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Wednesday, March 01, 2023
Thursday, October 24, 2019
Legacies
Guess what I've been re-rocking?
Ice Prince - Jos To The World
Jesse Jagz - Royal Niger Company
J2TW was released 36 months ago, and I remember being astounded that this work would not get a lot of listens relatively, while for example Drake's work did get attention and make the creators money, and how that was just a function of ... oh well, I won't bore you with social justice talk. You just grab the music for yourself and enjoy a dance-and-a-half.
RNC from March 2014, well you know that album made my life lol. It's sonic excellence, exuberant and brilliant work, and includes SDC Tec's "I don't spit on the mic, my guy, I baptize" which just "bursted my brain" again, even though I know the whole verse. It's Tec's birthday today.
As usual, Jesse is working on something new, even though he really doesn't owe us anything.
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Ice Prince - Jos To The World
Jesse Jagz - Royal Niger Company
J2TW was released 36 months ago, and I remember being astounded that this work would not get a lot of listens relatively, while for example Drake's work did get attention and make the creators money, and how that was just a function of ... oh well, I won't bore you with social justice talk. You just grab the music for yourself and enjoy a dance-and-a-half.
RNC from March 2014, well you know that album made my life lol. It's sonic excellence, exuberant and brilliant work, and includes SDC Tec's "I don't spit on the mic, my guy, I baptize" which just "bursted my brain" again, even though I know the whole verse. It's Tec's birthday today.
As usual, Jesse is working on something new, even though he really doesn't owe us anything.
LEGACY - An Album By @Jessejagz Wowww 👑❤️💯🤯— Iceprince (@Iceprincezamani) October 13, 2019
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Thursday, April 05, 2018
That so-called hiatus
You may have heard all of Jesse Jagz's album music
from the effusively brilliant Jag of All Tradez (2010)
through a big fight with his label and a hiatus,
to the classic since 2013 Jagz Nation Volume 1 (Thy Nation Come) and
the very elegant 2014 surprise Jagz Nation Vol. 2 (Royal Niger Company)
and now,
the patchy (or shall we call it modern, it's just that I don't understand it yet) 2017 offering called Odysseus.
While he was preparing himself (or preparing us) for Odysseus (and the first track on that album is massive, very Jesse, greatness, reaching for--, inspiring), he did a lot of cool drops. They mostly didn't appear on the subsequent album and in every case they did not (yet) get the publicity that all of Jesse's work deserves.
So here, in one place, is the stuff he put out in 2016 and early 2017:
Music + Video :
Best in You (May 2017) , Nigerian Gangsta (May 2016), Body Hot (July 2016 - Praiz ft. Jesse Jagz and Stonebwoy) , Jaga Love (Jan 2016 - Jesse Jagz ft. Ice Prince)
Music, No Video :
Midnight Vibes ft. AO, Boom, Your Loving.
Collabos and Freestyles :
New World (Nas remix March 2017), Hoto (Remix March 2016, by Classiq ft. Vector and Jesse Jagz), Reputation (April 2016) and Shook Ones (with Vector in June 2017).
You want to hear something from BEFORE the so-called first album? Listen to Grammy Night.
My work is trying to do that 'work thing', trying to make me feel like crap. So I remember Jesse to remember myself.
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::see::
from the effusively brilliant Jag of All Tradez (2010)
through a big fight with his label and a hiatus,
to the classic since 2013 Jagz Nation Volume 1 (Thy Nation Come) and
the very elegant 2014 surprise Jagz Nation Vol. 2 (Royal Niger Company)
and now,
the patchy (or shall we call it modern, it's just that I don't understand it yet) 2017 offering called Odysseus.
While he was preparing himself (or preparing us) for Odysseus (and the first track on that album is massive, very Jesse, greatness, reaching for--, inspiring), he did a lot of cool drops. They mostly didn't appear on the subsequent album and in every case they did not (yet) get the publicity that all of Jesse's work deserves.
So here, in one place, is the stuff he put out in 2016 and early 2017:
Music + Video :
Best in You (May 2017) , Nigerian Gangsta (May 2016), Body Hot (July 2016 - Praiz ft. Jesse Jagz and Stonebwoy) , Jaga Love (Jan 2016 - Jesse Jagz ft. Ice Prince)
Music, No Video :
Midnight Vibes ft. AO, Boom, Your Loving.
Collabos and Freestyles :
New World (Nas remix March 2017), Hoto (Remix March 2016, by Classiq ft. Vector and Jesse Jagz), Reputation (April 2016) and Shook Ones (with Vector in June 2017).
You want to hear something from BEFORE the so-called first album? Listen to Grammy Night.
My work is trying to do that 'work thing', trying to make me feel like crap. So I remember Jesse to remember myself.
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Tuesday, April 12, 2016
Celebrate in advance
Get to know
The popular Show Dem Camp (SDC):
Feel Alright ft. Poe and Boj
Happy Weekend ft. Kid Konnect
Ewele ft. Ms. Iye
The venerated rap-duo Show Dem Camp - Ghost and Tec:
Clone Wars 2
with Jesse, MI, BlackMagic, The Collectiv3, Falz, many great African women in music...not to mention The Dreamer Project
The Afropolitan ShowDemCamp.
The...
They have more sides than a geometry test :)
Get caught up on their work - really some of it is hard to find because dropped all over the place like goat pearls but if you're like me you'll enjoy the challenge - and get ready for their next project.
I think it's this summer, and I think it's a Clone Wars Volume 3 tape or something?
Now get caught up on OluwaJesseJagz. I think his next album is this summer too; I just know. The last one was a surprise and it was super-duper-awesome. Just, really, a feast, in every way.
Jesse Jagz of the thousand nicknames and fittingly, Gemini, is the greatest: the only artist to appear twice on my top-five music video feature.
No seriously. Fela - dead. Bob Marley - murdered. By this skinny kid from Jos, Nigeria named Jesse Abaga.
Nothing left to prove, in my opinion.
What will he do next? Maybe go for the sound of
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The crazy thing is omgggg so much great music and art in Nigeria. I can't wait for the rest of this experience.
The crazy thing is omgggg so much great music and art in Nigeria. I can't wait for the rest of this experience.
This is one video that didn't move me at first.
So while it's great fun, it's not even his best.
S h u d d e r.
Thursday, March 26, 2015
Lyrics: The Search (Radio), by Jesse Jagz, with Jumar and DuGod
From the Royal Niger Company album, aka Jagz Nation Volume Two, 2014
Listen / Watch
(Chorus - ALL)
Late at night when my pen gon' bleed
I look around what a friend gon' need
A friend with weed is a friend in deed
We pick those sticks and we blend those seeds
I dial up, spend more G's,
inhale then we bend those knees.
