The Mob's Take ...Women, Weed and Wine

Party songs everywhere… I guess We all love to dance and have a good time, all the time, right? Although, in a country like ours, where there isn’t much infrastructure put in place by the government to cater to the well being of the people, it is only expected that we try to make ourselves happy. After all, aren’t we Nigerians? (happiest people on the planet). However, nobody parties all day, every day; unlike most of our artistes will have us believe. And the only use for money isn’t popping bottles in the club na! Respite please.

I don’t even have a problem with weed, women, and wine. Those are actually very deep topics to talk about. Fun topics too. What I’m not down with is the lack of thought and finesse in the manner our artistes “rape” those topics. The lack of a fresh perspective and effort. I think the truth is, the average Nigerian artiste apparently doesn’t think Nigerians are smart enough and as such doesn’t spare a lot of thought for his/her music; they just get an over-the-counter beat and cram the requisite 3 or 4 minutes with over-flogged clichés and half-mumbled slangs they picked up from dreamland and bam! We have a hit!

M.I: RETURN OF THE KING

“Call me king James/ The Lebron of verses/ Me versus you is worthless/I am he whom all rappers worship.... “

I remember back then when we were always nodding our heads to American hip hop never believing we would see something worth listening to out of Nigeria in terms of rap, not that Nigeria has not had its own share of rap/hip hop acts. Between the 80’s and 90’s, we’ve had acts such as Sound on Sound, Emphasis, Junior & Pretty, Weird MC, Baba Dee, Zakki, Cashman Davies, Seyi Shodimu and a host of others.

The late 90’s saw the emergence of Trybesmen, Ruff, Rugged & Raw, Maintain, Blackface (Plantashun Boiz), Eedris Abdulkareem (Remedies), Big Lo, Terry Da Rapman, Mode Nine, Lord of Ajasa and so on. These guys were the people who laid the foundation of what we know as hip hop in Nigeria today. The turning point for Nigerian hip hop was brought about in 2002 when Ruggedman came out with a diss track “Ehen Pt1” where he called out a couple of rappers and termed them “wack”. The song was widely accepted by the public because prior to then, songs by these acts were lacking greatly in aspect of “lyrical content”. This singular action birthed the much needed reform in the industry with young cats such as M.I, Naeto C, Da Grin, Ikechukwu, Jesse Jagz, Godwon, Yung6ix, Vector thaviper, Eva Alordiah, Sasha, Sinzu, Ill Bliss etc churning out dope songs.

Kany's Top 5 Rappers And More

Am here again peeps and this is going to be a very short one. I saw a couple of compilations of some “TOP 5 RAPPERS” on a blog I visited and decided to write up my own list.
Remember it’s ‘my own list’ and it doesn’t have to be what you have in mind because we don’t listen to the same type of music or share the same likeness in sound. That said, enjoy....

Top5
M.I
Jesse Jagz
Eva Alordiah
Vector tha Viper
Sinzu