Top 7 Nigeria’s Best Storytellers Through Hip-Hop And Afropop Music

Musical storytelling, which often goes by the name “program music” or “tone painting,” is simply a type of music that examine the different ways composers have told stories with their songs.

These songs or music often times are True life Events, Scenarios that had happened or can be related to our environment or day to day activities. Examples of these songs are:

1. Falz – Child Of The World

Child of the world, where he narrates the perilous life of a young girl who is molested by her uncle and eventually grows up to be some sort of a nymphomaniac. She gets mixed up with a group of girls who do anything for money and they introduce her into the life of getting paid for getting laid.

2. Omawunmi – If You Ask Me

This song has an opportunity to speak on some of the hidden perversions existing in modern society.

A typical example is a story she tells of a family but she calls attention to the disturbing habit of some fathers molesting and also impregnating their own daughters. questionable activities between the father and daughter.

3. Mode 9 – Cry

This is one of the most powerful Nigerian hip-hop songs of all time which tells two different stories.

Verse 1

The story of university sweethearts who got married, but the husband went on to become a drunk and the wife was home and miserable. She got pregnant and on her delivery date, the drunken husband drove in a rush to meet her and got into an accident, leaving his wife a widow and the newborn baby boy fatherless.

Verse 2

Tells the story of two childhood friends ending up in the same university but joining two different rival cults. The gang rivalry flung them against each other and when there was an eventual showdown, they both died by each other’s trigger fingers. This verse will literally give you chills when you listen to it.

4. Timaya – Dem Mama

The ‘Odi Massacre’ was a mass killing in Odi, Bayelsa state where civilians were killed by the military in response to a high tension conflict involving oil resources.

Dem Mama had vibrant beats and a heavy tempo, making it sound like a club banger (which it actually was), but the message was a tragic report of the violence that tore families apart and claimed lives.

5. Psquare – Oga Police

This one speaks the minds of the average Nigerian who has experienced Police harassment or brutality.

Verse 1:

Cruising down the road with chic in the passenger seat and police tries to spoil your style and harass you for paper.

Verse 2:

Chilling at the joint with your friends from abroad while in a Nice Luxury Car. They would accuse you to be a Fraudster or ask what you do for a living or try to invade your privacy by asking you to open your phone.

6. Mr Raw – Obodo

Obodo is a classic storytelling rap music mostly in the native language Igbo well delivered from Mr Raw then Dat Nigga Raw. On this track, he features the renowned comedian Klint Da Drunk who helps in adding a fine-tune to the rhythm.

He talks about how he’s been treated by the Nigerian Police on a stop and search patrol.

7. Burna Boy – Another Story

The Grammy-award winner, Burna Boy tells the story of how Nigeria developed as one country starting from Niger Company.

He explained how the British colonized Nigeria and paid the sum of 850,000 pounds in 1900.

Burna Boy claimed;

To understand Nigeria, you need to appreciate where it came from In 1900, Britain officially assumed responsibility for the Administration of the whole of what we Now know as Nigeria from the Niger Company.

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