Nigerian music act and hip-hop rapper, Remilekun Abdulkalid Safaru and popularly known as Reminisce, aka Alaga Ibile, has disclosed that the ban on his song, Tesojue’, has little or no effect on him.
The 34-year-old Buga crooner in a recent chat with newsmen disclosed this.
DAILY POST recalls that the Nigeria Broadcasting Commission (NBC) had placed a ban on his song, ‘Tesojue’ sometime last year.
He said, “I wasn’t bothered when I got the news because I was convinced it would not affect my career.
“The ban on my song, Tesojue, actually makes little or no difference. The song was released last year and it enjoyed airplay towards the end of last year and early this year. I am not someone who often goes to a radio station with my songs, so the effect is very minimal.
Reminisce further said that although it is very disappointing, it had little or no effect on his career or creative flow.
“There are songs that I make and do not give to radio stations. When you get famous to a certain extent, presenters go out of their way to download your song and play it on their shows. I really appreciate those that do that because they do it out of love. But whenever I submit my songs to radio stations, I make sure they are clean. For those that are not clean, I make sure I re-record them and edit the vulgar part for public consumption on the radio.
“I think NBC should try to hire people that understand the industry because abroad, they also have these laws but once the radio version is clean, they do not disturb the artistes. They should create a screening board that would check our works and inform us of the ones they feel are not for public consumption. It is not fair that they make us go through the process of creating a hit song, and shooting the video with millions and they later tell us the song is banned.
“What have they been doing since?” he quizzed.
“They should consider us too because we spend a lot of money putting these works together. As for me, it has minimal effects but I am sure that there are a lot of people out there that it really affects,”
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