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My opinion: The bet award I believe is an award given to a musician for his music which is worth hearing with great lyrics and sweet melody in both beats and tone used while singing the song. A musician who lacks these qualities in his music is not yet there. This is a good example when you listing to foreign musicians like, Rihanna, Beyonce, Chris Brown, even rappers like TI, Jzay and the rest of them (whose music is good to the ear). Now I can't say the word compare here because there's no comparison with them and our local artists. Am not saying that African music as a whole isn't worth hearing but those recognised African artists doesn't match up to the qualifications and am sorry to say that. Artists like wizkid,Yemi Alade, Davido, Burna boy, Bello, Flavour, Phyno, the list is endless are just making music that suits what we want to hear (meaningless jargons like yagaaa! yeeee! etc) the noisy beats that can allow us dance the shoki is what we care about not minding that music is the food of the soul not the food of Choki. Good music is very hard to compose driven with a lot of inspiration. Listing to "May it be" by Enya and you'd know what am talking about. So for BET to be giving out awards hours before the main show isn't bad. I'll say that it's a privilege that they even got to have an award though. African musicians should be more creative, compose great songs with understandable lyrics devoid of jargons. The producers in other hand should update themselves to do justice to GOOD MUSIC. Not everybody dances Shoki.



If you disagree with me, make your point and let it count.

glimpse33:

Counter the post if you disagree.

You are very right.


I believe Africans are treated that way because most of them make noise in their songs rather than passing a message.


But then instead of BET humiliating them,its better they are not invited or nominated at all.



I think this should encourage our african artists,mostly Nigerians to put more work and do something reasonable,instead of making noise.

i really wanted to read it but i couldn't. It's too damn long. Though i already know what ur point is.


I don't know why they started doing backstage award sh*t when initially every award was presented during the main event.
I think they wanna do it like d MTV music awards and just present awards as quickly as possible & wherever. If u've watched recent MTV awards(not MAMAs) u'll notice they even handout awards on the red carpet & backstage too. So i don't know mehn......

shockwave91:
i really wanted to read it but i couldn't. It's too damn long. Though i already know what ur point is.


I don't know why they started doing backstage award sh*t when initially every award was presented during the main event.
I think they wanna do it like d MTV music awards and just present awards as quickly as possible & wherever. If u've watched recent MTV awards(not MAMAs) u'll notice they even handout awards on the red carpet & backstage too. So i don't know mehn......

Am glad you understood my point, and I think we Nigerians should change our perception about music and let these artist know what Good music entails by laying our profound disapproval to jargons. Fans of Timaya and TerryG should help critisize their music at least get them to change their style of music, it's a way to start (ironically, both will release a song calling it bad belle and so on). These musicians need to be told the ugly truth.

Castos:
Am glad you understood my point, and I think we Nigerians should change our perception about music and let these artist know what Good music entails by laying our profound disapproval to jargons. Fans of Timaya and TerryG should help critisize their music at least get them to change their style of music, it's a way to start (ironically, both will release a song calling it bad belle and so on). These musicians need to be told the ugly truth.

yeah. I agree. Content is really lacking in our music. U can't win grammy when d chorus of ur song is uninspiring dogsh*t like "kpangolo"-Dj xclusive ft Timaya(i think i'm correct).