATTER: IF KNOWLEDGE IS POWER, THEN WHERE DO WE GET KNOWLEDGE FROM?? THE SCHOOLS? (AS WE ARE MADE TO BELEIVE) OR BY OURSELVES??


WE WILL NOW CONTINUE WITH OUR DISCOURSE BY ATTEMPTING TO ANSWER THE SECOND OF THE QUESTIONS LISTED ABOVE : 2) WHAT IS THE MAJOR PREREQUISITE FOR A GOVERNMENT TO PERFORM ITS DUTIES??
NOW THIS QUESTION WUD REQUIRE A STRAIGHT FOWARD ANSWER, TO ENABLE US TO BEGIN TO GET THE CLEAR PICTURE WHICH WE INTEND TO PAINT IN THE MINDS OF THOSE FOLLOWING THIS THESIS.
NOW FOR ANY GOVERNMENT TO PERFORM ITS DUTIES OR ITS OBJECTIVES ON THE GOVERNED, SHE <THE GOVT> WUD REQUIRE TWO ITEMS>> WHICH ARE .. ..; POWER AND AUTHORITY.
To be continued.

dopeJemi: a simple question 4 u n pls be very sincere plsss, HAS D.BANJ SANG ANY SONG MEANINGFULL 2 U? COMPARED 2 2FACE

naturalwaves LISTEN: THAT DBANG HAS SOLD MILLIONS OF RECORDS (IF HE HAS) IS NO REASON TO CONCLUDE THAT HE IS TALENTED
CUZ GIVEN THE COMMERCIAL CLIMATE OF THE TIMES, IT IS POSSIBLE TO PACKAGE EVEN STOOL FROM THE TOILET AND SELL TO A GULLIBLE PUBLIC.
U WILL AGREE WITH ME THAT MARKETING/ ADVERT STRATEGY HAV BEEN USED TO MANIPULATE THE MASSES INTO POPULAR PURCHASE OF SOM OF THE MOST POISENOUS AND DESTRUCTIVE PRODUCTS. DBANG INCLUSIVE!!

oche_ejemb: Would have been nice if you attributed this post to the blog you copied and pasted it from. Also blogging isnt a real job either. The original writer should consider that as well

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EVEN THE ORIGINAL BLOGGER COPIED IT FROM A POST ON FACEBOOK BUT NEVER GAVE CREDIT. BUT ITS OK. AS LONG AS PEOPLE GET DUELY INFORMED I,M WITH THIS 100%

SLEAKIN AND WARPLAY.. ..BRAVOOOO!!
BUT THIS IS SLEAKIDS DAY !!

PEOPLE SIGHTING NAETO.S WEALTHY BAKGROUNDS AS THE REASON WHY HE KANT BE FRAUDULENT DONT KNOW RICH PEOPLE.
THEY USE THE ALREADY AQUIRED WEALTH AS AN IMMACULATE GLOVE TO KOVER UP THEIR KRIMINALY DIRTY HANDS.
IN NAIRALAND (AND FOR MOST OTHER "LANDS")THIS IS THE RULE..THE RICHER THE FELLOW..THE HIGHER THE GREED AND THE GREATER THE TENDENSY TO KOMMIT KRIME.
NIGERIANS MUST STOP THIS AUTOMATIK RESPEKT FOR PEOPLE FROM "WEALTHY" HOMES.
MOST OF THEM ARE XTREMELY DIRTY PEOPLE (IF U LEARN TO SMELL BEYOND THE XPENSIVE PERFUME)

PEOPLE SIGHTING NAETO.S WEALTHY BAKGROUNDS AS THE REASON WHY HE KANT BE FRAUULENT DONT KNOW RICH PEOPLE.

Degis: Your Signature was forged, you showed up for the Show a day before, you collected the upfront payment, you appeared for the show with the intention of collecting the balance and you are asking for apology.

Is this boy and his image makers sick?. Why did you collect the money if your signature was forged?

degis thanks . for a while now i,v been on the case of a few Nigerian artist including naeto. and ppl hav accused me of baseless criticism. now look at this scam.
u just said xactly wht i wanted to say. so now all i need to say is thanx.

mikuz:

. . . and you shouldn't be left out.

MIKUS I AGREE. I share SOME OF THE BLAME. THATS BEKAUSE I.V KEPT QUIET ALL THESE YEARS.
I.M NOT KEEPING QUIET ANYMORE.

