Wait, am I tripping or is the Nigerian music industry like how school hostels were back in the day? Hear me out😭😭🤣🤣
Stream Farmers = Expo Kids 😂
The students who pay for expo and somehow get better results than the people who actually read.
One-Hit Wonders = The Boy Who Scored One Legendary Goal in JSS2
He's in SS3 now, but he still hasn't stopped talking about that match.
Industry Gatekeepers = Hostel Prefects
They're not necessarily the most talented, but they decide who gets access to certain privileges.
OG Cosigns = School Fathers
Having a popular senior who protects you, introduces you to the right people and makes hostel life easier.
Ghostwriters = The Brilliant Students Who Do Other People's Assignments
One person does all the work, another person collects the marks and applause. “chai”
Paid PR = The Kids Who Bribe Seniors With Provisions
Share enough Cornflakes, Milo and Golden Morn, and suddenly everybody has something nice to say about you.
Independent Artists = Students Without School Fathers
Nobody to defend them, nobody to connect them. Every day is survival of the fittest.
A lot of you are only this loud in condemning others because your own sins are hidden. You mistake being unexposed for being righteous. Perhaps God withholding the position you desire is an act of mercy.
I have seen it play numerous times in real life, majority of these people aint real enough for the thought processes they claim to have on socials.
Don't let them gaslight you.
They don't got honour, they don't got dignity for themselves or anybody, for the littlest of benefits they will throw themselves and everyone around them under the bus.
Their advices aint worth shit they don't even follow it, they can't navigate life as you have, they can't say no to the things you have.
They don't matter beyond the fact that they are just biological space.
5 million naira was offered to me by some southern asian bussiness people to use my traditional minority language rythm, my voice, pitch, delivery schemes, cadence and the way i talk to train their AI model amongst other things, on the day i rejected their shii, i had zero naira in my account, i was so stressed😂🤦🏾♂️...
Now they will probably find what they want somehow with someone else, whenever they do, but it won't be mine, and that's fine by me.
First that money too small to trade my essence for, even with nothing in my account, if i wan lose myself make e really worth am, or not.
Also i am too young and too new in this shii to start losing myself so early..my grandma won't be proud.
Moneycentric people will call me a fool and whatever as they usually do because they can't think of anything beyond benefits but yeah..i am still here.. let's see how far I'll go..
I get aim..i get things to say, make i get am first🌱
I wanted to say I feel the Nigerian government doesn’t do enough for the Nigerian music industry. An industry that is probably the biggest in Africa and one of the biggest in the world.
Then I found this , 1.2billion Naira was disbursed in February this year. I hope artists…
Being an upcoming artist based in the east making afrobeats can really be depressing.
Once you’re not making their famous Igbo drill and Igbo rap they’re not interested.
I blame the artists too, the only thing they want to do is fight each other,
everyday we see executives hosting and coming together with every other person working in the industry to talk about their problems and how they can work and push things further.
I don’t see Artist coming together for nothing. We just Dey like mumu, that’s why a single person can destroy 20 artists life and nothing will happen.