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Re: Nigerian Reggae Music Of The 1980s And 1990s by tammyf: 2:22am On Oct 21, 2022
Simplemeeeee:
Please do a mixtape of these songs and share here


I hv d mix tape already ...play it when I'm cleaning up my house.
Re: Nigerian Reggae Music Of The 1980s And 1990s by naptu2: 3:10am On Oct 21, 2022
TheOgaBoss:
Is His Raggae?

His?
Re: Nigerian Reggae Music Of The 1980s And 1990s by BraniacX(m): 3:18am On Oct 21, 2022
naptu2:
Peterside Ottong - Where Are The Prophets? (1989)


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bQrD6nbkl-Q


Original video


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PrWCDQP79qs
i downloaded this recently cheesy cheesy
Re: Nigerian Reggae Music Of The 1980s And 1990s by Ykc2(m): 4:00am On Oct 21, 2022
So Alex zitto was a reggae musician then?Well since guys also called davido and wizkid hip hop artists grin
Re: Nigerian Reggae Music Of The 1980s And 1990s by naptu2: 4:03am On Oct 21, 2022
naptu2:
Majek Fashek – Majek Fashek In A New York (1991)


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tx7_JBgqn8w
Re: Nigerian Reggae Music Of The 1980s And 1990s by naptu2: 4:04am On Oct 21, 2022
naptu2:
Majek Fashek – Spirit of Love (1991)


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NgJgvpcObsM
Re: Nigerian Reggae Music Of The 1980s And 1990s by naptu2: 4:04am On Oct 21, 2022
naptu2:
Majek Fashek - So Long Too Long (original video)


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nXQwEz8zMvE
Re: Nigerian Reggae Music Of The 1980s And 1990s by naptu2: 4:05am On Oct 21, 2022
naptu2:
It’s a little bit difficult to get a YouTube video of this song because many foreigners have falsely labelled this song as a Bob Marley song. It’s actually Majek Fashek’s cover of a song by the Eagles and it’s one of my favourite Nigerian rock songs.

Majek Fashek – Hotel California

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Md5JgwvRWbs
Re: Nigerian Reggae Music Of The 1980s And 1990s by naptu2: 4:05am On Oct 21, 2022
naptu2:
Majek Fashek - Free Africa, Free Mandela.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=stNhWllxA2U

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Re: Nigerian Reggae Music Of The 1980s And 1990s by naptu2: 4:07am On Oct 21, 2022
naptu2:
This is one of my favourite songs by Majek.


Majek Fashek - Genesis


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j-JlF6kMEdw
Re: Nigerian Reggae Music Of The 1980s And 1990s by naptu2: 5:24am On Oct 21, 2022
naptu2:
Alex Zito - Tickle Me (1989)


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=36BoUapaZW0

Original video


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EzVXxfpLPmc

The first few seconds of the video above was from Lekki Sunsplash.


I have written a lot about Lekki Sun-splash on Nairaland. That series of concerts was instrumental to the growth of Nigerian reggae in the 1980s and early 1990s.


I often went to the Bar Beach during holidays in the late 1970s and early 1980s, but sometime around 1984 there was a new beach that everybody was talking about. It was Lekki Beach.

We missed our way the very first time we went there. There was almost no other cars on the road. You could see the water mirage at the point that the road met the horizon. There was bush on both sides of the road. We drove for an eternity until we came to the end of the road (they hadn't finished constructing Lekki Expressway at that time).

We saw workmen and asked them where Lekki was. One of them asked us (in Yoruba) whether we were looking for the place that people "took breeze" or the place that they "ate beans". I understood that they were asking if we were looking for the beach or the prison. We said that we were searching for the beach and they told us that we had passed it.

The road leading to the beach had not been constructed, so you had to carry your food warmers and coolers and walk a long way through the bush and over beach like sand before you got to the beach. It seemed like suffering.

Anyway, sometime around 1986, Toyin Munis created a concert called Lekki Sunsplash. It was inspired by the Reggae Sunsplash concerts in Jamaica. The NTA often showed clips of Reggae Sunsplash back in the early 1980s.

People from all over Lagos thronged the Lekki Beach in December 1986 to see some of the biggest musicians in Nigeria perform. However, Lekki was not developed back then and many of them had to walk all the way from Lekki Beach to Sandfill in order to get home. It was like Exodus, the movement of Jah people.

