₦airaland Forum

Talking about when she decided to move from being a lassie with good rhymes to being a professional Emcee, she said “It was in my I.T year (Industry Training) at an architectural firm in Lagos. The Remedies, Ruff, Rugged N Raw were taking over the airwaves around that time. One other group that was out at the time was the Trybesmen. The first time I heard them on the radio on J.A.J‘s Top 7 Jams at 7, I was blown away! They had that sound I could really relate to, they stood out, for me anyway. I was gonna meet them or else… Lol!” She began her quest to meet The Trybesmen.

TRYBESMEN & DA TRYBE
“I had a friend who knew a friend who knew where eLDee‘s BQ was in UniLag and one thing led to another, he set up a meeting and we bounced over there one bright and sunny day. Lol! I had my rhyme book, I met eLDee, Lequshe, Freestyle and I’m not too sure if Kaboom was there that day. Anyway, I kicked a couple of flows and eLDee liked them and told me I was in! Just like that, dream come true!”

They went on to form Da Trybe, a collective that included the Trybesmen crew and other individuals, “This was when I unleashed Blaise! I believe this was year 2000.”

Da Trybe would later release a compilation of songs from members in 2002, “After we recorded the Oya track as a collective”, the rapper continued, “I moved to the U.K soon after and didn’t get back to the Naija music scene till 2006”

THE DISAPPEARING ACT
Blaise would later sign to Nomoreloss’s Management Company and thus finally, talks about her debut album, Love and Power, were making the rounds in the community. It never got released. I enquired about the reason why she withdrew from the limelight at such an important phase in her career, and her response was well-mannered for such a grim-type situation.

At this point in her career, she was leading the pack without a project, a couple of singles, and guest appearances on about 10 tracks. She always left consumers yearning for more as her almost off-beat (sometimes off-beat) delivery matched her lyrical prowess without ever trying to sexualise herself or any subject she rapped about. Also, her fellow femcees all had projects out, yet all that amount of songs in their discography didn’t match her scanty portfolio in quality.

“It was a combination of many things, too many to go into details about.”

naptu2:
I finally found a censored version.


Maheeda - Naija Bad Girl (2014)


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tx2BflRZUVI

ShaqFu:
Em the uncensored version would have been nicer...

naptu2:
Here it is (you might have to click "Watch on YouTube" to see it).


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IoJJ8yWezTQ

ShaqFu:
Lol. Didn't even know Maheeda is a femcee, just thought she was someone in desperate need of attention like Bobrisky. Lol

naptu2:
Well, you are right. She needed attention and someone suggested music as a means of getting attention. She said that she didn't think that she could sing, in fact she thought that her voice was horrible, but her producer did magical things with her voice in the studio.

(She has other songs, some of them are rap songs and some are R&B and pop songs. She even did a "gospel" song).

Honchoslim16:
I still love US rappers anyday, anytime.


Rap in Africa need to wake up

nairamaniac:
US rap has equally regressed. It has been more of TRAP holding the scene than Rap for past decade or so.
Only very few still keep it real
U can't compare these Trap kids to the old school pure rappers.

I learnt the use of English, wordplays more from old school rap songs than I did from any English teacher I encountered.

Honchoslim16:
Bro, music evolves as time passes by.
You can't expect Rap of this Generation to sound like the 80's, 90's and early 2000........i like the fact that you still called it old school.

In years to come, rappers won't even sound like 21 savage, Migos, Travis Scott, and others.
There will be a new rap flow.

Rap can't die in the US, that's one thing......... Still the top genre.

nairamaniac:
Yeah. Music evolves.
But it doesn't evolve to become an entirely new genre.

There isn't really a correlation between Rap and Trap.
I called it OLD SCHOOL just to abscribe a time period to it. All what these Migos, offset, future are doing ain't really rap.

They dress and look like rappers.

But that ain't pure rap.
Maybe that's why they call it TRAP.

Honchoslim16:
Lol..... I see you don't know nothin' bout music fr!

Everyone can't be a 2pac who talks about Bad government, oppression of the blacks, etc........ Bro, life has evolved past that.

Rap N!ggås now want some money, jewelries, gang affiliation, b!ť¢heş etc.... So that's what they rap about now.

Trap actually means a Drug house.... And that flow came from Atlanta in 1990s, that's why you see Atlanta rappers are different!
Trap can never be rap.Rap heals the soul trap just deals with the flesh.

So it's origin is still from Rap.......... If you are going to differentiate the two, its just the Beats.
The Hi-hat makes it what's called trap beat.

