TAKE YOUR BURDENS TO THE LORD

Today, I am sharing this old song that tells us where to cast our burdens. In life, you'll be faced with high times and low times. At high times, be thankful, be merry, celebrate and at low times, do not despair. Sometimes, you'd need to breath some deep air into your lungs and encourage yourself in the Lord. Sometimes, you need to remind yourself where God has brought you from. Momentary challenges are not permitted to stop you. You are wired to prevail and in the end, you'll be holding in your hands, the keys to your next level with a new song in your mouth.

Whenever you find the clock ticking against your courage, remember these lines: 

"If the world from you withhold of its silver and its gold,
And you have to get along with meager fare,
Just remember, in His Word, how He feeds the little bird—
Take your burden to the Lord and leave it there.

DO YOU LIKE RAP?

Sometimes I imagine I can rap, good quality rap; that is in my dream life. But whenever I start rapping real time, the words are usually deceptive. They refuse an already agreed accord. So in my mind I rap so well but in reality it is just blah. I'm tired. I can't deal.

Whenever I listen to rap music, it sounds like electrified poetry with the healthy capacity of shocking; of naked words running after each other trying to put on some clothing. Sometimes, I just shake my head to the rap's fluid sensation,
Ti, KaTi, TiKa, TiKa, Ti KaKa, TiKa...
The rise and fall of the springy beats can heal the sick and make the lame walk. But that is story for another day.

In the wake of this my new found love, I have come to notice how my generation has witnessed a surge of domestic creativity in Nigeria's music industry; not just rap. Gone are the days when western music stripped our indigenous music of its massive potential. It's something that makes me proud of being Nigerian. And when you hear good rap music calibrate your ears, you thank the Lord for the gift of creativity.

Phyno is the current rave of the moment when secular rap is concerned. If you don’t know him, he is a Nigerian rap sensation that uses Igbo language to slice through his music. The first time I saw Phyno was at Farafina 2014 final event at Eko Hotels, Lagos. He was looking fly with the microphone going up and down with chants of
'Alobam, Alobam...!'
Wetin konsain mi, eh? I no send.
I did not even sing along. Who's this one