₦airaland Forum

Why don’t I ever believe anything thst comes from his mouth?

Hardlife:
Well, i took last jamb, i passed very
well to the joy of everybody. They thought i was back to being
normal but secretly i was still playing
virtual. Virtual has eaten deep in my blood. All the money i managed to save
before the jamb period while at home
still ended up in virtual. I want to stop but i cant. Fast forward everything to today the
7th of july. I took the money for my
post utme form to play virtual. My heartbeat was felt by the person
close to me when i lost the last kobo i
came with. Till now i have not
stopped thinking, nobody knows. now
i am thinking how to get the money
back. I am a dead man alive. Gambling has eaten deep into my
soul. i am finished. I AM TIRED AND FRUSTRATED,
SOMEBODY PLEASE HELP ME. I
WANT TO STOP. I WANT TO HAVE MY LIFE BACK
TOGETHER. PLEASE HELP ME IF
YOU HAVE HAD SIMILAR
EXPERIENCE. I AM DYING SLOWLY. I NEED
HELP. TODAY I HAVE PUT A
STOP TO IT. GOD HELP ME.
PLEASE
HOW CAN I QUIT FOREVER

“The House always wins.”
This alone should make a sensible guy quit!

Them go answer?

Nigeria Music : An Industry In Decline

Back in the days,  legends used their music as a medium of communication. Their music defined not just their lives but that of the society they lived in.  We had the likes of Bob Marley leading a salient revolution through his music. Questioning the guts of the white supremacist and the cowardice of the black man.

Fela Kuti became notorious during the military era for his blunt lyrics and eratic behavior.  While some might argue that Fela is not a perfect role model for a child,  undoubtedly we must acknowledge that Fela is a real hero.

A man who was able to thrill his fans with his high octane performances and captivating lyrics.  Little wonder he’s the most celebrated African music legend of all time.

Let’s fast-forward a bit to early 2000. We had the likes of Tuface, Black Face,  African China, Edris etc.  Then our music still had some real juice in it. Music made some efforts then to lend voice to the sufferings of the masses e.g Edris’s jaga jaga, African China’s crisis,  Tuface’s E be like say,  black face’s hard life and many more .

I could remember the president then having an outburst over the “jaga jaga” song. And tgen abusing the crooner of the song in front of journalists.  Now this would have been a very perfect way of keeping unruly politicians on their toes.

* THE DECLINE AND CAUSE 
But Sadly, that trend died with the rise of artists like dbanj who laid more emphasis on ladies and sex.  In fact I walked out of a dbanj show in 2009 when he invited 8 girls on stage to help pull off his top. It didn’t end there, with the influx of teen celebrities like the wizkids and Davidos of today,  following the trend of their predecessors,  the Nigerian music industry completely degenerated into a cesspool. In fact mediocrity has taken the order of the day and what is most important is that at the end of the day, they buy up the influential djs and OAPs and the song trend for years.
 The only problem here is that when placed side by side with their foreign counterparts, their weaknesses begin to manifest  e.g Stefflon Don ft wizkid, Davido and Fuse_ODG  In fact those two guys embarrassed Nigerian music in that job.
The major concepts revolving around every Nigerian song is partying, sex, exhibition of affluence and any other social vice you can think of. Even upcoming artistes are promising to buy Lamborghini for Caro in their songs.
However what I find quite difficult to comprehend is that most of these big musicians still live in rented houses. Most of them are broke most often than not due to the kind of lifestyle they are exposed to. Practically,  it’s very impossible to sustain that kind of lifestyle they portray in their music.  I have argued with some bloggers that these musicians flaunt most of these affluences on social media to divert attention away from the inadequacies of their music.
I can’t say that the current crop of Nigerian musicians are selling records,  they are just selling their personality. A foreigner that listens to top 10 hottest songs in our airplay would definitely have the wrong picture of situation of things in Nigeria. These musicians portray us as sex freaks that just want to drink, do drugs, party and fuvk.
At the peak of our recession, a Nigerian superstar was telling us that he has 30 billion in his account. Another one was telling Jane Doe to come and follow him “manya”. One other one was singing about weed and tramadol and another one was singing about the bum bum of his girlfriend.
While all these were going on, Nigerians were dying from hunger,  herdsmen attack, political instability and many more.  Politicians were being awarded grass cutting contracts for 250 million naira and about 10000 Nigerians lost their job. As a music lover, I ll tell you that our music has lost touch of reality.
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 It’s expected that these self acclaimed superstars still have fans on ground simply because no matter how bad a music is, once it’s adequately promoted, it ll attract audience.  That’s music!!! Which is why you are expected to use that power positively.  The direct effect of these laziness on the part of our musicians is that Nigerian music is not really making the kind of impact expected of it globally.
Poor content and over concentration on the erotic aspect of music has made most Nigerian artistes boring. These days,  wizkid can hardly compose a song without mentioning “sexy lady”!!! Tekno stole a street vibe like Jogodo  and still found a way to bring in the sexiness of Jane Doe into the picture.  When will these boys understand that there is more to music than sex and money.  Singers are supposed to be some kind of funnels.
 They should be an avenue for words of reason into the society.  Their every  single line should be a food for thought for their audience. At the rate this industry is going, we are going to bury  creativity  on the alter of commercial tunes.
As it is, our music industry has lost its golden responsibility of being the mouthpiece of the streets.
 Instead of challenging the ruling class in their songs over there wrongs. They turned psychophants and hero worshippers always calling one politician or the other in their songs just to get some couple of millions.
If the dead can see,  the likes of Fela will be weeping terribly in their graves.

