I think your question already contains the trap: “what value is he creating?”
What value is anyone creating by watching movies? In the most literal, uncharitable sense, cinema is absurd: sane people pretending to be other people, crying over invented tragedies, fighting imaginary enemies, dying fake deaths, and collecting awards for make-believe. To generations or cultures not used to it, that too would sound like organised stupidity.
But it is art because it creates feeling, escape, humour, spectacle, memory, and cultural conversation.
That is the point. Peller, G-Fresh, Murja Kunya and the others you mentioned may not appeal to you or me, but they obviously make some people laugh. That is why they are in business. That is why they command a following. Entertainment does not need to pass through our personal taste to qualify as entertainment.
We may call it foolishness, but every generation has dismissed the popular taste of another as the end of civilisation. Rap was once treated as an olodo uprising. Today, it is one of the dominant cultural forms in the world.
As for the doggerels currently passing for spoken word, let me not even open that chapter. To each their own.
Olodo uprising: it’s just bunch of bitter people who probably graduated with first class and second class upper being bittered about olodos thriving.
They believe since you’re an olodo you should remain a failure for life.
Whereas in the real sense, if you’re not smart and intelligent you can’t be popular and remain in limelight for years
It takes a smart person to be consistently creative. The real olodos are people who got the fame, the money, the job but wouldn’t know what to do with it.
Ycee got the fame but couldn’t manage it. He lost how to be consistent and to be creative with it so he fell off the radar.
That right there is an example of being an olodo.
If there is an “Olodo Uprising,” that is a demand problem, not a supply one.
When people complain about the ubiquity of something that exists precisely because of their interest in it, the complaint is not an indictment of the thing, it is a mirror held up to the complainant.
If no such uprising is actually underway, the uproar is theatre. If it is, the audience needs to look inward before looking outward.
Peller and those like him found a niche and are thriving in it. It is responsiveness to a market. The market does what it does. If the public is fascinated by them, their fascination cannot logically be their fault. You do not blame the sun for rising.
Those who are genuinely irked have options. More options, in fact, than any generation before them. There has never been a point in human history with such an avalanche of alternatives for whatever you crave, at whatever depth you want it. The algorithm will take you exactly where you point it.
In the world of Peller, a million other interests exist. It is still a free world to choose what works for you.
Also, education and intelligence aren’t the same thing. There are thoughtful people who never had much access to school, and there are highly educated people who confidently spread nonsense 😂
You can dislike President Tinubu — he is your President, and you are fully within your rights to criticize him.
You can dislike the APC — that is your prerogative.
You can even dislike Nigerian politicians as a whole — that is entirely your business.
But the line is crossed when:
— You transfer that political anger toward the Yoruba people.
— You disguise your dislike for certain politicians or parties as an excuse to attack Yoruba professionals, religious or traditional leaders, artists, businesspeople, or any Yoruba individual simply because of their identity.
That will no longer be tolerated. And it will be firmly and confidently resisted.
Reality was Barrister’s last gift. He walked into that studio and poured everything left in him into two tracks that somehow fit every moment of a Yoruba life. Birth. Marriage. Death. Joy. Grief. One album, every occasion. That is not music. That is prophecy.
JUST LANDED IN BOSTON TO SEE THE ENGLAND VS GHANA GAME 🔥🔥🔥
WE ALL KNOW WHO I AM SUPPORTING AS A BLACK SUPER “STAR” AND AS A BLACK MAN
ENGLAND.
E BETTER MAKE I SUPPORT WHO COLONISE ME THAN FOR MAKE I SUPPORT WHO DEY CHOP EVERYTHING WITH EGG.
SAKA, EZE, NONI, WHAT DO YOU HAVE FOR DECLAN?
Men cry
Men have body insecurities.
Men have trauma.
Men get abused.
Men self-harm.
Men need love and care.
Men need money.
It's Mens Mental Health Awareness Month. Show every man love, be gentle with them. They are human, too.♥️
Turn up the volume of your speakers:
This is one of the most beautiful videos i have watched in YEARS! Lovely production.
There is no Arsenal fan/GUNNER that wouldn't feel touched or motivated by this video. Even haters would almost shed a tear.
LESSON: Never give up!
*In Oka Akoko, Ondo State, indigenous hunters rounded up Fulani bandits, who were armed with AK47 guns. The crowd didn't allow people to know the details. But they couldn't move again with their okadas. Oluode chanted ofo on them. Details later. Agbekoya is back!!*