The resurrection of Hip-Hop In the Nigerian Music Industry
-Osho Oluwatosin, Lagos
For some
weeks now, one of the industries that has received so much attention lately is
the Nigerian music industry due to the content flying around the industry.
A lot of
music fans have been enjoying this atmosphere as some claim it is very healthy
for music especially for the lovers of hip-hop.
Not to
keep you in suspense, all I am talking about it the most recent diss tracks
flying around in the hip hop sector of the Nigerian music industry. The hip hop
industry has really come alive than it has ever been in the past few years.
It all
started with one of Chocolate city’s latest signee, Blaqbones, who claims to be
the best rapper in Africa shading fellow rapper, Davolee, who was under
Olamide’s imprint and Wale Turner, a rapper too, in a song which he was
featured on titled ‘Define Rap’ by VJ Adams.
In his verse,
he mentioned that ‘Where was Davolee and
Wale Turner when sh*t got real’.
Just
when we thought it was going to end with that, little did we know that
something bigger was cooking between Vector and M.I, who have been counterparts
over the years.
Vector
pulled the trigger by releasing a diss track for M.I titled ‘Tetracycline’ ,
this received so many comments from hip-hop lovers especially for the fact that
Vector is one who has been able to maintain his stature as one of the best
rapper Nigeria has got.
While we
were still waiting for M.I to respond, Vector pulled the second shot at M.I,
whoop!, it was just another huge shot again as Mr Incredible fans were off
balance as they listened to the second track.
Still in
the midst of Vector and MI’s diss, Davolee who got a shade from Blaqbones
responded and didn’t just fire the shot at Blaqbones alone but also Dremo,
Falz, Poe, Ycee, Vector.His reply was such an epic one as people ever expected
that he would kill so many birds with just one stone.
He
mentioned how Blaqbones is just disrespectful, how Falz isn’t worthy of being a
lyricist, how Ycee career went down, how Poe can’t drop hits, how vector delved
into commercial music while challenging Dremo to battle him if he can.
However,
Dremo actually did!, He replied with a diss track titled ‘Scape Goat’, the
album art alone spoke so many messages and the lyrical prowess was just waow.
He said in one his lines that he would turn Davolee to a mini-davolee, and how
Davolee wears fake chains.
In less
than 24hours, Davolee responded and said Dremo has used his glory to gather IG
Followers who will still come for his funeral and asked if he bought the
30BG-Ice with his money, he also praised Davido for uplifting Dremo.
The
whole thing got interesting when M.I responded to Vector’s diss tracks in a
song titled ‘Viper’. He was so strategic to have released it on World Teachers’
day, creating an impression that he wants to school vector.
He made
it known in the song that he didn’t do a diss track but a compassion, he
repeatedly called Vector’s first name ‘Lanre’ in the song like he was referring
to his son.
M.I also
stated in his song that the fact that his son is taller than him doesn’t mean
he won’t prostrate, recall that Vector had earlier shaded M.I for his height in
the second diss track.
All
these made Nigerians and music lovers give so much attention to Hip-Hop again
in the country. It would be worthy of being noted that Rappers have delved into
commercial music in order to make ends meet because they believe Nigerians
don’t appreciate rap, however, with this, one would be left with no choice than
to Say the real Hip-Hop is still alive.
Hip-hop
has always been about rap battle, diss tracks, just for the fun of it, to
create entertainment for the fans and have the fans anticipate their favourite
rappers’ next diss track.
It
already looked like the real Hip-Hop has been killed due to the stakeholders
leaving the scene to another genre of music but with the latest development;
Hip-Hop has resurrected again in the Nigerian music industry.
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