Dope!īefore Willow Smith showed us how to whip our hair, Faze had already showed us to how to crase properly with his hit tune Kolomental!! Following the success of Faze Alone, this song confirmed Faze’s position as a Solo artist after the breakup of the hit group Plantashun Boyz. He even took home the MAMA in 2008 for best Hip Hop artist. He had other hit songs from the Gongo Aso album, including the beautiful love song – Wedding Day (my favourite) to P hotocopy, party rider, and his collabo with 2baba in Street Credibility which clearly put the Alapomeji crooner at the top of his game in 2008, 2009. It was everywhere you go like MTN – from radio to TV to clubs, Gongo Aso could be heard. If Imagine That by Styl Plus made me bite my tongue trying to sing lyrics, you can only imagine what 9ice did to me with Gongo Aso!!!! That song was lit for days. Lagbaja I tell you is truly among the legends of Nigerian Music. Lagbaja’s diversity could be seen as he could create hit songs like Gra Gra, Nothing for You and still go on to sing a timeless love song in Never Far Away with the beautiful and talented Ego. Who doesn’t know the masked music maestro called Lagbaja? It’s either you’ve been living under a rock, or you’re still a crying crawling baby. With other huge songs like Mr Lecturer, Marry me, and so on, Eedris definitely ruled the airwaves, till he was called out for being a wack rapper, by Ruggedman. Then that fight he had with 50 cent … Kai. The fact that the song was banned by then President Obasanjo glorified Eedris even more. If they ever did a comeback concert, I’ll be first in line to get tickets to that, screaming at the top of my voice the lyrics to every single one of their songs.Īll hail the King!! When you see this name the song that definitely comes to mind is none other than ‘’ Nigeria Jaga Jaga’’, with its poignant lyrics that duly captured the Nigerian situation then, and is still very much the same situation right now. I don’t think I have a favourite Styl Plus song I mean they had back to back to hits, from Olufunmi to Call my name, Ima, Iya Basira, the song that romanticised mama put joints to Runaway, Stay Alive, Four Years … need I go on? They were the best, the kings of R&B, and Afro Pop. Imagine that!!! I remember biting my tongue trying to sing the Yoruba lyrics in this song. I decided to compile in no particular order, a list of those Nigerian musicians that blessed us with music we all knew the lyrics, and danced to. Yesterday, after a very tiring and boring day of lectures, I entered a cab, and the driver was playing a mixture of Nigerian hits, from Lagbaja to Olu Maintain and it made me remember a time when those songs were all over the airwaves in Nigeria.
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