NIGERIAN FUJI MUSICIANS ARE MORE GANGSTA THAN NIGERIAN RAPPERS CLAIM TO BE.

I have noticed that Nigerian rappers do not live the life they rap about. All they do is try and copy their american conterparts, who truely went through hell before they made it through music. That is why they are always bragging about what they had, because they never thought they would have it. And they talk about gangsta life, because must of them have lived that life, because of the type of community(the housing projects, that were built to house blacks in their thousands) they grew up in.
You hear nigerian rappers, that went to secondary school, and even went up to the university level, talking all gangsta. Talking about beating somebody up, or killing somebody, or getting big money ilegally(thanks to yahoo yahoo, they can claim that one).
They have beefs, and talk about what they would do to the other party if they caught up with him, all talk.
Fuji musicians live what they talk about. They are the real gangsta's. They are the ones that had the kind of lifestyle that the american rappers had while growing up.
I read a lot, and i have read where it was suspected that a fuji musician set up another, because of some mis-understanding they had. And when i talk of set up, i mean a planned beat up.Recently, like last month, saheed oshupa was performing at a show, and he addressed his beef with another fuji musician, Malaika. Mr malaika felt offended, and he organised his boys(gang boys) to beat up oshupa. They stonned oshupa off stage, and broke the wind screen of his new chrysler 300cc.
Oshupa, recupurated, and got his own boys, and they destroyed the occassion, beating up anybody in sight. Now, that is gangsta.
You notice that these guys did not wait to another day to address the issue, or just yap about it in a song or so, they thugged out, and handled the situation how they know best to handle it.
They aint a thug by choice, like some nigerian rappers try to be.
Please note that i am not trying to celebrate the acts of this individuals, just trying to make a point.

TOP TEN RAP ALBUMS FOR THIS WEEK.

10. Pastor Troy- T.R.O.Y

9. Dj Khaled- We Global.

8. LIL Keke- Loved by few, hated by many. 5,814

7. Q-Tip- The renaissance 8,976

6. The Game- LAX. 9,640

5. SPM- The last choir violinist.

4. Young Jeezy- The recession.

3. Lil Wayne- The carter 3. 22,853.

2. Dj Khaled presents Ace hood- GUTTA. 24,700

1. T.I- Paper Trail. 50, 600

T.I is still at the top, but it wont be for long, as ludacris and kanye are going to be on the chart. You can look for the post i had on the prediction of their album first week sales. to have a lil picture of what is to come.
Just to add, on the over all charts, beyonce, jay-z's wife was at number one selling over 480,000cpoies. That is very impressive

Lil Wayne used Jay-Z's secret to success.

People just hear of wayne being so successful and selling records, not everybody knows what he went through before he made it to where he is right now.

Let me explain what i mean by "lil wayne used jay-z's secret to success". A lot of people do not know that jay-z's first album,reasonable doubt, although being certified classic, it did not go platinum, his second album, in my life time even was a worse album, commercially than the first album, but jay-z kept at it. He had already made up his mind that what ever happened, he knew success didnt come overnight and he would keep dropping albums every summer, that is every year, till he made it.

That is what i call persistance, and it works in all spheres of life. So by the thrid album, hardknock life, he got a very good rap single with a commercial chorus, and bam! That was the start of big things. He went on to sell 5 million copies of that album, and the rest is history.And after that success, jay's first 2 albums went plat beacues of the success of the third album.

Same goes for the second mr carter, lil wayne, who's road to success was rougher than jay's.

Lil waynes first three albums were failures commercially, or at leats just normal, not great success's. I can bet you do not even know his first three albums.

Before he dropped his fourth album, the carter, in 2004, he said regardless of success, he would drop the carter 2 the next year and then the carter 3 in 2006. So he already planned that he would drop the carter 3 in 2004.

After the carter 1 dropped, people started noticing his talent, that had been slept on for years. He dropped the carter 2, and there was no turning back. He started getting guest appearances on other people's songs, and he was doing a pretty good job. So he got more guest appearances and more popularity.

He dropped carter 2 in 2005 as promised, but when he so how popular he had gotten from featuring on other people's songs and howmuch he was making (between $50,000-$150,000 per song). He decided not to drop carter three in 2006. He pushed it to a 2007 relaese date, then again to 2008.

So when he dropped earlier this year, 2008, and sold 1 million copies in his first week,. you know he had done his homework. He more than did his home work, he over did it.

So don't ever hate on lil wayne that he plays with rap too much, he has a right to, for all he went through.

DID YOU KNOW?

