Article as written by Etcetera below:
“I walked into the music preview room at the radio
station and I saw one of our sound engineers
previewing Naeto C’s songs before uploading it into
the station’s new digital library for airplay.
I immediately walked out of the room because I
wasn’t ready to activate my anger mode by putting
myself through another experience of listening to
another Nigerian rap song with shallow and crappy
lines of which Naeto C is the culprit-in-chief, only to
walk into the transmitting room and heard the
presenter on duty introducing ‘Share my Blessing’
by Naeto C and Asa, as the next song on the play
list.
I have to admit that this time around, I wasn’t too
eager to make a dash for the door. Maybe because
I heard Asa was on the song and thought that it
would have at least inspired Naeto C to use better
and more inspiring rhymes. Hope is a very
dangerous thing. It turned out that I hoped for too
much.
The first line of the song almost pulled off my knee
cap. It is the most fatal accident I have had till
date. I almost died when I heard “what a
conundrum” within the first few lines. What
Conundrum? Like seriously? Bros Naeto, the only
thing close to a conundrum in the whole song was
how you convinced Asa to feature in the song.
That song has some of the dumbest lines ever used
in the history of rap music worldwide. As I sat there
gasping for air, I tried consoling myself that every
artist is allowed one mistake in a career lifespan
and ‘Share my Blessing’ is a mistake that won’t
happen again.
But on a second thought, I asked myself, didn’t Asa
or her manager Janet, hear Naeto C’s lines before
accepting to feature on the song? I would have
Usain-Bolted out of that studio, screaming ‘tufiakwa
gi’ and snapping my fingers as I rid myself of all the
phloem in my system.
Asa apparently hasn’t learnt her lessons. Her latest
collabo with Korede Bello is another career mistake
that shouldn’t have happened. The lightening has
struck twice. Korede Bello and Asa have succeeded
where others have failed. Koredo Bello and Asa
have succeeded in taking every crappy song from
the past decade in Nigeria and mashed them into a
musical abomination; add that to the level of auto-
tune on Korede’s voice; which sounds like T-Pain
after he’s slammed his testicles in a car door.
Ironically, slamming my own testicles in a car door
is something I would rather do than listen to this
song again.
Sadly, the fiasco with Naeto C now looks like a
piece of art compared to this song with Korede
Bello. This is a whole new grade of crime against
music. Asa, how do you explain this to your fans? I
have searched for justification even from a
musician’s perspective and found none. The whole
song comes out childish and guess Korede knows it
too, which explains why he had to sing it to us as
the first line that he is no longer a child. Korede has
proved conclusively with this song that there are
two things a Nigerian youth can’t do: play music
and feign humility. Titling your song, “Somebody
Great”, and blabbing all through the song about
“Somebody wey dey spray millions and somebody
wey go save billions” is that what defines
greatness? Spraying of millions? What are you
doing to yourself Asa? How did you get yourself
involved in this song? Why did you do this to your
fans?
I won’t be surprised to hear that the sound engineer
that mixed this song is deaf. That you couldn’t hear
that the whole song is drenched in reverb is
unbelievable. For God’s sake, the presence in the
song is very disturbing to the ears. And what is that
thing that sounds like someone striking a pot cover
with “ewedu” broom? Please don’t tell me that it is
the crash or the hi-hats. Please sir, can you take
back your mix and reduce the shakers. Damn it,
take back your mix and keep it to yourself.
Asa, I swear you no try at all.
The only excuse that would probably make some
sense to me now is if I am told that you guys were
just trying to create something for the current
generation but instead of a smooth-rocking guitar
classic, you have instead created this audible shit.
Yes, this song is literally shit that you can hear. It is
the worst song from Asa that I have had the
displeasure of listening.
Unfortunately though, for some inexplicable reason,
some people are actually going to play it and like it
and start insulting Etcetera like he is the reason the
song is rubbish.
Please, the excuse that Asa was not involved in this
collaboration with Korede Bello; that Don Jazzy
recorded her freestyle and used on the song, is not
going to hold any water here. Nobody does that in
this age and time knowing the ramification. And
until Don Jazzy is called out by Asa’s management,
I will assume the freestyle story is just another
industry lie and that “Somebody Great” is a well
thought out and planned collaboration between Asa
and Korede Bello. Until then, trying to water down
Asa’s involvement in this song will be a blatant in-
your-face insult to her fans as much as tweaking
the synthesizer at the beginning of the song to give
it a rock guitar feel is a blatant in-your-face
insulting to all guitarists out there.”
