the radio station and I saw one of our
sound engineers previewing Naeto C’s
songs before uploading it into the
station’s new digital library for airplay, I
immediately walked out of the room
because I wasn’t ready to activate my
anger mode by putting myself through
another experience of listening to
another Nigerian rap song with shallow
and crappy lines of which Naeto C is the
culprit-in-chief, only to walk into the
transmitting room and heard the
presenter on duty introducing ‘Share my
Blessing’ by Naeto C and Asa, as the next
song on the play list.
I have to admit that this time around, I
wasn’t too eager to make a dash for the
door. Maybe because I heard Asa was on
the song and thought that it would have
at least inspired Naeto C to use better
and more inspiring rhymes. Hope is a
very dangerous thing. It turned out that I
hoped for too much. The first line of the
song almost pulled off my knee cap. It is
the most fatal accident I have had till
date. I almost died when I heard “what a
conundrum” within the first few lines.
What Conundrum? Like seriously? Bros
Naeto, the only thing close to a
conundrum in the whole song was how
you convinced Asa to feature in the song.
That song has some of the dumbest lines
ever used in the history of rap music
worldwide. As I sat there gasping for air, I
tried consoling myself that every artist is
allowed one mistake in a career lifespan
and ‘Share my Blessing’ is a mistake that
won’t happen again. But on a second
thought, I asked myself, didn’t Asa or her
manager Janet, hear Naeto C’s lines
before accepting to feature on the song? I
would have Usain-Bolted out of that
studio, screaming ‘tufiakwa gi’ and
snapping my fingers as I rid myself of all
the phloem in my system.
Asa apparently hasn’t learnt her lessons.
Her latest collabo with Korede Bello is
another career mistake that shouldn’t
have happened. The lightening has struck
twice. Korede Bello and Asa have
succeeded where others have failed.
Koredo Bello and Asa have succeeded in
taking every crappy song from the past
decade in Nigeria and mashed them into
a musical abomination; add that to the
level of auto-tune on Korede’s voice;
which sounds like T-Pain after he’s
slammed his testicles in a car door.
Ironically, slamming my own testicles in a
car door is something I would rather do
than listen to this song again.
Sadly, the fiasco with Naeto C now looks
like a piece of art compared to this song
with Korede Bello. This is a whole new
grade of crime against music. Asa, how
do you explain this to your fans? I have
searched for justification even from a
musician’s perspective and found none.
The whole song comes out childish and
guess Korede knows it too, which explains
why he had to sing it to us as the first line
that he is no longer a child. Korede has
proved conclusively with this song that
there are two things a Nigerian youth
can’t do: play music and feign humility.
Titling your song, “Somebody Great”, and
blabbing all through the song about
“Somebody wey dey spray millions and
somebody wey go save billions” is that
what defines greatness? Spraying of
millions? What are you doing to yourself
Asa? How did you get yourself involved in
this song?
Why did you do this to your fans?
I won’t be surprised to hear that the
sound engineer that mixed this song is
deaf. That you couldn’t hear that the
whole song is drenched in reverb is
unbelievable. For God’s sake, the
presence in the song is very disturbing to
the ears. And what is that thing that
sounds like someone striking a pot cover
with “ewedu” broom? Please don’t tell me
that it is the crash or the hi-hats. Please
sir, can you take back your mix and
reduce the shakers. Damn it, take back
your mix and keep it to yourself.
Asa, I swear you no try at all.
The only excuse that would probably
make some sense to me now is if I am
told that you guys were just trying to
create something for the current
generation but instead of a smooth-
rocking guitar classic, you have instead
created this audible shit. Yes, this song is
literally shit that you can hear. It is the
worst song from Asa that I have had the
displeasure of listening.
Unfortunately though, for some
inexplicable reason, some people are
actually going to play it and like it and
start insulting Etcetera like he is the
reason the song is rubbish.
Please, the excuse that Asa was not
involved in this collaboration with Korede
Bello; that Don Jazzy recorded her
freestyle and used on the song, is not
going to hold any water here. Nobody
does that in this age and time knowing
the ramification. And until Don Jazzy is
called out by Asa’s management, I will
assume the freestyle story is just another
industry lie and that “Somebody Great” is
a well thought out and planned
collaboration between Asa and Korede
Bello. Until then, trying to water down
Asa’s involvement in this song will be a
blatant in-your-face insult to her fans as
much as tweaking the synthesizer at the
beginning of the song to give it a rock
guitar feel is a blatant in-your-face
insulting to all guitarists out there.
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