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ADAOBI NNEKA IFEBI
Saturday, December 19, 2009

Everything may be going for Tuface Idibia and Timaya, as they are the toasts of many Nigerian music lovers, but there is a Nigerian who is not pleased with them. Indeed, this Nigeria, cannot say of Tuface and Timaya:

This is my beloved musicians in whom I am well pleased. This is so because of what the musicians do on stage.
Yinka is angry with Tuface and Timaya for internationalizing their songs for a local market. Indeed, he is not thrilled by the hip hop genre of these musicians because he thinks it is not for Nigerians audience and that Tuface and Timaya cannot do well with it, like musicians from countries hip hop is meant for. And he is equally not happy with local music marketers, who tend to encourage the musicians.

He said: “How will you feel if Tuface Idibia picks up a microphone to sing hip hop in America to international audience, not Nigerians living in America? Our boys would be seen as clowns or comedians. Hip hop is American. Can you be more catholic than the pope?”
Commending King Sunny Ade’s juju music and the afrobeat of Femi Ransome-Kuti and his brother, Seun, Yinka, who is behind Prime Qwest Music, producers of Sound of Africa, advised arts’ donors to sponsor African music instead of imitations.