• Did you know that Tony Yayo, G-Unit member is 39 years old, that is 6 years older than his boss that he salutes, kiss ass for, at any chance he gets.
• Did you know that it took Tupac only 7 days to completly record his 1996 album, the last album he recorded before he died, "Makaveli".
• Did you know that in 2000, 50 cent was beat up and stabbed in several places on his body, after an altercation between he and the murder inc clique, consisting of irv gotti, black child and some other murder inc associates.
• Did you know that ll cool j was signed to defjam records in 1984, that means he has been in the game for 24 years.
• Did you know that wayne dropped his first album, "the block is hot", in 1999, when he was 17, and he dropped 5 studio albums before he dropped carter 3.
• Did you know that throughout the marriage between the late notorious b.i.g and r&b singer, Fatith Evans, neither of them was faithful. Faith Evans admitted to getting intimate with a couple of athletes in a recent book on her life. And Big was intimate with rappers "lil kim" and also "charlie baltimore".

TOP TEN RAP/HIP-HOP ALBUMS OF ALL TIME

10. Public enemy-It takes a nation of millions to hold us back.

9. Tupac- The Don Killuminati: The 7 day theory.

8. Ice cube- Death Certificate.

7. NWA- Niggaz 4 Life.

6. Jay-Z- Reasonable Doubt.

5. Ron Dmc- Raising Hell.

4. Notorious Big- Ready to Die.

3. Dr Dre- The Chronic.

2. Nas- Illmatic.

1. Eric B and Rakim Paid in Full.

That is it as compiled from mtv, which was gotten from peoples nominations.

Do you know that in the mid 80's, rakim got signed with a record advance of 1 miilon dollars, that was the highest any rapper had gotten at that time.

Nas spit his first verse on a song called "live at the barbecue", a large professor song, in 1991, when he was just 17, and finished his first album illmatic in 1992, but got to release it 2 years later.

Dre was in a group, nwa in the 80's, and went solo after the groups second album, and a beef with the individual members. His first slo album, the chronic was dropped in 1992, with help from snoop dogg.

breaking news.

John forte, former refugee allstar(the group comprised of lauryn hill, praz, wyclef, canibus) member, is going to be pardoned by president bush.
He has been in jail since 2000 for possesion of some kilos of cocaine.
he would be out in dec 22 and on probation for 5 years.

He was meant to spend 14 years, that means he was originally not meant to be out till 2014, that is a long time.

Some persuation from fellow artist, that John Forte would be better out than in jail, because of his talents as a music producer.

He was arrested at Newark International Airport after accepting a briefcase containing $1.4 million of liquid cocaine. He was charged with possession with intent to distribute cocaine and conspiracy to distribute. He was convicted and sentence to the mandatory minimum of 14 years after being found guilty and incarcerated at FCI Loretto, a low security federal prison in central pennsylvania.

He must be so joyful right now, because being in jail, and locked out from the whole world is really like taking away a man's right to life, right to live freely.

what do u feel about naeto c.

Yeah, yeah, Naeto C is a good rapper, swagger and all, but DOES he know all the rudements of rap, or is he just one of the south american rap style copiers, that are making money from that style of rap right now.

He was recently asked by The Game to freestyle on stage, and he really dissapointed fans.If you didnt know, the game was in Nigeria, the 18th of november, for the mtv american music awards. He also disapointed nigerians in the presence of an international star.

He definatley did not show any p, or swagger on stage that day.

I am not a hater, but i had always known that c is more of a swagger rapper, than a real rapper. He depends more on fancy beats and rides the beat cool, but without a beat......

NOT TOO COOL A RAPPER.

NAS AND NELLY IN NIGERIA.

Nas and nelly are coming to nigeria, courtesy, star mega jam, 2008 edition.

The lagos show would be on dec 12, while the abuja show would be on dec 13.

Nelly with singles like ride with me, E.I, Country grammar, dilemma, ai force ones, number one, flap your wings, body on me....

Nas with singles like one mic, you owe me, nastradamus, nas is like, hate me now, i can, you wont se me toonight, got yourself a gun, made you look, hero........

Prepare to go and be thrilled.

JADAKISS.

Jadakiss, born, Jayson Phillips, May 27 1975, is a third member of the rap group The L.O.X (sheek louch, styles p and jadakiss).

The L.O.X got signed to bad boy records, owned by sean "p.diddy" combs, in 1996. They were introduced to p.diddy by mary j blige. The group recorded songs with fellow bad boy record label mates, biggie and mase. They also dropped 2 albums "money,power & respect (1998) and "we are the streets" (2000).