If you want to listen to Old skool music,listen to it..... If you want to listen to new rap music, listen to it.
Stop all those comparisons, it makes it sound dumb!

Honchoslim16:
Lol..... I see you don't know nothin' bout music fr!

Everyone can't be a 2pac who talks about Bad government, oppression of the blacks, etc........ Bro, life has evolved past that.

Rap N!ggås now want some money, jewelries, gang affiliation, b!ť¢heş etc.... So that's what they rap about now.

Trap actually means a Drug house.... And that flow came from Atlanta in 1990s, that's why you see Atlanta rappers are different!

So it's origin is still from Rap.......... If you are going to differentiate the two, its just the Beats.
The Hi-hat makes it what's called trap beat.

If you want to listen to Old skool music,listen to it..... If you want to listen to new rap music, listen to it.
Stop all those comparisons, it makes it sound dumb!

Honchoslim16:
Bro, music evolves as time passes by.
You can't expect Rap of this Generation to sound like the 80's, 90's and early 2000........i like the fact that you still called it old school.

In years to come, rappers won't even sound like 21 savage, Migos, Travis Scott, and others.
There will be a new rap flow.

Rap can't die in the US, that's one thing......... Still the top genre.

Honchoslim16:
If you want songs that touches you deep..... Go listen to some 'Classical music'

nairamaniac:
RAP can stand for Rhythmically Applied Poetry

Or

Rhythm And Poetry.

Call that an acronym or backronym.

In rap there's got to be rhythm and some poetry.

There needs to be rhymes and lots of use of poetry, literature, wordplays, and most of all the use of certain Figures of Speech like similes, metaphors, paradoxes the rest.


It's not mandatory to go sooo deep into it,

But the deeper a rapper dives into those waters, the more respected he is.

It has always been Soo.

That's why the more respected rappers during certain eras were so deep in their rhymes and their poetry.
The Rakims, big daddy Kane, Heavy D, Nas, Eminem, Biggy, 2pac of old schools to the more recent schools of Jcole and Kendrick Lamar went so deep into lots of regards for rhymes and sending across knowledge/message to listeners.

What most of these new guys are doing ain't rap if it isnt rap.

They may dress like rappers or be black in colour like rappers, but no solid rhymes or poetry.

Only a few recent guys still keep it real.

And who told you 2pac only talked about bad government?
No one needs to talk about bad government to be seen as a rapper here bro.
Even when he talked about other stuffs, he delivered as a rapper

How can you say "only the beats differentiates Rap from Trap?
How can you be sooooo confidently biased in very broad day light?

You need to really clear this up?


So you say *only the beats differentiates both*

It's either you are being very bias or naive
So you want to say all those their constant reputations of same words at the end of each line is the same thing as when someone uses different words to end each line?

See, bro Trap is closer to R&B than it is to RAP itself.

These guys are just doing more of singing R&B and makes rhymes with exactly the same words

So why is the RHYTHM there?

Or you think the rhythm should come from the beats.

No, it should come from your delivery (your mouth).



Or do you also know rap more than SNOOP DOGG does?
The Grammys and white execs have a way of fine-tuning Artcultures entirely to suit there own white audience.

He couldn't have said it any better than it actually is.


They did it to Rap and now it's about to be done to Afrobeats.
Becos the grammy award is sooo beautiful and glamorous, lots of artist want a piece of it.

But only way to make it happen is to bend to their validation&audience.
Do you think Burna boy would have won that first Grammy of he didn't have puff daddy certifying the album as an executive producer?


And added to that burna had already signed an international record deal prior to the album.

Do you think the people that make up the committee to dish out those awards would know more than those that actually grew up in the culture?

Pls don't get carried away by;
glamore
commercial appeal
White validation.

Even if things don't stay the same forever, it's DNA should be retained.



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g0OdmRtuQew

Careente7:
Bro you ain’t cappin’,you said it all.So prouda you rn.Respect.Basically I’ll pick drill to trap any day.They just mumble on beat,talk about women and jewelry they’ve got.I don’t really have an issue with your bragging right but when it comes to this rap thing,brag with poetry and rhymes with flow.Pac talked about guns,21 Savage does also but you can’t place them in the same category coz PAC understood the assignment Nd fed us with the outcome but 21 just mumbles about these things with less or no poetry Nd that’s what rap is actually about.

nairamaniac:
See one of your Migos best songs here.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fCgKFeQp2C0



So you are saying rap has evolved sooo much to the extent that you don't even need to ryhme anymore.