Feel it in the air there's a gentle breeze.
Please won't you let a nigga blow these trees?
(1 - JESSE)
She ain't even need to speak
her desire spoke
She living out spinning round
like tyre spokes
And through the fire and smoke
she dry and broke
And you could see through her eyes
the entire scope.
Uh.
Happened the very minute she woke
She got the feeling she broke
and now she's looking for bro's.
Hoes.
She wants a nigga that grows
to make her wiggle her toes
and make her feel like a rose.
Now she's looking for the finer blokes
who wire notes
for her designer cloaks
and take notes, nigga, no Made in China coats -
She go coast to coast in steamliner boats.
Coast.
She said life's a joke:
we all live rich but she still die broke
from the poor to the low to the all-high Pope
and I quote the Highness and spoke:
let your mind elope
and light a pipe o' smoke
mix drinks with egg yolks
and get soaked.
And she said:
can you teach me to cope?
The pearls from the oldest oaks -
flows are dope.
And: nope,
I ain't got the antidote
and I quote
we're all just here to find hope
Dope. Quote with the undernote:
The pearls from the oldest oak
flows are dope.
Uh. Yeah.
(Hook 1: JUMAR)
Uuhh, yeahh, was it this you're looking for?
Uhhh, yeahh, this is what this shit is for.
And when I fall into the sky
I know this old G's goin' ride to this
Life is a dream but the streets don't sleep
This is what the fuck it should be
This's what the fuck it should beee
This's what the fuck it should beee.
(2 - DUGOD)
Chei. Um. Ah.
Yeah. Money on your mind
Get your cheddah right.
Crossing borderlines,
we're all searching for a better life.
Forced to battle heavyweights
even though we're featherlight
Black Gees
want to trap cheese
though they never bite.
Uh.
Li'l players ball hard for tall broads
even the score boards against all odds,
you know we've seen this before dawg,
we're small gods.
Like a wizard,
I'm from a place you niggas call Oz.
My life's a movie.
The star and I act alike
Imagination set alight like a satellite.
Executing dreams
still watching out for parasites.
Yet I set my sights on visions of paradise.
And the queen of the city -
my black-brown Nefertiti.
She let my pretty fingers
wrap round perfect titties
my Miss is pretty,
she flowing like the Mississippi,
she a Gee,
so we bang-bang,
no chitty-chitty.
(Hook 2: DUGOD)
Right where I'm supposed to be
Destiny stands close to me
Some live like kings
and so should we
rolling trees, socially.
We're rolling this Colombian gold.
Holy bliss for your body and soul.
On the road to where nobody gets cold.
Lock and load everybody let's gooo.
(Hook 1: JUMAR)
Uuhh, yeahh, was it this you're looking for?
(Dugod - Right where I'm supposed to be,
Destiny stands close to me)
Uhhh, yeahh, this is what this shit is for.
And when I fall into the sky
I know this old G's goin' ride to this
Life is a dream but the streets don't sleep
This is what the fuck it should be
This's what the fuck it should beee
This's what the fuck it should beee.
(3 - JESSE)
Chei.
Now tell me what it is you're looking for -
is it something spiritual or something physical?
Something you can see yourself in immaterial?
What? You're not rocking with the imperial?
Uh?
Baby stare into a mirror yeah
Is there something making you feel so inferior?
And let me change, rearrange, your interior.
Whah? You're not rocking with the superior?
And are you
looking for something in your previous life,
Baby, beneath the hype?
Uh.
Are you trying to make your features right?
Trying to reach the heights,
or, looking for love like a preacher's wife?
Uhn.
Come on, Baby, look inside you.
Come on, real nigga read a book beside you.
Stop being idle.
and calculate what I divide through.
It's multiplied by two what I'll supply you.
Come on, Baby, let the vibe through
and let this be your weapon; be your Bible.
and be your rifle if any try to ride you,
it will guide you.
Are you tired of being lied to?
Life: are you steady trying to fly through?
Are you tired of being so muthafuckin' tribal?
Are you looking for some take-you-to-the-sky blue?
Tired of the new, are you looking for the vinyl?
(Chorus: ALL)
Late at night when my pen gon' bleed
I look around what a friend gon' need
A friend with weed is a friend in deed
We pick those sticks and we blend those seeds
I dial up, spend more G's,
inhale then we bend those knees,
Feel it in the air there's a gentle breeze.
Please won't you let a nigga blow these trees?
(Hook 2: DUGOD)
Right where I'm supposed to be
Destiny stands close to me
Some live like kings
and so should we
rolling trees, socially.
We're rolling this Colombian gold.
holy bliss for your body and soul.
on the road to where nobody gets cold.
lock and load everybody let's gooo.
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Listen / Watch
(Chorus - ALL)
Late at night when my pen gon' bleed
I look around what a friend gon' need
A friend with weed is a friend in deed
We pick those sticks and we blend those seeds
I dial up, spend more G's,
inhale then we bend those knees.
Feel it in the air there's a gentle breeze.
Please won't you let a nigga blow these trees?
(1 - JESSE)
She ain't even need to speak
her desire spoke
She living out spinning round
like tyre spokes
And through the fire and smoke
she dry and broke
And you could see through her eyes
the entire scope.
Uh.
Happened the very minute she woke
She got the feeling she broke
and now she's looking for bro's.
Hoes.
She wants a nigga that grows
to make her wiggle her toes
and make her feel like a rose.
Now she's looking for the finer blokes
who wire notes
for her designer cloaks
and take notes, nigga, no Made in China coats -
She go coast to coast in steamliner boats.
Coast.
She said life's a joke:
we all live rich but she still die broke
from the poor to the low to the all-high Pope
and I quote the Highness and spoke:
let your mind elope
and light a pipe o' smoke
mix drinks with egg yolks
and get soaked.
And she said:
can you teach me to cope?
The pearls from the oldest oaks -
flows are dope.
And: nope,
I ain't got the antidote
and I quote
we're all just here to find hope
Dope. Quote with the undernote:
The pearls from the oldest oak
flows are dope.
Uh. Yeah.
(Hook 1: JUMAR)
Uuhh, yeahh, was it this you're looking for?
Uhhh, yeahh, this is what this shit is for.
And when I fall into the sky
I know this old G's goin' ride to this
Life is a dream but the streets don't sleep
This is what the fuck it should be
This's what the fuck it should beee
This's what the fuck it should beee.
