Last week, Mode9 was on HotFM’s breakfast radio show and complained
bitterly about putting out an album and no one giving a f***k about
it.Ruggedman who was on the same show recently, replied him.
Firstly, Mode 9 said;
You see how the industry is’ how do you expect me to feel? ‘Nigerians
don’t like hip hop they only follow the hype, they don’t even know what
it is’. I only cater for my real fans; I don’t really care about the
fair weather, band wagon jumpers ‘I cater for my fans and they are
feeling it’ i have put up too much effort in promotion ofmy materials’.
“It’s just some certain people in their minds feeling that I’m not doing
well’ I have decided I am going to attack anybody who calls me up and
asks ‘where have you been?’
I have attacked everyone that has done that, I am not afraid of
anybody. It’s just the way they think. If your music is not playing in
clubs then you are not putting out the best. My music is not club music;
I didn’t put out a club album. Real fans of Mode 9 know where it’s
happening and know how to get it. They’ve seen it on TV and they loved
it. So I think I’m doing a great job. Imagine you doing all this and
someone walking up to you and asking, common where’ve you been? Imagine
how bad you’ll feel after spending millions of naira to promote yourself
from your own pocket.”
Then Ruggedman ;
Basically if you are an entertainer you can’t do music for yourself
that’s why you are an entertainer.If People you are made to entertain
are not entertained, you should do one of two things…get another job or
adapt’ am not saying this to be funny or anything’. If something is not
working anymore the least you can do is try and adopt to what’s up’‘
Even in America at a point it was all Eastside …then Westside, you
can’t do anything about it, if youcan’t shape up, you shape out’I
actually started writing ‘ehen’song in English but paul play advised me
‘you are in Nigeria,make music for Nigerians, add the local language so
people could understand, I put a little comedy to it by bringing in
Normoloss, ‘It’s not about how good you are but how smart you are.
I have said it ‘i don’t want to be ‘he can rap kinda artist’ but ‘to
be a successful artist’. ‘Switching your style doesn’t make you any less
of a human cos at the end of the day ‘what you have achieved is what
would be asked.”
what do y’all think?
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