After their second album, they decided to do solo albums. Jada kiss was the first to drop a solo album, "kiss the game good bye, in 2001. It was a successful album, selling a total of 800,000 copies in the u.s.a alone.
He dropped a second album, "kiss of death" in 2004, also a success, doing about 900,000 copies in the u.s alone.



At around 2005, he had beef with 50cent, and dropped some underground replies to 50 cent's piggy bank diss track. Tracks like "i'm sorry ms jackson", "Checkmate" and "problem child", were known to do damage to 50 cents image
They later squashed the beef in 2008.

He has two albums out, and fellow l.o.x members, sheek louch and styles p, both have three solo albums till date.
He and group members, sheek louch and styles p founded a record label, D-Block in the early 2000's. The label/group comprised sheek, styles, jada,j-hood(no longer a member), some new rappers in the game signed to the label and some of their dj's.

Jadakiss has a partnership with jay-z's roca-fella records through which he dropped his third album, The Last Kiss, on April 7 2009. The success of the album led him to promise another album the following year, to be titled Top 5, Dead or Alive. The album has been delayed and now is scheduled to drop in 2011.


Album Sales
Kiss The Game Goodbye- 860,000 (U.S sales only) 

Kiss Of Death- 934,000 (U.S sales only)

The Last Kiss- 342,000 (U.S sales only)

MIXTAPES.

Mixtapes are cd's that contains underground, un-officailly released songs from some of your favorites artist. They release street songs on this cd's to keep their buzz going.
The cd's are collaborative efforts from artist and dj, and sometimes, it might be a dj, compiling songs from a lot of rappers, street songs, or songs yet to be released to the mainstream.
This is the medium that lil wayne used to come up and gain acceptance and he is still using it.
5ocent and his G-Unit family also used this medium to reach out to their fans constantly.
If you are a rapper, and you want to drop a mixtapes every two months, then it's up to you to keep up.
While a cd cost about 13 dollars, mixtapes cost between 5-7dollars.
Artist like jadakiss, styles p, and sheek louch also operate in this circle with their D-Block imprint(a group and also a record label comprising of jadakiss, style p, sheek louch, bully and various dj's like super mario, liveson,).
Currently, lil wayne is on number 1 and number 2 of the mixtapes chart, with two of his mixtapes, " dj drama and lil wayne, dedication 3" and "dj keyz and lil wayne, waynes world vol 3"
An artist like papoose has to thank this medium, because asides appearing on other people's songs, he has no solo album, but currently has 17 mixtapes released in his name so far.
Lil Wayne is constantly the king of mixtapes. The kid has a mixtape out almost every time of the year, and is constantly on top of he mixtapes charts. You would think he would run out of flows.
The game is another rapper that uses these medium frequently to showcase his talent, let the world hear his black wall street rappers and must importantly, address beefs.
Between 2005 and 2006, the game dropped more than 4 mixtapes to address the 50cent and g-unit beef alone.

Swagger like us.

Swagger like us is a rap song owned by both T.I and Jay-Z, featuring two other rappers, kanye west and lil wayne.
The track has already appeared on T.I's Paper Trail album, and the same track, or another version would appear on Jay-Z's Blueprint 3 album, scheduled to drop the first quarter of next year, 2009.. Sources close to Jay-Z say he is thinking of making another version for his album, that would feature Andre 3000 and Nas.
The original version is blazing on the streets, with people arguing who go the best rap verse. Without a video, the song gets more radio spins than a song with a video.

CD SALES.

Hey people. I don't think i have told you what i do as a part time job? I sell cd's. YES. Cd's. I sell all types of cd's, and i can get cd's that you wouldn't imagine any one can get right now.
I have all the rap classics from all eyez on me, ready to die, reasonable doubt, illmatic, stillmatic, the chronic (the two of hem), doggy style, makaveli, untitled....................the list goes on and on and on.
If i am to sell the alaba copy, it would cost 150 naira, but if its a scarce cd that i have to buy an original and burn on an empty cd, then it would be 500naira.
I make personal cd selections to. Any 17 tracks you want on a cd, I'll make it. It cost 400naira.
Holla at me.
08027794635.
odus29@yahoo.com.

I also do home delivery, so you can just pay into my account, and i will get the cd to your door step.
I charge 500naira for delivery anywhere in lagos.
Holla at your boy.

Sound sultan.

