If you can’t dedicate time and energy in properly recording an album, please don’t rush one. ‘Cause we won’t buy it.
Yearly since 2011, Olamide has continued his culture of releasing an
album every year. He has used this as a strategy to establish himself as
one of the best rappers to have ever existed.
Alongside M.I and Modenine, it’s no secret you came into the game and
have released records that gave us life. Records that brought in trends
and made us happy.
Records that gave us the
Bobo dance, Records that popularized the
Shaku Shaku dance Apart from that, you’ve also unearthed talents whose records are a blessing to this generation. Songs from
Adekunle Gold are a blessing to every hustler out there.
Lil Kesh‘s
records are a banger at every night club and it’s all due to your
generosity and promise to help everyone doing something productive.
2015 — Eyan Mayweather
While you’ve established as a legend in the game for over seven years now, it’s saddening to
see the quality of your output (album) reduce year after year. It started with
Eyan Mayweather.
We saw another Olamide that was at an all time low. So many records
that wasn’t worth listening to. Imagine going to Alaba to purchase an
already hyped album, fueling your generator to hear past records like
Bobo and
Melo Melo and all the other records were dustbin-worthy!
I felt
Eyan Mayweather was rushed to meet the
deadline.
After going on tours and shows, you wake up one day to realize it’s
almost December and you have to sustain the culture of releasing an
album every year. You call in Pheelz and the other guys, spit some wack
bars and after several hours, the album is ready.
Olamide, we won’t take such from you anymore. Never!!
2016 — The Glory
You continued that same trend in 2016 when we heard
The Glory. The hype was already on high, with the likes of “
Who You Epp” and “
Owo Blow”, already rocking the airwaves. And when it finally came, it wasn’t a disappointment.
I for one was surprised, I was actually expecting some firepower on this project, but
Olamide gave us emotional music.
We saw Olamide turn to a motivational speaker on
Letter To Milli
and this was not the Olamide we all know. The whole product was just
too cold for the environment out there. We needed bangers. The street
needed loud music.
Club Houses needed spicy music, but the album went lukewarm and it was no surprise when after a month, Olamide released
Love No Go die and
Wavy level. Singles that were an extended play from The Glory Album.
2017 — Lagos Nawa
In 2017, we were not expecting an album from Olamide. The quality of
his albums had reduced over the years. We wanted the Olamide of old time.
The
Olamide of Street OT ,
Olamide of YBNL.
We wanted our old Olamide back but what we have now is the refurbished
Baddo whose genes had been altered by the changes in environment.
He feels whatever he drops would make a hit record. And when we heard
Lagos Nawa was dropping, we were happy this time.
Wo! had transformed us into loving the street sound. The
Wobey sound was everywhere and we wanted more of it.
The Sound God was about to drop an entire album evolved around the
Wobey sound and we expected to get high on this one. December was in the
corner, let’s make merry and elevate our sorrows.
With fuel scarcity problems, we expected
Lagos Nawa
to provide the needed succor and vibe. Lagos Nawa dropped and it was the
poorest album in terms of quality that Olamide has ever dropped.
If there’s any superlative after “
Worst“, that album should be named “
Worstest Album ever“.
Olamide got Twitter on fire and everyone was unhappy. Most of the
content on the album were produced for the street and this isn’t a rap
album, it’s something else.
He claimed to have made this album in 48 hours, which could be true
owing to the fact that the songs on the project had one thing in common;
a “
lack of content”.
Only “
Wo!”, a perfect street jam, became a hit from
the album. How could you rush through the recording process in 48 hours
just in a bid to make history or at least sustain your tradition. Not so
good, Badoo!!
It’s 2018, Badoo. We don’t need an album. Continue to give us these hot singles. We are still reeling from the effect
Science Students had on us and still yet you dropped
C.Ronaldo.
These are the records we need. Records that make us forget about our
troubles. If you can’t dedicate time and energy in properly recording an
album, please don’t rush one. ‘
Cause we won’t buy it‘.
We need the old you back Olamide. Respect your fans by giving us a befitting album.
The End!!!
Yours sincerely,
One of your biggest fans turned critic and now hopeful spectator.
Otolorin Olabode is a music journalist, writer and critic.
@viewsfromdbod
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