It was at the 1993 edition of Lekki Sunsplash that I saw Lagbaja for the first time. Nobody knew who he was. Everybody was waiting for Fela to perform and this masked man took to the stage and was singing, "The way, the way, the way way". People were angry and they threw bottles at him. He had to flee from the stage. They brought ************ (I can't type his name because the spambot will ban me) back on stage to calm down the crowd.

One of those gossip magazines got a list of Fela's conditions for performing at Lekki Sunsplash and it basically went viral. The conditions included a certain level of quality for the sound equipment, he and his band would be transported to the venue in the morning and they would be fed breakfast and lunch, he must be the last person to perform, he must be paid upfront, etc. The contract stipulated that he could decide not to perform if any of the conditions was breached.

All the biggest reggae musicians, including almost everybody I listed on the first page, performed at Lekki Sunsplash.
Re: Nigerian Reggae Music Of The 1980s And 1990s by okocha55: 8:28am On Oct 21, 2022
Nigerian reggae music is criminally underrated, I like the sound far better even than Jamaican.

As an Oyinbo growing up in the US I listened to African American music my whole life, and recently discovered Nigerian music from hearing a song by William Onyeabor in a skateboarding video.

There's just something about the sounds coming from Africa that sound so much more raw, pure, and great than the US afro sounds. The absolute sickest beats I've ever discovered are in Naija reggae. It's strange in the year 2022 so much of the music isn't even on YouTube yet.

I listened to electronic music / EDM / house for nearly 20 years and once I discovered Nigerian music from the 70s, 80s, 90s, it's taken up nearly all of my listening now over the past couple of years. Sadly Naija doesn't produce music like this anymore and maybe one day I will run out of sounds to discover undecided undecided

Recently I have purchased these records and uploaded them to YouTube below, cannot believe I was the first to upload these complete albums!


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M6FWJ2TLa7M&list=PLx9biClwTa9c_d0MgD3X-vAqtDVuBBhqz&index=8&t=1439s


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-4bpCmAx9MM&list=PLx9biClwTa9c_d0MgD3X-vAqtDVuBBhqz&index=25&t=460s


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EOoieychuRo&list=PLx9biClwTa9c_d0MgD3X-vAqtDVuBBhqz&index=24&t=1199s
Re: Nigerian Reggae Music Of The 1980s And 1990s by sammugbes(m): 8:36am On Oct 21, 2022
Oga nice collections, but you still remember Lt shot gun?
Re: Nigerian Reggae Music Of The 1980s And 1990s by naptu2: 8:41am On Oct 21, 2022
sammugbes:
Oga nice collections, but you still remember Lt shot gun?

Yes. I posted his song on this thread.

https://www.nairaland.com/5683387/victor-olaiya-dead/2
Re: Nigerian Reggae Music Of The 1980s And 1990s by richiepolymer(m): 11:57am On Oct 21, 2022
Nostalgic moments. I’ve been looking for some of these records.
Indomie and Gen Z children won’t appreciate these.
Re: Nigerian Reggae Music Of The 1980s And 1990s by BalticGold: 12:18pm On Oct 21, 2022
Kasssandra:


You haven't listened to some old Nigerian music.

Most of the time, many people from generation to generation have said the same thing about the popular music of the day. When those reggae stars were around, as a child then, I can recall my very religious parents calling such music meaningless. (though my religious mum did once praise Fela for having a social message in many of his songs...even as she blasted his immoral lifestyle).

That your parents did not like them does not mean they had no massage. Music then was used as a voice of the oppressed and speaking against the injustice of the day.

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Re: Nigerian Reggae Music Of The 1980s And 1990s by category(m): 1:59pm On Oct 21, 2022
......

naptu2:
Further reading.

1) The Evolution Of Hip Hop Music In Nigeria: The '80s And Early 90s.
https://www.nairaland.com/5892351/evolution-hip-hop-music-nigeria


2) Nigerian Highlife Songs Of The 1940s-1980s
https://www.nairaland.com/7378552/nigerian-highlife-songs-1940s-1980s

3) Nigerian Funk And Pop Songs Of The 1970s, '80s and 1990s
https://www.nairaland.com/7386945/nigerian-funk-pop-songs-1970s
Re: Nigerian Reggae Music Of The 1980s And 1990s by sammugbes(m): 3:20pm On Oct 21, 2022
Yes boss, thanks saw it already, you remembered when he collabo with 2 artist for one song, I forgot sef.

naptu2:


Yes. I posted his song on this thread.

https://www.nairaland.com/5683387/victor-olaiya-dead/2
Re: Nigerian Reggae Music Of The 1980s And 1990s by Mryacks: 6:26pm On Oct 21, 2022
naptu2:
Peterside Ottong - Where Are The Prophets? (1989)


