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Well like I said, it's some sort of research I'm doing

Truth is I'm trying 2 write a story about a young guy caught in the campus violence web. And I have what u might call a writer's block - run out of inspiration/ the right descriptions.

So anything u say here about a gun will help, especially if u're a graduate/undergraduate of a Nigerian university, or u've been in any state similar 2 the one I've mentioned.

your target need not even have been human.

Digiman:
Any way the first couple of things that strike you are the recoil and how loud it is , and oh yeah its not easy to get your taget without aiming properly, its worlds apart from the stuff you see in movies.

Thank u a lot 4 this response. It's brief but will help a zillion

Kidnaps have been going on in the Niger Delta. Speaker of Bayelsa State house of assembly's mum got kidnapped the other time. She was about 70. It took a whole week - if not more. The kidnappers demanded a 50 abi na 60 mn bail which the guy denied paying.

Then recently, the deputy speaker's son or so

I said something the other time and some people didn't find it appropriate 2 post such a thread. I asked what this whole thing can be called since people always say it's the Igbo man that's most greedy of all the tribes in Nigeria.

I'd love 2 c um, Jaybaby & Ice - know if they're as alive as they sound
(hope they're both girls o)

Then 4 some strange reason, Orikinla - from a distance tho - I'd like someone 2 point him out so I'd be able 2 say I've seen him

O Boy! And going by ur age, it must have felt real terrible.

Anybody here ever done "wack 1st rap" on stage? I can't wait 2 hear

This thread is 4 young peeps abeg. Preferably untrained shooters, not like some armed forces person who's trained 2 weild guns.

Try 2 remember the very first time.
What gun was it?

Where was it?

Y did u shoot?

What did u shoot @?

How did it feel? - I really need the answer 2 this one.

You might as well call it a research, this thing I'm  I'm doing.

I don't know how apt this thread is here. Seun, pls help me if it's not appropriate.

Prior 2 that day, it had been just responsorial psalms in church, solos or stuff like that
The BS about that performance wasn't that it was my 1st time, but that I wasn't prepared.

It was a duet wit my bro - a real pushy kinda bro - and we wanted it 2 be a short medley, u know, flex voice a little, exhibit modern melisma and all

O boy, we don reach there, mic no good 2 start with and we didnt rehearse remember -
freestyle.
Ok

We started with "Silent Night" but like unlike we plan'd, we didnt get 2 do anotha one. We flex flex flex, modulate modulate soteeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
mic spoil, scatter our voice wey we don already wear out with keyz that were inaccessible 2 our voices.

Bottom line, we messed up. And 2 think of say my bro attracted a lot of his friends (some of them real good singers) 2 watch us - chai!

The very next day, I had 2 leave skool - I just travelled home 2 hide my big head a while.
And tho there were later nice encounters on the stage, man, the 1st still tastes bitter.

Tell me about urs abeg

Prior 2 that day, it had been just responsorial psalms in church, solos or stuff like that
The BS about that performance wasn't that it was my 1st time, but that I wasn't prepared.

It was a duet wit my bro - a real pushy kind of bro - and we wanted it 2 be a short medley, u know, flex voice a little, exhibit modern melisma and all

O boy, we don reach there, mic no good 2 start with and we didnt rehearse remember -
freestyle.
Ok

We started with "Silent Night" but like unlike we  plan'd, we didnt get 2 do anotha one. We flex flex flex, modulate modulate soteeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
mic spoil, scatter our voice wey we don already wear out with keyz that were inaccessible 2 our voices.

Bottom line, we messed up. And 2 think of say my bro attracted a lot of his friends (some of them real good singers) 2 watch us - chai!

The very next day, I had 2 leave school - I just travelled home 2 hide my big head a while.
And tho there were later nice encounters on the stage, man, the 1st still tastes bitter.

Tell me about urs abeg

It had always been "Igbo this" and "Igbo that" ; everybody talking about how greedy and corrupt the Igbos are when money's the subject.