WE HAVE A DENSLY POPULATED GROUP OF (SO CALLED)PERFORMING ARTISTES IN THIS COUNTRY WHO HAVE BEEN ERRONIOUSLY BRANDED HIP HOP, AND MOST OF OUR ENTERTAINMENT JOURNALISTS ARE TO BLAME.
FOR SO MANY REASNS. HIP HOP AS A FORM OF ENTERTAINMENT BEGAN TO MAKE ITS PRESENSE FELT GLOBALY IN 1979. THAT WAS THE YEAR A MAN KALLED JAJ -(JAKOB AKINYEMI JOHNSON) KURRENTLY ON AIR PERSONALITY RHYTHM FM+SILVER BIRD TV- LAYED THE FOUNDATION OR SOWED THE SEEDS FOR THE GROWTH OR SPREAD OF THE HIP HOP "RAVE" IN NAIRA LAND.
MOST NIGERIANS WHO YELL HIP HOP HIP HOP EVERY DAY DONT EVEN KNOW THAT JAJ OF RHYTHM FM STARTED IT ALL. AS FAR BAK AS 1979.
85% OF THE SO KALLD HIP HOP SKRIBES IN NAIRALAND GOT INTO HIP HOP AROUND THE EARLY-MID 90.S.
WITH THIS IN MIND' WE KAN BEGIN TO APPRESIATE THE MAGNITUDE OF THE SOCIALY RELATED IDENTITY KRISES WE HAVE IN OUR HANDS.

WE HAVE THOSE WHO KALL THEMSELVES ENTERTAINMENT JOURNALISTS..WHO DIDNT LEARN ANYTHING ABOOUT HIP HOP IN THE MASS KOMMUNIATION KORRIULUMS OF THE UNIVERSITIES THEY "GRADUATED" FROM..
ENTERTAINMENT JOURNALISTS WHO LEARNT NOTHING ABOUT "HIP HOP" IN THE "INSTITUTES OF JOURNALIZM" THEY GRADUATED FROM.
WHO-INSTEAD-BELEIVE THEY ARE "EDUCATED" AND THEREFOR HAV THE AKADEMIK ENDORSEMENTS THEY NEED TO MAKE MIS-LEADING PRONOUNSMENTS ABOUT A MOVEMENT THEY HAVE BLUNTLY REFUSED TO STUDY.
NOW LOOK AT THIS MESS. EVERY PERFORMING ARTISTE WITH DARK SHADES AND A PAIR OF JEANS.. .. .."IS HIP HOP"

THOSE WHO VIEW THIS MIGHT DO THIS BELOVETH COUNTRY A FAVOUR AND INVITE ALL JOURNALISTS, ALL SO CALLD HIP HOP SCRIBES, ALL RADIO AND TV PRESENTERS IN NAIRALAND TO VISIT THESE POSTS..FOR A RARE OPPORTUNITY TO LEARN HOW ONE CAN IDENTIFY WHO IS HIP HOP FROM WHO,Z JUST FAKIN IT.
THE REAL HIP HOP IS OVER HERE, BROTHERS AND SISTERS..
PLS INVITE ALL WHOZE PROFFESSIONS ARE RELIVANT TO WHAT IS BEING DISCUSSED HERE TO COME..READ AND KNOW HOW TO SEPERATE A TRUE HIP HOPPER FROM THE MULTIPLICITY OF THESE BAND-WAGONITES SCAVENGING ALL OVER THE PLACE.
AND TO MAKE OUR POINT REALLY CLEAR.. WE AT THE HIP HOP SCHOOL WILL EVEN CALL OUT NAMES.. BUT FIRST WE MUST ASK.. ..
ARE U READY FOR THE SURPRISES THAT ARE ABOUT TO HIT U??

