Tag: Jamaica

Nigeria’s Rema drops new jam dubbed “Beamer(Bad Boys)” as he features Jaimaca’s Rvssian

Posted on by Branny

One of Nigeria’s fastest rising star Rema has dropped a new exciting jam dubbed “Beamer(Bad Boys)”. This is a quest to diversify afrobeat music.

For a while now Nigeria music has topped charts for the longest time.

According to Apple Music Beats, Rema said collaborating every single artist has their roles to play.

For him, he is the commando in the army of the new generation music. Rema released three EPs in 2019: Rema, Freestyle, and Bad Commando.

Further, Rvssian is the founder of Head Concussion Records, a music production company situated in Kingston, Jamaica.

How the two joined up for this Beamer jam am yet to find out but it was totally worth it.

Beamer(Bad Boys)

This is a song that revolves around everyday contemporary life. The hip kind of life that most ladies dream of every day.

In what seems like a bragging right, Rema is clearly hitting on a girl or girls flossing about his beamer.

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He even goes on to floss about his money and how he wishes to spend it on a woman and most of all he swears to protect her.

He warns other people that try to take her away from him. Protection huh!!

On the other hand, the girls confess how much they love Bad Boys like Rema. The guys that are willing to spend on them. I know many ladies can relate to this.

Lyrics and production

The song’s lyrics are a mix of pidgin English from Nigeria and that Jamaican vibe. This makes the song stand out and well we love this.

He is clearly becoming the superstar of this generation’s music in Nigeria. In the meantime, we appreciate the job well done in this song we want more music Rema. Seems like Africa was also waiting for you.

For rating, I will go with 6/10.Your thoughts?

Kenyan Dancehall Musicians are selfish

Posted on by Branny

I did a piece on how dancehall artists  are not appreciated especially in Kenya. Well, for this I must say maybe it’s because they are selfish.

Also read: Kenyan Dancehall Music is not appreciated at all

Looks harsh, but look at it this way. How big is dancehall music in Kenya?How many upcoming dancehall artists do we know? For those that we know, how many have mentored upcoming dancehall musicians?

Get my point??As a country we are still trying to identify a sound that resonates with many when  it comes to music.

However, dancehall artists in my opinion are leaving out the younger generation when it comes to this kind of genre.

So far, with what I  have observed many dancehall lovers are at ‘let’s throw it back mood ‘ in most cases. I mean they keep replaying the  old dancehall music,yet am sure by now new age musicians if taken by hand and guided could work something out for the fans.

Old and New music

The olden day music was good while it lasted but new age groups deserve new age music. The regular secular music scene is enjoying the songs of new age artists or groupies like Ethic, Ochungulo family among many others that are thriving on the Wamlambez and wamnyonyez anthems.

Clearly something is lurking in this genre music. Had the veteran musicians in the said genre taken up the initiative of not just growing their  brand and have mentored new dancehall artists I believe as a country we would be selling internationally just like Jamaica.

Well, Jamaica is believed to be the pace setters when it comes to dancehall but our music scene was also thriving with basement music. Nowadays it’s a selective mood of dancehall music even in the clubs that used to have dancehall nights.

Today we only boast of three dancehall artists that were famous years back. We need to reach out more to upcoming dancehall music makers .This is the only way this genre will get back on track and musicians should like Redsan can get the ratings he deserves.