Nigerian music 🎼 industry!!!...

 A Nigerian artist will hear a foreign hit song taking over Lagos and say, "this is fire, how can I make music to sound this good?"

Then he goes and makes something as hard to overthrow the foreign song.

A Ghanaian, Kenyan or Cameroonian artist will hear a foreign hit song taking over their cities, and instead of learning and improving their craft, they'll start crying in interviews that the reason  their music isn't doing as well is because the local DJs are playing the foreign song. 

10 years later, that Nigerian artist has become a global phenomenon with the extra artistic growth. 

While his African counterpart is still granting interviews saying that foreign song is what is stifling his career advancement.

That's the difference between the Nigerian music industry, and the music industry in many African countries.

—This is a classic write-up from music journalist Joey Akan.

What do you think ?