For an industry that should be creative, the Nigerian music industry is very repetitive, It’s like everyone is in the business of sampling everyone. We may let that go but we have a list of lines we are sincerely tired of hearing.
1. “2 seconds everything burst”.
Whether it’s sexual innuendo, a shade, or some perverse proclamation of fatal attraction, we need Nigerian artists to stop repeating it every time they want to fill a verse. We heard it the first time and we don’t like it.
2. “You go kill me oh”.
If people actually died every time a Nigerian musician dropped this line, Lagos would be empty by now. Can you people just stop?
3. “Whine am for me”.
Whine what?
4. Sentences with “Ass, bum bum, nyansh” as the object or subject pf the sentence.
But we know this will put them out of business completely.
5. “Give me love”.
Are you pricing it?
6. Yelling “Its XYZ” at the beginning, middle or end of the song.
Excuse me, are you scared that the TV station won’t show your name as the owner of the track?
7. “I fit die for your matter”.
Let’s stay realistic please.
8. “Pull up on you”.
Doesn’t this mean you want to ride over her with your car?
9. “Let us fly away”.
To where please?
10. “I love you”.
E no dey hard una to fall in love. Until your next song.
11. “I can’t live without you”.
Because my baptismal name is oxygen?
12. “You are the one I have been waiting for”.
Why?
13. “Na you I go marry”.
Is this a proposal or a just lyrical bants?
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