(2 - DUGOD)
Chei. Um. Ah.
Yeah. Money on your mind
Get your cheddah right.
Crossing borderlines,
we're all searching for a better life.
Forced to battle heavyweights
even though we're featherlight
Black Gees
want to trap cheese
though they never bite.
Uh.
Li'l players ball hard for tall broads
even the score boards against all odds,
you know we've seen this before dawg,
we're small gods.
Like a wizard,
I'm from a place you niggas call Oz.
My life's a movie.
The star and I act alike
Imagination set alight like a satellite.
Executing dreams
still watching out for parasites.
Yet I set my sights on visions of paradise.
And the queen of the city -
my black-brown Nefertiti.
She let my pretty fingers
wrap round perfect titties
my Miss is pretty,
she flowing like the Mississippi,
she a Gee,
so we bang-bang,
no chitty-chitty.
(Hook 2: DUGOD)
Right where I'm supposed to be
Destiny stands close to me
Some live like kings
and so should we
rolling trees, socially.
We're rolling this Colombian gold.
Holy bliss for your body and soul.
On the road to where nobody gets cold.
Lock and load everybody let's gooo.
(Hook 1: JUMAR)
Uuhh, yeahh, was it this you're looking for?
(Dugod - Right where I'm supposed to be,
Destiny stands close to me)
Uhhh, yeahh, this is what this shit is for.
And when I fall into the sky
I know this old G's goin' ride to this
Life is a dream but the streets don't sleep
This is what the fuck it should be
This's what the fuck it should beee
This's what the fuck it should beee.
(3 - JESSE)
Chei.
Now tell me what it is you're looking for -
is it something spiritual or something physical?
Something you can see yourself in immaterial?
What? You're not rocking with the imperial?
Uh?
Baby stare into a mirror yeah
Is there something making you feel so inferior?
And let me change, rearrange, your interior.
Whah? You're not rocking with the superior?
And are you
looking for something in your previous life,
Baby, beneath the hype?
Uh.
Are you trying to make your features right?
Trying to reach the heights,
or, looking for love like a preacher's wife?
Uhn.
Come on, Baby, look inside you.
Come on, real nigga read a book beside you.
Stop being idle.
and calculate what I divide through.
It's multiplied by two what I'll supply you.
Come on, Baby, let the vibe through
and let this be your weapon; be your Bible.
and be your rifle if any try to ride you,
it will guide you.
Are you tired of being lied to?
Life: are you steady trying to fly through?
Are you tired of being so muthafuckin' tribal?
Are you looking for some take-you-to-the-sky blue?
Tired of the new, are you looking for the vinyl?
(Chorus: ALL)
Late at night when my pen gon' bleed
I look around what a friend gon' need
A friend with weed is a friend in deed
We pick those sticks and we blend those seeds
I dial up, spend more G's,
inhale then we bend those knees,
Feel it in the air there's a gentle breeze.
Please won't you let a nigga blow these trees?
(Hook 2: DUGOD)
Right where I'm supposed to be
Destiny stands close to me
Some live like kings
and so should we
rolling trees, socially.
We're rolling this Colombian gold.
holy bliss for your body and soul.
on the road to where nobody gets cold.
lock and load everybody let's gooo.
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Saturday, February 14, 2015
Valentine's Day / T'Ekiti Easy
Sunday, December 28, 2014
My top five music+video experiences of 2014
1. The Search, by Jesse Jagz ft. Jumar, Dugod, ...
This, simply, is what it should be.
2. Pluto (Remember You), by DJ Clock ft. Beatenberg
I believe in the beat. Listen to this. Bliss.
3. Dark Horse, by Katy Perry ft. some dude (Juicy J.)
Technicolour grandeur.
4. Deaf, by Eva Alordiah
Attitude and everything.
5. Bound 2, by Kanye West ft. Kim Kardashian
Stark. Honest.
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Wednesday, November 12, 2014
The Jesse Jagz oeuvre in four home-made albums
Jesse Jagz is one of my favourite musicians in the world.
He is called 'The Greatest' - how those rap monikers stick - and that name works fine, but each of his albums, even the first, makes you want to also crown him 'The Genius' for the beauty, breadth and inventiveness of his sounds.
My critique is that sometimes the albums are too good, too diverse, and fail to hammer home an overarching theme or round out a specific style.
But artistically it is a tiny bit much.
My publisher, SS at Kraft Books once told me that it's alright for a first album (well, a first poetry collection) to be more diverse, a little more episodic, more an introduction to the many facets of you, you know? It was he who suggested I cut my gazillion poems into more than one collection, and that I would understand someday, so we went with about 40% of the initial set for Comrade.
After that, I understood, and produced progressively 'tighter' collections in theme and style, so that following the sort of this is me, this is my struggle, this is us, this is what we love, range of Comrade, and still I really love Comrade :)
the next collection Yalla! is about places and travel, with a friendship section tacked on.
Then Big Girl and Big Boy would be loved by any boy, or any girl, each book being at the intersection of romance and this awkward economic situation of being elite in a land full of poor people.
The latest book, Monsters, is really just about Monsters, i.e. fear and loathing. Preview Monsters.
Jesse's work too has evolved nicely in this regard. Even from their titles, you can tell that the next two albums have more definition.
There is 'Thy Nation Come' which is very reggae-and-marijuana-inspired;
followed almost immediately by 'Royal Niger Company' named after the colonial-era trading company that became Nigeria. He introduced RNC as a gift to the fans (ohmygodd free download, out of the blue) that serves up a little bit of history.
Anyway, I sliced and diced his three albums and created four collections that offer this enhanced thematic / stylistic coherence that I love. Here they are.
