Below are top 5 selections from the Old time Nigerian Rap Songs That Is Still Accepted In The New Era
- Olamide — Eni Duro
Olamide is top five of all time, either you’re talking about afro-pop or Afrobeats or hip-hop, whatever. When it comes to music, he remains one of the best to ever do it. “Eni Duro” … his first single is one of those tracks that you just had to be there when it dropped. It was everywhere on the streets, in 2011. And that’s been ten years. Classic. Indeed only Olamide can outdo himself.
2) Ice Prince — Oleku (ft. Brymo)
Ice Prince was one of the first artists who put Nigerian music on the map globally. Internationally, Ice was the man. He did it like nobody else before him has done it. And during that classic run, he created one of the best Nigerian records of all time, “Oleku .” I don’t know what’s more amazing, the Brymo hook, the instrumental, or Ice Prince‘s legendary rhyme scheme on the verses.
3) M.I Abaga – You Rappers Should Fix Up Your Life
In 2017, this track got every tongue wagging when veteran rapper, M.I Abaga came out of ‘retirement’ to diss every rapper. This song is in many ways like Ruggedman‘s “Ehen ” as it did change the culture. M.I is probably the only one left that can make so many OG rappers insecure. So many people got in the booth just because of this song.
4) Ruggedman — Ehen
At a time when there was a monopoly and Kennis Music was parading Eedris Abdulkareem and the likes as best rappers around, Ruggedman came and changed the game. On “ Ehen ,” Ruggedy Baba dissed everyone from Eedris, to Kennis, to Maintain. He was the one that paved the way for more independent rappers that came after and dominated. He made more hits, of course, but this one is legendary. It changed how things were done around here and nobody could’ve done it better.
5) Phyno – Ghost Mode (ft. Olamide)
Olamide and Phyno did something iconic here and it’s not talked about enough if we’re being honest. “ Ghost Mode ” started what would become one of the best duos of all time in the history of Nigerian music. They would go on to do other classic songs like “ Fada Fada ” and even did a whole album together. 2 Kings!
Source: Naijaloaded
