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Ckay Opens Up About Not Smiling And Relates His Emotions to His Work
Nigerian Singer, Ckay expresses his thought on the comments about him smiling. He states that he does not feel the need to show happiness, hence not smiling in pictures or in general. This was brought up during an interview in Afrobeats Intelligence podcast hosted by Joey Akan. The host compliments Ckay’s smile and he disclose that he has been told he has a nice smile.
The host then asks further questions regarding this, “When people describe how you smile, what do they say? What’s the most repetitive or recurring review of your smile?”.
The singer replies that he has been told he has a mice smile and should smile but reflects that he is not exactly in a happy place regarding his album and tries to portray his emotions in his work.
“There are moments to smile and moments of reality; positive and negative emotions happen to a person, so I say making music only about the positive things, it won’t be realistic. For someone like me making art has to represent the positives and negatives for it to be authentic.”
Nollywood actor Kunle Remi expresses his frustration over the current state of the economy and the fuel increase.
He first states how Nigeria is now inconsistent with power supply and on top of this sudden fuel increase occurs.
“I live on the island, we’ve been running generators back to back. Petrol is ₦1,300 now. My staff are smiling but letting me know it’s hard to even come to work.”
“All the things I’m working for… for what? It’s messing with my brain and my spirit is very angry,” he added.
He calls for the government to make a change and provide a solution to this.
Nigerian comedian I Go Save takes to social media as he laments about data in Nigeria. He expresses his frustration with how data finishes fast these days.
He proceeded to share his experience stating that one month data finished in few hours.
“They just talk say I have subscribed for one month, e no even reach how many hours, they thing don finish. I download house? Nobody is even saying anything. Internet providers are defr@uding Nigerians badly.”
Nigerian rapper Ruggedman steps out to criticize the term Afrobeats and states how many artists hide under that category.
In a recent interview, he shares his thoughts stating that people who are even with no talent hide under the name Afrobeats and it gets accepted because of that.
“I don’t like Afrobeats as an umbrella genre from every music coming out of Africa. That was a mistake. I didn’t liked it from the beginning but when I complained people accused me of being jealous or trying to gatekeep,” he said.
“It is the people in the UK who started this thing of tagging every African music Afrobeats. Nigerians love classicism. They just wanted to give it a name,” he said.
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