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bQrD6nbkl-Q


Original video


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PrWCDQP79qs

Oh this just made me remember my late uncle cry
Re: Nigerian Reggae Music Of The 1980s And 1990s by okooloyun1(m): 2:08am On Oct 23, 2022
naptu2:





Yoyo Ovi covered this song in 2019
Thanks for these compilations of oldies songs. I was always emotional watching this particular song on NTA. My dad also had the audio cassette grin

Happy Birthday by Evi Edna Ogholi was a very popular song in any birthday party.
Re: Nigerian Reggae Music Of The 1980s And 1990s by sharone21(f): 3:29pm On Oct 23, 2022
GudluckIBB:


Yes Ishan

Mandators:2 of them

Womandator: After Victor left

Heard she commited suicide.
Re: Nigerian Reggae Music Of The 1980s And 1990s by GudluckIBB(m): 3:33pm On Oct 23, 2022
sharone21:


Mandators:2 of them

Womandator: After Victor left

Heard she commited suicide.

yea, heard so too,
her name was peggy Imana Curtis

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Re: Nigerian Reggae Music Of The 1980s And 1990s by sharone21(f): 4:29pm On Oct 23, 2022
Many musicians and some have already been mentioned.

Thanks Naptu for all these for us to remember our history.

Others:
Yvonne Maha
Trybesmen
Stylplus
Ekwe
Junior and Pretty
Tosin Jegede and her contemporary from Edo State
Funmi Adams
Funmi (Fuji music)
Dan Maraya Jos
Oliver de Coque
Shina Peters
Pasuma
Obesere
Tina Onwudiwe
Dizzy K Falola
Seyi Shodimu
Victor Uwaifo
Bright Chimezie
Orlando Owoh
One Igbo guy that sang Belinda eh.... in USA
Mike Okri
Marvellous Benji
Banti banti( Albino)
Chris Okotie
Dorothy Ifudu
Dr Alban
Adewale Ayuba
Sade Adu
Daddy Showkey
Muma Gee
Stella Monye
Yinka Davies
Panam Percy Paul
Mode 9
Sasha P
Tunde and Wunmi Obe

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Re: Nigerian Reggae Music Of The 1980s And 1990s by naptu2: 5:23pm On Oct 25, 2022
This is an example of what I was referring to. This is the 1994 edition of Lekki Sunsplash. Sonny Okosun was performing on stage, Fela was in his tent (you can see little Seun Kuti and Dede Mabiaku in the tent) and you can hear the fireworks.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G1uUj7WOaew


naptu2:
Lekki Sun Splash (Dec 1993)

The crowd urged Fela to "yab" Abacha, since he hadn't yabbed Abacha the way he had yabbed Babangida.

"Wetin una want make I talk? In the country of the blind the one eyed man is leading" (Abacha was cross-eyed).

"We get Babangida we think say things bad, now Abacha don come and everything turn to basha basha"


naptu2:
2 things I remember from Lekki Sun Splash '93 (December 1993).

R*s K*m*n* had finished performing and the next act was an unknown masked man named Lagbaja. The crowd was actually waiting for Fela to perform aand they were a bit impatient.

Then this guy (Lagbaja) gets on stage and starts singing "the way, the way, the way way" and people were wondering, "what the heck is this shit?" Then the first bottle landed on stage, then it started raining stones and bottles and Lagbaja ran off stage. I retreated back towards the coconut trees.

Eventually they had to bring R*s K*mo*n* back on stage to calm the crowd down. The crowd calmed down, but some were still singing "All we are saying, give us Fela".

2) Then the introductions began and the crowd went wild. Various people would come on stage and chant incantations. It really tripped me, but we all knew the drill, he was coming.

The crowd would not allow him sing when he eventually got on stage. They wanted him to say something about what had been going on in the country (June 12, Babangida, Abacha, Abiola, etc).

"What do you want me to say? I tell you before, when Babangida dey there, everything BADD well well. Now Abacha don dey there, everything don turn to basha basha ." The audience goes wild.

"In the land of the blind, the one eyed man is king". (Abacha was cross-eyed)


naptu2:


The first few seconds of the video above was from Lekki Sunsplash.


I have written a lot about Lekki Sun-splash on Nairaland. That series of concerts was instrumental to the growth of Nigerian reggae in the 1980s and early 1990s.


