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Ok. I saw these guys perform on Saturday and I wasn't impressed in fact I was bored shitless. I'm not trying to knock anyone's hustle but they need to improve and I guess thats the way new acts start out. This should be taken as a constructive criticism. The same thing happened for Amplifyd Crew, their first few performances were really not good but now I guess they r doing well. I listen to a lot of Nigerian music and from what is going on right now, any new act, artiste, or whatever has to come correct. The quality of music has improved greatly. Gone are the days when all you needed was studio time and a mic. So pls eyin boiz step your game up. I know some ppl would say "go and sing your own first" but lets get real not everyone can and should sing. Listeners like me are real judges of music and not the singers.

Pointblank:
Shaka Mc,

What did Tuface mean when in the first skit in his album he said "WE HAVE A ARTISTE IN THE HOUSE"?


Why is he so dull?

Lol. that was actually funny pointblank. "Why is he so dull?" lol. But we're not here to judge their English skills if not 85% of the musicians even in the US won't have a record deal. I don't think faze's English is that fantastic anyhow. Faze sounds like "pidgin english" was a subject in his primary school.

Pointblank:
The 2 of you again? Hmmmmmmmmm, 2 in 1

The faze fan boyz are back again. Pls go back to promoting your boi (he needs it) lol. Anyway "shaka mc" as you were saying I guess I have to hear more songs to have any opinion about her but this "Omoge Mi" reply is good. She try!

muyibaba:
that song that was not even original?what is the 411 about Ego and Lagbaja.please young people keep your priority right

Pls can you explain the post? I don't understand it.

The videos are not bad. Anyone with the link to the "drives me crazy" video should pls post. Styl plus is definitely the best group around.
@gbengaijot

Can't wait to read the review for "grass 2 grace"

does anyone have
Big Boss - Otta Town Entertainment

funny enough i'm listening to the song right now. Not Bad!

Yeah I hope Lagbaja finds a suitable replacement (don't know about him finding a better one tho')

Wow Ego "Never Far Away" chic has left Lagbaja to pursue a solo career. They had such great chemistry. I hope both of them can do without each other and keep giving us those mega hits from both sides

www.sunnewsonline.com/webpages/features/showtime/2007/mar/30/showtime-30-03-2007-001.htm
[img]http://www.sunnewsonline.com.nyud.net:8090/images/ego-iheanocho.jpg[/img]

[b]Ego Ihenacho Ogbaro was Lagbaja’s main female vocalist and her name has been mostly linked to Never Far Away, the solo dedicated to her in Lagbaja’s Africano; The Mother of Groove Album. But the newly married singer says the confidence she exhibits on stage today took her many years to develop.

" After I left Ikeja High School, I wanted to start earning money immediately. I did all sorts of things. I worked in a restaurant (not a fancy one), in a supermarket and even in a ball-making factory at Ajao Estate, but I only lasted a day there because I could not handle it" Ego which is short for Nwakaego meaning " a child is better than money" eventually found a job as a receptionist at a furniture company, where I made a steady living and still had time to sing.

I come from a very creative family of rappers, actors and singers, even my mum can sing.

My friend, Hakeem Benson, told Sunny Nneji, who belonged to Bisade Ologunde’s Colours band, about my sonorous voice and he visited me at the furniture company. When Bisade walked in, I thought; “who is this tall handsome man?” I can still recall. He was smiling. He invited me for an audition and was pleased with my performance.

Three months later, he contacted me and asked me to sing at a show which was planned for the following day. It was World Health Organisation event and I was scared and nervous before going on stage that my legs were shaking visibly.nervous or not, I sang so impressively that I then appeared regularly with Colours and within 24 months, the group evolved into Lagbaja. Thus began my extraordinary musical journey.

