I’m sorry I’m only just getting to this, but here is the column I wrote in commemoration of the rising star Sazzy (Osaze Omonbude), who died too soon at age 26. You can read the article at Weekly Trust online, or you can read the hard copy here by clicking on the photo, which will take you to a large copy of the article as published with photos etc. The acknowledgements were left out of the published version, but I’d like to thank Alkassim Abdulkadir, the Coordinator of Guild of Artists and Poets, for gathering and writing the section on GAP, including the comments from Yoye and Lindsey. The photos should also be credited to Korex Calibur of Intersection Media.
While I was writing this, I listened to as many of Sazzy’s songs as possible. I thought the best way to commemorate his life would be to quote his own words, and although a lot of those quotes ended up getting cut out of the final version of the article, I thought I’d share the transcripts I made of the lyrics of at least three of his songs here.
The first one I’ll post here is the first Sazzy song I ever heard. When our mutual friend Korex posted the link to Sazzy’s music video “Doubt,” on Facebook, I spent about two hours pressing replay. The self-reflexive pidgen, the electronic electric guitar, the voice, and overall production was like no other Nigerian music I’d heard before.
Lyrics to “Doubt”:
Verse 1
Shey na me be dis or be na someone else?
Shey na me dey hear, or someone else is there?
Shey na me dey talk, or someone else dey yarn?
Shey na me dey work for here?
Shey na me dey sing or someone else dey sing?
Shey na me compose, or someone get de beat?
Shey na me dey rise, or someone’s raft discreet (CHECK)
Shey na me get this song….
Chorus:
I don dey doubt myself again, oh X 3
I don dey doubt, I don dey doubt
Verse 2
Shey I get talent, or I be just copycat?
Shey I get the skill, or I scramble like rat?
Make I come to know, or make I drop am flat?
Make I stop to chase this dream.
Shey my voice is good, or is it really bad?
Shey my style is cool, or is it really sad?
I get confidence, or shey na me dey dance?
Shey na me get this song.
Chorus:
I don dey doubt myself again oh X3
I don dey doubt, I don dey doubt
I don dey doubt myself again oh X3
I don dey doubt, I don dey doubt
Verse 3
I don really understand
Wetin dey worry me today oh
I don’t know but what I know is that
Tomorrow go be a better day.
Revised Chorus
I no go doubt myself again oh X3
I no go doubt, I no go doubt X 4
I no go doubt, doubt, doubt,
[skatting]
My next obsession was with his perfect techno breakup song “Anymore,” which you can listen to on his Myspace playlist.
Lyrics to Anymore
Verse 1
Baby, if
You ever know
The things I do
Just for you
You love me right
You treat me good
With all your heart
you say I’m cool
But if instead
you treat me wrong
You treat me bad,
black and blue
The sea is red,
my heart is far
You say it mean and that ain’t true
CHORUS:
Is it because I’m foolish in love
Is it because I’m stupid and blind
Tears from my eyes, and it feels so wrong
Baby, I can’t do this anymore
I can’t hold, I can’t hold, I can’t hold
(Doodoodoo)
This anymore
I can’t hold, I can’t hold, I can’t hold
(Doodoodoo)
This anymore
….
(Doodoodoo)
This anymore
….
(Doodoodoo)
This anymore
Verse 2
I’m back again
To the song
To my self [?]
I’m back to you
Back to my phone
To your name
To your love
Which —[?]
But it’s all a pain
You’ve made your plans
I have no name,
Nothing for you
And I’m so ashamed
We could have been
something more
something more than you…
CHORUS:
Is it because I’m foolish in love
Is it because I’m stupid and blind
Tears from my eyes, and it feels so wrong
Baby I can’t do this anymore.
I can’t hold, I can’t hold, I can’t hold
(Doodoodoo)
This anymore
I can’t hold, I can’t hold, I can’t hold
(Doodoodoo)
This anymore
….
(Doodoodoo)
This anymore X6
—
Here is his striking final piece, a music video of his hit song “Mr. Chairman,” briefly featuring Supreme Solar. His friend and creative collaborator Korex Calibur directed and edited the music video, which was finished after Sazzy’s death. The end result is very powerful. You can feel the tense energy coiled like a spring in Sazzy. He did not live long, but he seems to have crammed his short life full of music and friendship. In the increasingly rapid editing towards the end of the piece, you can also sense the grief and passion with which Korex edited this final music video.
