Kida Kudz ft Olamide - Beat it

Ahhhhhhhhhhfhhf! 

Okay now that I have that out.. Basically Kida Kudz finally dropped the video for Beat It! And if you understand how long I have waited for this video to drop then you will understand why I ran here so quickly to share it with you lot!

Ain't heard of Kida Kudz? You better watch this space! This guy is growing fast and with every track he releases I can just say mehnnnnnn there's no stopping this guy! Like it's one thing to lay down a track, but to watch an artist just watch an artist grow and improve before your eyes is just another feeling entirely!

Hate it or love you can't deny that it's catchy!

Props to Baddo doing his thing as always!

Oya Komole!
 

All Bums and No Purpose

So basically I was watching the behind the scenes of Wizkid's Show Me The Money:

It got me thinking. Are our directors running out of ideas? Just from the little shots we're shown, basically all we see is dancing which from the beat of the song is probably expected, but must every video just be women shaking their bums everywhere, fast cars (parked stationary might I add) and a large group just standing around? Like to me it feels like our videos have been downgraded to just nothing but show. This is not only for African videos, but videos worldwide! Like do you not want something meaningful in your videos? Correct me if I'm wrong, but aren't videos meant to be used as an addition to boost the sales of a song from when you released the audio? Surely the perfect way to do this is to make your videos memorable that way people actually return and watch the video as well as increasing sales at the same time. Maybe our society has become so hyper-sexualised that it's more of a thing where if your videos don't have bums,  fast cars or some sort of nudity that your seen as weird? 

One thing I think doesn't really help the African music industry is that we point blank, chat the most crap in our videos! This goes for about 80% of our videos. We. Chat. Bull. If it's not Bimpe get big nyash it's  Tunde just bought a Ferrari or both at once.  Like I'm not attacking African music, I still listen to afrobeats as much as the next person, but like why the stupid lyrics. Prime example Dorobucci by Mavins:

 

Let's analyze the lyrics shall we?

ehn doro bucci

don doro bucci

doro jazzy ehn doro boss doro big you know say doro heavy doro skillful you know say doro bloody doro get the biggest label wey you know of course  doro tush pass anybody wey doro meet doro gather pass anybody for the gathering doro get money pass everybody there 

Excuse me sa, but what the hell is a dorobucci please abeg explain am to me???? Like the song has no purpose yet we are calling the song a hit and I won't lie I had the song on repeat for a few days, but honestly what are we feeding our children please? 

That song is even okay,  Burna Boy's Tonight is just beyond nonsense lyrically I mean "7,8,9,10 Burna here for the gyaldem" so now all we have to do is count and instantly the song is a success? Okay ooo I've heard. Let's face it, when it comes down to afrobeats as long as you have a good beat that we can shake our bums to it, what comes out your mouth both non existent and irrelevant. That's why we don't seem to be able to criticise our artists when they make a crap song. Someone will make a totally crap song and you'll scroll through the comments and still see one that is like this tune is frosh or mehnnn I've had this tune on repeat all day. So because the song was by Wizkid, Davido, Burna Boy, Sakordie etc it's now a jam? Are these people not human? Don't they need honest feedback in order to progress?  

Next time you hear a song, omo consider these three things:

1. Why are you lying to yourself? (child of God doesn't tell lieee) if it's nonsense or good be true to yourself 

2. Are you hearing what I'm hearing?

3. Your friends tomorrow will be like 'guy come you heard that song... it's shit" and your response will be "Yehh", but I swear...nvm - Don't be a sheep have a mind of your own!

Despite all this ranting and raving I'll give credit where it's due. Some songs are not all bums and nudity and some songs do serve purpose

My Two videos would be:

Chidinma ft Flavour - Baby oh 

  

The creativity - It's very rare you see this side of Nigeria the actually average Nigeria where there are people selling and other chilling and eating while still enjoying. Not to mention Flavour looks like a giant and Chidinma just looks adorable 

Olamide - Anifowose 

The video as well as the meaning behind the video - One mans journey to success expressed so beautifully it's unreal. Like if this song didn't touch you, although there is heavy Yoruba the cinematography gives you the general gist of what the song is about. Hats off to Baddo! 

Hope

I've never been to a party. That didn't come out right...I have been to a party just never one filled with friends, music, drinks and a drunken mistake or two that somehow make great memories. I don't really have anyone to blame except myself really. I have this thing called social anxiety. I automatically think people don't wanna be around me therefore shutting me out from the rest. It could be phase although if it is, it's damn well goin on for a long time and there doesn't seemed to be no end. I wouldn't exactly say I'm spiraling, but I'm deffo going through somethin. I weird like being alone...even when i have perfectly good people who want to be around I somehow only enjoy myself. First signs of madness?Probably..not exactly lookin for treatment though. I have my outlets, imagination being one dreams the other. My dream? There's many wanna hear a few? Walk down the aisle. Sound small? Let me rephrase "Walk down the aisle"  if you know you know. Master the Flavour hip roll. Need i say more! Become the first black disabled business woman that owns a conglomerate. Just watch this space it will happen. Dance the night away. And marry someone who can do the Flavour hip roll or just wind  his wind his hips beautifully

Why am i telling you this? I may suffer from social awkwardness, but really i just gotta embrace it. In time you'll find your skin like I"m doing so just don't do a Miley Cyrus mmmk? No condition is permanent. There will be a growing light that's just waiting for you! Sometimes you just gotta make your own light in times of darkness

Happy Sunday :)