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Wednesday, August 06, 2008 

Category: Blogging
Hip Hop is fundamentally an underground movement, but what do you think can be done to make it more mainstream in Africa?

Well, it seems to me that 65% of young people in Africa, today, are misconstruing the real values of this great form of art "Hip Hop". The first thing that comes to mind when the word "Hip Hop" is uttered, apparently might be; Violence, Rebelling against the government, Defacing public structures, Drug abuse, Prurient train of thoughts and stuff. But as much as am being frank with my analysis about its negative effect on this part of the world, I also wish to talk about how these misconceptions can be transformed into something positive.

First and foremost, I think one of the ways to elevate this game (hip hop), is by erasing the wrong impression we have about the art-form and its culture from our minds. There are so many aesthetic sides to Hip Hop of which I guess we're all familiar with, like; poetry/spoken words, free styling, conscious rap, graffiti art, break dancing, MCing etc. Let's absorb these cool elements of 'Hop instead.

Secondly, it's really going to be great to see more Hip-Hop heads starting an African Hip Hop movement, just like what Nigeria's current top lyricist "Mode Nine" is doing at the moment. That way, I believe true Hip Hoppers around the continent can get to converge monthly or annually to discuss Hip Hop related issues and maybe get to invite notable Hip Hop icons like; KRS One, Nas, Talib Kweli, Common Sense, Eminem, Wutang Clan etc. to make their own contributions as to the ways in which "Hip Hop" can be promoted in Africa.

Organizing projects geared towards discovering raw Hip Hop talents across Africa, is also another relevant point. I'd really love to see more events like the WAPI Project and SPRITE EMCEE AFRICA being organized on a monthly or annual basis in Africa. The media can be used as a major tool in achieving this objective. Hip Hop video documentaries are not exempted. That'll go a long way in unveiling gifted African emcees, poets, rappers, break-dancers, writers and graffiti-art artistes to the world. Hopefully, I plan to work on a hiphop documentary in the near future, but that's by the way though.

More also, the internet can be used to promote African hip hop. Of course, most of us will agree with me that AfricanHipHop.com is a trail blazer when it comes to online Hip Hop forums in Africa. This is no a hype talk – it's a factual statement. Props to other online hip hop forums like 9jahiphop.org and the rest. Let's join the movement!

Finally, I'd like to quote a line from KRS One's "SNEAK ATTACK" album that I found pretty interesting and true. He said "Rap is something we do, but Hip Hop is the way we live". So, the summary of my epistle is all about seeing and adopting hip hop as a culture. From my standpoint, I guess that's one of the best ways forward.

If you've got any opinion or contribution, feel free to join the thread. One!
Friday, June 27, 2008 

Current mood:  artistic
Category: Blogging
For concert bookings or collaboration request, please send us an e-mail showing your interest to raplogic@gmail.com

Tel: +234 80 546 570 64 (Outside Nigeria), 08054657064 (Nigerian Residents)

Regards.
Monday, March 31, 2008 

Category: Music

* Exclusive: Request for Fecko's new single today on DJ Neptune's radio show on Ray Power 100.5fm....the track is titled NOLLYWOOD featuring Terry tha rapman. Time and Date: Mon 7pm - 9am, Tues 2pm - 4pm, Thurs 2pm - 4pm

*Fecko performed at an open mic freestyle session during the Collosal/Satrcomms Live Concert which took place at the Vault, Victoria Island, Lagos on the 19th of November 2008. Other Nigerian artistes that thrilled the audience at the venue of the show were; M.P, Shank, T.W.O, 2shotz, Jahdiel, M-trill and so on. It was really a funfilled event which was broadcasted live on Radio Nigeria, and Hip-on TV.

*Fecko attended Modenine's album listening party at The Place, GRA Ikeja on the 19th of November, 2008. It was really a cool event!!!

*Fecko is set to collaborate with one of South Africa's illest underground poet emcee named "Naycha" on a sick track aptly entitled "Spitology" which will be featured on NAYCHA's forthcoming E.P that's also going to be pushed for promo all across South Africa and beyond. Plus Fecko will be featuring the track on his forthcoming mixtape too.

*Fecko is currently working on his album and a hip-hop mixtape. Actually, he's been working as a freelance artiste  on both project simultaneously. He's also working with sick producers, sound engineers and intrumentalists like; Big foot, Venomous, E-twinz, Zenious(U.S.A), OBJ(U.S.A), Kerwin Young (Producer for PUBLIC ENEMY 1988) etc and several outstanding artistes like; Chrest, Terry tha rapman, Str8 Buttah, Street Drama(Cameroun) and so on. Y'all should please watch out for the album next year.

