Instrumentals....................

    During the holidays, A-Maz contacted me that he had acquired some instrumentals for The R.A.P (I had no idea that by ‘few’, he meant about thirty). And being the music lover and workaholic he was, he had already composed hooks fro about three songs (only two appeared on The R.A.P though). So, my job was made easier. But it still wasn’t easy. Cos when I got to Maiduguri, I was confused, the instrumentals were just too much and I loved them all. What I loved the most was that. The instrumentals were a challenge. I stated writing for the hooks that A-Maz had composed. The first instrumental that really caught my attention was Hero by Nas produced by Polow Tha Don. I remember telling A-Maz ‘polow is a beast!”. I free-styled on the Hero instrumental and A-maz and I loved it. I Knew then, that Hero freestyle was going to be the next track I would record. I want to use this post to apologize for not sampling too many Naija tracks. It’s because the challenging Naija instrumentals are hard to come by. But once I get them, I’ll sample them on my next mixtape which would be titled………………………… wait,…… I ……. Haven’t titled it yet. Let’s concentrate on The R.A.P shall we? after deciding the next track I was going to record, I started writing for The R.A.P.

        I’m very happy for the tracks I wrote and didn’t record and those I  didn’t cos they pushed my creativity and my writing skills as well as my performances on other tracks. And that period of writing really helped me as an artist and as e person cos I started to think deep in that period.

       We are still counting down to The R.A.P

      BTW, A-maz's Oleku is out. Download it at Download Oleku.

We Own This Town and The Conception of The R.A.P

After A-Maz recorded and released Greenland and The Ish, a lot of people started asking when my first track was gonna drop. Recording costs were not exactly cheap. So i came up with an idea to sample instrumentals mixtape style just to satisfy the audience till i had cheese to record my own original track. I had no idea it was going to be the beginning of something great. The first instrumental i got was that to 'Lagos Party' by Banky W from the album 'The W Experience (mehn thanks for putting that instrumental on the album C.D). A-Maz wrote a catchy and creative hook(as always) about our love and desire for our towns (Abuja, Jos and of course Maiduguri).We named the Track We Own This Town and we were off to the studio and we were recording. Recording the track was magic. The song was was received with mixed reviews as people loved my performance as well as A-Maz's but they wondered why we sampled the instrumental. that left us doing a lot of explaining(the concept of a mixtape that is). After a while when people understood, they came to love The song. Then, I Had an Idea and i told A-Maz 'why don't i record a Mixtape'? he loved the idea since there were very few mixtapes released in Nigeria at the time and 'Illegal Music was a mega hit. We knew it was a risky move but I went for it. Next was the name. I wanted a name that would define me so I came up with The R.A.P which is short for The Rapper And Player. The idea of the mixtape was born. What i did not know was that that day, I took the first step on my road to self discovery.
      Ladies and Gentlemen it's my pleasure to welcome you to The Countdown To The R.A.P