₦airaland Forum

Amigoos1:
I understand his frustration as he worked hard to get to this level but without the money no big label is signing Davido. Let's be honest he doesn't have the natural talent for music. The money was why he had studio time , well paid writers, access to top directors and producers. Kudos to him tho he still put in the work and helped other actors grew. After Olamide no other artist have brought up talents like he has.

Emaprince:
Was it his fathers money that made the songs sound good? If they were same as speed darligntons, will the money make it trend? Was he paying fans to love his music?

His fathers wealth only made it easy for him to have studio money and music video money. His fathers wealth didnt make the songs pleasing to fans.

Only that separate him from street hustlers then Was that, the later couldnt afford studio money, or the money for promo. Are we going to criticize record label for promoting songs of their artistes? Why do we have that energy for Davido? He signed himself cos he had the money. He promoted himself and his songs went global. Leave wealth alone.

And if he had no money, record label might pick him up. With the kind of enthusiasm the lad had in his craft, he was def gonna shine.

You are asking me which label will sign him..most of the artistes that blew up, had some friends that never believed in them when they were still doing demos up and down. "Even solo tell me say I no go blow"..that was from wizkid.

You are probably thinking that because davido have a gruff voice, he couldnt make it. You forgot that this is afro beat and not RnB where you need to sing like rkelly. Fela kuti get sweet voice? Raski them that were signed to the best label, kennis back then are no where near Davido all round talent, but some how you rhink nobody qould have signed him.

izzou:
Oga, money is instrumental to blowing in the Music Industry, especially in a time where Social Media wasn't hot yet.

I have not attacked his songs anywhere. I am simply telling you that his father's backing brought him up to speed, and that's the truth.

In his 20s, he was already a Top Nigerian star. How many Nigerians at that age got to his spot without money? List them, and I'll wait.

I grew up in the same close where Plantainshun boiz lived. I saw a lot of musicians as a kid and teenager. If you think it's mostly talent that defines how far you go, na lie. Before the arrival of Social Media, you need to spend to be seen. Which talent e use take engage Naeto C wey we never see for Nigeria before? His first single had a music video. Only money can do that

I don't know why you want to make it look like it's a bad thing. His papa money boost him speed to success

Ibime:
You are forgetting the main thing money does which is pay radio stations and Video DJs to play and to popularise your songs

Emaprince:
Ofcourse money helped get Naeto c etc. But at the end of the day, that song wasnt even a top song by the time he started churning out other good songs. Omo baba olowo had no feature, and it was loved beyond Nigeria. Thats to show you that there is an extent money can take you after which your talent have to seal the actual deal - and that is giving you all the tool needed to push yourself. But if the work no good, you cant force fans to love it. This is the only advantage he had over street hustlers.

If it is all about money like you are making it, why arent all the talented guys, who have made it to mainstream toppling him out the big 3? Why is he still gaining global dominance over all of them? Definitely not money.

Wizkid made it at 20 annd made real waves. Wande coal was shinning with mohits at 20 -21...Rema sef was very young...and ayra star went global at that age too.

As long as you have the talent and you are making good music under a record label, they will give you that same push davidos money gave him. Thats what it is. If wizkid them had the money, they wont sign with any label..they would pushed themselves too.

izzou:
His first official single was "Back when" featuring Naeto C.

How do you separate his father's wealth from his success?

If Cuppy had blown, will you say it was mostly her talent? I don't know why this talk irritates them.

Let Davido find a 10 talented artistes, and let them blow without little financial support and less social media efforts. Let's see how fast they all get noticed

Ihebu4chelsea:
why didn't cuppy blow?

TrebleChamp:
Naeto C was also from a rich family, white Money is from a rich family, D'prince is the younger brother of the legend Don Jazzy, KC brother na E-money yet them no blow with all the money available to push their music, make una give Davido him flower biko...

izzou:
Again, you are making it sound like I said he's not talented

Nobody is talking about today. Davido stayed up because he's talented. I agree.

But what made you and me know him is largely influenced by the money spent on him. It's as simple as that, and nobody should be apologetic about it.

Ochacho Pikin dey sing and the kid is not bad. But do you think you'll know about him without the PR done on him so far?

Emaprince:
I will make excuses for Davido here.

The lad have been shaded for coming from a rich pop always. People even try to discredit his hard work and attribute his musical success and rise to fame to his affluent background. It is frustrating to work this hard and earn maintsream success, but some haters wouldnt give him that credit, but rather make it seem like he wouldnt blow without money.

There is only one person that will take Eriggas post wrongly - It is the same person that have been hounded with this narrative of "you made it in music because your dad is rich".

It is also very possible that was a shade to Davido.

BlueRayDick:
The issue is Davido and his fans like Emaprince are making up imaginary arguments and fighting haters.

It was Davido himself that told everyone that cares to listen that he is Omo baba Olowo. He sings about his father being wealthy,so I wonder why he gets offended when people attribute his commercial success partly to his father's wealth.

Davido actually needs to do some growing up whether he likes it or not. There's a limit to how long he can keep playing the victim card..... Like someone pointed up there, no be only him be Naija artist wey him papa get money. Naeto C's mum was a minister at some point in this country and he wasn't moaning about imaginary haters all the time.

airmark:
Who is following the story of one Hassan that named a serving Senator from Bauchi as a major sponsor of bandits in the Northern part of Naija?

He was interviewed by one guy with handle - English Alhaji. That country is gone.

izzou:
This is part one nau

The Supreme Sharia Council has written a memo asking the DSS not to investigate the Senator. They said the points are baseless and the Senator is a humanitarian and blah blah blah.

izzou:
After Almighty God, na Wike.