THE GREATEST
1a. Take Over (ft. Ice Prince) 2a. Greatest 3a. Jesse Swag 4a. Jargo I (ft. Jago) 5c. Jargo III (Ain't Nobody, ft. Tesh Carter and Chaka Khan) 6c. Louis 7b. God on the Mic 8b. International 9a. Pussy Cat 10a. Chocolate 11a. Dis Jagged Life (ft. Lindsey) 12a. Nobody Test Me (ft. MI and Ice Prince) //
LOVEU
1a. Number One 2a. Intoxicated (ft. Wizkid and Soul E) 3a. Shorty (Wine For Me) 4b. Where You At? 5a. Pump It Up 6a. L-O-V-E-U 7c. Sunrise (Shine On) 8c. Supply and Demand 9c. The Case (ft. Show Dem Camp) 10b. Steady Going 11a. My Brother 12b. Pedal to the Floor //
THY NATION COME
1b. Intro 2b. Burning Bush 3b. Desire 4b. Redemption 5b. Mamacita 6b. Sex and Scotch 7b. Sativa (Skit) 8b. Sativa 9c. The Window (ft. Jumar) 10a. Inhale Out (ft. Skales) 11b. After Party 12b. Bed of Roses (ft. James Mavrik) 13b. Selassie //
ROYAL NIGER COMPANY
1b. Jargo II (ft. 9ice) 2c. High Life (ft. Rexx) 3c. Sunshine (ft. Fela A Kuti) 4c. Oceans and Lakes (ft. Sarah Mitaru and Dugod) 5a. Wetin Dey 6a. Sugar Cane Baby 7a. Bend Down Low 8x. Murder Dem 9c. The Search (ft. Jumar and Dugod) 10b. Bad Girl (ft. Wizkid) 11x. Las Gidi Grinding 12c. How We Do (ft. Tupac) //
2. LOVEU - Baby, I love you, so wind your behind for me. Holy Album Sales!
3. Thy Nation Come - Jah-consciousness. I just murdered Bob Marley.
4. Royal Niger Company - The new sound of the tropics. I just murdered Fela.
Complain in the comments section.
Advertisement: Read my books. There is an extended, rather traditional, oriki poem in Big Boy, with a name oriki, twin oriki, and town/clan oriki. Yoruba people have been doing for (centuries?) this swag-a-brag thing that rappers do all day.
One day I will write more about
- oriki (re-mi-do)
- thematic unity (in my lecture series on creativity)
He is called 'The Greatest' - how those rap monikers stick - and that name works fine, but each of his albums, even the first, makes you want to also crown him 'The Genius' for the beauty, breadth and inventiveness of his sounds.
 |
| a: Jag of All Tradez |
Trust me to find something wrong with anything.
Indeed, the first album is titled Jag of all Tradez. It is a platter of multiple, maybe three, newish styles, and the result is wondrous, and it is wonderful when you're doing the long drive or stuck in traffic and you have all these many beats and lyrics and amazements to accompany you, and even if the album is almost five years old, I still say get it now.But artistically it is a tiny bit much.
Jesse, na too much talent dey worry you :)
 |
| b. Jagz Nation Vol 1: Thy Nation Come |
After that, I understood, and produced progressively 'tighter' collections in theme and style, so that following the sort of this is me, this is my struggle, this is us, this is what we love, range of Comrade, and still I really love Comrade :)
the next collection Yalla! is about places and travel, with a friendship section tacked on.
Then Big Girl and Big Boy would be loved by any boy, or any girl, each book being at the intersection of romance and this awkward economic situation of being elite in a land full of poor people.
The latest book, Monsters, is really just about Monsters, i.e. fear and loathing. Preview Monsters.
 |
| Tracklist for Thy Nation Come |
There is 'Thy Nation Come' which is very reggae-and-marijuana-inspired;
followed almost immediately by 'Royal Niger Company' named after the colonial-era trading company that became Nigeria. He introduced RNC as a gift to the fans (ohmygodd free download, out of the blue) that serves up a little bit of history.
 |
| c. Royal Niger Company |
THE GREATEST
1a. Take Over (ft. Ice Prince) 2a. Greatest 3a. Jesse Swag 4a. Jargo I (ft. Jago) 5c. Jargo III (Ain't Nobody, ft. Tesh Carter and Chaka Khan) 6c. Louis 7b. God on the Mic 8b. International 9a. Pussy Cat 10a. Chocolate 11a. Dis Jagged Life (ft. Lindsey) 12a. Nobody Test Me (ft. MI and Ice Prince) //
LOVEU
1a. Number One 2a. Intoxicated (ft. Wizkid and Soul E) 3a. Shorty (Wine For Me) 4b. Where You At? 5a. Pump It Up 6a. L-O-V-E-U 7c. Sunrise (Shine On) 8c. Supply and Demand 9c. The Case (ft. Show Dem Camp) 10b. Steady Going 11a. My Brother 12b. Pedal to the Floor //
THY NATION COME
1b. Intro 2b. Burning Bush 3b. Desire 4b. Redemption 5b. Mamacita 6b. Sex and Scotch 7b. Sativa (Skit) 8b. Sativa 9c. The Window (ft. Jumar) 10a. Inhale Out (ft. Skales) 11b. After Party 12b. Bed of Roses (ft. James Mavrik) 13b. Selassie //
ROYAL NIGER COMPANY
1b. Jargo II (ft. 9ice) 2c. High Life (ft. Rexx) 3c. Sunshine (ft. Fela A Kuti) 4c. Oceans and Lakes (ft. Sarah Mitaru and Dugod) 5a. Wetin Dey 6a. Sugar Cane Baby 7a. Bend Down Low 8x. Murder Dem 9c. The Search (ft. Jumar and Dugod) 10b. Bad Girl (ft. Wizkid) 11x. Las Gidi Grinding 12c. How We Do (ft. Tupac) //
What the albums are about:
1. The Greatest - Rap is about building yourself up with praise. Like a good oriki, it makes you feel good-and-confident. Now What's My Name? 2. LOVEU - Baby, I love you, so wind your behind for me. Holy Album Sales!
3. Thy Nation Come - Jah-consciousness. I just murdered Bob Marley.
4. Royal Niger Company - The new sound of the tropics. I just murdered Fela.
Complain in the comments section.
Advertisement: Read my books. There is an extended, rather traditional, oriki poem in Big Boy, with a name oriki, twin oriki, and town/clan oriki. Yoruba people have been doing for (centuries?) this swag-a-brag thing that rappers do all day.
One day I will write more about
- oriki (re-mi-do)
- thematic unity (in my lecture series on creativity)
Sunday, September 28, 2014
Lyrics: The Case, by Jesse Jagz featuring Show Dem Camp
One of the best rap songs ever, lyrically.
But can't find the lyrics online months after the release.
Your assignment: Dump the full lyrics in the comments section, or just transcribe short sections and I'll assemble them. Thank you. Bless you. Don't make me have to do it all myself ;)
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Six months later...the lyrics are here!
Jesse:
1
Uh.
Sent me pretty flowers in April,
came on the wings of the angel (Gabriel)
The hand that rocked my cradle, he prepared the table,
something I could relate to even though I had no cable.
When I am unable, power's been disabled,
can't communicate to my own Tower of Babel,
Gabriel the angel came to my stable,
said chosen of the gods, hail able, we praise you.
See I speak the truth, you might choose to believe in fables.
Do you believe in angels or fake names and labels?
Stay true. Know the path I walk is gonna be painful.
