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That rubbish you wrote about Olamide, did you write or someone from West Side wrote it for you? Wha nonsense.

KiNg0G:
Hey amigos...have you ever thought if there wasn't WizKid DAVIDO and burna boy would there have been an entirely different big 3s. In fact say less, I am here to tell you that there were musicians with much more promise way back then that could have been the discussion of the big 3 today in the entertainment industry if only they had pushed farther, be consistent.. take note, keyword "COULD"

But as the saying goes nearly can't kill a bird, hardwork beat talents, all these are words when put into consideration you'd realise it's just the reality of life. Without time wasted I am here to drop 4 names, and the reason why they couldn't attain the higher level... the big 3 as at today. A self named title by Nigerian fans.




PSQUARE


"The duo are legends, they are not supposed to be on the list. They achieved all, what's this guy saying, blah blah blah....." my bro sit your black ....... down and let me talk, I got the mic, your work is to listen and learn.

sorry boss apologies.... please go on


Accepted!

I still tell my home boys till today, the splitting of PSQUARE systematically opened the way for the big 3 discussion in Nigeria. They were the biggest, touring whole of Africa, Europe, their stage performance was so elite..even when WizKid was making raves, PSQUARE was still number one holding that spot 2013, 2014, 2015... if only they had held on a little while longer and not let financial disagreement come between them they would still have been number 1 in the game. All they need do is release one or two hit every year with some features and viola they would have still been the biggest no cap. Because so much banging hit songs, king of party jams and you dare tell me if the duo were still together and didn't have any issues at all someone would just come 2026 to list big 3 and PSQUARE isn't among.. your joking fam!. It's just like saying if Michael Jackson was still alive they would mention others and leave him out.


OLAMIDE

The one mistake a man can have or can deem a man light faster is been compared to your predecessor and once you accept it, no matter what you do, you'd always been seen like a lower version of the person before you. That's the case of OLAMIDE when he arose being compared to dagrin on every rap song he dropped...bro himself didn't like it, he had to diversify, and switched gear to full time singing
"She carry front, she carry back, she too package, I can't leave her.. that's one of the reasons I can't leave her, nothing in this word that I can't give her.
I'm loving you eh
I'm loving you eh"

If only OLAMIDE had maintained this vibes and brought much more party hit songs like this, year in, year out...I kid you not Davido got nothing on him. Or is it SHAKITI BOBO all is songs at that time was explicitly good, melodious with the Fuji tone but it only came once in a blue moon..he wasn't really consistent enough. It's just like the drive to compete for number one with others wasn't really there.



RUNTOWN

In every disagreement, dispute you find yourself with family, friends or business partners if you can settle out of court please do. Only few people would understand, it saved WizKid career and now he is what he is today and eme can't take that from him. Daddy yo was supposed to drop some other album but he said he wanted to leave, due to his personal reasons.. but contract is contract.. you signed it. The label came said, you want to leave we agree but here is our terms. What your supposed to get from your previous albums we take it to make up for the one you didn't drop...oya na.. hands were shaked, problem solved.. everyone pathed ways..now tell me where WizKid is today.
Why couldn't RUNTOWN do a similar thing with Eric Manny, or did he tried and they refused or was he the one that insisted on going to court. It baffles me till today, because sound God was so good, so different with his sound, style, voice and everything and artist should have. He would have been in the big 3 discussion if only that issue with his label didn't arise. 2016, 2017 he had the whole year locked down from DJ mix to club..mad over you.. for life, energy and lots more. Runtown was on another level but just couldn't avert the hurdle when it came.