As Lagbaja produced one successful album after another, being with him, the creative relationship and friendship among the band members deepened, fed by their common joy in music-making and the enthusiastic response of their audiences. We never had a bad show, they were all incredible. There were also trips around the world, which I found extremely enlightening. " I have never been outside the country before I joined the band and I really wanted that adventure. I got to see Brazil, Cuba, America, England, Belgium, Jordan Central and West Africa".

However, the thrill of success did not come without sacrifices. One of the hardest choices I had to make was between furthering my musical career and my education. I was admitted into Lagos State University for a five-year part-time course in Public Adminstration in 2001. Seven years after I joined Lagbaja, but when the tours took me outside the country, my studies suffered. " I was the only girl in the band and there was no one who could replace me when we travelled.

I missed my first-semester examinations in the first and second years, so I knew that I would have to do a sixth year to make it up. At the beginning of my third year, I finally made the difficult decision to give up the course". Nevertheless, I did not abandon my ambition for studying, I enrolled for French lessons at Alliance Francaise, which I found very helpful when we travelled to Francophone countries in and outside Africa.

I still want to study French at University, I have not given up on that." Motivated by my love for music and the desire to be independent, I got stuck with Lagbaja. The experience greatly broadened my knowledge of music and of finances. Over the years, we got salary increases, I am not a shopaholic or a spendthrift, I do not waste money, I save it, or invest in shares. I never overindulged myself, so that I always have something to fall back on".

However, in December 2006, I finally announced to the band that I was leaving. My decision had long been expected by my fans, and I wanted to begin 2007 with a new slate. " Even Lagbaja had been expecting it, it was just a matter of time. But I knew that it would be hard for him to adjust and find someone else to sing with the group. He was sad, but he realised that it was the right time for me to leave and he promised to support me in whatever I do".

My breakaway was boosted by the popularity of my brilliant interpretation of Never Far Away, the hit track of Lagbaja’s Africano: The Mother of Groove album. It was actually written before I joined the group, but when Lagbaja decided to add it to the album, I did not anticipate it being so successful. And while I really enjoyed the thrill of its popularity, I kept warning myself, do not overdo it-do not push your luck.

Last year, I got married to Niyi Ogbaro, who is now my manager. Together, we are developing a solo career in which I hope to explore traditional music, a genre I never listened to before joining Lagbaja, but have since grown to love. I cannot imagine myself breaking out of soul, which has heavily influenced my style. I love, live and breathe soul. I want to do relaxed, laid-back music. I think there is enough hip-hop around. In the past, I only knew Chris Okotie, Onyeka Onwenu and lots of foreign artistes. But eventually, because I can speak Yoruba as my mum is from Ijebu, I started listening to traditional songs. Percussion will definitely feature a lot in my future music.

I hope to become a solo artiste, and I am currently putting together a band to back me up at events like weddings and birthday ceremonies. I used to do that a lot and I miss those days. I also like singing other people’s songs. Which is not to say, I lack lyrics of my own. I am currently composing songs that I have been writing since 2003. The realisation that I could compose as well as perform was an important stage in my development.

For years, Lagbaja encouraged me to write songs but I kept telling myself, I could not do it because each time I tried to put pen to paper, nothing happened. Then, on my way from a tour to South Africa, I bought myself a midget ( tape recorder) because I could create a whole song, but forgot it almost immediately. The first time I used the midget, I sang a whole song in under 10 minutes, and that was how I started writing my own songs.

Although, I dislike having my privacy invaded by fans, I know I will still have to endure it during my future career. When I am on stage, I give myself to the audience completely. Outside the stage, I just want to be my own person-but that is not always possible. "Whereas Lagbaja managed to achieve a degree of anonymity outside his mask. I was constantly accosted by strangers. " I get really annoyed when people assume that any man who is with me is Lagbaja. My husband has been called "Lagbaja" several times! What is even worse is when people just stare at me, without saying anything. I do not know how to react-it makes me feel very awkward.

