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American magazine 'VIBE' report:
The man that is taking Afrobeats around the world, comes to New York and sets the stage ablaze.

He left the Brooklyn crowd wanting for nothing in his effort of giving energy for three hours with his longtime sound selector, DJ Tunez. With Afrobeats becoming more and more of a dominant sound, Wizkid is currently embarked on his first full worldwide tour, hitting London as well. But the young king was focused on the show at hand with high energy and crowd engagement while they sang “Show Me The Money” word for word.

In a strong showing of his star power, Wizkid didn’t have any openers for his show. He did have an incredible list of celebrity guests that came to enjoy the night: Jidenna, Vic Mensa, King Promise, Paedae of R2Bees, Winnie Harlow, Swizz Beatz, Leomie Anderson, Joan Smalls, Nana Kwabena, KDDO (formally known as Kiddominant), LAX, and Tunji Balogun newly appointed CEO of Def Jam (responsible for Wizkid signing to RCA in 2016).

For the height of showmanship, the crowd lit their phones up during the performance of “Smile,” and the quick rendition of “Killing Me Softly”—which transitioned into “Blessed”—was epic. Starboy FC came out in full force with Nigerian flags waving high. Wiz rocked a slightly burnt rustic orange outfit styled by Karen Binns.
https://www.vibe.com/news/events/wizkid-brooklyn-tour-stop-1234628364/

Meanwhile sahara reporters report:
Wizkid's show flops because the crew members including his personal stylist and bodyguard are held down in Lagos over their inability to secure a date for an interview at the US Embassy.
http://saharareporters.com/2021/09/14/nigerian-music-star-wizkid%E2%80%99s-us-tour-flops-american-embassy-lagos-delays-visa-appointment

Why are Nigerian media so backward?

One said facts, the other made a sensational reporting.

May God help us all

No be Sahara reporters again?

omo is funny sha

Bnkn

WizkidNews:
Why are Nigerian media so backward?

it is not easy to celebrate the success of another seeing you can hardly survive the next day in this economy. The jealousy in the atmosphere of Nigeria is so dense that even the president would not want you to do whatever his child cannot do If he had his way.

Trust me Nigerians are super talented and intelligent people but in this atmosphere they will never even realize it in the first place. I recall countless times I tried to sing to the hearing of my friends and they began to say things like you should just rap, you can't do afro beats. Like that's thesame me that the producer said I will be a big name with dedication.

JimmyDarmody:
it is not easy to celebrate the success of another seeing you can hardly survive the next day in this economy. The jealousy in the atmosphere of Nigeria is so dense that even the president would not want you to do whatever his child cannot do If he had his way.

Trust me Nigerians are super talented and intelligent people but in this atmosphere they will never even realize it in the first place. I recall countless times I tried to sing to the hearing of my friends and they began to say things like you should just rap, you can't do afro beats. Like that's thesame me that the producer said I will be a big name with dedication.

Nice words

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Don't blame SR too much, SR was a bit hard on Wizkid with that comment. SR could have put that statement in milder manner. Something like so so so hit a hitch as crew members so so so so. Nothing like Nigerian media hate wizkid, as long as it's the true, state it. The only problem is if it is not true.

WizkidNews:
Why are Nigerian media so backward?

bcs your country is backward too

It was not a one day concert..

They has been 3 locations now if I'm not mistaken..

Fact vs sensation ..I will go with fact

Wizkid concerts so far have been incredibly successful. Any1 that tells you otherwise is living in an upside world.

Abeg when is the 02 arena tour coming.

Ayo you made Nigerians proud. We love u

Both are correct. Sahara covers the local aspect of the news that surround the concert while the international magazine only focus on the concert

WizkidNews:
Why are Nigerian media so backward?

Both headlines are optimized to get clicks.

It's not about backwardness.

Clicks and traffic is what makes money for the media, they don't care if they're telling you the truth or not.

American audience wouldn't care if it's not something new or refreshing like the next best thing in Afropop.


Here in Nigeria, nobody gives a flying frock what genre of music a celeb is singing, but you bet they'd click if the news is about how the celeb got embarrassed or disappointed.

It's the same thing with Messi and Ronaldo. Any news about Ronaldo is always reported negatively because his fans are easy to get clickbaited/triggered and his haters want to see him fail.
Messi gets positive reports because his fans are very agreeable and his haters get triggered easily.


In the end, it is what it is.

Nonsense... the scenarios are completely different. how will the American media report such situations when wizkid's flight got delayed?

Naija and bad news, lol

America and Nigeria are miles apart. No doubt...

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Bigwiz

That's life for you

Anyway if you are a Unilag aspirant, there's good news for you.

We are our own enemies