, come and carry your guy

raumdeuter:
Y'all gon learn

itsrm warned us about Wike we think say he dey make mouth

airmark:
Really?

I just stumbled on the story this week. When did they write the memo? Best way is for each region to break away. This is unbelievable if it’s true.

KingTom:
So Naeto C no blow? You sef Give Naeto C him flowers

For the record, Uber never made or intended to make money in Nigeria. Anyone who is familiar with Uber's core business model knew this since 2015. Uber's business model is to enter a market, set its fares well below those of the existing traditional taxis, burn VC money to absorb the losses while driving taxis out of the market, then raise prices after it becomes a monopoly.

That model needs a large middle market segment to work - people who don't own or drive their own cars but have enough discretionary income to regularly pay for comfy private transport. In Lagos and Abuja, there are only maybe a couple of hundred thousand people within that income segment. People above it who own their own cars and/or have their own personal driver don't need a ride hailing service, and the vast majority below it who don't, generally aren't willing to pay even the VC-subsidised "cheap" fares because what is considered "cheap" in San Francisco is definitely not cheap in Bariga.

In the ideal market, Uber is only competing against the traditional taxi. In the extremely price-sensitive environment of Nigeria, the opportunity cost of taking an Uber in the minds of the addressable market is the cost savings one can make from taking a danfo, BRT bus, korope, keke, okada, or even literally walking instead. All the VC dollars in the world cannot subsidise a trip made in a low-capacity, air-conditioned, 4-wheeled car into ever becoming cheaper than a bus or rickshaw trip over the same distance. The only people who were regularly and predictably using Uber to get around were a small minority of well-heeled, mainly female customers who chose not to own or drive their own vehicle for various reasons - and this was far too small a market segment to build the Uber business model on. The mathematics made no sense from day 1.

Also from a driver and cars POV, Uber is known to operate like a pyramid scheme. It depends on a constant stream of new drivers and cars being onboarded onto the platform to replace the drivers and car owners who drop out in vast numbers everyday after realising that after fuel, repairs and depreciation costs in Nigeria, it is mathematically impossible to make any real money on Uber. The best one can do with it (as I did for 3 months in 2016) is just use it to temporarily get by - but the fuel costs will eat nearly half of whatever you make, the repairs will be expensive and incessant, and your car will be transformed into a pile of moving metal trash with next to no resale value.

There was no real business case for Uber Nigeria, and this was known as far back as 2015 just 1 year after launch. The real reason it stayed another 11 years after the entire initial set of drivers and car owners pulled out citing everything I just said, is that its real business in Nigeria was not ride hailing, but **data gathering.**

Uber is part of the US military industrial complex, like every other thing out of Silicon Valley. Edward Snowden's leaked files already showed us that the American NSA uses Uber, Lyft etc as its "God's Eye" system, giving the US government round the clock surveillance access into where people go, what routes they use, what items they buy, what social relationships they have etc. Thinking of Uber as just a ride hailing app is like thinking of Google as just a search engine.

Over 12 years in Lagos and Abuja, the data Uber has collected would have given whoever gathered it some extremely useful, and possibly dangerous insights into whoever might be a person of interest. The data would include people's home address, work addresses, which Airbnbs they book to meet their side pieces, which takeaway restaurant they order from, what pharmacy they buy condoms or morning after pills from, what routes they take to work and back, where their kids go to school...

I'm willing to bet that the decision to end Uber's presence in Nigeria was not sudden at all, but merely the expiration of whatever US government contract it was executing.

BlueRayDick:
What exactly is wrong with Davido? Can't even understand what triggered him in this Erigga's tweet that was clearly not a diss but a shout-out to street hustlers. 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️

Later his stans will claim "they hate him because him papa get money"...... Shey no be him carry torchlight dey hunt for hate all over the internet like this?

PDPGuy:
What do you make of David Hundeyin’s piece on Uber Nigeria?

izzou:
This one no be man nau

Very embarrassing

popizaino:
Stop being economical with truth,this tweet here has everything to do with Davido.

Apart from Naeto C who probably doesn't sing anymore, how many present artists comes from family money, if not Davido? Who has been trolled with family money over the years if not Davido?

If Erriga's intention was to motivate poor musicians and not being petty,the sentence "come from family money" would have been omitted from his tweet.

A simple "Shout-out to every musician out there,one day our hustle go pay" would have been more appropriate than that shade above

Whether your family has money or not,every musician out there are all grinding to be more successful,so he shouldn't single out those with without family money as if they are working harder than those with family money.

Imagine me coming here to say, only irrational people be living abroad and be supporting Apc and Tinubu and you tell me it has nothing to do with raumd.euter?

You can like Erriga for his street cred and hate Davido for his frog voice but truth must be told,that tweet was a shade.

God let Chelsea win the Epl this year,is different from God don't let any team defend the epl title again.

Amigoos1:
Is there actually any health benefits to male circumcision?

izzou:
After Almighty God, na Wike.

Ronald17, come and carry your guy

Roland17:
We don accept our L na to move on. We fought a good fight but Oga na Master..

As tenure don dey end, na to loot based on sharing formula that N1.8T appropriation bill.

Agreement na agreement. Enye deba, enye deba!

KingTom:
So Naeto C no blow? You sef Give Naeto C him flowers

TrebleChamp:
Naeto C no blow like them PSquare, Tubaba and co during his time with all the money available to him, Davido blow and succeed as an artist because his songs are very good. Money go help you record songs but na raw talent go keep you in the game and make you succeed..