Hip Hop act Reminisce who has
made a name for himself in the music scene in Nigeria by rapping
predominantly in Yoruba has come out to say that the media should stop
tagging him and fellow rappers who rap in their mother tongue as
'indigenous rappers'.
He made his feelings known about the term during an interview with Hip Hop World Magazine. "Stop
calling us indigenous rappers there is nothing like that, a rapper is a
rapper, calling myself, Phyno, Olamide, Seriki, BaseOne, Lil Kesh and
couple of others coming up local rapper is a way of suppressing or make
us feel inferior, because Sarkodie is a rapper no one refers to him as
indigenous rapper. If you cannot call him a local rapper then don’t call
any of us local or indigenous rapper" he said.
"Over
the years, we’ve been able to overturn the rap game, we’ve been able to
change perception as regards if you cannot rap in English you cannot be
a rap god or king and it’s been a collective effort. Things has really
change people can now know who the real hip hop guys are unlike before
when if you can rap in English you won’t get endorsement. And we feel
very proud to be the rave of the moment” he further said.
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