I just heard a new sound sultan song called king of my country. It has a party song vibe to it, i guess he wants to get booked for shows more often now.
I am a big sound sultan fan, the reason why he appears on my blog, being a singer and all that is because he is more of a rapper than most of the wack rappers we have in Nigeria, but he doesn't appeal to the Nigerian populace.
Sound sultan, like a rapper, spits conscious lyrics. He educates, makes a lot of sense. It's the fact that he is political and spits a lot of knowledge, that get people to ignore his that a lot of people ignore his type of music.
People do not want to be reminded of the hard life they are going through. They'd rather listen to yahoozee, a song that celebrates internet fraudstars( I do not really condem that, neither am i a fan. I am just making a statement.).That is why someone like fela was never called to perform at parties, but he was and still is the biggest Nigerian musician Nigeria has ever had, internationally.
Sound sultan is on the same lane with the late fela kuti, i guess i know where he is going with it.
The thing that surprises me is, he has not deviated from his 3-4 albums so far. My brother is a big fan of his, and can relate to what he is saying in his songs. So can i.
He recently left kennis music, when his contract with hem expired, for naija ninjaz, a label partly owned by him, partly owned by his brother, baba dee, also an artist.
Watch out for his latest album, ss4, to hit stores anytime soon.

Kanye west.

Kanye west was born on june 8, 1977, an American rapper.
Kanye was a producer before becoming a rapper. He produced part of jay-z's blueprint album in 2001, before dropping his own debut album in 2004.
All kanye's albums have been highly successful. From college dropout, to late registration to graduation, all sold more than 2 million copies each, in the u.s alone.
His fourth album, 808's and heartbreaks, is set to drop, under island def jam records, on Monday, November 24.
It is a highly anticipated album, with some criticism. He chose to use auto-tune through out the album, and mustly sang in them. There is proof from the first two singles off the album, love lockdown and heartless, that are already enjoying airplay on radio.
Some say kanye has gone pop, some say he is just exploring, and trying new formats for music. To crown the controversy surrounding album, when asked to place his album under a genre of music, he said it would fall under pop.
Can we conveniently say that kanye has gone pop?

Auto-tune in Nigeria.

A lot of musician have started to use the vocoder in nigeria presently. I just heard a new ojb and jazz man olofin song, where his singing was worked on with auto tune.
If you did not know, a vocoder is an auto tune machine used in the studio to make your voice come out sounding electronic.
It is popularly used by american musician, t-pain, and also recently, kanye west. Lil wayne also uses it from time to time. Lil wayne's hit track, lollipop was done using auto tune, that is why he sounds like that. And i heard that it can be very addictive. Since wayne tested it, he has fallen in love with the machine. The same thing goes for kanye, where he is dropping a whole album done in auto tune.
I also so a new sasha video, where she uses auto tune through out. What is happening?

Why i love rap so much.

There was a day my mom came into my room and heard what was coming out of my cd player, and exclaimed, "what are you listening to? they are just talking". There was no way i could explain to her, just like there is no way i want to explain to you why i love rap so much, but i will just give you some instances
I grew up listening to different types of music in the 80's, from Micheal Jackson, to bobby brown, mc hammer, minnie vanillie, queen latifah, heavy d, Kool and the gang, and the list goes on and on. It was not until the early 90's that i started listening to rap music. My dad would make tapes from a studio, the pitch studio, in our area. The mixes had songs from mc hammer, heavy d, queen latifah and so on.
There was an incidence that happened when i was 11, and i ain't lying, when i memorized a queen latifah song (And i am not talking about "fly girl") , and i raped it for some older guys and they were so impressed. I became a phenomenon. 20, 21 year old guys would call me up when their friends were around to come and rap the song for them. I rapped it with so much precision, and emphasis, that they would lift me up with applaud whenever i performed the song.
That is just one of my music stories. I went to stay in Ibadan immediately after my ssce in my cousins house and i would rap and sing each and every song that came on on radio, and his friend would ask if i was working at a radio station before coming over to ibadan.
Getting down to the real reason why i can say i love rap is that i like information. I love to learn new things. I love to read, i love to watch movies shot in different locations. Life is beautiful, and i love to learn more about it. So listening to some particular rappers, conscious rappers, like tupac, jadakiss, fatjoe, nas, canibus, and some others i can not mention right now, gives me insight into a lot of things i did not know before, unlike a normal r&b song, a rap song has more content in a short 3-4 minutes.
I get to learn a lot when i listen to rappers, so i guess that is why i can say i love rap

MODENINE VERSUS RUGGEDMAN.

