{"id":417089,"date":"2017-09-11T14:00:22","date_gmt":"2017-09-11T14:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2017\/09\/11\/60-of-nigerian-artistes-copy-my-style-mr-eazi\/"},"modified":"2017-09-11T14:00:22","modified_gmt":"2017-09-11T14:00:22","slug":"60-of-nigerian-artistes-copy-my-style-mr-eazi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2017\/09\/11\/60-of-nigerian-artistes-copy-my-style-mr-eazi\/","title":{"rendered":"60% of Nigerian artistes copy my style \u2013 Mr. Eazi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"medsection1\">\n<!-- End of html generated by this->header() --><\/p>\n<p class=\"floatLeft\">Music of Monday, 11 September 2017<\/p>\n<p class=\"floatRight\"><strong>Source: <\/strong>www.ghanaweb.com<\/p>\n<p>2017-09-11<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-left\">\n<p class=\"article-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/20273783.295.jpg\" alt=\"Eazy6\" title=\"Eazy6\" width=\"295\" height=\"275\" \/><span class=\"play-icon\">play video<\/span><span class=\"image_caption\"><span>Nigerian singer, Mr Eazi<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"noPrint\">\n<div id=\"537626303\" style=\"width:300;height:250;margin:0;padding:0\">\n\t\t  <noscript><iframe loading=\"lazy\" id=\"b2ad7fa7fd\" name=\"b2ad7fa7fd\" src=\"http:\/\/ghanaweb-d.openx.net\/w\/1.0\/afr?auid=537626303&amp;cb=149916385179598\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"300\" height=\"250\"><a href=\"\/\/ghanaweb-d.openx.net\/w\/1.0\/rc?cs=b2ad7fa7fd&amp;cb=149916385179598\">&#13;<br \/>\n\t\t  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/1505138422_320_ai\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/iframe><\/noscript>\n\t\t<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"clear:right\">Oluwatosin Oluwole Ajibade, popularly known as Mr Eazi, broke into the Nigerian music limelight mid-2016 with a unique blend of Ghana-Nigerian music.<\/p>\n<p>The singer who schooled in Ghana has thrown shades at Nigerian artistes for using the \u2018Mr Eazi formula\u2019 in their songs.<\/p>\n<p>Eazi in an interview with Capital Xtra FM claims he started the movement by using Ghanaian languages in his songs but now 60% of Nigerian artistes are jumping on the same rhythm he uses.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Eazi stated emphatically that most Nigeria artiste are copying his style and it doesn\u2019t make sense to him.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018December last year almost 60% of Nigerian artiste were in Ghana playing shows, now everybody is using words like \u2018banku, shito, odo, and sika\u2019 and so on.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018The point here is that they don\u2019t even know or understand what these words mean but they still use it because they can see Mr. Eazi is making it big in Ghana&#8221;,  Mr Eazi said.<\/p>\n<p>He disclosed that it took his colleagues in the industry more than five months to catch up with his style of making music. <\/p>\n<p>Many Nigerians reacted negatively to his comments while others labelled him as &#8216;sell out&#8217; because he appeared to be insinuating that Ghanaian music was better than Nigeria\u2019s. <\/p>\n<p>Mr. Eazi has worked with Efya, Medikal, R2Bees and many Ghanaian artistes.<\/p>\n<p>Watch interview below:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/video.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2Fomgvoice%2Fvideos%2F1596270293758449%2F&amp;show_text=0&amp;width=600\" width=\"600\" height=\"350\" style=\"border:none;overflow:hidden\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" allowtransparency=\"true\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><!-- uploaded by: 65 updated by: -1 --><\/p>\n<p><!-- Start of html generated by this->footer() -->\n<\/div>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a style=\"display:none\" rel=\"follow\" href=\"http:\/\/megatheme.ir\/\" title=\"\u0642\u0627\u0644\u0628 \u0648\u0631\u062f\u067e\u0631\u0633\">\u0642\u0627\u0644\u0628 \u0648\u0631\u062f\u067e\u0631\u0633<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Music of Monday, 11 September 2017 Source: www.ghanaweb.com 2017-09-11 play videoNigerian singer, Mr Eazi &#13; Oluwatosin Oluwole Ajibade, popularly known as Mr Eazi, broke into the Nigerian music limelight mid-2016 with a unique blend of Ghana-Nigerian music. 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