Last week’s emotional outburst
from rapper Mode 9 “I released
an album and nobody cared” has
gotten a blunt reply from fellow-
rapper Rugged man… ‘Get
another job or adapt’ he tells
Mode 9.
Rugged Man was speaking on
Hot FM’s breakfast radio show
and did not mince words. He said
“Mode 9 is not the only one that
does the non-commercial kind of
rap. Basically if you are an
entertainer you can’t do music
for yourself that’s why you are an
entertainer.
Rugged Man
Rugged Man
‘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 you
can’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.
Read Mode 9′s story here
Mode 9 had recently lamented
the neglect of his type of non
commercial rap saying that He
dropped an album ‘alphabetical
order’ earlier this year and no
one cared.
Story by Cheezy Charles

Forza p: I concur wit rugged,BTW dis hotFM is it a lagos based radio station or wat?i've neva heard of it oo

tyson99: Abeg oo help me tell Mode 9 not to cry again,there's vacancy at uncle joe's primary school,since hin sabi english make he con dey teach english oo at least change go dey enter.