BEFORE WE CONTINUE.. IT IS IMPERATIVE THAT WE FIRST OF ALL MENTION THOSE PUBLICATIONS THAT HAV BECOME LEADING CULPRITS IN THE MIS-REPRESENTATION OF "HIP HOP" ON OUR SHORES.
ENCOMIUM AND CITY PEOPLE (IT SEEMS) WERE THE FIRST JOURNALS TO LIFT THE TORCH BEFORE OTHERS LIKE ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY, E-24/7, BUBBLES MAGAZINE AND MOST SHAMEFULLY "Hip hop world magazine" A MAGAZINE I AND SOLO D ENDORSED WHEN IT WAS FIRST PUBLISHED IN 1994/95 BUT WHEN U STUDY HISTORY, U WILL DISCOVER THAT THE LEADING AUTHORITIES IN ANY ENTERPRISE ARE USUALY THE MAIN CULPRITS IN THE CORRUPTION OF THE SAID ENTERPRISE.
AND IT IS SSSOOOOOOO SAD THAT 80% OF THE GRATITUDE IS OWED TO "Hip hop world magazine" THAT MODE9 AND WIZKID-IN NIGERIA TODAY-BOTH QUALIFY AS "Hip hop"

LET IT ALSO BE NOTED, THAT THIS IS NOT SET OUT TO CONDEMN ANY OF THE PUBLICATIONS MENTIONED BUT TO CORRECT THEM AND POSSIBLY EDUCATE THEIR WRITERS, SINCE-AS HAS BEEN MENTIONED- NON OF THEM HAS RECEIVED AN EDUCATION IN HIP HOP CULTURE.

WE ADVOCATE THAT EVERY ENTERTAINMENT JOURNALIST, TV/RADIO PRESENTER (AND THE LIKES) MUST ENROLL FOR THE ONLY AVAILABLE CURRICULAR PROGRAME ON HIP HOP CULTURE SINCE THEY WILL HAVE COURSE TO BE ENTANGLED WITH HIP HOP RELATED ISSUES MORE OFTEN THAN NOT.

NOW WHERE DO WE REALLY START FROM?? DO WE BEGIN WITH THE MORE OBVIOUS GOOFS OF OUR JOUNALISTS?? OR DO WE BEGIN WITH THE MUCH LESS OBVIOUS?? THE GREEN SNAKES IN THE GREEN GRASS, WHO LOOK HIP HOP, ACT HIP HOP, DRESS HIP HOP, EVEN "REP" HIP HOP.. . BUT ARE AS FAR FROM THE KULTURE AS THE EAST IS FAR FROM THE WEST.
DO WE NEED TO XPLAIN TO PEOPLE WHY DBANJ AND WHIZ KID HAVE NO BUSSINESS IN THE HIP HOP CATEGORY??
OR DO WE START BY EDUCATING THAT NAETO C,s AMERICAN ORIENTATION DOES NOT NESSECERILY QUALIFY HIM AS A HIP HOP ARTIST OR HIP HOP HEAD?? THAT THE BIGGIE LOOK ALIKE STUNT AND ABILITY TO RAP WHICH ILLBLISS CAN BOAST OF DO NOT PARTICULARLY TRANSLATE TO HIP HOP CREDIBILITY??
BEFORE WE CONTINUE IT IS STRONGLY ADVISED THAT THOSE VIEWING THIS CONTINUE READIN WITH AN OPEN MIND AND A MENTALITY STRIPPED OF AAAAAALLL SENTIMENT OR STOP READING.
THE TRUTH SOMTYMES HURTS AND IS ONLY FOR MINDS THAT ARE MATURE ENNUFF TO TAKE SOME PAIN.