Author- Blind Truth

emy4all:
Please can someone recommend a nice restaurant in enugu where you can eat tasty lgbo native soups?
Thanks.

Mama onyinye, Near Shoprite

Offpoint:
Art is your calling I wonder what you're doing in meds

The arts actually relieves the stress of this hospital practice. And the hospital work makes me crave my pencils and papers. I can’t do one without the other, fam.

biacan:
Nice Keep it up

Thank you dear

More

Hey fam! I’m just your ordinary Medical Doctor who has this weird passion for arts. The feeling of creating these images is so surreal and I hope to inspire some intending artists to keep this fire burning! Anyway, I decided to put some my works up here because art is meant to be shared, isn’t it?
Ps: Apologies for the incomplete works. It is a Gemini thing!! But I am working on that part of me.
Also,you can follow me on IG @artnaeto. Y’all can be a part of my art family. And the page is just for my arts, it isn’t so personal..
Cheers, my people!!

Skyfornia:
Lucky her...and I'm sure she married as a virgin. Not our regular slay queens who has slayed every carrot, sugarcane and cucumber and now looking for a Christian brother to kolombi blah blah!!

Ogah,She tell you?

Is it your ‘lots of rituals’??

Somebody is tabling the shake o

Is it your frolicking?

Is it your smoking?

Dorcas is still the biggest Ojoro after the stupid stunt she pulled with the Taxify driver. What an unapologetic slowpoke!

In this post, she canceled her wedding for you. In another thread, another lady with four kids destroyed her marriage for you. You are not lazy at all!

2011

RIP to all of them. This is what you get when you have rickety vehicles being used as cab. When you look at the state pf commercial vehicles in Ilorin you will ask yourself if you are in Nigeria’s very own junkyard.

I thought you were advised to sit down and study so that you may get the Medicine and Surgery which you desires so much! This country can sha change people’s destinies.

One word for you; Patricia another word; Etteh

And another set of words: Diezanu Allison Madueke

You call yourself “average” and that is what I term “the Captivity of Negativity”. Anyhoo, as it stands now, the only obstacle between you and your MBBS is you. As in, you have so much pride in showing off average set of boobs believing that they are standard but then when it comes to your intellectual prowess you come dey talk any how. I’m sorry for being kinda blunt but all I’m trying to say is this, nobody is gonna believe in you if you don’t believe in you. (And you need to stop calling yourself average, boobs maybe average , but I don’t think the brain is)

SalamRushdie:
Good thing he blocked you

Well, my good friend, you also need to look beyond the whole political hullabaloo. You need to understand that they only say what the masses want to hear when they lose access to the power line.

So much for the freedom of speech which he so wants the president to grant Nigerians��

No, Lie Mohammed lied

emeka2847:
[size=18pt]FFK only sees everything in life in terms of differences of religion, ethnicity, and region.
Dassol! [/size]

Most Nigerians see everything in life in terms of differences of religion, ethnicity and region. And that, my friend, is our biggest nsogbu

wizzyrich:
When will the youths ever become the leaders of tomorrow in this country ?

Leaders of today. We have waited for tomorrow for so long.

Mugu Money Spender

I can't say that this is the best art that I have seen. But as an old friend would say, in arts, u don't make the same mistake twice. You will only get better my friend.. KEEP IT UP!!

Estharfabian:
No offense to The Nûde-Asking folks tho...



Y'all keep doing Your thing. I Ain't mad.

you DON'T mind

My own take on the matter is that coming out on stage to make noise and not calling anybody's name is cowardice, not smartness... You don't just come out to shout at everybody and nobody in particular so that you can hide behind the fact that " u didn't call anybody's name".

lil Kesh's raps are quite noisy if you ask me. It may be because I don't understand his language, I dunno.. But there are other Indigenous rappers and singers,like Olamide himself, that have produced really nice tracks.

Djicemob:
If MI is king, Lamar is a god.Besides why is MI copying Lamar's style and concept?

M.I's rap style has always been like this even before we started hearing of kendrick lamar... I think his new album is the best in naija right now