Years from now, when history asks what role hip-hop played in the Black Lives Matter movement, music archivists would unearth Kendrick Lamar’s 'The Blacker the Berry' and his 2016 Grammy performance. Perhaps Reminisce is thinking about posterity. In this regard and as social media has given voice to victims of violence, rape and molestation, the 'Ponmile' video is especially timely. In calling her partner impotent, she says perhaps the most scathing thing a woman can hurl at a man.ĭuring the course of a career, music artists may record one or more important songs either addressing the politics of the day or confronting a societal ill. Nonethless, Chukwu's character has the video's last word. He stops short of attacking her with a cleaver. In one scene, his woman (Lota Chukwu) nags, and Adekola, after rendering facial expressions fit for memes, resorts to violence. In the song's video, Nollywood actor Odunlade Adekola assumes the role of an angry lover. The Reminisce narrator, it seems, has met his match. In the chorus, he begs his lover not to go the way of married women who have left their husbands to live with their parents. He pleads further: “Baby, ja mi tan, ki ba le gba kamu” (Baby, be completely frank with me, so I may be resigned to my fate). Overview: Remilekun Abdulkalid Safaru, known by his stage names Reminisce and ALAGA IBILE, is a Nigerian singer, rapper, and songwriter from Ogun State. Remilekun Khalid Safaru, known by his stage names Reminisce and ALAGA IBILE, is a Nigerian versatile musician, singer, rapper, songwriter, and actor from O. “Beni ki n se ABD” (Neither is it A B C). “Ife o gb’agidi (love isn't by force)," he says.
Talk about Hip-hop Naija and you’ll agree with me that Olamide Badoo is an indigenous rapper i.e he raps in his mother tongue in this case which is Yoruba. He was born on 5 th of March 1989 in Bariga, Lagos, Nigeria. The song's male character tries to reason with his lover. First on my list of best rappers in Nigeria is Olamide Adedeji popularly known by his stage name Olamide badoo.