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The Nigerian artiste seems to be living large now.Tthe process is simple.get a good song on radio, "PAY" Alaba pirates to pirate your own song so as to allow it get far and wide. and you start praying and hoping for acceptance by Nigerians.if you have some money, you throw in a music video too and probably pay the veejays to air it. If you are lucky, your song becomes a hit. and the shows start coming in.and that is how most of our artistes make their money. with increased popularity, you get the likes of T Joe,Obaino, Afrobest coming after you for a marketing 'deal'. The typical artiste, tired and yearning for success agrees to sell all the tracks on his album for an amount within the seven digits.The bigger boys like timaya go for 8 digits. Everybody is happy.The work is sold for life.The otherwise hungry artiste is now living big. and then in another ten years down the line, he is no longer the rave.and he looks back at his numerous works and albums.They are still selling, newer artistes are sampling some of the songs. But he has no cut from cash flow.no royalties, nothing. He is a broke legend. Because he sold his birthright for immediate and temporary satisfaction. for the tasty porridge like biblical Esau.
This system is not right.and i think it is time artistes fight it or they will regret much later in life. Does anyone have an idea of how much MJ wasmaing from royalties from the thriller album alone not to mention the rights to the beatles albums he bought. Its time our artistes stop being shortsighted and see these marketers for what they really are.Anyone who would propose to but off a well packaged music album for 4 million naira and makes you sign over the ownership of your own creativity to them is nothing but a PARASITE.
Nigerian artistes deserve better.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cNP76rKLzXE


check out this video. stage imitation of kenny and D1.

sagem 3000 or so.came with my buddie sim from econet.

Re: Kennis Music-is This The End?
« #7 on: July 16, 2009, 06:00 PM »

I agree it was Ruggedman that proved that you didn't have to be with Kennis to be big but it was 2shot that showed that you could make money without joing them. 2shot changed the music industry by taking his album directly to the piraters and getting them to sell it instead. T.Joe and all the other big Marketers/distributers were all formed off the back of 2shot's genius and innovative move!

@ice zik.
2shot sold his birthright to pirates for a plate of porridge and you call him genius and innovative. A nigerian music cd used to cost between 700 and 1000 naira in 2001. Thanks to your innovative guy and the likes of charly boy, it now sells for 50 naira at alaba. And you call that genius. Man, That's a high level of shortsightedness. Do you have any idea of how much artistes should me making from sales. Most of them depend on shows and brands to survive. T Joe and co are not doing anything diffrent from what the politicians are doing to Nigerians, looting the artistes treasury and giving them peanuts in return.

hey yall, can you remember the famed AIT jamz which metamorphosed into prime time jamz. Those days when kenny and D1 used to show us their fubu shoes and vercace jeans just bought from Hawaii.LOL. The attached video is a stage imitation of their exploits by an acting club in unilag called Goths Crew. Enjoy and comment. Are there any presenters as interestingly annoying as these guys were back then.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cNP76rKLzXE

it's sad that that dbanj and mo hits has been able to build such followership and influence on sex selling music. This video has only gone on to show that creativity to them must have pornographic contents. How did this video pass the NBC screening and yet cmion's video was banned. partiallity eh. anyways, the bible says woe unto he who by the reason of him,others fall into sin. How do this guys live with themselves? there is more to the conceptualization and making of music videos, we wanna see good cinematography,lighting, scripting, not just three quarter naked girls and some guys feeling at the top of the world in a bar or something.