I often went to the Bar Beach during holidays in the late 1970s and early 1980s, but sometime around 1984 there was a new beach that everybody was talking about. It was Lekki Beach.

We missed our way the very first time we went there. There was almost no other cars on the road. You could see the water mirage at the point that the road met the horizon. There was bush on both sides of the road. We drove for an eternity until we came to the end of the road (they hadn't finished constructing Lekki Expressway at that time).

We saw workmen and asked them where Lekki was. One of them asked us (in Yoruba) whether we were looking for the place that people "took breeze" or the place that they "ate beans". I understood that they were asking if we were looking for the beach or the prison. We said that we were searching for the beach and they told us that we had passed it.

The road leading to the beach had not been constructed, so you had to carry your food warmers and coolers and walk a long way through the bush and over beach like sand before you got to the beach. It seemed like suffering.

Anyway, sometime around 1986, Toyin Munis created a concert called Lekki Sunsplash. It was inspired by the Reggae Sunsplash concerts in Jamaica. The NTA often showed clips of Reggae Sunsplash back in the early 1980s.

People from all over Lagos thronged the Lekki Beach in December 1986 to see some of the biggest musicians in Nigeria perform. However, Lekki was not developed back then and many of them had to walk all the way from Lekki Beach to Sandfill in order to get home. It was like Exodus, the movement of Jah people.

It was at the 1993 edition of Lekki Sunsplash that I saw Lagbaja for the first time. Nobody knew who he was. Everybody was waiting for Fela to perform and this masked man took to the stage and was singing, "The way, the way, the way way". People were angry and they threw bottles at him. He had to flee from the stage. They brought ************ (I can't type his name because the spambot will ban me) back on stage to calm down the crowd.

One of those gossip magazines got a list of Fela's conditions for performing at Lekki Sunsplash and it basically went viral. The conditions included a certain level of quality for the sound equipment, he and his band would be transported to the venue in the morning and they would be fed breakfast and lunch, he must be the last person to perform, he must be paid upfront, etc. The contract stipulated that he could decide not to perform if any of the conditions was breached.

All the biggest reggae musicians, including almost everybody I listed on the first page, performed at Lekki Sunsplash.




Re: Nigerian Reggae Music Of The 1980s And 1990s by ISTP: 7:01am On Nov 05, 2022
naptu2:


Anyone here who is a propagandist for any politician, is a wicked man. Anyone here who supports any of the thieving and lying politicians, is a wicked man and will suffer the consequences. Say amen.

Anyone that tries to stop anybody from legitimately criticising any of our politicians is a wicked man and will suffer the consequences. Say amen.

I do not support any politician and I will criticise every politician, including the one you support and there's absolutely nothing you can do about it.

This is my last post to you.

This also goes to you VULCAN

Amen oo. Amen!

Just read your update on your diary.

Let me be the only one to say "AMEN".

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Re: Nigerian Reggae Music Of The 1980s And 1990s by naptu2: 4:10pm On Nov 09, 2022

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Re: Nigerian Reggae Music Of The 1980s And 1990s by ruffhandu: 11:22am On Oct 20, 2023
sharone21:
Many musicians and some have already been mentioned.

Thanks Naptu for all these for us to remember our history.

Others:
Yvonne Maha
Trybesmen
Stylplus
Ekwe
Junior and Pretty
Tosin Jegede and her contemporary from Edo State
Funmi Adams
Funmi (Fuji music)
Dan Maraya Jos
Oliver de Coque
Shina Peters
Pasuma
Obesere
Tina Onwudiwe
Dizzy K Falola
Seyi Shodimu
Victor Uwaifo
Bright Chimezie
Orlando Owoh
One Igbo guy that sang Belinda eh.... in USA
Mike Okri
Marvellous Benji
Banti banti( Albino)
Chris Okotie
Dorothy Ifudu
Dr Alban
Adewale Ayuba
Sade Adu
Daddy Showkey
Muma Gee
Stella Monye
Yinka Davies
Panam Percy Paul
Mode 9
Sasha P
Tunde and Wunmi Obe


I am looking for an unpopular raggaeton artist (perhaps he released only one album), I only loved one track that part of the the lyrics is something like
'anwunta kwe ka mmadu di ndu rahu ura abali...' (moquito allow humans to sleep at night)
'anyi na-ata afufu, n'obodo a goziri, Chukwu ga enye any onye g-edozi obodo anyi..' (we are suffering in a blessed land, God will give us who will fix our country).

he name was Chukzy Moses or something (dunno if I spelt it ok). I need that song to reconnect with my youthful days.

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