Modenine and rugged man are the two most prominent rappers in Nigeria, you can equal them to Jay-Z and Nas of Nigeria. I wouldn't know who would be jay-z and who would be nas in the two of them, but talking about clout, they got it.
The two started of around the same time, around the early 2000's, Mode entered the game with the delivery of mad skills on the mic, while rugged entered through a controversial diss track where he goes at his contemporaries in the Nigerian music industry.
Who is more skilled? I do not know, i guess that i the question everyone is trying to answer right now. I can say rugged man is more successful than modenine in the industry, but modenine drops crazy metaphors on the mic, but to a fault, because people have criticized him for that, saying he pays more attention to the punchlines and metaphors. They say his songs do not have a theme, that he just goes on ranting about different things. Although they his rhymes are amusing to the ear, they get boring after you have heard like 10 songs from him. It is more like you are listening to the same song.
They has been some underground beef between the two, but they have decided to bring the beef to the mainstream. Recently, modenine dropped a track, that had some subliminal shorts at rugged man. The lines go thus; "this baba that baba/you are not a father/you got intellect myopia/so when i diss a baba its not Ethiopia".
I do not have or have not heard the reply from ruggedman, as he replied the diss almost immediately. On a recent interview, modenine said the song could have been addressing anybody, that there were many baba's in the industry, so now that ruggedman feels it was directed at him, it's on.
I would really loe to see a rap battle between these two heavy weights. They are the biggest in the game, and i believe in the two of them, their pride would never either back down.
Lets wait and see where they take it with this.

Kanye west.

Kanye west lost his mom last year, 2007, it was said she was ery dear to him. He collapsed at a concert, some months after the passing away of his mom. He is really just getting oer her death.
His knew album is said to have been inspired by his mom, even though she is no more. The first single off the album, "love lockdown", has kanye singing about love, must likely the love his mom gave him.
He is scheduled to drop the album next week Monday, November 24. The whole album was done in auto-tune. This is a studio device that allows your vocals come out smooth and with an electronic feel.
He's last three albums, college dropout, late registration and graduation have all been commercial successes, this would not live short of that.

BILLBOARD TOP 10 RAP ALBUMS FOR THIS WEEK.

10. Plies- Definition Of Real.

9. Unk- 2econd Season

8. Nas- Untitled.

7. Dj Khaled- We Global.

6. Dj Nesty- Wisin Y

5. The Game- LAX(12,189)

4. Q-Tip- The Renaissance(14, 881)

3. Young Jeezy- The Recession(16,210)

2. Lil Wayne- The Carter 3(23,134)

1. T.I- Paper Trail(62,046)




That's all folks. The top ten selling rap albums for the week.
The sales of albums is actually counted from tuesday to tuesday of every week. So on Wednesday, the results are out. I get it on Wednesday night or Thursday morning, depending on some factors.
T.I is still sitting at the top, with a hot single on radio(Live your life ft rihanna). His total sales is at 1,178,455. He is still a long way from double platinum status, but he is slowly working his way there.
The second man on the chart is the man with the highest selling album for the year, thus far, Mr Carter, A.k.A lil wayne, a.k.a "weezy f baby". His album is at a total of 2,671,816. He is closing in on tripple platinum status. If Kanye's album, which is droping next week monday{24th} does not do some crazy numbers, then Wayne might as well have the highest selling rap album for the year 2008.
Young jeezy, who has another single on the way titled "my president" is at third place. The track actually features nas.
Q-tip, without a hot radio single, is holding it down at number 4 spot with his "the renaissance" album.
The Game, who plans to drop another single off his LAX album, "Camera phone" featuring neyo, is at the number 5 spot. Lets hope, since his song is a little on the mellow side, it would catch the attention of some lady fans, and boost his sales.
Else where on the track, nas climbs from number 10 to number 8.

YOUR YOUNG JEEZYNESS

Young jeezy caught the public eye with his collaboration with akon "soul survivor", a single off his 2005 debut album, "Lets get em;thug motivation 101. He has been blazing hot ever since.
His style is gangster rap, and has a lot of content on women, money, dope, cars in his songs.
I can say what got jeezy where he is right now, is his delivery style of rap, where he slows the rap down and introduces a lot of "ad libs". He also drops a lot of metaphors to.
Another factor that has been noticed in the trends with jeezy is the fact that he drops enough singles to always stay in the public eye. His first album had 6 singles; "And then what", "soul survivor" "my hood", "trap star", "go crazy" and "trap or die".
His second album had 4 singles, "i love it", "bury me a g", "go getta", and "dreaming".
His third, which dropped sept 2, this year, is still fresh in the market with three singles, "put on", "vacation", "crazy world", and one more on the way. He is planning to shoot his next single, "my president", featuring nas, early next month.
Him naming the album, "The recession", really had more than him talking politics on the album, the recession has really hit, because it might be highly impossible for him to sell platinum {one million copies}, with this album.
He has only done 6114, 781 thousand copies ill date, and its not moving big figures weekly, just about 16,000 copies weekly. Lets hope he can have a boost, because his sales would be dropping every subsequent week.
It's more on the state of sales at this moment, nobody sells that much again. Even the great "50 cent had to push his album back, from fear of bad sales. His last g-unit album, "Terminate on sight" managed to sell only 190,000 copies to date.
Let's hope Jeezy's next single, "my president" keeps him in the public eye enough to boost his sales.