WE MUST ALSO MAKE IT CLEAR-IF WE ARE TO MAKE PROGRESS OUT OF ALL THIS- THATVTHERE IS A VERY THICK LINE BTWEEN THE INFLUENCE OF A KULTURE AND THE KULTURE ITSELF.
IN LAGOS CITY FOR INSTANCE, WE HAVE THOSE WHO HAIL FROM OTHER PARTS OF THE COUNTRY (EVEN OTHER PARTS OF THE WORLD) BUT WEAR AGBADA AND GELE AND KNEEL BEFORE ELDERS WHEN THEY GREET SIMPLY BECAUSE THEY HAVE-OVER THE YEARS-(BY ASSOCIATION) BEEN INFLUENCED BY YORUBA CULTURE. THIS DOESNT MAKE THEM ORIGINAL YORUBAS OR ABORIGINAL LAGOSIANS OR WESTERNERS. IT JUST MEANS THEY HAVE BEEN INFLUENCED BY YORUBA CULTURE OR THE LAGOS CITY LIFE ETHIC. SO MUCH SO THAT MORE THAN 2/3 OF THE LAGOS CITY POPULACE AMOUNT TO AN ALIEN DEMOGRAPHIC BUT ARE STILL CALLED LAGOSIANS.
BUT IF A CRISES WERE TO BREAK OUT IN LAGOS CITY WHICH INVOLVED WANTON LOSS OF LIVES AND PROPERTY, WILL THESE LAGOSIANS REMAIN IN LAGOS INSPIGHT OF THE INHERENT DANGERS?? THE ANSWER IS NO. THERE WILL BE AN EXODUS OF NON-INDEGINOUS "LAGOSIANS" TO THEIR VARIOUS "HOMES".. .. WHY?? BECAUSE KULTURAL INFLUENCE DIES NOT MAKE U A CITIZEN OR INDIGEN OR DENIZEN OF ANY SOCIETY. KULTURAL INFLUENCE MIGHT GIV YU ACCESS TO SOME FAVOURS AND PRIVILEDGES WITHIN SAID COMMUNITY IR SOCIETY.. ..BUT WHEN PUSH COMES TO SHOVE, YU WILL BE DISPLACED.. AND INSPIGHT OF YOUR INFLUENCED LIFESTYLE, YU WILL BE SHOWN THE DOOR (IF U HAVNT ALREADY FOUND IT YURSELF (IN FLIGHT)

SOME WRITERS AND EVEN SOCIOLOGISTS HAVE CALLED THIS THE HIP HOP AGE. NOT BECAUSE THE WORLD IS ENTIRELY POPULATED WITH CORE HIP HOP PROSELYTES BUT THAT A MAJORITY OF THE WORLDS HUMAN POPULATION ARE INFLUENCED BY AN EXTREMELY VOCIFEROUS KULTURE THAT CAN BE TRACED TO AN EQUALY POWWERFUL MINORITY GROUP CALLED.. .. ..THE HIP HOP NATION.
CALLIN ONE A YORUBA MAN JUST BECAUSE HE SPEAKS THE YORUBA LANGUAGE.. .IS WRONG.
..CALLING NAETO C HIP HOP JUST BCAUSE HE KNOWS HOW TO RAP.. ...IS WORSE. !!

CALLING ME A CATHOLIC JUST BECAUSE U SEE A CHAPLATE AROUND MY NECK IS A TOLERABLE MISTAKE.. CALLING ILLBLISS HIP HOP JUST BCAUSE HE LOOKS LIKE BIGGIE SMALLS.. ..IS GROSS ERROR..EVEN FROM A BOOK AS REVEREED AS THE BIBLE WE MUST ALL HAVE LEARNT NOT TO JUDGE A MAN BY HIS OUTWARD APPEARANCE.
NOW THE RAPPER KNOWN AS ILLBLISS ONCE WAS 1/5th OF A GROUP CALLD THORO BREDS WHICH INCLUDED ONE OR TWO PERSONS THAT WUD BE RIGHTLY TAGGD REALL HIP HOP.. .BUT AS HAS ALREADY BEEN CLARIFIED IN THR COURSE OF THIS THESIS, ASSOCIATION DOES NOT ALWAYS TRANSLATE TO INITIATION.
AT THIS POINT IT HAS BEKOME UNAVOIDABLE TO UNDERTAKE A (KOMPREHENSIVE AS POSSIBLE) DEFINITION OF THE KOINAGE "HIP-HOP". MOST OF THE DEFINITIONS WE.VE HEARD SEEM TO SENTRE AROUND THE MUSIKAL. BUT THE HIP HOP SKHOOL-HOWEVER-HAS BEEN QUITE LOQUATIOUS ABOUT HIP-HOP'S AMUZIKAL ESSENSE. AND IN LINE WITH THE ADMONITIONS OF HIP HOPS LEADING TEAKHER MR KRS ONE.. HIP HOP TRANSENDS ENTERTAINMENT. AND THERE IS MUKH MORE TO HIP HOP THAN THE ABILITY TO RAP AND BREAKDANSE AND DJ AND BEATBOX. NOW HERE..TO A LARGE DEGREE..IS WHERE THE KRUX OF HIP HOPS MIS-REP IN NIGERIA LIES.
HIP HOP IN NIGERIA IS STILL BASIKALY RAPPIN AND BREAKIN AN DEJAYIN. POSSIBLY BEKAUSE THE SO-KALLED RAPPERS AND JOURNALISTS WE HAVE HERE ARE YET TO TEAKH US ANY BETTER.
RIGHT NOW.. ..URS TRUELY AND THE HIP HOP SKHOOL ARE THE ONLY QUARTERS WHERE NIGERIANS KAN LEARN ABOUT HIP HOP BEYOND ENTERTAINMENT AND HER NINE BASIK ELEMENTS.
AS LONG AS IGNORANSE ABOUT THIS PERSISTS.. ELEMENTS LIKE DBANG AND ILLBLISS AND NAETO SEE AND WHIZ-KID (AIDED BY OUR "ENTERTAINMENT JOURNALISTS" AND OUR SO KALLED "HIP HOP SKRIBES" WILL KONTINUE TO PROLIFERATE THE SCENE AS "HIP HOP ARTISTES"