Bring to the navel(?j1) like I'm going through labour.
Many men hate you, many more underrate you.
Get ready for betrayal, unfaithful niggers lay low.
Uh, you know the Universe only rewards the faithful.
Father forgive them they 'on't know what they do. Uh,
now check it:
.......
uh, now look what loving made you do
uhh, you're running when no one's chasing you
ah, I don't care if they love me (fuck it!)
above me only God can judge me.
uh, now look what loving made you do
uhh, you're running but no one's chasing you
ah, I don't care if they love me (fuck it!)
above me only God can judge me.
2
Late in December, I received a letter.
No signature or sender. I had the shit rendered,
turned out it was never no previous offender.
Marked up my calendar. Enter: forever.
We enter, time turns Spring into Winter.
It follows the Summer will Fall in the center.
Words from the letter, written to remember.
I'm a fucking avenger. The pen is my temper.
I'll send you a helper, my flow healed a leper,
MCs will remember me as the Elder
Idris Elba, Real Professor Peller
I don't need no umbrella I'm fly with my propellers.
When fear enter, the verbal airbender
break your agenda take no surrender,
you're getting dismembered, blended, get-
-ting reassembled, yes, with the emblem on the single.
The flow was peddled like gold medals
on all levels, same goes for all devils.
Soul rebels, when I flow the soul trembles.
Angels on chariots riding on gold pedals.
Chorus/Hook
+ Above me only God can judge me.
Ghost (SDC):
3
I'm not looking for acknowledgements, just give me knowledge trick,
see I got knowledge to self, so I know I'm the shit.
Room's full of smoke cos a product of my environment.
Now I'm feeling like Superman up in this Metropolis.
Making you Lex Luthor... my solar opposite.
Fuck, boys, you didn't know that there's no stopping this.
It's in God's hands so can't be deterred,
these words are Spurs and I'm Greg Popovich.
Truth, Nigger! Swallow it. This here is knocking, menn, what a dope beat
to put me in the zone, I got too much heat to get cold feet.
Too much heart to bypass, not enough time to waste,
so I'm here paying my dues cos it costs a lot to be great.
If you're still sleeping on us then you're two thousand and late,
for those who've been awake, welcome back to the future.
You couldn't stop my rise if you had the eyes of Medusa.
No statute of limitation can stop us from going nuclear.
Caught wind of the rumours - they're saying we must have fell off,
or went the pop route, financially we're not well-off.
I started doing this cos I thought we were being rep'd wrong.
Gandhi said be the change you desire if you expect more.
So I got to stepping, bench-pressing these bars.
You see the muscle I'm flexing? Got too much hustle to sell 'em.
uh, SDC - Jag Nation, Man, what a pairing!
Just like parents we're son-ning these niggers!
See, I'm made in the image of God so, with disrespectful intent,
fuck you, when you think you can judge me nigga.
Chorus/Hook
Tec (SDC):
4
Uh,
Yeah,
shhhhh,
Kneel to no man cos only heaven's above me,
Call us Rap Messiah so I wonder where the love be
And if they will remain if the shit starts getting ugly.
Will Babylon corrupt me? Guy trust me, they're trying.
All the fake smiles, the schemes, the lying.
The ways of the sheep can never make sense to the lion
so there's no point in replying. I'm just killing them with silence.
Uh, the revolution has begun.
I'm feeling like the chosen thinking maybe I'm The One.
I'm feeling like Gowon the second that he picked that gun.
Guy, there's power in my hands I wonder what I will become.
Huh, when there's no place to run.
I'm bound to feel the heat I'm flying closer to the sun.
Will I hold on to power or, maybe I will run, or
shey I'll plant the seeds for the future ones to come.
This dictator rap guy, ki lo de t'en rap bayi?
My penmanship is supreme it shall never capsize.
Yeah. It shall never capsize.
I don't spit on the mic, my guy, I baptize. And that's life.
THE END.
But can't find the lyrics online months after the release.
Your assignment: Dump the full lyrics in the comments section, or just transcribe short sections and I'll assemble them. Thank you. Bless you. Don't make me have to do it all myself ;)
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Six months later...the lyrics are here!
Jesse:
1
Uh.
Sent me pretty flowers in April,
came on the wings of the angel (Gabriel)
The hand that rocked my cradle, he prepared the table,
something I could relate to even though I had no cable.
When I am unable, power's been disabled,
can't communicate to my own Tower of Babel,
Gabriel the angel came to my stable,
said chosen of the gods, hail able, we praise you.
See I speak the truth, you might choose to believe in fables.
Do you believe in angels or fake names and labels?
Stay true. Know the path I walk is gonna be painful.
Bring to the navel(?j1) like I'm going through labour.
Many men hate you, many more underrate you.
Get ready for betrayal, unfaithful niggers lay low.
Uh, you know the Universe only rewards the faithful.
Father forgive them they 'on't know what they do. Uh,
now check it:
.......
uh, now look what loving made you do
uhh, you're running when no one's chasing you
ah, I don't care if they love me (fuck it!)
above me only God can judge me.
uh, now look what loving made you do
uhh, you're running but no one's chasing you
ah, I don't care if they love me (fuck it!)
above me only God can judge me.
2
Late in December, I received a letter.
No signature or sender. I had the shit rendered,
turned out it was never no previous offender.
Marked up my calendar. Enter: forever.
We enter, time turns Spring into Winter.
It follows the Summer will Fall in the center.
Words from the letter, written to remember.
I'm a fucking avenger. The pen is my temper.
I'll send you a helper, my flow healed a leper,
MCs will remember me as the Elder
Idris Elba, Real Professor Peller
I don't need no umbrella I'm fly with my propellers.
When fear enter, the verbal airbender
break your agenda take no surrender,
you're getting dismembered, blended, get-
-ting reassembled, yes, with the emblem on the single.
The flow was peddled like gold medals
on all levels, same goes for all devils.
Soul rebels, when I flow the soul trembles.
Angels on chariots riding on gold pedals.
Chorus/Hook
+ Above me only God can judge me.
Ghost (SDC):
3
I'm not looking for acknowledgements, just give me knowledge trick,
see I got knowledge to self, so I know I'm the shit.
Room's full of smoke cos a product of my environment.
Now I'm feeling like Superman up in this Metropolis.
Making you Lex Luthor... my solar opposite.
Fuck, boys, you didn't know that there's no stopping this.
It's in God's hands so can't be deterred,
these words are Spurs and I'm Greg Popovich.
Truth, Nigger! Swallow it. This here is knocking, menn, what a dope beat
to put me in the zone, I got too much heat to get cold feet.