Mr. C
Aha aha oh
Uh huh, oho (….) [skatting]
Verse 1
I’m the realest, I’m the coolest, I’m the newest, I’m the (best)
I’m the freshest, I’m the cutest of the chain
I’m the (nicest)
Ima king, Ima prince, Ima man
Ima (nigga)
You should know that I’m a (killa)
Run them over like a (trailer)
Ima note, Ima chord, I’m the keys
Ima (south)
Ima script, I’m a play, I’m a show (Entertainer)
Number 1, number 2, number 3 (….) (ten)
I’m all aboard, do you understand?
CHORUS: If you see me outside, oh
Just call me Mr. Chairman, Mr. Chairman, Mr. Chairman, Mr. Chairman
Verse 2
I’m a singer, I’m a rapper, producer (extraordinaire)
I’m the bass, I’m the drums, I’m the snare, Ima (shaker)
I’m your sister, I’m your brother, I’m your mother, I’m your (father)
I’m your friend, I’m your (lover),
I’m your wife…
Ima seargent, Mr captain, Ima colonel general
Ima bullet, Ima gun, Ima tank, Ima (sub)
I’m the shit, I’m the piss, I’m your scent, I’m your (body)
I’m all aboard, do you understand?
CHORUS: If you see me outside oh
Just call me Mr. Chairman, Mr. Chairman, Mr. Chairman, Mr. Chairman,
Verse 3
I will like to suggest now, make you start to dey feel this
….
I said I would like to suggest now, make you start to dey feel this
Then feel me
CHORUS: If you see me outside oh
Just call me Mr. Chairman, Mr. Chairman, Mr. Chairman, Mr. Chairman X2
Just call me, Just call me, Mr. C, this star, […]
Finally, after his death, Sazzy’s friends, Uche the African Rockstar, Yoye, Lindsey, 5 Mics, Bugzy, and Snappy put together a tribute piece, “Yesterday, which can be listened to at NotJustOk.com.
“YesterDay”
Sazzy, always on the beat. (Not Just Ok.com)
Peace, man, ….
Chorus: Seems like yesterday I just got news you went away, but there aint no way you’ll fade away. To me, I remember how we used to be. X2
I used to think you have all the time in the world.
I feel so sorry for your girl
because she was your African Queen.
You made it in this African scene.
Oh, why?
We can’t begin to ask all these questions.
I never had a chance for me to mention
the kind of real person that you are.
No doubt that you were meant to be a star.
We’re gonna keep connecting wherever you are.
And even though you’re gone, you will never be far.
Oh Sazzy, why sazzy? I know your family, because I’m your family.
And the Almighty God has put you down to rest.
Until it is my time, I will keep you in my chest.
No matter what they say, to me, you are the best.
To me, you are the best.
CHORUS X2
You were a close friend, but now you’re so far away.
My heart bleeds, shedding tears, I kneel down and pray.
I pray the Lord your soul to keep
At heavens gate, I pray God gives you the key
We ask for his blessing, but what’s better than this?
Leaving this cruel world full of envy and greed
I shed a tear on my rhyme book
You know me Stay Positive C, the cup is half full
You always knew the answers
And if you were here
I would have asked you
Because in this wrong man, I see no good
Sazzy, you were so good.
Producer Extraordinaire
Mr. C, I salute
Never overrated, maybe underpaid
You were a trend-setter, man, you paved the way
Now much has changed, still trying to take your place,
But you were real to Death…..
CHORUS X2
Ok, it was like a joke when Gang hit me with the news
For DJ Atta said it too, and it hit me like the blues.
— tears over the phone, hearing my brother cry
Give me some broken bones
You invited me to your house, I couldn’t find my way there
Now I’m at your house, and damn you aint here
My conscious killing me. I should have been here more often.
Now the Ray Bans couldn’t stop the chairs from dropping
You kept fighting this sickness. I know you’re resting now
No more hospitals and drugs, just angels in gowns.
This boss ain’t enough to express how I feel
Sazzy, Mr. Chairman, God bless ….