ONE KAN IMAGINE THE SHOCK A TYPIKAL NIGERIAN MUZIK ENTHUSIAST WOULD FEEL AT OUR MENTION OF SOME OF NIGERIAS KONTEMPORARY "GREATS". BUT THIS IS NOT ABOUT HOW POPULAR AN ARTISTE IS..OR HOW MUKH MONEY AN ARTISTE HAS MADE.. THE ISSUE HERE IS.. .. "HIP HOP? OR NOT" ??

SOMEWHERE IN THE BIBLE IT IS WRITTEN..THAT GOD IS NOT AS CONCERNED ABOUT THE WORDS AND DEEDS OF A MAN AS HE IS CONCERNED ABOUT THE "MOTIVES" BEHIND THOSE WORDS AND DEEDS. WE WILL NOW ATTEMPT TO JUDGE DBANG, WHIZKID, ILLBLISS, NAETO C, DAVIDO, SHINA RAMBO etc-NOT BY THEIR HIP HOP CLOTHS,HAND-SIGN LANGUAGE AND RAPPER-LIKE GESTICULATION-BUT BY THE MOTIVES BEHIND THEIR "HIP HOP DEMEANOUR" or BY THE CONSEQUENCES OF THEIR HIP HOP INFLUENCED CAREERS ON NIGERIAN YOUTH, ON THE NIGERIAN MASSES, AND ON THE PROSPECTS OF THE GROWTH OF REAL HIP HOP ON HOME SOIL.

AT THIS POINT (AND WE CAN HEAR THE QUESTIONS EVEN THOUGH THE 200+ WHO ARE FOLLOWING THIS LECTURE ARE TOO SHY OR TOO BEWILDERED TO COMMMENT OR PUT THEIR CURIOSITIES DOWN FOR OTHER NAIRALANDERS TO READ) IT HAS BECOME ESSENTIAL TO ESTABLISH THE MEANING OF THE KOINAGE, "HIP HOP".

IT IS ALSO CLEAR TO US, THAT THOSE FOLLOWING THIS LECTURE HAVE REFUSED TO COMMENT BCUZ THEY NEED THE ANONYMITY TO USE THE WRITE-UPS HERE FOR THEIR KOLUMNS (IN THE MAGAZINES THEY WRITE FOR), THEIR CHURCHES (WHERE THEY PREACH), OR TO VENT INTELLECTUAL PRIDE IN THE VARIOUS CIRCLES U FIND THEM WHERE HIP HOP RELATED ISSUES ARE BEING DEBATED UPON. IF THEY COMMENTED, THEY WUD BE GIVIN AWAY THEIR IDENTITIES AND THERE-FORE FORFEIT THE DESIRED "LUXURY" OF THE POWER TO COPY THE WRITINGS HERE UNDETECTED.WITHOUT GIVIN CREDIT TO THE HIP HOP SCHOOL OR ITS FOUNDER. OF THIS, WE ARE COMPLETELY AWARE.

IN THE SPIRIT OF GRNEROUSITY HOWEVER, WE INVITE ALL WHO SEEK KNOWLEDGE ON ALL HIP HOP RELATED ISSUES; SNAP OUT UR PENS AND SHEETS..AND JOT THIS DOWN:
HIP HOP IS: UNDERDOG YOUTH SOCIETIES STRUGGLE (FOR UPLIFTMENT/EMANCIPATION) AGAINST THE MAINSTREAM AND THE CUSTODIANS OF THAT MAINSTREAM.
EVERY JOURNALIST WHO-AT ONE POINT OR ANOTHER TOUCHES ON THE HIP HOP SUBJECT-MUST GRASP THIS.