ICE PRINCE

The fall of ice prince needs to be studied, included in our school curriculum or something. You see if you thought I was wrong with the others you see this ice prince I will go far and length with you to tell you how good this guy was and if he had remained he definitely would have been... Is it SWAG? IS IT FASHION SENSE? IS IT FAME? Is it INFLUENCE ? bro had them all. He singled handedly made Nigerians fell in love with rap music, new school hiphops not Mi but him. But all I saw was bad management, bad advisers telling him to change genres from what blew him to singing trash.. because to them rap music don't sell in Nigeria like come on bro, you had it all.. with your hot bars, Oleku still banging hard whenever it comes on. Juju still hitting hard and he just gave it all to start singing party jams because that's what sells. It worked for sometime but couldn't for long.. if only he had held on to that ice prince zamani nobody test me.. the big 3 today would have been an entirely different conversation.

Nice piece OP, reminds me of the good old nairaland days, not the garbage some overzealous nairaland moderators sholve in our throat daily. It felts like lalasticlala left with some nairaland glory.

Ibadanfarmroad:
if not for legacy, Davido is not fit to mentioned in the top 10 conversation.
Presently, tems, area Starr, Rema and asake are so faaaaar ahead of Davido in the industry.

Dem Dey call people you Dey call person wry him last album is not even charting in top 50 Apple Music album chat myvheeeeeeew

We know u be wizkid fan... u guys already reason out of emotions ... the last grammy was between burna , davido and arya star ... wizkid wasn't even directly nominated, he was on same level with omah lay ...both only made it there thru features ... davido has contributed to at list 5 house hold songs in the past 3 years ... wetin wizkid don sing since soco

KiNg0G:
OLAMIDE The one mistake a man can have or can deem a man light faster is been compared to your predecessor and once you accept it, .

Seems you are high on expired sniper.
Olamide?

Abeg talk another thing

oloshun:
That rubbish you wrote about Olamide, did you write or someone from West Side wrote it for you? Wha nonsense.

Abeg no mind am.
seems he's talking about the olamide in cotonou

You forgot to mention Speed Darlington...hahahahahaha

Oceanjagaban:
your list is trash...I even thought you wanted to call names like Olamide,kiss Daniel, Rema.

I didn't even see Wande coal on the list,he dey tell me Ice prince

Ibadanfarmroad:
This op don ment, psquare, 2face and dbanj were the big three of their era. Biz wiz, Davido and olamide replaced them, till burna boy came and replaced olamide now asake has come to replace davido.

Asake or what did I just see? Why are you people hyping Asake like this? Wetin e Dey sing first? I won’t be surprised that it’s your type, Ibadan people that used to hype this guy sha. Asake ko, Asaka ni. Local people😂

Kalulu44:
Then you hate Kizz Daniel, if among all the submission I wrote there. You only pick out the hate part, na wa for you be that.
Does my not liking Wizkid songs stop him from being named among the big 3.
Morayo ko Motunde ni

😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣

tesuto1:
Psquare started around the same time as eedris and baba frayo,is this a joke or you actually meant this statement?? If you mean am abeg no try this kind talk again on a forum like this please,baba. Psquare and Tufsce sef did not start around the same time. You can say psquare and dbanj started around the same time and you'll not be too far from the truth

Baba fryo was in the mid 90s with Daddy shoki, Daddy fresh , lieutenant shotgun , junior and pretty, then came Remedies( Eddy Montana, Idris karim and Tony tetiula), plantation boys , rough rugged and raw, azadus , sound sultan.... I can say p square came just after the mentioned , but around same time ... these 2face and idris them came out around 1999 , p square came around 03 with senorita... 2face left his group and rebranded as a solo artiste in 04 , then Dbanj hit the airwaves in 05

for me in particular order 2face, psquare and nice are better than wizkid.

i be wizkid fan, apart from those three the rest musician dey play

KennethOkonkwo:
You like wizkid of shouting era.
His recent songs as in MORAYO are more meaningful

You like essence but hate blessed,true love,piece of me,sweet one, time, pray

All these agenda against wizkid

What do you mean by shouting Era?

