Showing posts with label Nigerian Rappers. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Nigerian Rappers. Show all posts

Saturday, October 31, 2009

Rapper SauceKid In MESSY SEX SCANDAL...




Information reaching us revealed that Babalola Falemi and Edward Chukwuma-jiah otherwise known as Sauce Kid and Special Ed respectively have decided to take on some popular university campuses around Lagos Metropolis, hunting young ladies. According to our source, both acts have devised a means of hoodwinking some of their gullible fans in those campuses, promising them a feature on their musical videos as well free entry to their shows. The news around town is that rather than truly walking their talk, both Sauce kid and Special Ed end up taking their preys to bed. We were further informed that Sauce kid and Special Ed go into the said campuses at wee hours in a chocolate Honda Element Jeep, However Special Ed is said to be a free loader, loafing around the samboribobo crooner, who is like his ‘Big boss’, while perpetrating their unholy act. Some source also disclosed that these ladies, who comes in different sizes and shapes sting around the American returnee rapper, it’s also said that they fight one another to get laid, these ladies fall into their hands under the pretense of appearing on Sauce Kid’s video and they can’t also resist “riding around the city with a star’’, a source disclosed. Sauce Kid moved to United States after completing his Secondary school in Nigeria. The braided rapper didn’t show forth until February 2005 when he agreed to start up an independent recording label “Q Beats Entertainment” with T. Billion. In December 2005, Sauce Kid headed out to Nigeria with a video for then hit ” Omoge wa jo” which featured legendary Afro-Pop singer Mike Okri. This video and song gained him recognition within the African music industry when he was nominated at the Channel O Music video awards in South Africa. Since then, Sauce KiD has become a household name in Nigeria. After the release of “Money Long: Best Of Both World“ mixtape. Edward Chukwuma-Jiah on his own side was a freelancer in Abuja before he participated at the maiden edition of MTN/MTV Base Vee Jay search in Nigeria alongside fellow contestants, Bimbola Ademujimi, (Benin region); Adewale Akinjogbin (Jos region), while Cynthia Okpara eventually won. Special Ed has since been seen on every show either as MC or as a side-kick to a performing artiste.

"Yebariba Samboribobo"

Wednesday, October 14, 2009

My Name is WALE

The self-proclaimed “Ambassador of Rap for the Capital,” Washington, D.C.-based rapper Wale (pronounced “wah-lay”) was able to transcend his local sensation status and become a national rap contender using go-go-inspired hip-hop as the vehicle for his lyricism and clever wordplay.



Olubowale Victor Folarin was born in D.C. in 1984 to Nigerian immigrants who first arrived to America five years prior. Moving to Maryland at age ten, however, Wale was mostly raised in suburban D.C. He attended both Robert Morris College and Virginia State University on football scholarships, but then transferred a third time to Bowie State.
The music bug already had bit him hard, and soon he quit Bowie State to turn towards a recording career.

Wale got his first airplay circa 2003-2004 with “Rhyme of the Century,” thanks to the help of a local radio DJ who believed in his potential. This landed him in the “Unsigned Hype” column in Source magazine the following year.
In 2006, Wale signed to local start-up imprint Studio 43, owned by a former VP of Roc-a-Fella Records, and enjoyed a string of hits in the D.C.-Maryland-Virginia area that year.
Many of those records sampled from ’80s go-go, a more raw, percussion-driven offshoot of disco originating in D.C., like the popular “Dig Dug,” a tribute to Ronald “Dig Dug” Dixon of go-go band the Northeast Groovers.

The use of the Internet and /MySpace were big factors for his success, which is how British über-producer and DJ Mark Ronson (Amy Winehouse, Christina Aguilera, Rhymefest) caught wind of the go-go MC in 2007.

Wale then struck a production deal with Ronson’s Allido imprint and released the 100 Miles and Running mixtape that summer. Despite not being signed to any major label yet, tons of press, ranging from XXL magazine to The New York Times, started to cover the D.C. sensation in 2007 and 2008. After a bidding war that included Epic, Atlantic, and Def Jam, Interscope finally grabbed Wale for its roster in early 2008. Cyril Cordor, All Music Guide.

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