THIS THESIS HAS NOT BEEN UPDATED FOR A FEW DAYS TO ENABLE THOSE FOLLOWING IT TO FULLY COMPREHEND THE MUCH THAT HAS BEEN SAID SO FAR BFORE WE CONTINUE.

NOW THAT WE HAVE A BETTER IDEA OF WHAT "HIP HOP MEANS" WE HAVE AUTOMATICALLY BEEN PLACED IN A BETTER POSITION TO GRADE OR CLASSIFIED ALL THESE SO CALLED "hip hop heads" we have in this country.
WE HAVE SAID THAT HIP HOP IS THE "STRUGGLE" OR "REBELION" OF UNDERDOG YOUTH SOCIETY (FOR EMANCIPATION/UPLIFTMENT) AGAINST THE MAINSTREAM AND THE CUSTODIANS OF THAT MAINSTREAM.
WITH THIS IN VIEW, LET US TAKE A CLOSER LOOK AT ILLBLISS AND NAETO C..A CLOSER LOOK AT DBANJ AND FLAVOUR AND P SQUARE AND EVEN TU FACE..THEN PLACE THESE PERSONS ON THE BACK DROP OF THE HIP HOP SCHOOLS DEFINITION OF HIP HOP, THEN ASK OURSELVES..WHERE IS THEIR "STRUGGLE"?? WHERE IS THEIR "REBELLION AGAINST ESTABLISHMENT"??
MANY hip hop enthusiasts AND INFACT "REAL HEADS" WILL NOT LIKE THE SOUND OF THIS BCUS THEY,RE QUICK TO ASSUME THAT "STRUGGLE" AND "REBELLION" REFER TO ARMED COMBAT OR MILITERY STYLE SEIGE AGAINST THE STRUCTURES AND STRICTURES OF THE SYSTEM. BUT THIS IS NOT SO.
WE WILL SOON XPLAIN HOW MEMBERS OF YOUTH SOCIETY IN ANY GIVEN LOCATION CAN REBEL AGAINST THE SYSTEM WITHOUT A SINGLE BLAST OF A GUN. WE WILL ALSO EXPLAIN THE TRUE NATURE OF THOSE WEAPONS THAT ARE REQUIRED IN THE STRUGGLE OR "REBELION" OF YOUTH AGAINST THE MAINSTREAM.
IT MUST ALSO BE XPLAINED THAT "MAINSTREAM" REFERS TO A SOCIAL CONDITION IMPOSED UPON A GENERAL PUBLIC BY THE GOVERNMENT OR ESTABLISHMENT.

NOW, FOR EASIER REFERENCE..WE MUST MENTION AGAIN THAT ALL THE RAVE-MAKERS OF NIGERIAS CONTEMPORARY MUSIC SCENE ARE-IN THIS THESIS-BEING PLACED IN TWO MAJOR CATEGORIES. THE REAL HIO HOPPERS AND THOSE WHO ARE MERELY BEING INFLUENCED BY WAY OF THE UBIQUITOUS NATURE OF THE HIP HOP PHENOM.
THE "ARTISTES" THAT HAVE BEEN MENTIONED ABOVE-HOWEVER-HAVE ONE THING IN COMMON: THEY-JUST LIKE ALL THE NON YORUBA "LAGOSIANS" IN LAGOS STATE-ARE ONLY BEIN INFLUENCED BY THE VOCIFEROUS NATURE OF HIP HOP CULTURE, NOT HIP HOP !!
THAT NAETO C AND ILLBLISS PLUS MANY OTHERS HAVE QUESTIONSBLE HIP HOP CREDIBILITY SURPRISES NIGERIANS BUT THOSE WHO ARE SURPRISED AT THE DIS-CATEGORISATION OF THESE (TWO)PERSONS MUST REMEMBER ; THE FACT THAT JUDAS WAS AMONGST THE 12 DID NOT MAKE HIM A BELEIVER.
HE (JUDAS )LIVED WITH THR 12, PREACHED WITH THEM, WORKED WITH THEM. BUT IN THE FULLNESS OF TIME..JUDAS APPEARED IN HIS TRUE FORM. NOT A DISCIPLE OF JESUS THE CHRIST..BUT AN AGENT OF THE DEVIL.
U ARE ALL WELCOME BACK TO THE HIP HOP SCHOOLS ONGOIN THESIS ON THE MISREPRESENTATION OF HIP HOP KULTURE BY NIGERIAN JOURNALISTS AND ARTISTES.
IT WAS WELL IN PLACE FOR US TO TAKE A LITTLE BREAK FROM POSTING TO ENABLE THOSE FOLLOWING TO GRASP ALL THAT HAD BEEN WRITTEN SO FAR.
IT MUST BE ADMITTED THAT WE HAVE MADE ENEMIES FOR OURSELVES BUT IT MUST ALSO BE ADMITTED THAT OFTIMES, A MAN'S GREATNESS MAY BE MEASURED-NOT BY THE NUMBER OF HIS ADMIRERS-BUT BY THE NUMBER OR CALIBRE OF HIS ENEMIES!!
to be kontinued.. ..