BLACK PRESIDENT.

Before anybody knew who would win The just concluded presidential election, nas made a song about Obama being president, and at the end of the song, announces Obama as the next American president. The song was released earlier this year.
Check out the lyrics of the song, and let nas educate you on a lot of things you do no know about white America.

Repeat 2X]
("Although it seems heaven-sent,
we ain't ready, to have a black president" <- 2Pac)

[singers] {Barack Obama}
Yes we can...change the world...
{CHANGE THE WORLD...}

[Chorus]
("Although it seems heaven-sent,
we ain't ready, to have a black president" <- 2Pac) {repeat 2X}
Yes we can...change the world...
(The world, the world, the WORLD...)

[Nas]
They forgot us on the block, got us in the box
Solitary confinement, how violent are these cops?
They need a early retirement
How many rallies will I watch? I ain't got it in me to march
I got a Semi to spark, the game's in a drought
Public housing, projects, cookin up in the Pyrex
My set, my clique, either gettin money
or runnin from homicide trail, that's if they ain't died yet
Tryna be rich, STILL I'm pledging allegiance
A predicate felon, a ghetto leader
Lendin my poetical genius, to who-EVER may need it
I BLEED this from Queensbridge, now living with my feet up
Never defeated, so a president's needed
You know these colored folks and Negros hate to see
one of they own succeeding
America, surprise us, and let a black man guide us

[Repeat 2X]
("Although it seems heaven-sent,
we ain't ready, to have a black president" <- 2Pac)

[singers] {Barack Obama}
Yes we can...change the world...
{CHANGE THE WORLD...}

[Chorus]


[Nas]
What's the black pres' thinkin on election night?
Is it, "How can I protect my life? Protect my wife? Protect my rights?"
Every other president was nuttin' less than white
'cept Thomas Jefferson and mixed Indian blood and Calvin Coolidge
KKK is like, "What the fuck?!", loadin they guns up
Loadin up mines too, ready to ride
'Cause I'm ridin with my crew - he dies, we die too
Yeah, but on the positive side
I think Obama provides hope, and challenges minds
of all races and colors to erase the hate
and try to LOVE one another; so many political snakes
We in need of a break, I'm thinkin I can TRUST this brotha
...but will he keep it way real?
Every innocent nigga in jail, gets out on appeal
When he wins, will he really care still?
I feel...

[Repeat 2X]
("Although it seems heaven-sent,
we ain't ready, to have a black president" <- 2Pac)

[singers] {Barack Obama}
Yes we can...change the world...
{CHANGE THE WORLD...}

[Chorus]

[Nas]
Say a prayer for "Do we have to?"
You ain't right, Jeremiah Wrong pastor
in love with a slave master
Sincerely yours, USA's most brave rapper
Jesse carjacker, Uncle TOm kidnapper
Ask around, Bently Coupe off the Richter
Bitch called Life, I pimped her, WHAT?
Politics, politricks, Klan shooter
Deacon for defense, progress producer
Nothing on the stove, a survival booster
Gotta DO what we gotta DO
We ain't got no governors comin through to help!
Anything we need done, gotta do for self
New, improved JFK on the way
It ain't the 60s' again, niggas ain't hippies again
We ain't fallin for the same traps
Standin on the balconies, where they shot the King at
McCain got apoligies, ain't nobody hearin that
People need HONESTY!