I am a human being and I do not know how to put up a pretence, so when I am having a bad day, you will know it. I treasure my privacy,I cannot relax and go to places I used to visit, like amala joints, because people would whisper about me so loudly that I can hear them. They seem to think that they own me. I went to mail a while ago and two girls just came up to me and took my photograph, without even asking me for permission. I was really offended, and let them know it, but they simply carried on as if my wishes were irrelevant-as though I were their property. "These are not serious incidents, but they are prices one pays for success."

Despite my aversion to public scrutiny, I am considering venturing into TV presenting and acting, judging from the characters I played in Lagbaja’s video, I clearly have the talent to make as much of a success in that field as I have in music.[/b]

• This story was originally published in the True Love Magazine edition of March, 2007

Xbox 360 is adding the Xbox 360 elite to their already existing premium and core versions with 120G hard drive and an HDMI slot. What do u guys think? Good or bad move?

http://www.gamespot.com/features/6168148/index.html?tag=topslot;title;1&om_act=convert&om_clk=topslot

eleshin:
for all that cares to listen.2face is the best musician in africa according to my own assessment.after tuface in nigeria we still have artist like d'banj,psquare,styl plus,paul play.accepted independent is the best effort from faze but it can not be compare to grass to grace.

yeah i even still prefer listening to styl plus & d'banj than to faze esp. styl-plus

hola2ng:

The deepest track has got to be "One Love"

I agree

The chic that sings with Lagbaja is not bad at all

I'm beginning to love "True Love" more and more. I always play it back to back whenever I listen to it.

De Limit:
I thought this statistic was necessary, because of the emphatic margin

FAZE TUFACE
Tayotere Beyunce
Badman888 Mr me too
Diyobdw Shaka Mc
Baro Eleshin
Toptho Omo eko
Naijagal Beambelly
Rovy Tiny Bone
Hadeleye Tunes
sjayking
nasyl
Dice
Dj-d
Sheriff231
Jaybaby
Delimit
9ja4eva
J-girl
Star01
TB myself
Modups
Tianshie
Spikelord
Inkie
Harrieking
Eazypeezy
tiwex
Abdogood
lil thanny
Muno01
Bennsul
Kellofish
Kateflow
Derinsola
Pointblank

RES IPSA LOQUITUR (the facts speaks for itself) THREAD CLOSED

Lol. The LAST THING you want to do is introduce stats when comparing faze to tuface you WON'T WIN. There's a thread that is not as popular as this one here too that has more "Grass 2 Grace" people than "Independent" peeps. Lets forget nairaland for a minute how does performance translate in the real world, tuface still gets bigger shows than faze and thats what its all about don't let the hype on nairaland fool u. Anyway personally I know more people that prefer tuface's new album to faze's. Even Oluchi says "One Love" is one of her best songs.

9ja4eva:
No words for u.Abeg better person Faze is talented and mind u i never said Tu Face is nt talented.

For real for real not anything personal wasn't referring to you in particular about the whole Kennis thing but all the same y would anyone say Tuface is not talented say what u will about faze's new album being better than tuface's but its ridiculous to say tuface is not talented.

9ja4eva:
Yeah that is it oh.As for those saying Faze has not featured in any major show i want to say that 2face being with Kennis helped i promoting him.Faze is rising high so watch him.

This Kennis music bull again (no offense to the author). You guys keep making noise faze is signed to konvict music and u still come back and make noise about kennis. I know "Independent" wasn't released under konvict but at least his their artist. Please lets stop all this magic u think kennis music is performing. Tour promoters care about how much they make and what artist can make this money for them and not because they know keke or d1. @Tunes, "No shaking" is a great song, tight beats hope you get more crazy crazy about naija songs they're doing good things right now, keep doing what u do.

odada:
Just like the topic says have y'all herad about the movie topping all the charts in the US?300!with no major artist and shot for only 60 days in Greece but took em over a year and a half to edit?the director is famous for his directing the movie "SIN CITY" what u know about this?because the movie has roken all the major first in hitory scooping in a whooping 67million dollars in its first week of release wow!