Well, what do u think of the harvest of kidnaps that's now common talk in the Niger Delta? They kidnapped whites and were dubbed "militia", now that they're kidnapping their own - the wealthy and any available close relatives of such - what are they going 2 be called?
What wit the whooping sums demanded as ransom

U know the part that pisses me off? These guys have the highest number of lazy, jobless youth. Yea there's a big unemployment problem in Nigeria, but these leeches are "settled" by government, all companies in "their land" - international and local; yet they go about kidnapping 4 huge ransom.
Somebody give this thing a name I can undastand

Weel the intention was that we all share HOW it happened, not just say how we felt when it happened.

It could even a back-in-skool gist. Could be ur ex - the one that u thot was a friend, not the one u was just getting freaky with.

So can someone share?

I'm in Aba right now, and will be till I leave 4 service in September, hopefully. I was wondering if I kud meet a piano tutor in Aba. I don't have a piano - that's a fact 2 consider.

I know more than just a lot about R&B, but I actually started with hymns and classicals. So if the tutor is a church pianist, it's kool with me.
My e-mail: kool_like_water@yahoo.com

Joseph, hope u undastand - that's if u read this - proximity matters 2 me now. Thanx 4 ur reply. U might be my last resort.

A rap album does not make hiphop rather its an element of hiphop

I totally agree. But u should also note that rap is like the core of hip hop. Not every hip hop is rap, yea, but certainly ova 80% of hip hop is rap( correct me if I'm wrong).
And tho not every rap is hip hop, when u talk Nas, u're not talking much else xcept Hip Hop.

ladebi:
You can say illmatic is the greatest rap album,but which is not true.

Everybody has a right 2 their own opinion. If u agree wit me on that, then u agree someone can disagree wit u absoluteli on this one.

And like I said, in talking about Nas, please say hip hop and not rap, because if u simply say rap, then the 50 cents and all otha "rap artistes" might defile the category so much that Nas' ethereal hip hop will not condescend 2 fit in.

As 4 Illmatic, if I lose 2 copies of it, I'll buy 6 so I'll reduce any chances of not having it drastically, whetha or not it's the gr8st.
And tho I also feel Jigga like I feel my heartbeat, I can't help the fever "Ether" gives me.

Looking back now, I doubt if she was realli my friend. But I was very fond of her, & I guess she was fond of me too - @ least well enuff 2 creep wit me now and again.

Ok that day, I visisted skool. I'd graduated then. She had this room-mate - a friend of mine too. Both of them were there that day, with anotha girlfriend of theirs. None of them knew she was running stuff wit me - it was strictly b/w 2.
Then this framed picture of her and some guy caught my eye. I knew that frame when it contained a pic of just her. I asked naturalli, and it was her friends that told me it was her "homeboy".

I wasn't mad, but I wasn't happy either. I teased her around a lil bit, and she kept saying she'd talk 2 me later. Damn that talk. What was there 2 say? Why hadn't she told me all along when we spoke on fone? Y did I have 2 hear from her friends?

I didn't tell her when I was leaving the next day, and tho we've spoken now and then on fone since then, it's nothing like it used 2 be. I'd mo easily bang my head on the wall than call her these days, cause it's all sore, our friendship.


Can we hear urs?

@ adeoba
Ur e-mail is hidden in ur profile. How can I contact u? I'd like us 2 have a chat

I was thinking. I still I'm thiking what the reception will be if I imbued R & B, maybe Jazz or Afro in a remake of Sullivan & Gilbert's Trial By Jury

I really love that opera. I know most of the solos by heart; I learnt them in my when I was 14 or 15. Anyway, that'll be after I have made a mark in the industry.

@ author

I just sent u a mail. Hope u read it and reply either on this thread or thru e-mail. Even if we can't arrange 4 my lessons 2 begin, I'd really like 2 c u play.
Besides classical music, wat otha genre of music are u into? I undastand calssical folkz find it hard 2 condescend 2 any otha genre that's not as "pure" as classical music.

I'm in Aba and I'd like 2 learn 2 play the piano and guitar.
D'u play instruments or d'u just sing?

Depending on ur response, I'll mail u soon

It's not entirely a question of foreign construction companies over local ones. It's about how much of that whooping sum was actually put 2 use which is a problem with the government that awarded the contract in first place.