[Repeat 2X]
("Although it seems heaven-sent,
we ain't ready, to have a black president" <- 2Pac)

[singers] {Barack Obama}
Yes we can...change the world...
{CHANGE THE WORLD...}

[Chorus]

[Governor Bill Richardson]
It is my distinct honor, and privilege to introduce
the next President of the United States - Barack Obama

{*crowd cheers LOUDLY*}

1ST WEEK SALES OF BOTH KANYE AND LUDA'S ALBUMS (THE PREDICTION)

Yes. From following their first week sales for more than three albums down the road, i am going to use my analysis of all the trends i have noticed to predict how many copies both kanye and luda are going to sell in their first week in stores. I am sure if i am not on point, i would be closer than a 100 thousand difference in sales. Walk with me.
Lets start with kanye, he dropped his
first album, "college dropout" in 2004, and did a first week sales of 440,000 copies, impressive for a debut album. His second album that dropped the following year, 2005, "late registration", sold 860,000. That is like double the sales of the first one. The third album, "Graduation" dropped in 2007, and did 957,000 numbers in its first week, just three thousand shy of a million copies.
So far he has been on the rise, gathering fans and selling more copies per album release. The factors we should look at for this album sales is that, album sales are not like before, they are at all time low. You might say, "but lil wayne sold 1 million in his first week". Yes he did, put he paid his dues. He did more than two dozen featuring on other people's album through 2007 till 2008, when his album dropped.
Considering the fact that kanye is now under the pop genre, judging from his two singles. "love lockdown" and "heartless", he would get new follower ship, but he would also loose some fans, so i put his first week sales at somewhere between 700,000-800,000.
For luda, his first album, "back for the first time", released in 2000, didn't do so well. The second one, "word of mouf", released in 2001, did 320,000, in its first week. The third album, "Chicken and beer", released in 2003, went a notch higher and did 429,000 first week. The fourth album, red light district, released in 2004, sold 322,000, in it's first week, that's a drop. His fifth album, release therapy, did 347,000, first week sales, that is a little better than the last one.
From all this analysis, i would say the album would do a first week sales of between 300,000-400,000.
Both album are dropping on the same day, November 24, so after a week in stores, we would come back and check on my analysis.

WORD FROM THE AUTHOR.

I just remembered that i started off this blog without saying anything about myself or what i intend to achieve.
So take this as a formal introduction and beginning.
My name is kayode odusanya, 27, male, graduate of geography from the university of Lagos......
Forget all that, my main love and what i leave for is music, rap music to be precise. I do like other forms of music too, but rap is just my favorite. I have been a rap lover since i was 10.
This brings me to the main point, my mission. This is to educate people on the facts of what is going on in the music industry, locally and internationally. I found out that people generally leave on what they watch on TV, listen on radio, or read in magazines. Whether the information is false or not, they do not bother to find out, and they talk about it without clarifications.
To cut the long story short, the purpose of this blog is to furnish people with facts, truths, information on their loved musicians, and entertainment gist as a whole. With the major theme being rap.
I left my name, because everybody that have met me, or know me well, can testify that i do not speak on stories to which i have not done thorough investigations and research on. I would continue to give all the best and latest information on entertainment on my blog, as long as i can type with my two hands.
Thank you, and have a nice time.
Kayode.

CHECK OUT THIS LIST OF RAPPERS.

THE GREATEST MC'S OF ALL TIME.

10. ll cool j.

9. Eminem.

8. Ice cube.

7. Big daddy kane.

6. KRS ONE.

5. Nas.

4. Rakim.

3. Biggie.

2. Tupac.

1. Jay-z.

TOP TEN MC'S IN THE GAME ( PRESNTLY.)

10. Jim jones.

9. Common.

8. 50 cent.

7. Jay-z.

6. Young jeezy.

5. kanye west.

4. Andre 3000.

3. The Game.

2. T.I.

1. Lil Wayne.

These list's are as were compiled by MTV, they obviously had there reasons, and criteria's for each mc that have appeared on the list.

What do you think of the list?

EVOLUTION OF RAP IN NIGERIA.

