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(cross posting from LJ!)
Wow–I enjoy these songs in so many ways. The article you linked to last entry, about “Yahoo Millionaires” was the first place I had heard that phrase, and here’s “Yahoozee,” same idea. What I like is how “Yahoo,” originally a word for a loud-mouthed ignoramus, thanks to Jonathan Swift, got transformed into Yahoo–the Internet company–but here goes back to something like its original meaning, only with a shade of ironic delight.
“I Go Chop Your Dollar” was maybe the third-ever African music video I’ve ever seen? (I’d seen a couple by Youssou N’dour). It’s just cool to see modern urban culture in a country that normally only makes the news here for stories about violence or environmental disasters. Plus, I always thought when people said “Nigerian internet scams,” that they were saying it sort of like people used to say “French disease”–in other words, just as a vague pejorative. I remember the first time I ever was exposed to one–it was when I was in Japan in the early 1990s, and a Japanese friend got a fax with the classic scam laid out: Nigerian ministry of this-or-that, etc. But I always thought that even the Nigerian part was just made up–I didn’t realize that in fact, scamming really is a big deal in Nigeria! So your past entry, this entry, and all the associated follow up has been fascinating and eye-opening.
The second of these two videos seems to be set in England? That’s fascinating too–looking at the overseas community, the expat/emigrant population.
These two seem to conform to the motif of “I’m powerful and cool because I have money/Dang, no one respects me anymore because I don’t have money anymore” which you get a lot in rap (and in folksongs, for that matter). “I go chop your dollar,” on the other hand, seems more a straight-out trickster song.
Anyway, I’ve really enjoyed this–suddenly Nigeria is that much more three-dimensional for me.
(Glad to know that Nkem Owoh ended up okay, btw!)
Thanks for crossposting, I figured others might enjoy your comment as much as I did…