He was well guided and mentored under EME , was still not doing bad after then because of his nice features and Ayo Album wasn’t bad , you can not discard the effect of Banky work on his successful career, I’ll just say school is not a scam after all, you don’t like Wizkid like I do but I will tell you the truth, he has lost it just after Essence, his now singing rubb.sh ,

Music is soul food, you can’t say people will listen to anything you sing or drop because you are Wizkid , I bought Morayo when it was released, I tried to listen or connect with him in the album but it doesn’t sound like Wizkid, what did i do? I had to fling the CD on 3rd Mainlaind Bridge into the lagoon and insert another Wizkid Collection

Wizkid need to think deep and drop real song that connect with fans , not this his recent “ anything I sing dem go chop Aje! Mentality “
His singing trash now,

thomas2024:
Asake or what did I just see? Why are you people hyping Asake like this? Wetin e Dey sing first? I won’t be surprised that it’s your type, Ibadan people that used to hype this guy sha. Asake ko, Asaka ni. Local people😂

first I am not Yoruba, I have an agricultural agency in Ibadan hence the moniker, calling Ibadan local people is makes me laugh because I know that just one GRA in Ibadan is bigger than your state capital and Ibadan have over five GRAs. I am proudly edo.

Wetin asake Dey sing ? Hahahahaha.
In just his first year in the industry he sold out 02 arena and other arenas multiple times, within two years in the industry he got a Grammy nomination, within four years in the industry he has more uk and US certification than Davido and other ogs. He is the first Nigerian artist to have two albums in apples Naija top ten spending over 52 weeks plus and still counting, the artist with the most number one on naija turntable chats, top three most streamed art on audio Mack etc, you think say na hype, he has the best stage presence and performance in Nigeria currently.

Tubaba
Square
Dbanj

Were legends in their era. Make una stop all these genz comparisons.

Is like comparing Michael Jackson to Chris brown

Tenses:
Nigeria music has so much deteriorated. No more story telling in music.

Can burna boy, whisked or davido write songs like, "for instance, one love by tuface", "oga police by Pquare" and a lot more.

These three top singers are all dancehall song they sing.

Bro you nailed it. You see that FOR INSTANCE by 2baba, it was a work of art. The story telling, the rhymes, the lyrics, the delivery and the beat. Till today that song still reflects the current situation in Nigeria and that's what music should be.

I don't want to even go into talking about ONE LOVE. PSquare were a beast too.

It beats my imagination when people are debating about Wizkid and the other 2. As far as I'm concerned, Wizkid and Davido are bang average. Burnaboy is a conversation for another day .

ObaKlaz:
You're right. But, that doesn't mean all those who broke through, to catch the attention of the powers-that-be did 'baby oil' stuff.

As for that 'skinny one'... Some big powers have made her a pet project, but I don't think she really has what they need.
When they are done with her, they'd drop her like hot potato - it's a matter of time.

I know not all of them will allow the baby oil stuff but majority do allow that before they are given Grammys.

Ibadanfarmroad:
first I am not Yoruba, I have an agricultural agency in Ibadan hence the moniker, calling Ibadan local people is makes me laugh because I know that just one GRA in Ibadan is bigger than your state capital and Ibadan have over five GRAs. I am proudly edo.

Wetin asake Dey sing ? Hahahahaha.
In just his first year in the industry he sold out 02 arena and other arenas multiple times, within two years in the industry he got a Grammy nomination, within four years in the industry he has more uk and US certification than Davido and other ogs. He is the first Nigerian artist to have two albums in apples Naija top ten spending over 52 weeks plus and still counting, the artist with the most number one on naija turntable chats, top three most streamed art on audio Mack etc, you think say na hype, he has the best stage presence and performance in Nigeria currently.

Despite all these you listed, I don’t listen to noise and a local boy like Asake. I still maintain my position, na local people dey listen to Asake and hype am. What rocks your boat may not rock mine sha.

lionphil:
I know not all of them will allow the baby oil stuff but majority do allow that before they are given Grammys.

