How about going all slangy today on the #AOTW looking at some of the new slangs introduced by Nigerian artists in 2019? Remember #TBS has been deliberate about making it 100% Nigeria since 3 weeks. The Nigeria music industry is known to always introduce new slangs, reminiscing on slangs that made great music titles and lyrics last year wouldn’t be a bad idea. Will it? Some Nigerian acts dropped fantastic tunes in 2019 and words, phrases or sentences from those sounds in vernacular conversations are still forming major parts of fans vocabularies till this moment. Are you one of those fans? Tell us in the comment session Nigerian musical slangs that still make mad sense to you even before last year.
Speaking of musical slangs, the use of slangs in the Nigerian music has become a norm looking at ways our artists convert them for titles or integrate them to make mad lyrics. Slang is one of the Nigerian musical contents thathas been around for as long as the Nigerian hip hop/R$B exists.A lot of slangs from the music industryhave come to stay even when some of the songs in which these slang came from are no longer popular on the streets.
Absolutely! There were great slangs that went viral in 2018 and still relevant till date. For instance: ‘Stew’ courtesy Tiwa Savage and Wizkidat the release of ‘Fever’, ‘JiMasun’ by Idowest , ‘Gbe Body E’ by Zlatan, ‘Aza’ by DMW , ‘Saint Sami – Ganja’ by Slimcase. There have been loads and laodsof slangs introduced in the preceding yearsby the likes of: Olamide talking slangs like Smellos, KoduroSoke, ShoroNiyen, Turn Up , even “Baddo”.. Let’s check out the artist on #4 from 2019 first.
No 4: “Gbe Body E”
(The phrase is from “killin’ dem” – a collab by Burna Boy and Zlatan that has been burning up the airwaves since 2018. No real depth to the hit other than basically expressing how good these two are fusing dancehall, afrobeat, highlife with Zlatan bringing the Hip Hop sound)
It has remained one of avalanche of slangs that went viral in 2019 beating other newly introduced slangs by the Nigerian music industry in 2019 to their trend. It’s a slang used by young and old, educated and uneducated ones even used for advert.
More new buzzwords from last year’s music coming through right now in a moment! Here is a quick one for you guys! Who among the Nigerian acts likes to incorporate slangs into his or her music alot? Y’all remember Lepa/Orobo by WandeKolo, Kolomental by Face, Also in 2015, Doro by Mavin Records, Woju O by Kiss Daniel, Jonze by D’Prince, Alobam meaning (brother from another mother) by Phyno-fino? How about Tu Baba’s Notin De Happen? Wassuputunu by Lynxxx.D’banj back in the day with Koko, No Long Tin, No Shaking, Fi le…Don Touch It!
Slang travels faster than you can imagine. A lot of trending terms also use by artists sometimes are made popular by other entertainment media like radio and TV. For instance, buzz wordslit,dope,dab,woke,swag,
No 3 Pawon by Olamide (meaning “kill Them”) fourth official release in August 2019 produced by produced by CrackerMallo)
Kiki Pawon, Yeye Pawon, Bibi Pawon, Zaynab pawon! Olamide mapawa now! Mad oh! That song was especially dedicated to sexy ladies around the world. The virality of video of that song in November was just something else. The social media challenge for the song though. I personally feel that he could have deployed a better way to appreciate sexy ladies.
Is Olamide still the king of slangs by the way? Some fans actuallyrecognized him as the king of slangs?
No 2: Mad Oh by Playaz
(This is a viral song titled by singer and songwriter. The song was released in December and has been making waves since it got released. It was also reported that the controversial slang is now featuredin the Urban Dictionary- a crowdsourced online dictionary for slang words and phrases. It said to mean sarcasm. There is DJ Xclusive – Mad O version as well, and others by non-Nigerian)
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The Nigerian artists are highly creative I must say. They deserve some kudos! But hey! Be guarded guys! It’s not all these words you can slay in your formal conversations. You may not even find them word for word looking up meaning in the English dictionary. I think it’s high time we created the Nigerian Dictionary or definitive book for popular slang words used by millennials and artists in General. What do you think?
Yeah definitely! At least, for other wider collection of slangs that are more of language appreciation. Some of these artists awaken the sense of cultural appreciation in fans. For instance, the 2019 song title Owambe by Simi has become a cliche for describing weekend social events. Also Orente by AdekunleGold which means a beautiful lady wasn’t in popular use until Adekunle Gold released that song.
Many slangs are make popular words or phrases which ordinarily people don’t pay attention to until they appears as lyrics or title of songs. Both a-list acts and new Nigerian artists through their music influence the streets or otherwise. It’s more like give and take idea.As a millennial, you got stay woke to all the new slang, dance, trend, music that Nigerian acts have to offer this 2020. Guys! Go over to our website at www.theboxshowafrica.com for more on the Nigerian vibe 100%
No 1 GbasGbos by Fireboy (produced by Pheelz)
(single released in November 2019/track 7 off album Laughter, Tears & Goosebumps. Fireboy gets spiritual in the songsaying: “I Need Some Loving For The Road Cause I Don Dey Work For Studio”.)