iice:
@odada lol, no major artist . Dude it's Gerard Butler Aka King Leonidas. It was shot by the director of Dawn of the Dead (Zack Snyder) not Sin City's director (Robert Rodriguez)

Oh am happy its making waves but it has yet to make the kind of money that other Blockbusters have made

I think odada meant the creator/writer Frank Miller. He's comic book guy he did SIN CITY and now 300

@LORD 101
First off I haven't listened to most of the songs on the album more than once but the ones everyone raves about are on my playlist and I keep listening to it every time. So its not that accurate for u to say I'm basing my comparison by listening to it once. Secondly, I guess everyone would just love what they love. Can't see the big deal with faze YET. So i'll still keep jamming my 2Baba. Tattoo girls more innovative, hmmm (there's something about u, o girl o girl o girl) Hmmmm!!!. So "Letter to My Brother" was a reply to 'see me so". Why does that dude love crying over tuface that he had to quickly write a reply in 2 days. Wow so tuface still makes that guy rich haha. Don't worry we'll beg tuface to keep bringing songs like that more often so that faze would keep eating

Omo Eko:
what are u smoking are u kidding me, everything u said he false.
Tattoo girl is wack compared to True love, anyway your comparison is just wrong

shaka mc:
@lord 101,is it our biznezz that faze composed [letter to my brother]in just 2 dayz

true talk

Watch this. kind of crazy!!!

Grammy award winning songwriter and producer Dallas Austin is the subject of an explosive video interview where he accuses Christina Aguilera and British soul singer Joss Stone of providing sexual favors in exchange for production work on their CDs.

"Christina Aguilera, Joss Stone, all these bitches be fuckin' for tracks," Austin says in the video. "You go in the studio with the regular girls like Ciara and them, they just want to get their work done. Bleep all these bitches fuckin' for tracks."
In the video, Austin further explains in explicit detail the accounts of Aguilera having sex with both him and his best friend.

Austin, who has penned and produced award-winning songs for TLC, Madonna, Monica, Kelis, Gwen Stefani and Janet Jackson, among others, is responding to articles appearing on the internet where Stone's relationship with collaborator, Raphael Saadiq, became a public affair.

As previously reported by SOHH, Stone teamed with Saadiq as the main collaborator on her forthcoming CD Introducing Joss Stone due out March 20 via Virgin Records

http://blogs.sohh.com/soul/archives/2007/03/dallas_austin_j.html

I'll like to know what these 2 girls did to him for him to air them out this way

I'm so sorry i just listened to the faze's full album on duduradio.com to all faze fans out there i still can't here it. Maybe because the website is not all that clear (that'll be my excuse). I've tried to hear this THING u guys hear but I just still don't get. For faze fans out there I think I'm about to admit I don't have good ear for music because I'm really trying. Y not compare some songs side by side

Letter to my brother vs See me So - Tuface kills faze
One Love vs Need Somebody - My vote is still 2face
True Love vs Tattoo girls - thats kind of a tie for me

Even if 2face didn't do as well as his 1st album I still can't hear what make faze's album better

please if anyone has faze's album can u upload it. Maybe its because of the quality I've listened to most of the songs i don't dig them

ps 3 is finally showing us the next gen gaming experience, the wii has done that, in their own lil way, with their controller. Right now I'm putting 360 at the bottom position because all they have shown is "we can make your games look better" but i've not still been blown away with anything i've seen so far. I know "Gears" is a good game but for that to be the best they've had to offer on a "next gen console" is not good enuf right about now. I literally switched my views about this consoles 3 days ago when i started following the game developer's convention. Microsoft pls for the sake of 360 owners like me worldwide show us u have more to offer. You can check out the coverage of the GDC '07 on www.gametrailers.com. I really didn't see anything there for the 360

yeah GDC '07. ps3 really showed their stuff. Its really good for sony. I own a 360 so I was all for ps3 is a waste of money and blah blah but they are really showing the goods. The linux os, the new home. Little Big Planet looks AWESOME OMG!!! Even if you think its for kids (which i don't) its so creative. The showing of the ps3 at the convention made it seem like microsoft would be biting their nails. It almost makes it seem like they released the 360 a yr too early for real. I hope the 360 hasn't shown us half of what it has to offer yet if not in about 2yrs its just going to be gathering dust in a corner of your room while u play ur ps3.

