trend in the music industry are key factors in
determining the kind of songs artistes will release
and the genre those songs will fall .
This list takes a look at Artistes who started off a
rap career as rappers but have since transitioned
into singing,most of them combining rapping and
singing together in their career.
1) Olamide – Olamide hardly took any singing role
in his first album ,Rapsodi as he employed the
services of the singers and fierced heavily on each
track as a full fledged indigenous rapper.
However,going by his next three albums
( YBNL,BGEL and street OT),the rapper has since
showcased his versatility by joining the singer/
rapper camp in the music industry.
With Tracks like Eleda mi,badoo love,bobo ,melo
melo as well as even taking the hooks of songs for
other artist,one may be forced to question the
genre of music Olamide belongs to, rap or pop??
2) Skales – Call it Frustration,indecision or
whatever you call it ,Skales decision to switch
genres surely paid off. Starting off at the EME crew
as a rapper with singles like heading for the
Grammy, ori mi ,monster,could not get skales the
desired recognition compared to label mate
,WizKid.
Following his exit from EME,it enabled his full
transition to singing as he released The massive hit
shake body followed by je kan mo,lole,ijo ayo and
countless collabos seeing a turn for good in Skales
music career.
3) Reminisce- Reminisce started his career by
recording an Hardc0re rap album at id cabasa
coded tunes studio,which was never released.
Later he showed his lyrical prowess as an English
rapper on 9ice’s bachelor and ever since featuring
9ice.
” Oh yee rappers ” have moved on to greater things
” signalled the rappers cross over to singing in the
hit kako be chicken
track.Tesojue,Sunkere,olomoge,i need a
girl.agidigbo all goes to prove this new found love
of alaga ibile. Like he said in one of his tracks ”
punchlines o jawo mo”.
4) Eldee – Eldee the don was one of the members
of the defunct trybesmen with fellow
rappers.kaboom and freestyle.Soon he went ahead
to form trybez records and dropped rap joints like
am leaving, we made it,i go yarn and many more
The rapper however gained further prominence
with the release of Songs like Bosi Gbangba, Ota
mi”,One day”, Category “Wash-wash”, among
others and a highly succesaful last album
“Undeniable” which were all commercial and
mostly pop singles.
5) Ice prince – Iceprince proved himself as a
rapper on tracks like Nobody test me,oleku,Efimile
remix, and other rap joints. This did not deter
iceprince from showcasing his ability to sing in
tracks like More,juju,Superstar,boss ft tekno as
well as providing hooks for other artist like mode9
( I see) and many more establishing him as a
rapper and singer in the Nigerian music industry.
Notables:-
Dr Sid
D’prince
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