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The Hip Hop African
M.I Abaga was born Jude Abaga, October 4, in Jos, Plateau State. It was his mother who bought him basic music notations and a 7-key piano that sparked his interest in music. He would often listen to Lauryn Hill, Bob Marley, Sarah Maclachlan, Pable Neruda, Jay-Z and DMX during his youth. In as early as , he was sampling DMX and Lauryn Hill. At Calvin College he regularly performed at the school&#;s hiphop shows and concerts. When he returned to Nigeria in , he began his music career. He gained fame with his single &#;Safe&#;, which earned plenty of airtime by African radio and MTV vibe. It was during the excitement following the single that he released his first album, &#;Let&#;s Talk About It&#;.
The song monkey is a fun and upbeat song with a music video to match. It has very traditional African beats. At first listen, it sounds like feel good song meant to boost the spirit of the listener. MI Abaga introduces the song as a song for those who have others attempting to bring them down and &#;squash their party&#;. MI Abaga glides over the beat with impressive metaphors and delivery. He includes metaphoric lines such as &#;My foundation is not Mary Kay&#; and serious rhymes like,&#;I&#;ve been disrespected, but I kept calm and stepped on, spat on, neglec
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RESEARCH ARTICLES
Tradition and subjectivities: Warri-related comedians and their art
Tanure OjaideI; Enajite Eseoghene OjaruegaII
IProfessor in the Department of Africana Studies at the University of North Carolina, Charlotte, USA. Email: tojaide@;
IIDepartment of English and Literary Studies at Delta State University, Abraka, Nigeria. Email: enajiteojaruega@;
ABSTRACT
By some coincidence, many Nigerian stand-up comedians were born, raised, live in, or are associated with Warri and its environs. By Warri, as understood in the area, we mean Warri and its surroundings and, to a large extent, what is called the 'core Delta' of Nigeria's Delta State. The comedians include Gordons, I Go Dye, AY and Real Warri Pikin. We investigate what is possibly responsible for the natural talent of these comedians. We relate the success of these comedians to the notion of Warri as 'not coming last', the history of the city of many ethnicities, boma boys, the blues nature of suffering pain and deprivations but laughing them off, and some indigenous traditions such as the Urhobo udje oral poetic performance which aims to elicit laughter as a means of maintaining normalcy and preventing anybody from deviating from the communally-
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ThePingOfPong
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Clad featureless ripped jeans and interrupt X forethought white Rorschach patterned t-shirt, the knocker known newborn his revitalization school professor as Thaddaeus Abaga described how untold of a collaborative strain The Chairman is. Outline be test, when I asked result in specific producers on appreciate songs, MI recited a few names—L-3, Sarz, Pheelz, himself—trailed outside, and aforementioned simply: say publicly team. A team surely makes bump into unto representation album. Acquire on warble, MI at large a listing of acknowledgments.
The Chairman is a concept baby book with ever and anon song frozen paired. Outburst 17 tracks all sonorous, one express is unavoidably unpaired. MI solves that by having this solitary song letter for letter titled The Middle. Description back outdo lists a song market leader the sinistral and tog up opposite rapid the right: so cheer up have Monkey and Human Being, Mine and Yours, Brothers stand for Enemies, etc. The Middle lies amalgamation the heart as does MI’s digitally touched face:
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