CHORUS X2
Yeah, everybody put your lighters on
As we say farewell to an icon
Damn, but your music still lives on
We feel your presence in our hearts
Even though you’re gone
Yeah, I wish I never had to write this verse
I wish I never had to say “Sazzy, rest in peace”
Cuz you were loved by the streets
Forever in our hearts, Sazzy,
Rest in Peace
..
Well, well, …..
Whhhhy? Why?
…
Sazzy, (boom) Everybody feel your pain
But one day, we …
But one day, we wan make Zion…
CHORUS X2
Yo, Sazzy, we’re gonna miss you
I got all a your friends to come and talk to you
Because even though you’re gone, they’re gonna be talkin to you
Representing you
You’re the gospel, put it down.
Lindsey’s singing on the hook
And 5 Mics is doing it too.
Yo, Yoye, I know you’re feeling it, dog
Yo Bugzy, what’s up man, yo Snappy
Everybody’s in the crew man, we’re all gonna miss you,
We’re all gonna miss you, yeah
Because I’m the African Rockstar,
It’s because of you
And everytime I’m doing, we doing it for you
We’re never gonna forget you
Everybody awaits you.
Yehaw
Everything, It seems like yesterday
Whoohhi
It all seems like yesterday, ya’ll
I can’t say no more, man,
Just keep resting, dog,
You still live in our hearts
Yo, peace.
A Tunanina... 
“Government Money” a remix of “Arab Money” by Supreme Solar, T-Rex, and Ziriums
A few months ago I wrote a post on 11 songs that had been banned by the Kano State Censorship Board in Kano. This memo prohibiting the sale of the songs, photographed by documentary filmmaker Alex Johnson, was posted at the market where cds are sold.
11 Songs banned by the Kano State Censorship Board. Photo (c) Alex Johnson
The third on the list of songs that were banned was “Girgiza Kai” (“Shake your head”) by Hausa rapper Ziriums, which was not officially released but uploaded to his myspace page. In “Girgiza Kai,” Ziriums, warns those who hear his song,
“Kai karku taka kun san an hana.
Hey, don’t dance, you know they banned it. ….
.. ..
Gwamnan garinmu ran nan. Shi ne ya hana.
The governor of our city here. He banned it…..”
Instead you should just
“Girgiza kai.”
“Shake your head.”
He also satirically uses the proverb “Mai dokar bacci, ya bige da gyangyed’i.” “The one who says sleep is against the law is the one nodding off…” to critique
“Wanda duk ya hana mu sana’a”
“Anyone who keeps us from working….”
(You can listen to the song on Zirium’s Myspace page, and read the lyrics and an English translation here.).. Already having left Kano for Abuja when the song was banned, Ziriums has hooked up with other Abuja-based musicians, Supreme Solar and T-Rex, to continue his controversial rapping on a larger national scale. Intersection Entertainment has recently released S. Solar’s “Government Money”, (featuring T-Rex and Ziriums), a hilarious take-off on Busta Rhymes’ and Ron Browz’s notorious “hit”: “Arab Money.”
You can view “Government Money” here. Please note that all the videos embedded in this blog post are being done so under FAIR USE laws for review purposes:
Both the original “Arab Money,” and remake of the Busta Rhymes’ tune contain wildly offensive portrayals of Arabs and Islam. (The remix featuring Lil Wayne, P. Diddy and even self-proclaimed Muslim Akon, is even worse, and uses actual verses from the Qur’an as the chorus.) The Wikipedia article written about the remix of the song notes that the chorus is “Bismillāhi r-raḥmāni r-raḥīm. Al ḥamdu lillāhi rabbi l-‘ālamīn”; “In the name of Allah (The God), most Gracious most Merciful. All Praise is due to Allah, Lord of the worlds.” This chorus is intoned behind the American rappers making dramatic poses , flipping bling, and rhyming about their wealth. The Wikipedia article continues to point out that Busta Rhymes uses the Islamic greeting “As-Salamu Alaykum Warahmatullah Wa Barakatu.” “May Peace and blessings of Allah(The God)be upon you” (A Greeting), to rhyme with “While I stack another billion and give it to the block fool.” Similarly Diddy says ““Al hamdu lillah” ( “All Praises to Allah”) to rhyme with: “With my billions pilin'”
Watch the original “Arab Money” here:
And the remix here:
Obviously, while self-consciously funny, the song is sacrilegious and insulting to most Muslims (though if you read through the comments on youtube or various lyrics websites there are occasional self-proclaimed “Arabs” who take pride in it). I could focus my whole blog post on this issue; however, since this has already been done multiple times (here, here, here, here, here, and here) and since I’m more interested in how S. Solar, T-Rex, and Ziriums rewrite the song in the Nigerian context, I’d like to look more at what seems to be Busta Rhyme’s conscious intention, which seems to be a celebration of bling—exemplified in what, with blinding cultural chauvinism, he calls “Arab money.” He and his fellow musicians are not affected by the recession, he implies, they just move on to the “Arab money,” which “Arabs” know how to respect:
Indeed, in an MTV article, Busta defends himself by describing the way the song was recorded:
Busta ostensibly praises the “rich Arab culture,” yet the “culture” he claims to admire is an Orientalist fantasy of gold-glittering caves and harems of nymphomaniacs, tied to earlier colonial grabs for land, wealth, and power. At time code 1:54 in the first video he brags that he is
Both versions entwine exoticized presentations of supposedly “Arab” moneyed lifestyles with the standard hiphop hymn to wealth, materialism, money, and women—clichés exemplified in 50 Cent’s “I Get Money,” among many others.