Imagine a whole Eminem didn't get a Grammy during his years of reign.

Bro what do you mean by your last paragraph? Do you know how many Grammys Eminem has? He only became critical of Grammy when he realized how fake it is and swore never to attend again. He is right about the Grammys though and a lot of OGs share the same opinions as him.

thomas2024:
Despite all these you listed, I don’t listen to noise and a local boy like Asake. I still maintain my position, na local people dey listen to Asake and hype am. What rocks your boat may not rock mine sha.

mgeke can easily be spotted, mgeke feeling funky😂😂
The damage colonialism did to you people will take enternity to heal, someone singing in his mother tongue is local, imangine British or Americans calling their artists local just because they sing in English which is their local language.

FutureFocus:
What do you mean by shouting Era?

He was well guided and mentored under EME , was still not doing bad after then because of his nice features and Ayo Album wasn’t bad , you can not discard the effect of Banky work on his successful career, I’ll just say school is not a scam after all, you don’t like Wizkid like I do but I will tell you the truth, he has lost it just after Essence, his now singing rubb.sh ,

Music is soul food, you can’t say people will listen to anything you sing or drop because you are Wizkid , I bought Morayo when it was released, I tried to listen or connect with him in the album but it doesn’t sound like Wizkid, what did i do? I had to fling the CD on 3rd Mainlaind Bridge into the lagoon and insert another Wizkid Collection

Wizkid need to think deep and drop real song that connect with fans , not this his recent “ anything I sing dem go chop Aje! Mentality “
His singing trash now,

nigeria and herd mentality, wiz kid songs are better now than before, you can’t compare pakurumo, I love my baby of those days to his recent songs like essence , piece of me, blessed etc una just Dey ment , without even dropping a single throughout last year all his features were still hits. Wiz kid is far better now than before

Ibadanfarmroad:
nigeria and herd mentality, wiz kid songs are better now than before, you can’t compare pakurumo, I love my baby of those days to his recent songs like essence , piece of me, blessed etc una just Dey ment , without even dropping a single throughout last year all his features were still hits. Wiz kid is far better now than before

I said he started singing 🎤 jargon after Essence, you still placed Essence on the jargons side, meaning You couldn’t even digest my post,
I’m out of here

Ibadanfarmroad:
mgeke can easily be spotted, mgeke feeling funky😂😂
The damage colonialism did to you people will take enternity to heal, someone singing in his mother tongue is local, imangine British or Americans calling their artists local just because they sing in English which is their local language.

Oga go sit down one place jare😅That your line is stale. First thing first I am Yoruba, I no be akotileta. I listen to a numbers of Yoruba music wella. Should I talk about Fuji, Apala, in fact, Yoruba is one of my best subjects in school including literature in English. I like Osupa Saheed, Adewale Ayuba, Olamide, Dipo Sodipo, Beautiful Nubia, Lagbaja, Fela, Alhaji Agba, (I used to like Kwam 1 music before before but I can’t stand it due to his true evil nature and his romance with APC), Teee Dollar, or you want me to mention more the usual ones you know ooo😄 When I say I don’t fancy Asake music and he sounds like a local boy to me, I know what I’m saying. To me, he doesn’t look refined, and same way like this guy too Seyi Vibez. Two of them, I never fancy their music😂 I listened to Seyi Vibez songs one day on Spotify, omo I was just like what did I just listen to?😂 This is not hate because I’ve never met with them. Like I said earlier, what rocks your boat may not rock mine.

We need a collabo between Burna Boy and Bad Bunny. The Latino and African giants.

See girl I gave you my heart
Is that what you’re gonna do with it
You tore the shit apart
And you played a fool with it
Now I got my heart back
And I don’t even know what to do with it
Girl you broke your promises
You lied and you cheated
Oh girl you make me mad
With the way you played a fool with me
Oh girl you make me sad
With the things that you did to me

Wizkid the guy is tallented