“So, last week I was writing a post about the Tecno W4 and I wanted to make a pun with W4’s Wagba Kontrol. That sent me down a rabbit hole where I stumbled on a bunch of old Nigerian Hip-Hop songs. The second I started playing them, the office lit up, and we went from a quiet…”
Abeg, this is not a hip-hop playlist
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Timaya’s “weda you like am” would have done sweet justice to this list tho, buh 2baba’s true love sufficed…
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Hmm. I’ll include that. Thanks.
Hip-Hop connoisseur. Got any suggestions?
lmaooo
All of the below aren’t Hip-Hop
- Lagbaja – Konko Below
- Zule Zoo – Kerewa
- Sound Sultan – Mathematics
- Mo’Hits – Booty Call
- Why Me
- Tony Tetuila – My Car
- Daddy Showkey – Somebody Call My Name
- Alhaji – Alhaji
- Olu Maintain – Yahooze
- Kelly Handsome – Maga Don Pay
- Tuface – True Love
- Tuface – African Queen
- Tuface – If Love Is A Crime
- Djinee – Ego
- Tuface – See Me So
- Styl Plus – Iya Basira
- Styl Plus – Olufunmi
- Mad Melon & Mountain Black – Danfo Driver
- Lagbaja – Nothing For You
- Lagbaja – Skentele
wyd, Tech Cabal?
TuFace - you no holy pass
Faze - Faze alone
Remedies - Mi o shako mo
If @SkweiRd renames it to “gbedu”, the fight will stop.
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This comment is in reference to the meat of the post, which is the medium article you (@SkweiRd) wrote. I actually wonder why that wasn’t what was posted to Radar instead, or maybe even serve as an introduction to a series of future long-form articles on TechCabal. But I digress.
Basically, we’ve created a system where artists can get away with singing…
Ah coupe decale ma
Sagasige
Akilibre
Faro de ma
Decale….decale
Krikata, Krikata
Krikata, Krikata
Krikata, Krikata
Krikata, Krikata
Pon pon
Somunto….somunto
Kalopere
Kalopere
Kalopere
My music tastes favors creative instrumentation over lyrical content. In fact, as much as possible, I like the vocals (or more specifically, the words) out of the way. I’m not sure if you have listened to them (and you probably should considering the wide array of genres you have under your belt :D) but there’s this musical project called Era by some French composer called Eric Levi. Here’s an excerpt from their Wikipedia page:
They use lyrics which, although similar to Greek or Latin, are, in fact, deliberately devoid of any exact meaning.
And yes, it has sold over 12 million albums. Remember the background instrumentation for Olamide’s Voice Of The Street? It was from one of their popular songs Ameno.
There was another song (title skips me right now) of his I overheard sometime and immediately recognized an Era track in the background.
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Hmm. Funny, it’s pretty much the same thing for me. Maybe it’s because of my short (6 year) stint as a music producer/film score composer but I’ve found that a lot of the stuff I’m in love with these days is devoid of lyrics. I didn’t make that clear in NSTLGA because that’s not what the post was about. I thought it’d be off base.
As for why I didn’t post the original article to TC: every weekend I write/publish an article on Medium about whatever I was thinking about during the week (like this one, and this one) and so when @Lordbanks asked me to post the playlist to TechCabal, I wanted to keep the post…personal.
I also wasn’t very sure what the reaction would be like because I’ve written about music before on TC and seen a few people throwing tantrums on Twitter. It’s not important, and they really don’t matter in the grand scheme of things, but maybe this is me being faux-considerate of other people’s feelings? I don’t know. I treat my Medium page like a small laboratory where I do whatever the hell I want before moving things to a bigger platform (TC).
But now that you mention it, I’m going to open the floodgates. Oh, and thanks for reading. It’s good to know someone’s paying attention.
P.S. Eric Levi is amaaaazing.
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@SkweiRd you gave this 2/5-starred tape IMO, (ANTI) a “first impression” review. It was worth one. So you thought before posting maybe. Then why haven’t HipHop’s best thing to happen yet (early 2016 though, in fact, to happen in a long while, aside K Dot’s To Pimp A Butterfly) gotten a review? I’m talking about Chance The Rapper’s Coloring Book, a tape that’s beaten KW’s Life of Pablo to the supposedly gospel-themed HipHop tape move. C’mon song mangler… We’re waiting…