DissTroy:


LOL. Blackface was not even Soundcity-worthy, not to mention MTV Base and Channel O which Faze was a regular on post-split.

Blackface's music videos were always those Ajegunle-themed ones, with towels and rough-looking guys of the Galala and Suo set. Not different from Marvelous Benji.
African China hit too but he was still an Ajegunle, Ghetto brand artsite.

Faze was on a higher level. Had almost the class and finesse to his songs and music videos like 2Face. Go watch their music videos from that era to compare and contrast.

Comparing post-split BlackFace to Faze is disrespect.

izzou:


This one just dropped one hit and disappeared

afrodoc2:


Hmmm not really a laughing matter. It got to a point my parents were doubting whether those guys were his brothers or just “brothers” in the African sense, until their mum visited.

Terrorising your own brother over unreasonable church doctrine. Church doctrine that has since changed.

izzou:


This one just dropped one hit and disappeared

odizeey:


He drop album o. We get the album for house that year.

iamoyindamola:

My useless classmates for secondary use this man troll me die

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qjSAc3zOhng&ab_channel=GANOTAL

I no know why kennis music sign am sef but the song sweet, i they sing am for school the day one of them saw the video he troll the hell out of me

izzou:


I knew he would have an album.

Na the only hit wey i know be this

izzou:
I just remember Marvelous Benji.

Suo, na the new dance wey dey reign. I think he shot that video in Festac. I remember that scene

Truly, Festac/AJ axis and Yaba were the grassroots of music back then.

AJ had people oh.

Junior and Pretty
Mad melon and Mountain black
Daddy Showkey
African China (although he moved to Festac)

Kai. E be like say I go use this morning take surf YouTube

izzou:
I just remember Marvelous Benji.

Suo, na the new dance wey dey reign. I think he shot that video in Festac. I remember that scene

Truly, Festac/AJ axis and Yaba were the grassroots of music back then.

AJ had people oh.

Junior and Pretty
Mad melon and Mountain black
Daddy Showkey
African China (although he moved to Festac)

Kai. E be like say I go use this morning take surf YouTube

raumdeuter:

After ruggedman dropped on him for speaking in tongues megede fedege

Eedris sef come adjust drop some bangers. But that his Kano yankee accent he use that one sef chop industry

Oko Omoge
Jaga jaga


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r0nCLB5X4Us

BlueRayDick:


That time Lagos no really far. People dey leave FESTAC go record for studios in Surulere.

Remember Tuface's lines in Style when he talked about how they used to enter bus claim staff cos dem no get money.....say na Jimmy Jatt dey give dem instrumental. Omo those egbons really hustle.

DJ's were gods in their own world that time. DJ's used to have levels more than musicians and OAP's sef.

DissTroy:


Blackface's biggest song post-split was a remix of P-Square's "Do Me' called " Erimma".

Before that, it was some ragga-styled song called "Hard Life" in the category of the Marvelous Benjis. His music was Ajegunle-themed. Ghetto-themed.

Faze had his music on MTV Base, Nigezee, and the likes, and did shows outside the country.. He was bigger and more successful post-split. Only paled when compared to 2Face the colossus. But then 2Face was bigger than everyone.

odizeey:


If DJ no play your song you are on a long thing.

Now na DJ dey beg to play song.

BlueRayDick:




See how time changes things and situations.

Now u just need to make a good song, upload it on streaming apps like apple music and spotify, have influencers make use of it in their social media contents , have tiktokers dance to it and u will smile to the bank .

Na DJ go dey carry him data look for free site to download ur music.

sageb:


Blackface sang "Erema" in 2006 whereas Psquare sang"Do me" in 2007(Game over album).
So its Psquare that took Blackface song beat and rhythm not the otherway round.

sageb:


Blackface sang "Erema" in 2006 whereas Psquare sang"Do me" in 2007(Game over album).
So its Psquare that took Blackface song beat and rhythm not the otherway round.

iamoyindamola:
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odizeey:


Blackface was not an Ajegunle musician, this man. Marvelous you are talking about sef was signed to Kennis.

The Ajegunle music you are making out to be bad was even hotter than most mainstream guys back then. They just didn't have the right structure.

Drop hit for hits between Ghetto Child and Faze alone.

What do you mean by soundcity worthy?

No be money them dey use put music for those platforms?

No be money them dey use do video? Blackface was an independent guy which was his downfall. He won be oga.

But for that first solo album o, Blackface floor Faze by a mile.

DissTroy:


Let's assume time might have made the chronology of the releases a little hazy, so where's proof Erinma was in 2006?

izzou:


This one just dropped one hit and disappeared

sageb:


Blackface sang" Erima" but did not released it that year. psquare released "Do me" off Game over album and it went viral. Later, Blackface released Erinma.
Back then, story from the street was that the producer sold Blackface Unreleased song beat to P-square, some said that it was Blackface that actually sold the beat to psquare.
Surprisingly, years later Blackface called P-square out for stealing his song beat(unreleased by the time "Do me" was released).

Do you remember?

izzou:
I just remember Marvelous Benji.

Suo, na the new dance wey dey reign. I think he shot that video in Festac. I remember that scene

Truly, Festac/AJ axis and Yaba were the grassroots of music back then.

AJ had people oh.

Junior and Pretty
Mad melon and Mountain black
Daddy Showkey
African China (although he moved to Festac)

Kai. E be like say I go use this morning take surf YouTube

nihilistjnr:


But all these guy claimed AJ not festac.

AJ city had a wave in the mid 90s because the media was painting this image of a super Ghetto. From the music to the movies.


Junior and Pretty were maybe the first wave.

The main stars then were Showkey, Fryo, and Ras Kimono. China and Benjy came slightly after. Mountain black was early or mid 2000s and not from that era at all.

There was a film called Lagos Na Wa about a nigga called Solo that moved to AJ city. Onome was another blockbuster set in AJ in that era.

I lived around Gbagada/Bariga axis at the time, and despite practically living in a Ghetto where my family house still stands, and my grandmother still lives in, I was absolutely terrified of the mythos of AJ city. I only got to go there as an adult and I thought it would be like compton with bloods and chips shooting up the place

izzou:


I was just listing the AJ ones oh. They weren't Festac at all.

I can't remember the mid-90s clearly. Was a little kid then.

AJ had changed now oh. Hotels with oloshos everywhere and beer palours too.

The rent to is decent. People who work on the island reside there because it is closer.

That ghettoness isn't there like that.

nihilistjnr:


Shoutout King Powered for singlehandedly keeping businesses afloat in that axis. A true philanthropist.

Powered na Ndokwa hotel ambassador

The guy suppose don get stake for that business

DissTroy:


Let's assume time might have made the chronology of the releases a little hazy, so where's proof Erinma was in 2006?

izzou:

Powered na Ndokwa hotel ambassador

The guy suppose don get stake for that business