What Happened To Wizkid’s Music?

The long wait for Wizkid’s second album has
led to suggestions that the 23-year old music
star is starting to doubt his own ability.
Wizkid came into the Nigerian music industry
when we didn’t have a wonder-kid, a boy-
wonder or a whiz-kid. Fast forward 4 years
after, the industry has been flooded with more
talents that most cemetery cannot boast of.

Wizkid remains what most budding Nigerian
artiste want to be, he remains a force to be
reckoned with but if care is not taken, it looks
as if those days may be numbered.
When Wizkid released his first single “Holla At
Your Boy” in 2010, it wasn’t a spectacular
song, let’s not forget that the song was a
sampled song by Se7en titled “Girls” we forgot
that quickly as Wiz proved he’s a game
changer when he released “Tease Me” , a
freestyle turned single where he gave props to
several industry big boys like Eldee, Banky W,
Wande Coal e.t.c. Wizzy came through on that
track, I was one of his biggest fan, then.
Fast forward months later, June 12, 2011,
Wizkid dropped a classic album, Super Star
was born. Wizkid became a superstar. Fast
forward 2012, Wizkid started to dismiss
everybody behind the superstar project.
Samklef, the man who produced most of the
hit songs on Wizkid, was also dismissed.
Samklef isn’t a great producer, but he was
able to get it right with Wizkid, they made hits
together, but Wizkid seems to find it easy to
sack people.
Wizkid also did some work with Masterkraft, it
looked like he could get it right with him,
Masterkraft was able to create decent music
with Wizkid on the EME album, Sarz, also. But
ever since his well publicized feud with Banky
W and the entire EME backroom, the quality of
the music Wizkid made completely diminished
to a staggering all time low.
Wizkid threatened to leave the label, if not for
advice from a lawyer and probably educated
friends, Wizkid might have ended up paying
millions for walking out of his contract with
EME in 2013, fortunately he stayed, but NWTS
(Nothing was the same) *inDrake’s voice*.
Wizkid started a “romance” with Disturbing
London, a London based management, no one
can really say how much Wizkid benefited from
that move.
Later on, Wizkid sacked Osagie, the manager
that was able to bake him, from the “arrogant
twat” that he was when he was 19-21 to the
superstar he was from 21 hitherto, then
employed Godwin Tom. At this point it was
obvious to the world that EME had lost control
over their “money machine”, he went on to
form a record label, named Star Boy
Entertainment.
Wizkid, real name Ayo Balogun Ibrahim moved
quickly to sign 3 in house producers,
Legendury Beatz (2 brothers) and Maleek
Berry, this move highlighted his struggle with
top notch music production-to his “style”.
Luckily Wizkid made a hit song with each of
the producers, Caro with Maleek Berry, The
Matter with Maleek Berry, aside those songs
Wizkid started making sub-standard music.
His die-hard fans won’t tell him the truth
though, but “Talk” had to be the worse song
Wizkid has ever made in his very successful
music career, produced by Legendury Beatz,
lets not forget Love You, a song many of his
fans forgot Wizkid ever made.
The quality of Wizkid’s singles continued to go
down, his lyrics, recycled, there were calls from
some angle that it is time for him to start
buying music. It looked like Wizkid had noticed
his production quality had dwindled then he
quickly worked with Del B on On Top Your
Matter, and Dr Frabz on two songs, Bombay
and One Question.
It’s obvious now that Wizkid can see there’s a
problem somewhere, but pride won’t let him.
The solution might be simple – which is easy
to guess. Wizkid needs to allow Banky W, who
is a very intelligent and humble man, take
charge of his career again. There is
competition now, hit songs come out every
day, this year alone we have had banging hit
songs, in the past year we have had several
superstars, it is easier than ever to forget a
song someone has released if it refused to
stick.
It might be time for him to start buying songs
since the producers he signed have refused to
get it right with him.
Wizkid released two songs this morning, Joy
and Bombay, it doesn’t look like Wizkid is
back. Does Banky W and EME have an idea
Wizkid has released around 7 singles off his
forthcoming album?