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NAETO C, the ‘P’and his MSc

Peeps I’m so curious...

Is Naeto C really the only artiste with an MSc?

Does it really matter se? Well, we’ll see...

So, Mr Naeto dropped the ‘P’ and picked up an ‘MSc’ brandishing it before this market.

Sheesh...The ‘P’ was classy, swag (Note: I didn’t say ‘swagger’. Puleeez) and a great deal of street music lovers didn’t seem to get it... Well, the ‘P’ wasn’t exactly for the majority and they rather buy ‘swagger’.  Argh! The game.

 Oh! How we bonded with Mr Naeto when he realised this and he raved ‘kini big deal’.  Yeah!  ‘kini big deal?’  Mr ‘C’ threw the ‘P’ into the air jo!

 When I heard the 10/10 song and watched the video many months ago...

The light bulb in my head came on.

 I began to think, Mr Naeto could be the ultimate music Icon... to help gear Nigerian music and message in a whole new positive direction.  After all, entertainment does not always have to be dirty; communicating backwardness, laziness and fraud.

There’s a large amount of young people who have completely turned their backs on education but just want to sing; hoping music will bring quick success.  They’ve got their eyes on the cars, the money and the girls...only.

 We can tell from the  mammoth crowd that show up for auditioning in our musical reality shows with quite a percentage who can’t fully express themselves talk less sing. 

Being a music artiste of excellence and owning an MSc is not exactly an easy task. Isn’t that why Mr Naeto can brag about it?

OK school or no school.  There are a couple of successful and respectable big acts whose continuous success and constant results are a product and reflection of their persistency, consistency and hard work (+ God’s grace); especially in the days of their small beginnings.  They are actually educated.

But why are we not communicating this message of ‘impactainment’ to the young people. 

 Music and music peeps-generally- have done enough damage to the brains and spirit of the younger generation.

 It is time to be artistically socially responsible. Yep.

 So I thought, Mr Naeto maybe passing across a message of hope and relevance with his buy line, “the only artiste with an MSc”, and lifeline ‘knowledge, work and talent’ (My assumption).

Mr Naeto is not just bragging or trying to create offence. He’s probably impactaining (making impact and entertaining).