If this intro to Nka Dị Na Ntị by Mazị B.C.Okoro is not from mid-1970s but 2010s?

A lone voice woken in small hours, fed up with this life, this God, this country and the predictability of this all.

Compare to Ko Gbadun by Mr. Raw 👉 https://youtu.be/HtvuTNsdcfs

If anything, contemporary #IgboRap is a bit LESS pessimistic.

#AsusuIgbo #NkaDiNaNti #MaziBCOkoro #MaziBEmekaOkoro

One more tip for #IgboRap, from Okechukwu Edwards Ukeje a.k.a. #MrRaw

Here's the fact: this genre is boldly different to #BurnaBoy, #Wizkid and whole modern #Afrobeats riding popularity worldwide.

Unlike saccharine autotunes, it revels in raspy booming and profane.

Its #Pidgin is street, and its #Igbo is thrown from the hip casually, ọ dị kwa risky 💪

#Nigeria #Naija #PidginEnglish #AsusuIgbo

https://youtu.be/yiYmTjie6fA

#IgboRap juggles 2 of the top funkiest languages on this Planet with deft and sharp English:

#Igbo
#Pidgin

There's lots to say about Igbo language. It's beautiful in very specific way I don't want to describe for doing corny. It's very sweet! And it lends much beauty to the music!

But Pidgin is an easier cut. It breaks your coloniser #English in all the ways it's ought to be broken, and heals it as if for single use: destruction of The Crown. And it must be done.

Oh I love Riz Ahmed, he's very cool ♥️

But back to #IgboRap

Where's #IgboRap in all that?

These folks are in rare position today: THEY KNOW

Know what? They know most of things. Poverty, riches, high cuisine, staples. They get European, American, African eye.

When #RizAhmed talks, he's got power of the knowledge. Inside, and out.

#Igbo folks know things above and beyond that stuff. Simply by living in the timestream of West African history of today, a timestream of colonial baggage and own crooked but unbending humanity.

#IgboRap is THE sніт

You lot are sleeping on the volcano of #music, #attitude and #power