Too much heart to bypass, not enough time to waste,
so I'm here paying my dues cos it costs a lot to be great.
If you're still sleeping on us then you're two thousand and late,
for those who've been awake, welcome back to the future.
You couldn't stop my rise if you had the eyes of Medusa.
No statute of limitation can stop us from going nuclear.
Caught wind of the rumours - they're saying we must have fell off,
or went the pop route, financially we're not well-off.
I started doing this cos I thought we were being rep'd wrong.
Gandhi said be the change you desire if you expect more.
So I got to stepping, bench-pressing these bars.
You see the muscle I'm flexing? Got too much hustle to sell 'em.
uh, SDC - Jag Nation, Man, what a pairing!
Just like parents we're son-ning these niggers!
See, I'm made in the image of God so, with disrespectful intent,
fuck you, when you think you can judge me nigga.
Chorus/Hook
Tec (SDC):
4
Uh,
Yeah,
shhhhh,
Kneel to no man cos only heaven's above me,
Call us Rap Messiah so I wonder where the love be
And if they will remain if the shit starts getting ugly.
Will Babylon corrupt me? Guy trust me, they're trying.
All the fake smiles, the schemes, the lying.
The ways of the sheep can never make sense to the lion
so there's no point in replying. I'm just killing them with silence.
Uh, the revolution has begun.
I'm feeling like the chosen thinking maybe I'm The One.
I'm feeling like Gowon the second that he picked that gun.
Guy, there's power in my hands I wonder what I will become.
Huh, when there's no place to run.
I'm bound to feel the heat I'm flying closer to the sun.
Will I hold on to power or, maybe I will run, or
shey I'll plant the seeds for the future ones to come.
This dictator rap guy, ki lo de t'en rap bayi?
My penmanship is supreme it shall never capsize.
Yeah. It shall never capsize.
I don't spit on the mic, my guy, I baptize. And that's life.
THE END.
Friday, July 11, 2014
Snippets - on music, my racism, learning quantum, and what I'm blogging next
1. I finally bought a harmonica last week. The first thing I played on it, beyond just blowing in and hearing what happened or trying to blow from left to right was 3-3-2-1 to try to sort of mimic the guitar opening in The Search, like one of the loveliest songs in my life right now. Cos the internet how-to guide said blowing is one skill, then said something about sucking too so I tried that and got my mi-re-do to work. Meanwhile, Jesse Jagz is in concert in a few weeks - August 2nd at the MUSON Center in Lagos. I hope the audio equipment isn't weird this time, cos there was some lack of definition/fidelity/power in the speakers at the Shrine concert last year. I know it will be an amazing evening for me :)
2. Listening to classical nowadays - just downloaded some of the top 50, top 100, classical music for beginners things you can find online. That's what happens when too much of the current music is not awesome enough lol. It occurred to me that I can tell my Mozart from my Bach. I know way too much about Western civilization. Found that I even know a little of the music from The Valkyrie and from Aida even though I've never watched them.
An aside on racism, judging the beauty of languages, and being labeled a 'machine':
Germany flogged Brazil at the World Cup semifinal match on Tuesday, bringing some of my anti-German sentiment to the surface. I listened to Jessye Norman (beautiful big black woman) singing Wagner thinking "so terrifying", such un-pretty and martial music, and anyway wouldn't Puccini, Verdi, and Italy have been a better match for this black girl; forgetting that my attempt at categorizing German as cold and terrible makes no sense, when even Beethoven was German. Anyhow you don't need to be German to do what the Nazi party did. And nobody perpetrates such without the support or assent of others, or at least I wish that with the UN nowadays that would be the case and the world would gang up against any such oppression.
Maybe I need to learn a little German. And Dutch. Somehow my familiarity with the Romance languages - Spanish, French - reinforces the warmth I feel towards the people and maybe if I stop avoiding the German language, I would become more able to appreciate the so-called German machine, the beautiful football that scored 5 goals in the first half against Brazil on Tuesday. I'm going to let myself learn a little German. I'll stop thinking that Persian/Farsi sounds like a slice of heaven even though it rooshes and shooshes too but somehow German just, the closest it comes to romance is like violent porn. Speaking of violence, I've read Jelinek too. But she's Austrian. Now it gets confusing because classics-wise Vienna/Austria is pretty (think Strauss, the waltz, ballgowns with fitted bodices and parties featuring violins and sheer delight! Away with the music of Broadway, be off with your Irving Berlin, ..., when I want a melody lilting through the house, then I want a melody by Strauss: it laughs, it sings, the world is in rhyme, swinging to three-quarter time - that's By Strauss, in Ella Fitzgerald's voice, another beautiful black Taurus woman). Language-wise, I hear Austria is German, and that WW2-wise, it was Nazi, and now there is the guilt and even the cold darkness, the unfriendliness and terror of which Jelinek wrote, and for which her work is so hated and so important and to me inspiring.
What do you think should be done about victor's guilt, post-violence? The former Nazi lands must keep acting contrite in part because the world is still afraid of them, post-trauma. Similarly in Japan which once became so capable that it terrorized China (Nanjing tales) and taunted America (Pearl Harbour), they do not have the same militarization rights as the average country. And to some extent for white South Africa, which succeeded in its apartheid policies for decades, there needs to be an active anti-apartheid raft of good deeds and of penance for a collective sin?
What should be done preemptively about the fear of getting too big, too good, the fear of making the weaker one cry? One school of thought is just be great; winning is good, it's the whole point. A more modern way is to embrace holism, be great for as large a set as possible, not just self, but self and neighbours, not just nation, but all nations, not just humanity, but all earth, not just this earth, but the future and space and outer space. This is one simple idea that I keep trying to articulate, the benefits and methods of holistic thinking.
If you hear the other thing I'm saying here, it's that I'm a little bit racist - at least in football, but it goes a little beyond football - and that as usual I'm going to combat my ignorance with a little learning.
3. I really want to know what quantum science is about. Maybe I already sort of do. One thing that helped: Week Five of Physical Chemistry on Coursera. I just finished weeks one, two, three, and five this week. Off to do weeks four and six. This is why I get Coursera fatigue. But it's so great to have such awesome education available for free, that I can't resist.
4. Yes, I'm definitely bingeing, overdoing it, because I'm also reading some good plays because somebody recommended Chekhov, and about to start two Coursera courses (hopefully one of them is unamazing enough that I'll drop it) on The French Revolution and on Managing Risk for Development. I bought the book of plays, and bought the harmonica, in Barcelona shops, on my first trip outside of Nigeria in many years. Thanks to my lovely sister for getting married in Spain, and thanks to the embassies for not rejecting our visa applications a third time. Is this racism too? From what I could see, not all the prostitutes in the tourist section of Barcelona were African :)
5. As usual I have thoughts on education - good thing I work in education - and now I'm thinking I'll write some of them here in a series called "homework for victims of the ASUU, SSANU, ASUP, NASU and other miscellaneous strikes in tertiary education." I do a lot of what the kids stuck at home should be doing with their time - study online, read what you like, do a lot of what you love even if it's watching Korean drama series or playing football or teaching something or selling something, maybe get a job or a traineeship, learn French, write about your life, ...
2. Listening to classical nowadays - just downloaded some of the top 50, top 100, classical music for beginners things you can find online. That's what happens when too much of the current music is not awesome enough lol. It occurred to me that I can tell my Mozart from my Bach. I know way too much about Western civilization. Found that I even know a little of the music from The Valkyrie and from Aida even though I've never watched them.
An aside on racism, judging the beauty of languages, and being labeled a 'machine':
Germany flogged Brazil at the World Cup semifinal match on Tuesday, bringing some of my anti-German sentiment to the surface. I listened to Jessye Norman (beautiful big black woman) singing Wagner thinking "so terrifying", such un-pretty and martial music, and anyway wouldn't Puccini, Verdi, and Italy have been a better match for this black girl; forgetting that my attempt at categorizing German as cold and terrible makes no sense, when even Beethoven was German. Anyhow you don't need to be German to do what the Nazi party did. And nobody perpetrates such without the support or assent of others, or at least I wish that with the UN nowadays that would be the case and the world would gang up against any such oppression.
Maybe I need to learn a little German. And Dutch. Somehow my familiarity with the Romance languages - Spanish, French - reinforces the warmth I feel towards the people and maybe if I stop avoiding the German language, I would become more able to appreciate the so-called German machine, the beautiful football that scored 5 goals in the first half against Brazil on Tuesday. I'm going to let myself learn a little German. I'll stop thinking that Persian/Farsi sounds like a slice of heaven even though it rooshes and shooshes too but somehow German just, the closest it comes to romance is like violent porn. Speaking of violence, I've read Jelinek too. But she's Austrian. Now it gets confusing because classics-wise Vienna/Austria is pretty (think Strauss, the waltz, ballgowns with fitted bodices and parties featuring violins and sheer delight! Away with the music of Broadway, be off with your Irving Berlin, ..., when I want a melody lilting through the house, then I want a melody by Strauss: it laughs, it sings, the world is in rhyme, swinging to three-quarter time - that's By Strauss, in Ella Fitzgerald's voice, another beautiful black Taurus woman). Language-wise, I hear Austria is German, and that WW2-wise, it was Nazi, and now there is the guilt and even the cold darkness, the unfriendliness and terror of which Jelinek wrote, and for which her work is so hated and so important and to me inspiring.
What do you think should be done about victor's guilt, post-violence? The former Nazi lands must keep acting contrite in part because the world is still afraid of them, post-trauma. Similarly in Japan which once became so capable that it terrorized China (Nanjing tales) and taunted America (Pearl Harbour), they do not have the same militarization rights as the average country. And to some extent for white South Africa, which succeeded in its apartheid policies for decades, there needs to be an active anti-apartheid raft of good deeds and of penance for a collective sin?
What should be done preemptively about the fear of getting too big, too good, the fear of making the weaker one cry? One school of thought is just be great; winning is good, it's the whole point. A more modern way is to embrace holism, be great for as large a set as possible, not just self, but self and neighbours, not just nation, but all nations, not just humanity, but all earth, not just this earth, but the future and space and outer space. This is one simple idea that I keep trying to articulate, the benefits and methods of holistic thinking.
If you hear the other thing I'm saying here, it's that I'm a little bit racist - at least in football, but it goes a little beyond football - and that as usual I'm going to combat my ignorance with a little learning.
3. I really want to know what quantum science is about. Maybe I already sort of do. One thing that helped: Week Five of Physical Chemistry on Coursera. I just finished weeks one, two, three, and five this week. Off to do weeks four and six. This is why I get Coursera fatigue. But it's so great to have such awesome education available for free, that I can't resist.
4. Yes, I'm definitely bingeing, overdoing it, because I'm also reading some good plays because somebody recommended Chekhov, and about to start two Coursera courses (hopefully one of them is unamazing enough that I'll drop it) on The French Revolution and on Managing Risk for Development. I bought the book of plays, and bought the harmonica, in Barcelona shops, on my first trip outside of Nigeria in many years. Thanks to my lovely sister for getting married in Spain, and thanks to the embassies for not rejecting our visa applications a third time. Is this racism too? From what I could see, not all the prostitutes in the tourist section of Barcelona were African :)
5. As usual I have thoughts on education - good thing I work in education - and now I'm thinking I'll write some of them here in a series called "homework for victims of the ASUU, SSANU, ASUP, NASU and other miscellaneous strikes in tertiary education." I do a lot of what the kids stuck at home should be doing with their time - study online, read what you like, do a lot of what you love even if it's watching Korean drama series or playing football or teaching something or selling something, maybe get a job or a traineeship, learn French, write about your life, ...
Sunday, March 09, 2014
My latest pastime is laptopera
This week was...ugh. No power from Monday to Friday. My inverter was dead too. No internet, and sometimes no water.
On the first no-electricity day, I read The Flannigans. I expected an Irish novel and had in fact bought it in part for its unapologetic green cover. Instead I found a simple telling of small-town politics and a family conflict in Newfoundland, Canada, far from their original Irish homeland. This novel was indeed a little "literary treasure" with its wise measured observations and clear presentation. P.S. I bought it used but nice and shiny, probably unread, and signed by the author too :)
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| The Flannigans, by M.T. Dohaney |
Before the extended power outage, I'd been drowning in music; listened to almost all of Chocolate City's oeuvre - M.I.'s two albums, his brother Jesse Jagz's two albums, Ice Prince's latest album, Brymo's album. Then I moved on to Omawumi's albums. Tuface was supposed to be next. There is so much good music in the Nigerian pop/entertainment space these days. Love it.
I'd also finally done something I've been meaning to do for months: watch opera on my computer. I live in the-megacity-with-no-opera-house Lagos, so why not?
I found this Carmen:
I found this Carmen:
And this Rigoletto:
Enjoyed both verrrry much.
I may never go to the movies again. There is so much entertainment that is superior to the movie-theater experience...I think.
One week ago, just before reading The Flannigans, I finished two really really cool novels.
Better Times Than These.
Nanjing 1937: A Love Story.
Many great things about both these works:
I love the humour of the latter...oh the sharp ending too. I would read it again. It's one of those repetitive, not-really-about-the-plot novels. In fact I didn't read it in a straight line because it got boring sometimes but you would like parts better after peeking a chapter ahead. But I liked the quirky main character and the sarcasm of the writer Ye Zhaoyan. I laughed out loud often. Making fun of marriage is fun.
The first is a Vietnam war story by Winston Groom, of the Southern USA. It was most excellent in its descriptions of moods, motivations, long-festering emotions. I associate such emotional intelligence with the South. Its Chapter Two made me say yes, that is how I felt, when I lived in a fishbowl thinking I was brilliant goldfish and being disoriented at seeing upturned noses instead. First time I saw my feeling about that period so understood anywhere. It could be the first time I even understood it. So of course I didn't want the guy at the center of this beloved chapter - Frank Holden - to die. He'd been a Princeton tennis star. He was probably great to look at. I overlooked his flaws. Well, he died.
Reading Vietnam and reading China.
The Nationalists of China alongside the Viet Cong organization.
The US excusrsion into that SouthEast Asian theater vs the cool detachment of the upper crust months before and up until a gigantic war on China.
...All this makes me want to learn a little more Chinese.
Read some other stuff in between too: a poetry/motivational/fiction thing that I liked and read twice (Dream Maker). Some stories from a giant collection by William Trevor (again, I trust Ireland.) And so on. But when there was no electricity, I was so miserable I just read newspapers and such, and waited...
The Nationalists of China alongside the Viet Cong organization.
The US excusrsion into that SouthEast Asian theater vs the cool detachment of the upper crust months before and up until a gigantic war on China.
...All this makes me want to learn a little more Chinese.
Read some other stuff in between too: a poetry/motivational/fiction thing that I liked and read twice (Dream Maker). Some stories from a giant collection by William Trevor (again, I trust Ireland.) And so on. But when there was no electricity, I was so miserable I just read newspapers and such, and waited...
Besides all the usual books, music, movies, blogs and online courses, I have this new hobby: laptopera. New word. Next up to watch: an old Tosca (in black and white) and (after all these years of anticipation) Madame Butterfly.
Sunday, December 29, 2013
2013 music-video experiences: My A++ list
1. Blurred Lines: Headbobbable, Legshakeable awesomeness.
2. Redemption: Originality and perfection.
3. Feelin' Myself: Gahdemi'yurtheshi'yurtheshi'yurtheshi'
That's all.
will.i.am and others (Miley Cyrus, French Montana, Wiz Khalifa) in Feelin' Myself
Robin Thicke, T.I., and Pharell in Blurred Lines.
Jesse Jagz in Redemption
Do you want to see some regular A+ music and music videos?
Here's a little list:
Started From The Bottom, by Drake. His happiness was overflowing and infectious in this video, so much that I easily aped his dance moves when I heard the song again, and I could see why it won BET Best Video Awards.
Rich and Famous, by Praiz was actually released in December 2012. Beautiful voice. And he did make good and buy his mum a Range soon after the video :)
Suit and Tie, by Justin Timberlake from January 2013. This preview "lyric video" is many times better than the later "official video" for the track. Enjoy it. Learn some cool from the master.
Thursday, May 30, 2013
Take me to another land
Arrested Development's Tennessee
is much like a prayer.
Better known than their Tennessee is People Everyday, as in "I-iii am everyday people." I wonder how people come up with fresh, new, artistic stuff. Probably not by being conformist in everyday life.
-------
Speaking of crazy creatives, here is Jesse Jagz' latest, Redemption.
Jesse's work is not a complete match with my taste usually, but it ALWAYS excites me, impresses, entertains, intrigues me. God bless you, Jesse.
I'm dreaming of Arab music. Take me to another land, y'hear?
Better known than their Tennessee is People Everyday, as in "I-iii am everyday people." I wonder how people come up with fresh, new, artistic stuff. Probably not by being conformist in everyday life.
-------
Speaking of crazy creatives, here is Jesse Jagz' latest, Redemption.
Jesse's work is not a complete match with my taste usually, but it ALWAYS excites me, impresses, entertains, intrigues me. God bless you, Jesse.
I'm dreaming of Arab music. Take me to another land, y'hear?
Saturday, May 08, 2010
Vavoom
We Are Africans is a fly and catchy musical video. #1
Then they made a remix. #2
And another remix. #3
Which is your favourite? For me, it's not #2. Maybe the original 1. I like the local remix too #3. It's a worthy remix for sure.
My life is filled with music right now. Hahaha, because I'm supposed to be an engineer. Also been writing poetry so I'm happy. Also been driving up and down - I bleeping hate that. Which is why I bought so much music to keep from being pissed on the commute. A lot of DaGrin (hehehe) in my life. DaGrin media have been rushed to market, like his pre-CEO music, an album of his collaborations, and a collection of videos he featured in. I bet the tributes (like this one by M.I.) will get their own album too pretty soon.
What else have I been thinking about? That Rihanna Rude Boy video is so cheeky lol. And there is real talent on the Jesse Jagz album. The JJ album, it's called Jag of All Tradez, has some stealable lines: I love "M.I. is the lightning, I am the thunder, and Ice Prince is the rain." Very sweet and experimental work. I was also thinking Folasona (my smart ethnomusicologist friend that I keep trying to set up with my little sister) should get in the country and help make sense of all this music.
Then they made a remix. #2
And another remix. #3
Which is your favourite? For me, it's not #2. Maybe the original 1. I like the local remix too #3. It's a worthy remix for sure.
My life is filled with music right now. Hahaha, because I'm supposed to be an engineer. Also been writing poetry so I'm happy. Also been driving up and down - I bleeping hate that. Which is why I bought so much music to keep from being pissed on the commute. A lot of DaGrin (hehehe) in my life. DaGrin media have been rushed to market, like his pre-CEO music, an album of his collaborations, and a collection of videos he featured in. I bet the tributes (like this one by M.I.) will get their own album too pretty soon.
What else have I been thinking about? That Rihanna Rude Boy video is so cheeky lol. And there is real talent on the Jesse Jagz album. The JJ album, it's called Jag of All Tradez, has some stealable lines: I love "M.I. is the lightning, I am the thunder, and Ice Prince is the rain." Very sweet and experimental work. I was also thinking Folasona (my smart ethnomusicologist friend that I keep trying to set up with my little sister) should get in the country and help make sense of all this music.
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