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Re: What Was It Like Growing Up In The 80s And 90s In Lagos by Karnice600: 5:48pm On Jun 27, 2023 |
nairalanda1:Shina Rambo 1 Like 1 Share |
Re: What Was It Like Growing Up In The 80s And 90s In Lagos by BigDickProblems: 5:48pm On Jun 27, 2023 |
Karnice600: I totally agree with you. A country like Nigeria, the past is better than the present. I also remember when they used to sell bread for #10. They can divide it into 2 for #5 each. My message actually covers life in general. We just need to let bygones be bygones. When you dwell so much in the past, you probably won't go far in anything. 1 Like 1 Share |
Re: What Was It Like Growing Up In The 80s And 90s In Lagos by absoluteSuccess: 5:58pm On Jun 27, 2023 |
Karnice600: Hmm, only God knows, you'll still remember Sunday rendezvous? The most interesting part is selling affection to us as a kid, with the "Joy soap commercial." Another is thermocool fridge and freezer. 1 Like |
Re: What Was It Like Growing Up In The 80s And 90s In Lagos by Karnice600: 6:06pm On Jun 27, 2023 |
absoluteSuccess:Yeah yeah. 1 Like |
Re: What Was It Like Growing Up In The 80s And 90s In Lagos by Karnice600: 6:08pm On Jun 27, 2023 |
BigDickProblems:Yeah. Understood. |
Re: What Was It Like Growing Up In The 80s And 90s In Lagos by nairalanda1(m): 6:42pm On Jun 27, 2023 |
Karnice600: Early 1990s. Nowadays a pastor |
Re: What Was It Like Growing Up In The 80s And 90s In Lagos by Betgold84: 3:51am On Jun 28, 2023 |
I watched that passions Na AIT day run am then. Fitzgerald guy BigBlackPreek: |
Re: What Was It Like Growing Up In The 80s And 90s In Lagos by Dshocker(m): 12:55pm On Jun 28, 2023 |
Bodeem: Numbers in Mr.Biggs? Who get phone that time? |
Re: What Was It Like Growing Up In The 80s And 90s In Lagos by XAUBulls: 12:42pm On Jun 29, 2023 |
randymirrors:Yeah I was spot-on. You lived somewhere in between those areas within Ikeja... That's mad cool. ![]() Indeed @ randymirrors. I remember Tosin and Chichi... They were very young then but I wasn't really into their kind of music... (I loved hip-hop and rap a lot from Heavy D, Cool Moe Dee, Ice T, MC Hammer, etc, with a dose of Fela Anikulapo-Kuti's tracks blasting from my Walkman). The two girls (Tosin and Chichi) were hugely popular with the girls and younger males though. I enjoyed the "back in the day" insights from you and it shows we've still got a lot of real male and female OGs here on NL based on the info on this thread. I've been a user of NL since 2005 with an older moniker. Happy Holidays, and all the best. ![]() 1 Like 1 Share |
Re: What Was It Like Growing Up In The 80s And 90s In Lagos by randymirrors(f): 1:56pm On Jun 29, 2023 |
XAUBulls: Thanks a lot, you too. I think we all liked hip hop then cos it was all we had. I referenced Tosin and Chi Chi cos our childhood memories wouldn't be complete without them. I preferred the older artistes and my number 1 song was Ifeoma. I think everyone liked foreign hip hop and blues too. I also remember how we used to study song magazines to learn those foreign lyrics. I never liked rap. And Fela too. Too young to make sense of his songs but my dad would always interrupt (I typed interrupt twice as interup and interrup convincing myself each time I was correct and couldn't understand why spell check marked it as wrong) your sleep on weekends with either a Fela song, Bob Marley or Sunny Ade...even Haruna Ishola. It's that Haruna Ishola I just didn't get. Listening to him made me feel like I would have apoplexy. My mum on the other hand was more sentimental. She loved Dolly Parton and Sonya Spence. She'd listen to Salawa Abeni or Adewale Ayuba too depending on whether she was feeling romantic or funky. I loved Sonya too and knew all the lyrics to her songs as far back as when I was in primary two. I remember cos her daughter Mimi and I were in the same class. I could go on and on cos nothing replaces nostalgia not even a trip to Maldives 😄 But what strikes me the most when I look back in retrospect is how our parents strived to give us the best life within the limits of their income. Our old folks are to be cherished beyond reasoning oo. 1 Like 1 Share |
Re: What Was It Like Growing Up In The 80s And 90s In Lagos by XAUBulls: 2:23pm On Jun 29, 2023 |
randymirrors:@randymirrors, Nicely put! The last two bolded paragraphs of yours strike a cord with me. Last but not least, wow, your mum loved Adewale Ayuba? I think Adewale Ayuba should do a remake of his very early 1990s monster hit song, "Bubble" since just this month of June, 2023, Grammy Awards included a new category for popular African music genres from fuji, juju, amapiano, afrobeat, afrobeats, highlife, and more. He could still win a Grammy award or any other music award with a remake of that "Bubble" track. Talk to you later. ![]() 1 Like 2 Shares |
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