Where are the ryhmes here?

nairamaniac:
RAP can stand for Rhythmically Applied Poetry

Or

Rhythm And Poetry.

Call that an acronym or backronym.

In rap there's got to be rhythm and some poetry.

There needs to be rhymes and lots of use of poetry, literature, wordplays, and most of all the use of certain Figures of Speech like similes, metaphors, paradoxes the rest.


It's not mandatory to go sooo deep into it,

But the deeper a rapper dives into those waters, the more respected he is.

It has always been Soo.

That's why the more respected rappers during certain eras were so deep in their rhymes and their poetry.
The Rakims, big daddy Kane, Heavy D, Nas, Eminem, Biggy, 2pac of old schools to the more recent schools of Jcole and Kendrick Lamar went so deep into lots of regards for rhymes and sending across knowledge/message to listeners.

What most of these new guys are doing ain't rap if it isnt rap.

They may dress like rappers or be black in colour like rappers, but no solid rhymes or poetry.

Only a few recent guys still keep it real.

And who told you 2pac only talked about bad government?
No one needs to talk about bad government to be seen as a rapper here bro.
Even when he talked about other stuffs, he delivered as a rapper

How can you say "only the beats differentiates Rap from Trap?
How can you be sooooo confidently biased in very broad day light?

You need to really clear this up?


So you say *only the beats differentiates both*

It's either you are being very bias or naive
So you want to say all those their constant reputations of same words at the end of each line is the same thing as when someone uses different words to end each line?

See, bro Trap is closer to R&B than it is to RAP itself.

These guys are just doing more of singing R&B and makes rhymes with exactly the same words

So why is the RHYTHM there?

Or you think the rhythm should come from the beats.

No, it should come from your delivery (your mouth).



Or do you also know rap more than SNOOP DOGG does?
The Grammys and white execs have a way of fine-tuning Artcultures entirely to suit there own white audience.

He couldn't have said it any better than it actually is.


They did it to Rap and now it's about to be done to Afrobeats.
Becos the grammy award is sooo beautiful and glamorous, lots of artist want a piece of it.

But only way to make it happen is to bend to their validation&audience.
Do you think Burna boy would have won that first Grammy of he didn't have puff daddy certifying the album as an executive producer?


And added to that burna had already signed an international record deal prior to the album.

Do you think the people that make up the committee to dish out those awards would know more than those that actually grew up in the culture?

Pls don't get carried away by;
glamore
commercial appeal
White validation.

Even if things don't stay the same forever, it's DNA should be retained.



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g0OdmRtuQew

Careente7:
Bro you ain’t cappin’,you said it all.So prouda you rn.Respect.Basically I’ll pick drill to trap any day.They just mumble on beat,talk about women and jewelry they’ve got.I don’t really have an issue with your bragging right but when it comes to this rap thing,brag with poetry and rhymes with flow.Pac talked about guns,21 Savage does also but you can’t place them in the same category coz PAC understood the assignment Nd fed us with the outcome but 21 just mumbles about these things with less or no poetry Nd that’s what rap is actually about.

nairamaniac:
Thanks!
I wonder how you would call something rap with either very little or no rhymescheme?

Very little or none at all.

See below the lyrics of that Migos song I used as a case study'

DJ Durel! (Ayy, Castro go crazy)
Yeah (soo), we gone (huh), stop, we good (stop)
Chill, we on (yeah), scale, let's go (let's go)
Domingo, let's go (Migo)
Take, huh, let's go, huh
'Set, let's roll

Straightenin', straightenin' (woo)
Straightenin', yeah (straight)
Straightenin', straightenin' (soo)
Straightenin', yeah (straight)

Don't nothing get straightenin' but straightenin' (hey)
Don't nothing get straightenin' but straightenin' (soo)
Don't nothing get straightenin' but straightenin' (straight)
You 'on't get shit straight, you gon' straighten it

In this game, sit back, be patient (gang)
Niggas act like the gang went vacant (huh?)
Niggas act like something been taken (took what?)
Ain't nothing but a little bit of straightenin' (I'm tellin ya)

Been kicking shit, popping out daily (go)
On an island, it's a movie I'm making (that's facts)
I'm counting dineros with Robert DeNiro
He telling 'em that Cho amazing (ayy)

Put that shit on (shit on), niggas get shit on (shit on)
I bought two whips, and I put my bitch on (skrrt)
She put this wrist on (wrist)
She factory set it with Richard Mille prongs (ice)

Turn a pandemic into a bandemic
You know that's the shit that we on (yes, sir)
Them niggas gon' pull up and act like this shit is together
We don't Bleep with you, homes (Bleep 'em)

