I remembered back then, music happened to be one of the greatest things we loved to listen to in our homes. Although I'm a boring person, I don't really have a fan like that. Music is supposed to be something that touches the soul, something you will listen to, and you will need to think about your life, well, depending on what type of music you are listening to.
I would like to talk about the heroes; there are lots of great messages in music messages that will make you remember your own life and shed tears. Some of our heroes, Fela Kuti, Ebinizer Obey, and so on, happen to be great musicians, although they aren't hip-hop, but believe me, if you listen to them, then you will know what life is all about. Fela Kuti has warned us several times, passing messages to us about the situation in Nigeria through his music carrier. And of course everything he said now comes to pass.
These people will talk about how you can't satisfy humans and what life means in general. The point is that there is no way you will listen to their songs, and you will not be motivated about things that happen around you.
They aren't doing it for the money but for the love of the country and the people. Now back to the music we are doing in this era, I believe everything has changed a lot lately.
The factors affecting today's music are two, and the first one is the society, while the second one is the artist.
Why the society? In this era, we now have Gen Z people all over the place; you cannot be playing old songs for them, and they will like it. All they like is something flashy, something crazy that can make them go crazy.
Honestly speaking, if you are a musician and you are singing cool music, you will not even sell; well, you will see people that will listen to your song, but imagine 20 or 30 percent of people only listening to your song. But try as much as possible to sing rubbish, especially when you are talking about drugs, pussy, and so on like that. You will see lots of people that will patronize your songs. No single messages in today's music again.
The artist is also part of the problem, but believe me, I do not blame the artist too much. Why? To sell a market, you need to know what exactly the society wants. In economics, before you start any market, you must consider three things: how, to whom, and where. These are the factors that will make your market sell, and that was exactly what the musicians were doing too.
They all realize that the society doesn't want cool music, just craziness and highness. So they try as much as possible to sing rubbish. Meanwhile, if they don't, they will not sell.
Honestly, there are millions of songs out there, but there are no messages in all the songs, and these are songs that sell the most in the market.
In summary, I don't think there can be a solution to it, although most musicians now are extremely lazy, but the society makes them so lazy. We have few people that sing good songs, but honestly you will not see their song on top of the list.