shaka mc:
@ELESHIN,I WANT TO MARRY U BECAUSE U RE SO INFORMED.LOLI THINK WE WILL MAKE A GREAT COUPLE, INIT MAYBE OPEN OUR OWN LABEL[SHAKASHIN INC]LOL

eleshin:
SHERRIF,
I NEED TO EDUCATE YOU A LITTLE YOU KNOW THAT 2FACE AS A MEMBER OF THE P'BOIZ WON A PERSONAL AWARD AS THE BEST MALE VOCALIST AT AMEN AWARD,DO YOU KNOW THAT HE SIGNED FOR KENNIS IN 2OO4 FOR A 2 MILLION NAIRA CONTRACT.KENNIS NEVER CONTACT FAZE YOU ARE A LIAR!.IS TUFACE THE ONLY ARTIST UNDER KENNIS WHEN HE WON THE MAIDEN EDITION OF MTV AWARD?DO YOU KNOW THAT TUFAZE WAS ANNOUNCE A WINNER A DAY B4 THE MTV AWARD BECAUSE OF THE GAP IN THE VOTES.HE HAD VOTES THAT PUTTIN 2GETHER ALL OTHER NOMINEES VOTE HE WILL STILL BE THE WINNER.THE CRITERIA WAS STRICTLY BY VOTING.WELL IT IS OBVIOUS THAT YOU ARE IGNORANT OF HIPHOP WORLD,I'M ONE OF THE VIEW THAT INVEST ON INFORMATION JUST TO ENLIGHTEN P'PLE LIKE YOU HOW I WISH THAT YOU LEARN FROM MY TEACHING.THEN KONVICT SIGHNING FAZE WILL MAKE LITTLE DIFFERENCE.MARION JONES WON FIVE GRAMMY UNDER LITTLE KNOWN RECORD LABEL,SO WAS CARLOS SANTANA.IF NOT THE KENNIS CONTRACT THAT PINNED 2BABA DOWN AKON WILL BE OVERDELGHTED TO HAVE 2FACE UNDER HIS LABEL,HOPE YOU WATCH THE MOBO 2005 CONCERT WHEN AKON JOINED HIM ON STAGE AFTER PERFORMING AFRICAN QUEEN.IN WEST AFRICA KENNIS MUSIC IS THE BEST EVEN THOUGH BAD-BOY OR ROCA FELLA OR EVEN G-UNIT CHOOSE TO SIGN FAZE HE WILL CONTINUE TO THREAD BEHIND THE KING OF AFRICA AND BAALE OF NIGERIANS.THE COLLABO WITH WYCLEF,2FACE DELIVER CHORUS,BRIDGE AND A VERSE WHEN FAZE HAD ONLY ONE VERSE TO HIS CREDIT HOW COME YOU MENTION IT AS A POINT.MAYBE YOU WRONG LISTEN HAAAAAAAAA.LET US FACE THE FACT AND BE REALISTIC FAZE HAS A GOOD ALBUM BUT TUFACE'S IS BETTER BECAUSE HE DID NOT SING ONLY FOR LAGOS CLUB(KOLOMENTAL) BUT FOR YOU TO LEARN FROM AND UNLIKE FAZE THAT TARGETED NIGERIAN AUDIENCE TUFACE ALBUM IS MEANT FOR AMERICANS,EUROPEANS AND AFRICANS EVEN THE WHOLE WIDE WORLD! ALL WE NEEEEEEEEEED IS ONE LOVEEEEEEEEEEEE.ANY MORE QUESTION?