Uh-uh, I don't do the fake kicking (no)
There go a rocket, is Take in it? (Soo)
It's a problem with few? Then we straight in it (straight)
Swap out the cat, put a demon in it (skrrt)

Upgrade the bando, put fiends in it (woo)
I got some shooters you ain't seen with me (grrr)
We'll run that shit back, I just seen Tenet (woah)
We're going to get straightenin'

Straightenin', straightenin' (woo)
Straightenin', yeah (straight)
Straightenin', straightenin' (soo)
Straightenin', yeah (straight)

Don't nothing get straightenin' but straightenin' (hey)
Don't nothing get straightenin' but straightenin' (soo)
Don't nothing get straightenin' but straightenin' (straight)
You 'on't get shit straight, you gon' straighten it (Takeoff)

You don't get shit straight if you don't straighten it (no)
I'm the type to sit back and watch patient (watch)
Do a trick with the stick, it's amazing (stick)
In the bando, trapping out vacants (bando)

Locs on like I'm starring in The Matrix (Matrix)
I keep the cookie like my grandma made it (cookie)
I keep the keys and the pounds and the babies (keys)
And the bricks came white like Shady (white)

Drive the Lambo' through the avenue (skrrt)
Pretty lil' bih with a attitude (bad)
Give a shout-out to the white boy (boys)
All white Rolls look radical (radical)

Keep you a fire, don't let them take it (no)
If they get yours, you gotta get straightenin' (straightenin')
I catch a opp, I give him a facelift (opp)
My niggas lurking and spinning the day-shift (lurk)

I got them racks when you see me (rackades)
Spin back to back, it's a repeat (spin)
Championship, it's a three-peat (three)
Shoot out the window like Drizzy and Freaky (freak)

I keep it on me, believe me (yes, sir)
I be up high where the trees be (high)
I go and put on so much of this ice
They said, "Don't touch me, you gon' freeze me" (freeze)

Straightenin', straightenin' (woo)
Straightenin', yeah (straight)
Straightenin', straightenin' (soo)
Straightenin', yeah (straight)

Don't nothing get straightenin' but straightenin' (hey)
Don't nothing get straightenin' but straightenin' (soo)
Don't nothing get straightenin' but straightenin' (straight)
You 'on't get shit straight, you gon' straighten it (Offset)

Careente7:
Gimme an example and I’ll try it.Artist name: song title:

Honchoslim16:
Please prove Google wrong...... Cos Google says takeoff is a rapper

Honchoslim16:
Even my client living over there knows they are all Rappers..... I don't like arguing with people like you forming woke.

So is my client wrong for classifying King Von and Lil Durk as rappers.

Damn n!ggå, I'm outta here!!!!!

Honchoslim16:
But the song is classified under Rap.

Or you know music more than people who do it?

Honchoslim16:
Lol..... I see you don't know nothin' bout music fr!

Everyone can't be a 2pac who talks about Bad government, oppression of the blacks, etc........ Bro, life has evolved past that.

Rap N!ggås now want some money, jewelries, gang affiliation, b!ť¢heş etc.... So that's what they rap about now.

Trap actually means a Drug house.... And that flow came from Atlanta in 1990s, that's why you see Atlanta rappers are different!

So it's origin is still from Rap.......... If you are going to differentiate the two, its just the Beats.
The Hi-hat makes it what's called trap beat.

If you want to listen to Old skool music,listen to it..... If you want to listen to new rap music, listen to it.
Stop all those comparisons, it makes it sound dumb!

nairamaniac:
This is what I said about the high influence of Grammys and White-validation


How wouldn't these guys accept they are rappers after Their almighty Grammy award body is calling them out to come pick up an award for "best Rap song of the year". With these kinds of songs.

Them Migos and 21savage would come out to pick up BEST RAP SONG OF THE YEAR, the same year NAS, Lucas Joyner and jcole had for more realler stuffs.

Ask that your same client *what is the best AFROBEATS album ever*. His most probable answer is BURNA BOY'S TWICE AS TALL.

Cos it's the only Nigerian afrobeats album to win a Grammy. Meanwhile half of that album had more of american-hip-hop style than Nigerian afrobeats.

Ask the average oyibo man abroad, what is the best afrobeats song ever made, he would say essence, cos it's the one that won almost all their awards there. Meanwhile the same essence wdnt be in Top10 afrobeats songs in the list of we Nigerians where the aftobeats originated from.


Stop being unconsciously subservient to glamore&hype.

It's called inferior complex