 

*Fecko interviewed Nigeria's hip-hop luminary "Modenine" on May, 2008 in Lagos. It features cover stories about the African hip-hop movement, his forthcoming album and an exclusive freestyle session.  He also interviewed Overdose and Illbliss aka Dat Ibo Boi respectively. Watch out for the video clips later on PowerHouseAfrica.com.

*Also, he's been getting couple of features from other hiphop artistes, both locally and internationally. He did a collabo with 365 Naija Boiz on the "Land Of Thrilla" mixtape, and also he's working with these respective artitses: Tron(a Netherland-based Nigerian rapper), Illmyk a.k.a Kalabar Boy(an American-based rapper), Tic(a latvian-based rapper). Furthermore, he hopes to work on a track with Terry tha rapman a.k.a Joe Spazm which will be featured in the forth-coming JOE SPAZM MIXTAPE to be hosted by DJ Jimmy Jatt & DJ Humility.

*On Good Friday, March 21, 2008 – Fecko who is also a part-time showbiz reporter, conducted a live interview with one of Nigeria's promising R&B sensation: Banky.W (Mr. Capable) .The interview took place at Bungalows, Victoria Island, Lagos. It was also video-taped by 'Twilla' and powered by PowerHouseAfrica.com. Y'all can watch the exclusive video clip on www.powerhouseafrica.com 

*Fecko attended the Kennis music easter fiesta press conference which took place at "Planet One" in lagos. He was accompanied by the PalmBeach Entertainment crew. He hooked up with several mainstream Nigerian artistes and also did a drop for Monster T.V

*Fecko was on set for Drenco's music video shoot in coalcity. It also had guest appearances from other coal city-based Hip Hop acts like; Prophesy and K-Blast.

*South Africa's music television station "Channel O" organized a freestyle/battle competition in Lagos on the 19th of January, 2008 tagged "Sprite Emcee Africa" which featured over a hundred and fifty Nigerian emcees. Fecko was the 58th emcee who grabbed the microphone and participated in the freestyle contest.

Sunday, October 14, 2007 

Current mood:  inspired
Category: Blogging

PowerHouseAfrica.com, we are an all-African music website. We take interest in music all around Africa and with a soul object of promoting African music and to be the number one spot where anyone can find the best African music videos, as well as listen to some to the coolest African music.
We also intend to bring artist from different parts of Africa to work on collaboration projects and shows. This, we believe, will be a way of learning different African musical cultures and spreading it all around Africa, creating awareness and more fans for the artist(s). It will also be our way of bringing the best of Africa's finest to the limelight and to whole world.
PowerHouseAfrica.com works in collaboration with the PowerHouse(Angola) record label, with Hochifu as the C.E.O, whom has been nominated several times on both channel O and MtvBase for best producer and best video clip director.
Directors – Darlington Isaacs & [Tchikala Kamuma]Hochifu
Website content manager – Darlington Isaacs
News updates and report(Nigeria) – [Ifeanyi Ibegbunam]Fecko

Wednesday, January 17, 2007 

Category: Writing and Poetry

"My Poetry and Spoken Words..." is basically a blog-spot meant to showcase some 'Freestyle Cypher,Spoken Words and Poems' written by Fecko a.k.a Raplogic.

POEMS/SPOKEN WORDS/FREESTYLE CYPHER:

 

Fresstyle Cypher (excerpt for never ending 9ja cypha - Africanhiphop.com)

my lines are never ending like this naija cypha
so watch me hit back this thread with more tite barz
have u ever seen Westlife engrossed in a freestyle cypher?
well, such a fictitious scenario beggars discription like my eight bar
eight bar? hmmh...just keep reading in between the lines if you wanna dig me
now shit looks like a mexican soap opera~cos i guess y'all are quite intrigued
similar to my quest in unravelling the truth about my real self
why? cos am a hiphop mutant who married the game but funny enough am not gay :lol:
f*ck my age ~ i still 9yne teens (nineteen years old ~ 9mm/murder)
with my bullet-like barz, making their mums scream
cos like mariam makeba, another soul just got deceased
from a hip-hop world where only real headz speak
i feel am begining to get more interesting, just like summarizing this thread
oakes' be talkin about jamaicans ~ but how come we got more dread?
hip-hop neckz who fall in here can attest to the wrath they incure from hip-hop headz
like a popular naija radio jingle says ~ if e no be panadol, then e no be panadol
in other words, bring on the real shit
or do we look like folks recording a club hit?
anyway, i'mma draw the curtains at this point
hold up, lemme take a bow like i just finished performing a rock joint
i'm just fading out on this never ending naija cypher~i aint gone
i'll be back like christmans~so fake katz be warned!!!!