A foreing company would definitely charge more than a local company so that by the time they're done settling 'the powers that be" they still have enuff 2 do the contract 'fairly well". It's not always the same case with local companies.
Out of the 300m, u can bet far less than 150 was put 2 use.

menike:
@ mr me too
Now u stay in Baltimore - So I gotta remind u and everyone of y'all bout this

So if he wasn't in Baltimore, his comment wud be illiterate 2? How much sense does that make? I mean, we all love and play muzik well here, so just coz u probabli were so broke and illiterate (not like u sound any improved now) while u were here does not mean everbody still in Nigeria is that way.

SO PLS LET NONE OF Y'ALL SAY SH*t CUS DEM 2 DUDES, ARE YA
BEST RAPPERS FAVORITE PRODUCERS SO JUST RESPECT THAT .

That's not the point. Everybody in here knows both of em and how good they are. Question is: now they got beef, who d'u think is better anyway?

And yea they all have their unique elements, but if people prefer one 2 the otha, it means that his element is better accepted or loved, and not that the otha is actualli not good or worse.

Besides, everybody has their taste/opinion, so if mine is Tim, then dont diss that. Hope u'll rememba that.

Gees! The audio track no gree attach o.
I'll try later

did u eva check the onli reply 2 thyis same thread post that u posted in the Entertainment forum?
I bet u didnt.
I sent it, and in it I asked if u attended SPC calabar - I was there a year.
It's been 10 years since I left calabar, and while I was there, I stayed in Ikot Ansa.

Personalli, I dig Timba. Scott? He's gonna have 2 do mo than the regular - my assessment, that is - 2 compete Tim.
Tim's nowhere on the regular. I think he's run the entire gamut of wat good production is about - hit songs, nu rhythm, funkified ol' skool plus, EVERYTHING ELSE!

It's a group: Origin
theyr'e not any label tho.

Wat d'u think of the track?

viee:
the concubine still remain the only Nigerian novel i can't get tired of reading!
it is so well written and the story so fantastic that you can so easily indentify with the characters.

That's my description of Helon Habila's "Waiting 4 an Angel". I just love that novel like Adichie's "Purple Hibiscus". I wouldn't mind a waka-pass role in any of those 2.

If 6 years were 2 return right now, 2day would'a still been a thursday. Okey would have left my house with some friends, disappointed that I wasn't ready to go hang out like we'd been doing for the period.

He would'a said "you're a bunch of disappointments" at the door, and I woulda laughed.
Then I'd have called after them from upstairs "I'll meet u guys in school around 10 or 11!"
And the response would follow,"Suit yourself!"

Then later on, 2ward evening, he'd leave the company of some of our friends in school for home where he'd soak otto (like I heard he did) and then go down 2 the nurse who'd been giving him injections the whole week. That's where it would happen:
that his vision was blurry after the injexion; that he was having a fainting feeling; that , that he was , dead.

Hugoboi:
CANA and FRAU P
May your souls rest in peace.May the guns that took your young lives never clap again and may the fingers that pulled the triggers find repentance.

Sweet prayer - nothing vengeful. D'u know that ur mentality can change the world?

There, lemme help u light 1 more candle 4 them, and 4 all those who've fallen 2 the violence in skools born out of minds that should have known better.

Hugoboi:
CANA and FRAU P
May your souls rest in peace.May the guns that took your young lives never clap again and may the fingers that pulled the triggers find repentance.

Sweet prayer. Nothing vengeful. Man, Nigeria needs mo of this mentality. D'u know that 2 more of u could make a world of difference in the world?

Guy, sorry 2 divert o, abeg, do u stay in Calabar?
If u do, r u Ekeng O. Ekeng?

I light a candle for the love of my life my darling husband, who passed away on the 17th of January 2001, The kids are growing so fast i give thanks to the loard . We miss you everyday.

My heart goes out 2 u on this one. It must be horrible. Did the kids know him well? I dont mean 2 open up wounds. U really dont have to answer me.

Wat if it is as a result of the Lord's punishment that u're stranded in the first place?
D'u think he'd wanna come so near u/ ur sins?
No mind me o, I'm every inch a xtian

Does this mean that applications are over - I mean since the test in Aba is scheduled 4 saturday and my sis who's in Aba hasn't applied?