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WAZBEAT – taking naija music by storm in 2009!

temi — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 09:36:51 +0000

Ok so I’m about to put my boy Zuwa on blast here. I’ve known Zuwa all my life and we grew up together in OAU, Ife. We’ve been classmates all through life, till university. In 2004, Zuwa and his brother Eghosa were producing tracks as WAZBEAT. At the time all we had was big dreams, talent, and a passion. I spent loads of time at their dad’s office listening to Zuwa lace tracks. I started Antigravity around that time and WAZBEAT was my first client. I put up www.wazbeat.com, and haven’t touched it since, its not even completed yet. WAZBEAT continued climbing higher and so did Antigravity.

This year 2008, WAZBEAT has produced most of Faze’s Originality (one of the top albums in Nigeria this year) and Modenine’s Ur Girl. Antigravity is currently a leading web design company in Nigeria and also just launched AIT USA‘s new website and runs Sturvs.com, which is so popular in the UK right now I’m scared to go there. In 2004, people would call us crazy for dreaming big. We’re starting to live our dreams, but the best is yet to come. This is just the beginning. Antigravity will in 2009 redo WAZBEAT.com and we will definitely figure out stuff to do together in the naija music industry. There is trouble brewing people.

If you cant DREAM it, you cant BE it!

Anyways peace, and get ready for more hot award winning tracks by WAZBEAT!

Originality Track Listing:

Colin Powell dancing “Yahooze” at ThisDay Festival in London

temi — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 20:12:51 +0000

^ This one’s just too funny

Nduka Obaigbena defends Colin Powell here: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/7670788.stm saying he didn’t know the meaning of the song. WE KNOW! LOL. Of course he had no clue the song was about internet fraud. He was just having a good time and it was a good sight anyway.

You can find more pics of the event here.

D’Banj Fall in Love

temi — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 20:42:32 +0000

I had this song on repeat a few weeks ago:

DBanj Fall in Love

Here’s another tight track with D’Banj & Don jazzy speaking Igbo

Dbanj Igwe

I also like Dbanj’s verse on this track:

Shank ft Dbanj Never Felt

Hype Williams

temi — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 04:51:51 +0000

Ok so as a follow up to my last post I went to pull up Hype WIlliam’s videography (you can get a more up-to-date one here) and it seems his work has been 95% hip-hop/R & B and Viva La Vida is one of his few non-black videos. He Robin Thicke’s Wanna Love You but that doesn’t count since he had Pharell in it. I’m very very impressed with Viva La Vida. It’s a classic video for a classic song.

Hype Williams is a genius I must say, with videos from California Love to John Legend’s Heaven and even further back to some Busta Rhymes & Brandy videos. He has earned legend status.

Coldplay are venturing out to be the Beatles of our decade (which is almost over) and I’m sure they’ll keep on going for many years to come. This is what you get when you combine real talent with a passion for music, not just to make money.

The world needs more music (and videos) like this.

Coldplay – Viva la Vida

temi — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 22:47:45 +0000

Ok so I first saw this video on Kanye’s blog over a week ago and thought it was cool, but it wasn’t until I heard the song a couple more times on the radio/tv that I completely fell in love with the song. I think this is one of the most genius songs this decade. It’s actually a song with meaning. I’ve had time to listen to the lyrics and get a better feel of the song and what it’s talking about. It’s basically about some leader who rose to high power and then falls to nothing after a dishones and wicked rule.

I searched the internet and found all sorts of ridiculous interpretations of the song. It’s funny how far fetched people’s opinions can be. Most of them we’re close to it and pin-pointed leaders like George Bush, Napoleon etc, but one very DUMM poster says here that the song is talking about Jesus Christ blah blah about how he was a king on earth and something about the temple and a decline from wealth and fame to a nobody. I mean how stupid could people be? When was Jesus ever wealthy?

Someone even inked the lyrics to King Henry VIII and King Louis XVI. Oh jeez…we need to put a leash on some people’s history perspectives.

The album cover almost gives the meaning of the song away as it depicts French battle/revolution.

Here is the answer to everyone’s dum interpretations (found here):

Bassist Guy Berryman explained to Q magazine July 2008 about this song that features lyrics about cavalries, missionaries and kings: “It’s a story about a king who’s lost his kingdom, and all the album’s artwork is based on the idea of revolutionaries and guerrillas. There’s this slightly anti-authoritarian viewpoint that’s crept into some of the lyrics and it’s some of the payoff between being surrounded by governments on one side, but also we’re human beings with emotions and we’re all going to die and the stupidity of what we have to put up with every day. Hence the album title.”

Drummer Will Champion told Q magazine February 2008 that many of the tracks on the album share a theme of “trying to remember what’s important in your life, rather than being carried away by the trappings of other things.”

So with that heard, even though I think this song mostly fits Napoleon’s story, I feel the aim was to leave it open to fit any world leader who misuses power, one of which we currently have in the US, some who might have existed in Europe, or anywhere else, and also to remind everyone listening to not get caught up with authority, fame & power.