Greetings, music lovers!馃檶
It's been a long time since I wanted to put these songs on a #threetunetuesday, but I kept procrastinating because they're not normal songs that someone who picks interest in lyrics would like馃槄.
But today, I decided to make it happen because I've been playing some of them for the past four days.
First of all, let me tell you about Free Madness and its crooner.
Terry G, the owner of this song, attracted the masses when he came out of nowhere with his unique style of music. One thing about the unique style of music in Nigeria is that it must trend, whether the song is a hit or a miss. Yes, that's the power behind it.
Terry G is known for his crazy pattern of songs, hence the title Free Madness his songs are just there for you to get high on whatever you're doing, the beat will surely make you dance to your feet or shake your head along.
Whenever I'm ironing clothes and I need a hot feel of music, Terry G music is always my go-to, and sometimes, I always tend to burn clothes馃槃center>
He has a popular phrase that says;
"You can only run past him if you are mad"
Isn't that crazy?馃槃
Free Madness was among his first albums, and it'll interest you to know that it has five parts (Free Madness part 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5).
I know that a lot of Nigerians reading this don't know about these hilarious parts...you guys are just finding out now
I know of part 1, 2, 3, and 5, but I don't know part 4. Is it possible to have part 5 without a 4? Let's leave that for Terry G to answer (I'm going to tag him on Twitter while sharing this).
Part 5 was a kind of mixtape by a DJ, and it featured Busta Rhyme. Yes, it's the $Busta Rhyme* that you know.
For the sake of this #threetunetuesday, let me share Part 1, 2, and 3.
Free Madness, Part 1
This was the first on the list to magnetise the minds of many鈥擨 mean, the minds that love unique beats.
The beat was so different from what we had been hearing, which made it so enticing to vibe to.
Terry G is a producer and made the beat himself. What an idea!
This music caused controversy when one of his colleagues that he called out did a diss of this song and titled it 'one thousand five naira'. The song was so cool too because it had the same beat.
It's unfortunate that this particular part has no official video. We expected to see his craziness in the video.
Free Madness, Part 2
This is the one I like most because of its rushed roughness.
Luckily for us, a video was released, and it met expectations.
The video got crazy from the start to the end; it was done in Market Square, where everyone was opportuned to feel the madness. I guess he did it to distribute the madness because it's free.
Like I said earlier, we were not interested in the lyrics because you can't even catch the lyrics... I wonder how he writes those songs. It was just the 'highness' of the beat that mattered.
Free Madness, Part 3
I wish there was a video on this because I wanted to see the crew of *House of Jinga do their visual work.
In the prime stage of Terry G, he had a crew called House of Jinga, and they were all centred on his type of music. You know how interesting it'll be when different mad people join hands to cook food? Yeah, that's just what's in this song.
It was the same beat that was used, but this one was more lyrical because of the different tongues that worked on it.
I know,
A Nigerian coming to read this will be baffled at why I love this type of music. mehn! I love songs when they're unique, not just the copy-copy-copy pattern 馃槄.
Thanks for reading.
All videos were taken from YouTube.