N:B EIGHT BAR - (why? cos am a hiphop mutant who married the game but funny enough am not gay

Bloods In, Bloods Out, Red walls scared the geckos
Sick shit, Oakes, permit me connect the dots, Now let's go!
Gangsta cypha up in here, our lines exude terror
Like when u hear the word "Crip" or experience tremor
Lemme break it down - Community Revolution In Progress
That's what the word "CRIP" stands for my brothers :idea:
If u aint blue, then u aint true
I aint sayin' am a Crip thug, don't miscontrue
My train of thoughts, am just droppin' da knowlegde
This shit is similar to cultism in college
And it originated from the streets of LA
Where dudes feel they're flyer than Kites (Kyt) or the British airways
And always, stay strapped to the steel
Every nigga from the 'Crip' is damn ready to kill
You can call me ur urine, but don't piss me off
The Aftermath? if u do, is somethin u can't think off
More scary than seeing a beast chew ur hearts out
Aint about the diction, watch me go all out
On this lyrical journey, with my fingers on the keyboard
Punching those evil metaphors - capable of sparking-off another world war
Some say am controversial, well I only keep it blunt
Subjecting katz to scrutiny, like it's a Talent hunt
No doubt, you're more gangsta than the devil, so get thee behind me :evil:
Plus u still wouldn't dig me even if u rewind me
Why? am more complex than Calculus
And I sure love battling like Canibus
Though my previous post were mere spoken words
But shit was deeper than severe open cuts (wound)
It's like I and Nas share the same Street Dreams
Cos everything I'd wanna learn, see i already knew, peeps
Which explains why I've been schooling lame katz with carry-overs
Way before Beyonce Knowles even dreamt of marrying Hova. :lol:
I aint related to micho, but damn!! I got Thrilla
f*ck Tommy, homebouy am a ill figga (Hilfiger)

 

Tic Tac

"Tic Tac...Tic Tac...As the time clock ticks"

The sand hour glass on my table is almost filled

While I ignored it for many weeks

At the drop of every grain a child is borne

While some reminisce of loved-ones, long-gone

Who travelled absolutely with nothing to the great beyond

"He was once a philantropist whose heart could beat,

Now he thinks less of what to wear or  eat..."

As he aimlessly roams the streets

Of a world whose cryptic existence remains a mystery

To so many earth-dwellers who can still breathe

"Tic Tac, Tic Tac...The Clock ticks"

Less concerned about, whether anybody notices it

It runs confidently at her own pace

Never waits for any creature during the race

Regardless of your wealth, fame or power

Hence, the wise makes judicious use of every hour

"Tic Tac, Tic Tac...The Clock ticks"

Hope you know what this means?

 

MY ENVIRONMENT...

Old folks puffin' em pipes under the shade

Well-fed thugs incising their backs with blade
 
Hip Hop heads roaming the streets with spray cans

Flaunting graffitti art skills on walls and packed vans
 
The cops invade the scene with heavy metals
 
Now one of 'em is gasping for breathe after nine PAPZ!!(Gunshot)

Sooner or later, the clinic is filled with military mindz

Waiting for a dawg to recuperate in no time
 
So they can go further to exude their violent state of mind
 
Before sh*t happens, an African brotha appears
 
Convincing his peers with his spoken word prowess
 
Partially, the zeal for vengeance dies down

Now souljaz are retreating back to base somewhere in town
 
Subsequently, the sickness begins to spread

From one alley to another, the mic becomes a tool for making bread

My environment is now infected with Hip Hop
 
Like a streetwalker living with HIV,cos she refused to ZIP UP

 


Glamour & Glitz (freeverse)


An euphoria, but still craved by many

Both infants and old aren't exempted

"Usually acknowledged by the virtue of its wealth,

 Instead of being respected by the wealth of its virtue..."

Glistens like a displaced Nebula in far-away galaxy

Filled with charm or enchantment,

Causing an irresistible spectacle on the tube

With appearances that often fade instantaneously

Simply because of its phoney state or ingenuity

Mainly exuded by some proud eminent personalities

While making their long-speeches, often engulfed with ambiguity.

After leaving their footprints on the Red-carpet

The maid servant rushes quickly to clear the dust

While the wise and glamorous lad walks in;

Leaving an indelible inprint on the sands of time
 
As an epitone of true greatness and glamour

Embarking on the quest to redirect the steps:

Of a rather natural feeling gone astray.