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Thursday, September 20, 2012

MI angry with Rick Ross

Award winning rapper M.I is not happy about Rick Ross' HOLD ME BACK video which was shot in Lagos,Nigeria. Here's his opinion about it:
Does it make you angry? Does it rile you to see your country portrayed as poor and suffering and full of struggle? It burns you, does it not? To have some foreigner- who knows nothing of your history and pain, of the stories that flow within your blood- to have this foreigner come in and tell your story? Is it not the height of disrespect and insensitivity? Does it not chafe against the thick skin you have grown to cover your other wounds? Does it not make you angry? We should wax sanctimonious about national pride being slighted. We should vent our displeasure online. We should occupy something. Because God forbid the truth ever be told about what things really are. God forbid a stranger reminds us about those things we choose to ignore every day. God forbid we ever face the truth about ourselves. God forbid we do not go on the internet and rail about how our country is being cast in bad light. God forbid we do not talk about how there is a small minority which lives better than portrayed. God forbid we do not ignore truth one more time. God forbid we don’t.

15 comments:

  1. Hisses stop short dwaf mi .......frog

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  2. Don't mind d short man, he wants him 2 portray d "illusion" which he(mi) and oda musicians portray. He wants d world 2 see the other side of naija which still exists

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  3. Shame on Rick Ross, all these foreigners who go on telling the single minded stereotype story of Africa.
    All you criticising MI are very stupid and narrow minded. Its your type who go and wash deadbody and sweep the streets in oyibo man land. MI has a point, instead of you to seek to understand his position you're just blabbing crap

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    1. C'mon shataaaap ur mouth there mumu...have u tried listening to d lyrics of his song? Its a shame we have one out of many slums like that in Naija...yet we got local government receiving millions from d state governor to "take care" of their arena (havnt u thot abourrit)...Rozay needed a location to interprete his song n he got loads of options in Naija n una dey vex, pls go vent ur anger on d Government...MI can go to hell....I bet if Rozay wants to do remix of this song n he features MI, u will be surprised at d numerous slum options he would provide for Ricky...if shame dey catch Naija over his video, then do something about d slums, musicians should go protest to d president...if una like, go protest on d internet against this video, y'all end up making his song very popular, most viewd video, more money for Rozay n he will keep doing HuuH!...MI should put his hate n big grammer to good use...I love Naija to death n would defend her anytime n anywhere buh we need "beautiful slums" n Govt should do somthing abourrit...cos if there were "beautiful slums" in Naija, Rozay wouldn't have done this controversial video...Govz esp Gov Fash still got work to do

      #Queen

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  4. Mtcheeeeeeeew

    #Queen

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  5. People I call wannabes eg MI n d rest of 9ja Fake musicians..like sultan shootin a stupid video wv wyclef wth is dt abi is it onyinye wv p-square makin us look too Rich while majority Are suffering! Hold me back video jst gives me goose bombs..pple are suffering local govts are marrying more wives.vent ur anger on dis useless leaders! Evn rozay said hw we av so much oil n natural sources, hw da hell are pple stil leavin in d slums?short-man MI wts ur answer 2 dt?

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