These clichés have been adopted (with more or less irony) in Nigerian pop music. (Examples feature Nollywood-like Lagos settings with plush leather couches, sleek clubs, wine glasses, expensive cars, and scantily clad (often light-skinned) women. See Faze’s Need Somebody, P-Square’s “Do Me, I Do You,” Dbanj’s “Booty Call,” or Style Plus’s “Call my Name.”) These popular songs exemplify the “Nigerian dream” of making it big and partaking in the glamourous party-world of Ikoyi, Victoria Island, Maitama, or abroad. In fact, before Intersection’s “Government Money,” Olu Maintain had come out with a track named “Arab Money,” as well, likely inspired by the Busta Rhymes video although he doesn’t seem to have shot a video for it yet. The chorus involved the repeated phrase “I go spend Arab Money, just spend Arab money,” alongside wistful tracks about going “to Abu Dhabi, where we can walk freely.” In this track, there does seem to be more self consciousness about the representation of wealth than much other Naija-pop, as can be seen in the observation that in Dubai “recession no dey there” and in this exchange at timecode 3:04 between Olu Maintain and Bondo Krazzy:
The Nigerian music/music videos I find most compelling play with a more self conscious reference to wealth as it is related to corruption and give ironic nods to the particularly Nigerian innovations in 419, from the celebration of the yahoo yahoo boys in Olu Maintain’s Yahoozee, which features row upon row of big hummers to the more self-consciously satirical “I Go Chop your Dollar” by comedian Nkem Owoh (who in a twist of fate was recently kidnapped by entrepreneurial criminals in what has become the hottest new way to “chop money” Apparently, Owoh was released when his family forked over N1.4 billion.)Watch Yahoozee here:
Watch, “I go Chop your Dollar” here:
With “Government Money,” Intersection musicians Supreme Solar, T-Rex, and Ziriums follow in this satirical tradition: Rewriting Busta Rhyme’s hymn to moola, these Abuja-based musicians echo the “celebration” of money, but with an ironic edge—rapping not of the wealthy lifestyle attainable to them as musicians but to those Abuja Big Boys who are eating “Government money.”
In the tradition of “Yahoozee” and other videos where flashy cars become symbols of power, sexual prowess, and wealth, Supreme Solar raps about his “new Range Rover” leaning against the glossy side of the jeep. The camera zooms out to focus on the license plate, which says FG Kudi, (for Federal Government Money). The use of “Abuja” here is a metonym for government, politics, and all the “promise”of money that Abuja offers those who come to Nigeria’s airbrushed capitol where the poor (or even the simply “middle class”) are swept out to the crowded outskirts of the city. To participate in the lifestyle, then as T-Rex says
What’s the access here?
We aint makin bucks in excess
Having stocks and investments
But to me it doesn’t’ make sense
To make the excessive “Abuja-style” money, one must go a bit further than stocks and investments, “Duping NGO’s for Virgin dough” and other shady transactions.
