Oladipo Ademola Esq

I can not deny that I love banking with Guaranty Trust Bank. They do their best to make me happy. Even, commissioning Asa to sing their theme song, and its a lovely song.

You can get the song from here.

Wouldn’t you rather take my hand and let me lead. Wont you rather trust me?

Guaranteed to take the lead. Guaranteed to be the best in all that I do.

Cool. Relaxing. Asa, damn girl, you are good. 

Just some days ago, I blogged about Eldee’s clothing line. I visited the site today, and sold out. 50 pieces does go fast. Congrats Eldee.

Oh, and I have got the album.

I dont have much words today, I just watched Estelle’s video featuring Sean Paul. Come Over or something like that. I tried and tried, but I just couldn’t see the song, Estelle’s breasts were in the way.

Same in No Substitute Love

Only a few artists in Nigeria actually use tech to their advantage. Some have websites, just because others are having websites. Dare Art Alade (or rather his management team…whatever) has gone ahead and set up his blog at his url – http://www.dareyonline.com/

I love it. I desperately love and will definitely subscribe. I only hope they will continually update it and not let it become stale like a popular website that had the same look for over 2 years.

I am looking forward to the new album. I love the “Not the Girl” track. Awesome.

I must commend http://www.g-raff.com on a lovely modification of wordpress. Big up guys.

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I was high one day and was listening to “Boyz II Men” track, “I’ll Make Love to You”. I love the chorus.

I’ll make love to you
Like you want me to
And I’ll hold you tight
Baby all through the night
I’ll make love to you
When you want me to
And I will not let go
Till you tell me to

Still high, I thought, what would it be like if Obesere remixed this song? It would probably go like this…

Emi a do e pa
Bi iwo se fe
Emi a di e mu
Baby, fun gbogbo ale
Emi a do e pa
Bi iwo se fe
Emi ko si ni fi e le
Tigba ti iwo ba so

Yoruba reading folks should understand, if you not, ask someone.

I guess, yet again, that is ok to say that Olu Maintain is a one hit wonder. Lucky for him, he was a one album wonder, not just a one single wonder. But, seriously, where is he? Ever since his yahoozee hit, he seems to have gone underground.

No, he tried one other track, Kentro (or something like that). I saw it only once and felt bad for him. He is trying to ride on the wave of the yahoozee success, but doing it poorly. Too bad for him. I had blogged about him earlier, when I noticed that he came to purchase a geely car. I never confirmed if he actually made the sale.

I went looking for his site and came across the perennial signage that has been there ever since….. Olu, listen up, your website is the world’s window to you, do something about it.

I decided to use the Wayback machine to see if anything had ever been on the site. My results. Bad. And even on his MySpace page, it is listed as his "official website". Right!

Being that am lazy, I’ll just copy Ara’s description, as described on her MySpace page.

Ara is the first female talking drummer of repute,she started singing and drumming at the very tender age of 5 and decided to get serious with music about 20 years ago,she tried her hands on different genre of music including Afro-beat as Lola Ola,but in the year 2000 she became Ara, coined from her real name and right there before our very eyes emerged the enigma,Ara! Ara has taken her music across the world haven played in Ghana, the UK, Paris, and various states in the USA. Ara has performed before the Queen of England,she has also performed alongside big names in the industry including, Wyclef Jean and the legendary Stevie Wonder whom she also featured on his current album "A time to love" on the track "If Your Love Cannot Be Moved". She played 3 different percussions on this track. Ara, in English means "mystery or wonder" a name given to her by her grandfather at birth is indeed a mystery and a wonder to behold. This Africa’s first and finest female talking drummer is not only known for her dexterity on the talking drum,she is a beautiful dancer/ choreographer a soulful singer,a song writer and a producer,her upcoming album says it all. Ara is also the founder of Ara’s Passion Project,a foundation she founded about 2years ago with a mission to in her own words" build a platform for tomorrow’s people today" her main concern are the children,according to her" to a large extent,i have fufiled my dreams but nothing of my passion…..". Hence the birth of her passion project. Ara is the CEO of "Ara Entertainment Productions" an entertainment outfit created to provide quality entertainment. This exotic African performer has in her kitty 9 awards local and international,it is worthy of mention that Ara has been a performing artist over the years without a single album out there,she won these awards because she has a great followership and her fans voted her on line ,her album is however ready but she is taking her time to shop for the right label to work with and the right set of managers and promoters.She also has a key to the city of Miami,USA,in recognition of her great talent and achievement. Her dexterity on the performance stage has won her the heart of millions all over the world, she is indeed, an enigma. VISION OF ARA’S PASSION PROJECT. Ara’s passion project vision is to provide shelter,medical support, clean environment for proper learning,social welfare and vocational support to alleviate the poverty of mind and life of 100,000 indigent children by the year 2020 with children in primary and secondary schools as the main focus. The project seeks to do this by using it’s activities of concerts,workshops and the like to raise funds and encourage cultural awareness while bringing about youth development. MISSION OF ARA’S PASSION PROJECT. The project seeks to bring succor to the disenchanted,frustrated,orphaned,abandoned,rejected and dejected youth(special focus on children in primary and secondary schools.) The project will be a positive influence for the younger generation. As a cultural ambassador and a talent with an influential voice,God willing,i intend with the support of my team and you,to build a platform for tomorrow’s people today.

I guess I am not alone, asking for Ara’s album. I think she is seriously losing market share by not being on the stands. Ara, take note.

Even though, a MySpace profile page is good. A full domain website would be better, IMHO.

There will be no activity on this blog for a while, moving my efforts over to Music Naija (http://musicnaija.net). Please come visit us.

Music Naija went live yesterday with links to free nigerian music. Check it out

http://musicnaija.net 

Things must be looking up for Yahoozee crooner.

In his words, “cos if I hammer, first thing na hummer, one million dollars, elo lo ma je tin ba se si naira“. From what I am seeing through my window, I don’t think he has “hammered” yet. Olu came to the car dealer to negotiate the purchase of a Geely. I have not confirmed if he actually made the sale, if I do I’ll update.

I suspect he intends purchasing the CK model.

Some Geely links:

http://www.geely-global.com/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geely_Automobile

Some Olu Maintain video links

http://www.pcplanets.com/videoyoutube-Olu-Maintain-Yahooze-Official-Video-Naijapolis-net-.0Jh8tCns-Bg.shtml

http://www.naijapolis.net/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=120