Hip hop artiste and current lyricist on the roll winner Vector recently urged the public not to rate Nigerian rap music by American standards. According to him, rap music is usually unique to a people as it tends to focus on their history, experiences, culture, and tradition.
He also said rappers owed the listening public the responsibility to produce good music for their listening pleasure.
“The purity of Hip-Hop is dependent on the person doing it. A Frenchman can only do Hip-Hop in a pure French form, so somebody who is doing Hip-Hop right now can only do, like me I’m only doing Hip-Hop how I know how to do Hip-Hop. Is it pure? To me, yes. I think at this point we should just try and accommodate each other’s definitions of what purity is and that way we will grow. We should stop trying to measure our rap here by American standards or anything, it’s just pretty much if you can rap, rap. How do you know how to rap, if it’s Yoruba do it well, if it’s Igbo do it well, if it’s Hausa, awesome,”