MI Abaga and Vector are at loggerheads for a while now and the two are not looking like they’d settle their differences soon. What stands out about their disagreement is the fact that one party has not recorded a single diss track, yet he has released one. That party is MI.
Apparently, M. got access to a diss track against him and his associates from someone. So, he said hold my beer and quickly rushed to YouTube to fuck shit up for his antagonists.
But this move didn’t seem like a rushed one
Why, because MI still needed to wait for feedback from the cover art artist first before uploading it properly. The direction was simply oh, put joker masks on the face of the artists there; place upcoming rappers as the headline; scatter “The Purge”; add something about Martell Cypher 2 and 1 here; reduce the names of Vector, Vader Tha Wildcard and Payper.
Vader and Payper are the two rappers who joined Vec in the diss track, even though they didn’t attack MI. Instead, they picked who they wanted to fight. For example, Vader took on Blaqbonez and lord, people are saying he obliterated the Best Rapper in Africa.
For the venom the rappers spat on “The Purge”, which was the title of their own diss track, they were outwitted at the moment that mattered most — the release. The rapper, MI Abaga released the diss track against him after he had mitigated the possible impact the track could have, a proactive move which dragged the conversation not against the rapper, but for him.
Hiphop enthusiasts went to the YouTube page where “The Purge; Upcoming Rappers” was uploaded, expecting to hear an MI, but it didn’t happen so. Two things happened: people saluted M’s subterfuge; then others say “M, enough of this mind games, release your own diss track.”
MI is still the chairman
That is to say, MI’s act both blew up on his face and still solidified his place in people’s mind. The latter was more dominant in this conversation because at this stage, MI Abaga has worked beyond the point where his deliberate refusal to not release his own diss track cannot de-elevate him. He is the chairman.
In a more reactive move, Vector released the mastered version of “The Purge” as a counter move. It shouldn’t have been a counter move, but reparation must be done and the counter release just about fixed up the mess a little. If one is able to move away from the bias of listening to MI’s own release first, one can be able to find the full hardness of original “The Purge”.
So, now the battle is now on who is being viewed the most. MI Abaga has 15k views already and Vector is now running with 19k views. That’s about 4k more views than MI Abaga, even though he released it first.
Nigerian hip-hop is in coma and every now and then, people remember it’s still there with the release of diss tracks, then they go back to sleep again. The conversation is ongoing on Twitter right now, rap this, hip-hop that. But one wonders how sustainable this whole approach is to the revival of rap and hip hop in the country.
Could it be that once in a while disses are the route to making Nigerian rap/hiphop great again?
Anyways, Naira Marley is still rapping; that’s a shining example that there’s hope for Nigerian rap music.
Listen to the disses below: