The Big Boy remix, still in its mixing stage, drops any moment from now. This time its to Drakes 'Best I Ever Had.' Weather Forecast: Brace yourselves for a very hot summer joint from eLDee and Atlantas own Young Joc. A society that has raised the bar so high for everyone that even the rich have to lie about their true financial capacity.įor the record, I do not consider “big boy” a Yahoo-Yahoo song. Once again, the 'big boy' has dropped a rendition of a popular yankee tune. Olubankole Wellington, popularly known by his stage name Banky W and credited in film as Banky Wellington, is a Nigerian singer, rapper, actor, entrepreneur and politician. A society that insists on the display of wealth for social status. Naeto C, D’banj, Muna, eLDee, 9ice which they titled Lagos Party Remix. Today, we have a society that doesn’t respect honest work. The answer may seem obvious but the more I learn about human behavioral psychology, the more I realize that a lot of it lies in our personal insecurities.Īnd because of that, our perception of who we are and what we are worth has become one of our most basic human needs, right after food, and security. Much of my music doesn’t give off that vibe though, primarily because a lot of my music was made to cater to my audience. In my natural state, I’m more socially conscious than flashy. Truth is, people who are close to me know that I’m more of a Bob Marley? than a Diddy?. I made the song “big boy” and unwittingly contributed to the decay…I know better today ?
My coping mechanism was that in the expression of art, it is ok to have contradicting positions from time to time so I thought it ok to one day feel like Bob Marley and another day feel like Diddy. The more I thought about what that interviewer said to me on the red carpet that day, the more clarity I had about the contradiction. When you place those two records side by side, the contrast is evident. It was the part where she asked how I was able to reconcile “big boy” with some of my previous more socially conscious music. There was a part of what she said though, that stayed with me and continued to echo in my head. We didn’t have time to talk any further because we had to move along quickly and do another interview and but I noticed as we walked away that she looked disappointed. She contd…”How do you reconcile that with some of your previous more socially conscious music?” Without thinking deeply about what she said, I immediately responded that I wrote the song to motivate young people to be successful. He stated that he intended to inspire Nigerians to aspire for success with the song but it ended up promoting materialism and oppression which has become the craze in our society today causing people to involve in criminal activities like internet fraud aka yahoo yahoo. The rapper put up a lengthy post about how the song is in contrast with his usual social conscious music. The then Trybesmen patron, took to Twitter to reflect on the impact of his 2008 hit single titled Big Boy on which Olu Maintain & Banky W were featured as guest artistes. The rapper who is known for his rich perspective on social topics, shared on Twitter how his hit song Big Boy contributed to the Nigerian societal decay. Like the title of the song, we had finally found our own style.Rapper, Eldee has dropped a shocker. It wasn’t just the beat or the richly ensembled feature, it was the message. Stylee quickly became a street anthem, getting regular airplay and rocking every street corner. As a boy and lover of Hip Hop, I remember listening to DJ Jimmy Jatt’s Stylee in 2007 for the first time and was wowed. It felt like we had arrived in that genre.
Da Grin who does not get enough credit for revolutionising Yoruba dialectal rap – a feat many second-generation artists like Olamide have benefitted greatly from.ĭuring the pace-setting generation, often was the industry laden with American-style Hip Hop that was and will always be the benchmark for Hip Hop anywhere around the world. Big Boy (rap Remix) - Featuring Iceberg Slim, Rukus, Proto. It’s also worthy to remember late Oladapo Olaitan Olaonipekun a.k.a. All the lyrics and translations to the album Big Boy by eLDee. Then there was MI, Jesse Jagz, and Ice Prince – three rappers who made Chocolate City the choicest record label for every aspiring Emcee in the country in the late 2000s and early 2010s. Arguably spearheaded by legendary Mode 9, the mini-industry held so much promise in the first generation, artists like Eldee, Naeto C, Ikechukwu, Sauce Kid, would return from overseas to kickstart their musical careers. There was a time in the Nigerian music industry when the outlook of Hip Hop was great.
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