Lol. Make una tell them jo. I started having doubts if 2face's album was really better but I listened to it again with my friend that hadn't listened to any of them before. He couldn't get enough of "see me so" and no other song on faze's album moved him that way. My advice is drop all your broke-down boom boxes and get a nice system, then compare. lol

Robin Thicke kidnapped him, hid him in his basement and gobbled his blood.

i know this is a lil bit off topic but the statement itself "the king of Nigeria" bothers me. What does that mean? I have much respect and love for nas but it sounds kinda ignorant to me. The first time I heard the song i was thinking wtf is that. it just seems more of the same viewing African nations in that traditional tribal setting

Y fix something that aint broke? U say tuface keeps saying YES O YES O!! cool. and what about your bro faze? How does face alone start and again how does letter to my brother start? NOOOOOOOOOO OOOOI. I'm I right? Faze didn't make a huge enough impact on his first record maybe thats the reason he felt he had to re-invent himself, which is probably working to his advantage while 2face stuck to the same ol' formula which to some people might not be working anymore still works for me tho'

P.S. Kolomental is not dancehall its Reggaeton

I don't think u read my whole post and u r just taking that quote out of context. I said the VIDEO for African Queen was wack not the SONG. I was just referring to people that talks as if it was Tuface's marketing that made him successful. So what I meant was tuface was successful in spite of his WACK VIDEO while faze was not as successful even with his nice video.

@Sheriff231

When u say Wyclef went to faze and tuface. Maybe I didn't listen to "Proud to be African" enough but I think tuface carried that song more than any other artist featured on that song. I also notice u didn't say anything about Beenie Man. Akon signed faze to his record company lets see what they're going to do with him. Signing to a label is the least thing we should be celebrate about (not trying to take anything away from it) when they put him out and support him and market him properly that when we'll know they believe in him. Do you really all think Tuface couldn't have gotten a top international label to sign him? I really don't understand his loyalty to kennis music

thank u shaka mc for that u took some words right out of my mouth. Ppl keep talking about marketing and hyping by kennis music. I'm not in naija maybe thats the reason I'm so ignorant about the music scene but as far as the international setting goes kennis music no get any grags for here!!! Go to youtube and search for African queen and read the comments from people all over the world believe me those people don't know shit about kennis music. The song sells itself in other words tuface sold that song well with his voice and the way it was delivered. That song makes people proud they're are African while other races are jealous they don't have such a song to celebrate their beauty in such a manner. Y didn't tony tetuila blow up all over the world with "My Car" if kennis music is so fantastic. Maybe the song made it to Channel O but thats it. Maybe I'm still showing tuface preference because he made so F*&ing proud to be Nigerian admist all the negative press we are getting. I just listen to the songs I don't care about the hype. Faze has not impressed me enough to make me feel he's better that tuface. I have been to different parties hosted by people from different nationalities and I see the dance floor come alive when tuface comes on. Thats what I base my preference on and not Kenny or D1 (they're not in a lil bit a factor). @ Sheriff231 Please tell me a Keisha song that u think made him deserve that award than tuface. Again I don't know any of these people personally so there's no reason for me to be partial but when I hear that album or song to prove to me without a doubt faze is better I'll be the person blasting his music so that all my neighbors can listen and hear that another naija boi has done it again!!!


P.S. - One of the ways I know a record company sells an artist is through music videos. African Queen video was wack at best while the faze alone video was the bomb, I'm not just saying this for argument sake but that video (faze alone) is still one of my favorite naija videos. So let ppl not try to make it seem faze wasn't marketed.

i don't think u've read comments in this forum enough. its blackface this, he stole it, its not his song, etc. and the latest faze rejected the song and passed it down (what a laugh). I hope I don't think I was referring to u ooo it was just a general comment from other posts I've read.

I don't care how anyone feels about tuface no one can take "African Queen" from him. Thats song is definitely a classic.