RAP IS NOT JUST A MOUTH PEACE!! IT IS THE MOUTH PEACE (i.e. the VOCAL VESTIGE) OF AN ENTIRE CULTURE KNOWN AS HIP HOP.
AND WHILE THE OPPOURTUNITY FOR BUDDING RAPPERS TO GO HEAD 2 HEAD WITH EACH OTHER IN ENTERTAINING BATTLES SHOULD BE ENCURAGED, BATTLE RAP SHOULD NOT BE ALLOWED TO DISTRACT THE HIP HOP NATION FROM OUR PRIMARY OBJECTIVES OF THE ORIGINAL WAR BETWEEN UNDERDOG YOUTH COMMUNITIES AND THE STRUCTURES OF THE ESTABLISHMENT THAT SUBJUGATE US.
BEFORE HILARIOUS RAP BATTLES, HIP HOP FIRST AND FORMOST IS A SOCIAL/ CULTURAL TOOL FOR REBELIZM.

BESIDE FRIVOLITY IN HIP HOP, WE SHOULD LEARN TO DEFEND OURSELVES AGAINST ALL THE SHIT THAT IS BEING SHOVED DOWN OUR THROATS ON A DAILY BASES.
ALL OVER THE WORLD, CITIZENS AND AFFILIATES OF THE HIP HOP NATION ARE BEING SUBJECTED TO SOME OF THE MOST EXCRUTIATING FORMS OF SYSTEMATIC OPPRESSION KNOWN TO THE MODERN WORLD AND ALL WE CAN DO AS A NATION IS RUN AROUND ORGANISING RAP BATTLES THAT TEACH US TO BEEF ON OURSELVES WHEN OUR SYSTEMS AND GOVERNMENTS CANT LOVE US ANY BETTER.
ONLY FEW HOURS AGO IN MAIDIGURI A PACK OF LOCAL TERRORISTS BROKE INTO A COMPOUND (BOUT 5:30am) AND SLAUGHTERED THREE CHILDREN RIGHT BEFORE THEIR MOTHERS EYES.
ABOUT A MONTH AGO 4 YEAR2 STUDENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF POURT-HACOURT WERE CREMATED IN THE MOST GRUESOME WAY.
HIP HOPPERS LISTEN..IT IS CLEAR THAT OUR GOVERNMENTS AND OUR ELDERS HAVE CHOSEN TO ATTACK US (THEIR CHILDREN) INSTEAD OF PROTECT US.SO WHAT DO WE DO AS A HIP HOP NATION?? RUN AROUND STAGIN RAP BATTLES THAT DO NOTHING TO SOLVE OUR PROBLEMS AS A YOUTH COMMUNITY??
OR DO WE CNTINUE TO RUN AROUND WRITING USELESS LYRICS ABOUT BOOBS AND ASS AND POPPING CHAMPAIGN SO THAT MTN AND GLO CAN PUT US IN THEIR COMMERCIAL CATEGORIES AND GIV US ENSORSEMENT DEALS??HOW MUCH IS MTN GOIN TO GIV TO THOSE CHILDREN WHO WER SLAUGHTERED YESTERDAY?? HOW MUCH HAS MTN & GLO & AIRTELL GIVEN TO THE PARENTS OF THE AALU 4?? THE POINT IS-MY FELLOW HIP HOPPERS-THESE MULTINATIONALS ARE IN BUSSINESS TO MAKE MONEY, NOT TO PROTECT US. WE MUST PROTECT/ DEFEND OURSELVES. THE INTERESTING THING IS.. ..WE DONT EVEN NEED GUNS AND KNIVES AND ARMED COMBAT.. ..
ALL WE NEED IS THE SPOKEN WORD. ..THE LYRICS..THE SAME LYRICAL POWER THAT WE WASTE AT THESE RAP BATTLES WHERE WE GO TO ENTERTAIN THESE COOPERATIONS BY INSULTING OURSELVES.