I remember back in 1998 when the remedies dropped the track "shako mo", people were still strongly hung up on foreign rap, that the song was not highly appreciated.
Although the song had its faults, like eedris abdul kareem rhyming with syllables we couldn't comprehend with. It was more of a mombo jumbo of words, but the delivery style could be comended. It grew on people, through the constant air-play on radio, but at that point you could not be caught dead listening to a Nigerian rap song, or a Nigerian song of any sought. That period, i can say, marked the begining of a big industry in Nigeria.
The remedies dropped a series of other singles like "shade", but it was still the same style of rapping from "eedris abdulkareem", not untill the trybes men, in 1999 dropped "shake body", that people started paying more attention to nigerian rap, and having a feeling that Nigeria could go places with the hip hop genre of music.
The group comprised of three rappers, eeldee the don, freestyle and kabom. There had mastered the rapping style of foreign east coast rappers like jay-z. Their songs, "shake body" and "who do this rapping" gained massive air play, but the rap scene was still not set in nigeria at that point. They got some shows, but had to market their cd's themselves, mostly in unilag, where eeldee and kabom were schooling.
The group got larger in 2000, with addition of "sasha", "too-shortz", "blaise" "sid", "timmy" and some other off and on rappers.
At the same time in abuja, there was an alliance of rappers building up collectively called swat roots. Comprising of "ld extra large" "modenine", "terry da rap man" "six foot plus", who were more into hard core rap.
Then, around 2001-2002, you had a series of off and on rappers. Rap had started gaining more airplay ON RADIO. Around 2003, you had "too shortz" of the trybes men hitting the airwazes with a lot of commercially successful songs. Around the same time, the trybes had the "oya" song which had like 8 verses from all the members, that had never been done before in a nigerian rap song.
The next big entry into the nigerian rap scene was rugged man, who gained his acclaim by taking lashes at fellow rappers that he felt were doing the rap thing all wrong, and music generally. Eedris abdul karem, mentain (olu, and tolu maintain), rasqui, were some of the artist he addressed in his song, "ehen".
People supported his movement, and it was like Nigerians had been deceived all this while, and rugged man brought a fresh breath of air. He has so far become successful with the rap music he does so well.
He and modenine are supposedly having a beef on who is the king of nigerian rap. They bought have a lot of supporters.
Other rappers that have made notable name for themselves are,naeto c, ikechukwu, lord of ajasa, sasha, weird mc. Naeto c had a big rap track earlier this year, "kini big deal" can be said to be the biggest rap song of the year.
Ikechukwu, his label mate (storm records), also had a big song aroud the begining of the year, "wind am well". The song featured both "d-banj" and "don jazzy".
There is also a long list of female rappers that feel the game is not to be played by the male sex alone. You have "sasha" formerly of trybes records, now on "storm records", "Kemistry", the presenter/rapper, "Blaise", the former trybes records artist, and underground queen of rap, "bouqui", the female gospel rapper, "weird mc",the aunty of them all (cos she has been doing it since 1994), and not to forget the new chic on the block, the finest of them all, "capital hills"one and only queen, "kel".
In the evolution of rap in naija, we cant leave out the super skilled gospel rap group "roof top mc's", that sprang up in the mid 2000's. They had a big hit earlier this year, "lagimo"
In 2008, the rapper to watch out for is the new kid on the block, the nasarawa based rapper, the messiah of rap in Nigeria, the must talked about rapper in any barber shop, the mixture of nas and jay-z in style, the one and only, M.I.
The kid has just two songs on airplay, he got everybody talking. Not only are his lyrics deep, his delivery is phenomenal. Watch out for him 2009.

THE GAME AFTER G-UNIT.

In 2005, shortly after his classic album, the documentary was released, the game was dropped from the group g-unit.
He was signed to aftermath/interscope in conjunction with Dr Dre and Jimmy Iovine, in 2004. Because of the buzz g-unit had at the time, they was a contractual agreement by dre and 50cent, for the game to partly be a member of the group to gain some recognition.
After his album was released in 2005, he was kicked out of the group by 50ent because of his appearance on a hip hop tv show and saying he had no problem with nas, jadakiss and fat joe. The three rappers that 50cent had dissed on his "piggy bank" track. In fact, he went further to say he respected the fellow rappers and if given a chance would like to work with them.
50 took it as being disrespectful and disloyal to the clique, which explains his actions.
The game's album (the documentary) went on to sell 2.5million in the states and 7 million worldwide.
When it was time to start work on his second album, "dr's advocate", 50 said in an interview that if dre had anything to do with the album, he would live interscope. Dre was silent on the all issue. It ended up in the game dropping the album with no dre production on it, and silently living aftermath, for geffen records.
After aftermath and g-unit, the game has released two successful albums. The dr's advocate went double platinum worldwide and sold 1.1 million in the states. His third album, "lax, has sold 600 thousand copies and still selling.
He was voted third hottest mc's of 2007 by mtv, with t.i and lil wayne taking 2nd and first places respectively. His former boss, 50cent was at number 8.
He leaves in a multi-million dollar house in beverly hills. Has more than half a dozen cars, including a 2006 range rover, escalade, dodge charger srt ($55,000), Lamborghini murcielago 2006( $289, 000,000),2 bently continental flying spur 2006 ($200,000,00 each), rolls royce phantom coupe 2007 ($650,000,000.)
So i think we can say he is doing good for himself.