What most creates tension between “Government Money” and the original “Arab Money,” taking the tune beyond the “Yahoozee” genre (pushing it more in the direction of Eedris Abdulkareem’s funny but incisively critical “Mr. Lecturer”), is the inclusion of Ziriums, a Northern Muslim from Kano state, with his Hausa chorus “Mu ci kudin Abuja, Mu ci kudin gwamnati” (Let’s eat/spend Abuja Money, let’s eat/spend government money”) and his fierce spoken commentary at the end of the song. Interestingly (even uncomfortably), Ziriums’ chorus in Hausa is used where in the “Arab Money” remix the Qur’anic verses are used, layering on popular Nigerian conflations of Arab/Muslim culture with the Hausa-speaking north, both imagined and real. By the second day the video had been posted, there was already a comment by user “injustice2mankind” saying, “That fool Ziriums is killing me with his attire…note the arab neck scarf on his agbada….so funny.”
Ziriums featured in “Government Money” by Supreme Solar
Where in the American version, there is a blasphemous use of the Qur’an to rhyme with verses about the love of mammon, in this version, Ziriums’ chorus takes the “Arabic” sound and turns it to a satirical first person boast about “devouring government money.” Here, he subversively links Busta Rhymes et al, and their blasphemous use of Islamic creed to support debauchery, with those “Big Men” who use religion (whether Christianity or Islam) as a cover to justify their scramble for the “national cake.” That is, the very elite who tend to self-righteously decry the “immorality” and “cultural imperialism” of hiphop as a genre are the very ones whose personal habits tend have the most in common with the gold-plated lifestyles of those American artists. Dressed in a Big Man’s babban riga, Ziriums and the other two artists take on the personas of government contractors and professional fraudsters, blurring the boundary between the two.
“Cin kudi” (literally “eating money”), the Hausa phrase that parallels the pidgin phrase “chopping money,” reflects both the everyday language of Nigerians when they speak of corruption and the concept in popular culture that corrupt leaders are both metaphorically and literally consuming the wealth of the nation: taking “a chunk of the national cake,” “duping NGOs,” taking their “contracts’ tax”. These conquests make T-Rex “hungrier than ever,” invoking images seen in political cartoons of monstrous fat bellied leaders who as in Ngugi wa Thiong’o’s novel Devil on the Cross are in a competition to see who is the greatest thief and robber. If T-Rex’s stomach is burning and hungry,” and “grumbling funny” in hunger for more assets, at the end Ziriums goes into a fierce tirade: “Yunwa, Talauci, […] Don haka, dole mu ci kudin gwamnati, kudin Abuja, dole mu kwashe .” “Hunger, poverty.[…] This is why we must consume government money, Abuja money, we must spend it.” On one hand, he echoes Nkem Owoh’s narrative in “I Go Chop your Dollar,”
On the other hand, Ziriums points out that Abuja money and government money, in fact, belongs to everyone in the country—If there is hunger and poverty, then ordinary people must also have access to the nation’s wealth.
Nigerian hiphop is often criticized for merely mindlessly copying American rap. I have no doubt that some may point to the Intersection’s ripping of the production and “sound” of Busta Rhymes “Arab Money” as an illustration of such “unoriginality.” However, the transfer, at least in this case, profoundly changes the song: adding to, subverting, and commenting on the original. “Government Money” ends up being not just a critique of corruption among Nigeria’s wealthy elite, but also a parody/critique of the mindlessly obscene celebration of bling in “Arab Money”—and of the exoticizing colonization of other parts of the world in the Busta Rhymes tune and so often found in American hiphop. (See for example: Ludacris’s “Pimpin All Over the World,” countless beach scenes in the Caribbean, or Nigerian rapper Eedris Abdulkareem’s beef with 50 Cent over a seat on an airplane, about whom he said “You cannot treat me as a second and or third class citizen in my own country, I will not take it from anybody.”) When to a background of the chanted Qur’an, P. Diddy [wearing two cross chains] raps “Fuck the recession. I’m still investin, I’m about to buy Dubai, and swim in the shark section,” P. Diddy seems far more akin to the arrogant Swiss-bank account holding government swindlers of Nigeria than these young, upcoming but still moneyless Nigerian musicians.Thus, “Government Money” blends the ferocious critiques of oppressive society found in politically conscious rap with a parody of the glossy sexed-up materialistic hits most popular on MTV.
