In a recent chat with Hip Hop Magazine, Nigerian rapper Reminisce made known his dissatisfaction with the popular terminology “Indigenous Rapper” when asked to talk on how the endorsement has been coming for him and his fellow indigenous rappers.
He said, “Stop calling us indigenous rappers there is nothing like that, a rapper is a rapper, calling myself, Phyno, Olamide, Seriki, BaseOne, Lil Kesh and couple of others coming up local rapper is a way of suppressing or make us feel inferior, because Sarkodie is
a rapper no one refers to him as indigenous rapper. If you cannot call
him a local rapper then don’t call any of us local or indigenous rapper.
Over the years, we’ve been able to overturn the rap game, we’ve been
able to change perception as regards if you cannot rap in English you
cannot be a rap god or king and it’s been a collective effort. Things
has really change people can now know who the real hiphop guys are
unlike before when if you can rap in English you won’t get endorsement.
And we feel very proud to be the rave of the moment”.
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