FOR YEARS NOW (THOUGH OFF-LINE) I HAVE ALMOST BROKEN MY NEK PRESSIN SOM F THE YUNG RAPPERS I MEET TO TRY STUDYIN THE ORIGINS OF HIP HOP.OR HOW HIP HOP (REAL OR NOT) KAME TO BE (BOTH IN NIGERIA AND THE USA)THEN U WUD UNERSTAND MORE ABOUT THIS BATTLE RAP THING U ALL DO.

BATTLE RAP AKTUALLY SPEAKS OF THE RUDIMENTARY STAGES IN THE GROWTH OF HIP HOP KULTURE.NIGERIANS RAPPERS DONT EVEN KNOW BATTLE RAP DATES BAK TO LIKE 1976. THE IDEA WAS FOR TWO RAPPERS TO KOMPETE HEAD TO HEAD BEFORE A "SPONTANOUS" GETHERIN OF GHETTO PEOPLE. EAKH RAPPER TRYIN TO OUTWIT THE OTHER WITH RAW HARD DISSES AND SUPERIOR WORDPLAY.PUN AND POETIK DEVISES.
BY THIS TIME' (AGAIN NIGERIANS DONT KNOW THIS)RAP BATTLES WERE ILLEGAL. ALWAYS ATTRAKTING POLICE RAIDS. NYPD (NEWYORK POLIS DEPARTMENT WUD HIT THE BATTLE VENUE LIKE IT WAS A DRUG BUS. THE RAPPERS AND SPETATORS WOULD TAKE TO THEIR HEELS SKATTERIN ALL OVER THE PLASE. THOSE WHO WERE KAUGHT WUD BE INKARSERATED. SOMTIMES EVEN KONVIKTED FOR TRUMPED UP KHARGES.
TO THE NIGERIAN RAPPER-ITS OK TO BATTLE-RAP BUT THE POINT HERE IS THAT HIP HOP KULTURE HAS GONE WAY PAST ITS BATTLE DAYS. IN THOSE DAYS OF BUSTED RAP BATTLES' HIP HOP WAS STILL IN ITS INFANT STAGE.. A STAGE WHEN IT WAS ALL ABOUT ENTERTAINMENT AND REKREATION. HIP HOP WASNT EVEN QUITE A KULTURE BAK THEN. HIP HOP BAK THEN WAS.. ..WELL MORE LIKE A BURGIONING KONSIOUSNESS STILL IN ITS TEETHING STAGES.

ABOUT 10YEARS LATER..IN THE MID 80's..HIP HOP MATURED INTO A KULTURE..INTO A POLITIKAL FORUM AND MOVEMENT..WITH ITS OWN PHYLOSOPHIES..IDEALS AND MODES OF EXPRESSION.. HIP HOP BEKAME ITS OWN POLITY.

THE RE-INTRDUTION OF BATTLE RAP-IF ALLOWED TO GAIN PRE-EMINENSE OR TO GAIN UNDUE ATTENTION AT THIS STAGE WILL AMOUNT TO PUTTING A FULLY GROWN ADULT BAK ON BREAST MILK.

HIP HOPPERZ ARE EXPEKTED TO HAVE GROWN PAST ALL THAT NOW.. AND BEGIN TO FASE MORE SERIOUS ISSUES. AND THIS.. ..MY FELLOW HIP HOPPERZ..(FOR YOUNG PEPLE TO GET MORE KONSIOUS AND BEGIN TO FASE MORE SERIOUS ISSUES) IS WHAT THESE GOVERNMENTS AND SYSTEMS DO NOT WANT.

THE POPULARISATION OF BATTLE RAP WHICH INVARIABLY AMOUNTS TO A CONSPIRED TRIVIALISATION OF HIP HOPS PURPOSE.. ..IS AT THE TOP OF GOVERNMENT AGENDA FOR MOST COUNTRIES ACCROSS THE GLOBE.
(difficult to beleive but true)
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