There are a few things to work on, here. The video is busy with graphics and, while featuring other artists who are not actually participating in the music is in keeping with the original “Arab Money” mix, here it is just confusing. If the song becomes popular enough, it would be great to have a re-mix video. But it is fresh, funny, and this talent is real. The “Unassailable” S. Solar, the “Extraordinary” T-Rex, and the “Revolutionary” Ziriums, as the video titles them, are musicians to keep an eye on.
And to watch again without having to scroll back up:
Here are the lyrics. Thank you to Korex of Intersection who provided me with the complete corrected lyrics of the verses in English and to Ziriums who corrected my Hausa transcription of the chorus before I posted. (Correction to English made 25 November 2009–and with access to the full lyrics some of the analysis may change… stay tuned… lol)
Lyrics:
The Goose, da goose, is loose in the building.
T-Rex,
Ziriums,
Haha
S. Solar
Chorus (Ziriums):
Naira zamu kashe, mun fito
(We are out to splurge on Naira)
Mu mun fito, mu kashe ‘yan kud’i,
(We’re out to splurge a little money.)
Muci kudin Abuja, muci kudin gwamnati
(Let’s spend Abuja money, let’s spend government money)
Repeat once
Supreme Solar
Verse 1: I appear anywhere with the new range rover
Check the Tints so intense, FG plate number
Can’t stop, coming like a rain, lots of digits in my company name hey, money ain’t a thing
So much money that the bank can’t hold
Too many properties that we can’t disclose
What’s your bank’s name, i’ll call the CEO
When my NGO’ll holler back and make the black case close!
Chorus: Ziriums
T-Rex
Verse 2: More than a slice, I’ll take a chunk of the national cake
Get the ration and break.
Before you know that the transaction is fake
i’ll be in another state
Hooking up another bait, Duping NGO’s for Virgin dough
Cop a lotta paper
Breaking contacts and contracts
It’s a strong task. If there’s a window of opportunity
[Crack]
I’ll make the walls crack, give the guns back
And I’m hungrier than ever, get the cheddar, tell rihanna to get that ugly ass umbrella.
I’m loving the weather, and its Government Money.
I’ve gotta vendetta, I’m gonna be robbin them, sonny.
There’s no time for fumbling,
I’m burning and hungry, feel the mic on my belly
You hear it rumbling funny?
Chorus: Ziriums
T-Rex
Verse 3:What’s the access here?
We aint makin bucks in excess
Having stocks and investments
But to me it doesn’t make sense.
S. Solar:
Yeah, like Solar, calls it out of the PH [Port-Harcourt]
3 series Beemer, cruising back to the ‘A’ [Abuja]
Bankin on them papers that we packed in the case
Cause that’s how we get the papers that we stashed with the Feds
T-Rex:
I see them crackin the safe with skills can wait
Musta chills and chase still…
lock up the bills than Gates
S. Solar:
Go through a couple of milli? no we be down with a Billi
Like a billy a billion… nigga for real, no really we get it
T-Rex:
Too bad we get the credit unrated, then set it(….)
All you you relics are heading for debit
And that is your verdict
S. Solar
Bam
Baby pick up the bags and clothes, lets make a final break before the black case close.
Chorus: (Ziriums):
Naira zamu kashe, mun fito
(We are out to splurge on Naira)
Mu mun fito, mu kashe ‘yan kud’i,
(We’re out to splurge a little money.)
Muci kudin Abuja, muci kudin gwamnati
(Let’s spend Abuja money, let’s spend government money)
Repeat once
Ziriums speaks over the chorus: Ziriums, T-Rex, Solar, Korex….Dole mu (….) kudin Abuja, wallahi tallahi, yunwa, talauci,yaudara (?) mutane, Don haka, dole mu ci kudin gwamnati, kudin Abuja, dole mu kwashe…Mu saye gidaje musu, Mu saye motoci, Mu aure mata yan gwamnati. Kawai abin da zamu yi. Habba… Intersection… Ba wani kudin waye waye…Ni kwarai, (….) Kudin gwamnatu, masu gidan rana ehheh
(I haven’t finished transcribing/translating Zirium’s monologue at the end, so if anyone hears the rest of it, I’d appreciate the help. Thanks!)
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