There's a particular musician among the big 3 who has so many hits, king of AFROBEAT I call him. He's my favourite among them no doubt, but anytime his freestyle comes out I get so embarrassed - not happy, just sad, like what really went wrong! FLASH BACK: Way back in my teenage days in secondary school I discovered my interest in music. During break hour some group of boys would use biro to hit the desk while vibing.
There was one particular boy who could rhyme words so good that when it was his time everyone kept shut to listen. From that day I told myself I was gonna be just like him. I was about 14 to 15 and started listening to a lot of hip-hop. I learnt the basics - counting bars 3--4, different rhymes, one syllable, two syllable and even multisyllables - because then it was all about rhymes.
It came to a time I became so good that all my words started making sense from the top of my head. All through my years in secondary school we never wrote lyrics - all the songs I later dropped after school were 90% freestyles. BACK TO THE TOPIC: What's freestyle? Even actors freestyle, architects freestyle, athletes freestyle - talk more a musician that can't freestyle. It's a sellout for an artist who can't freestyle; shows you're a musician with no brain, like a computer programmed to carry out an activity with no sense to improvise.
It just hurts to see a top-tier Nigerian artist can't do what teenagers can do at ease. You have an aura of 1000 but every time your freestyle clip comes out it goes to minus - why can't you just decline politely when asked to on a podcast? The only reason people consider Messi better than Ronaldo is because Messi freestyles with the ball and that makes him stand out - it's an inbuilt talent money can't buy.
To go far you need to learn the basics; if you cut corners you might achieve some heights but sooner or later it's going to show. (Three images. 63 replies; first reply: "Na davido you dey talk about so - even before opening the thread, I knew he was the one. If you really want to murder that dude's musical career, just set him up to freestyle.")
