Good Sturvs September 5, 2008
Posted by slapnigeria in Web.Tags: good friday, sturvs
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Let me start by asking you a few questions. Have you ever found yourself browsing the net looking for some naija sturvs? Maybe music videos, news, blogs etc? Have you ever been pissed of that there’s so much sturvs on the net from everyone else apart from naija people? Or that you find some really good naija sturvs like 4 years after its no longer relevant? Have you ever collected over 15 GB of random naija sturvs just so you can share them with your friends later? Well enter www.sturvs.com to save the day.
www.sturvs.com
Just in case you’ve been living in a prehistoric village on the outskirts of Lake Chad or you don’t live your entire life on facebook (which is a good thing by the way) sturvs.com is a Nigerian sturvs aggregator. You know what I mean? I love the way they took the naija word, flipped it and made it officially official.
Sturvs.com is the first (or at least biggest of the first) of its kind project and its providing a service that has been sorely needed by Nigerians for ages. The biggest genius on their part is in how they plugged into facebook. They took perhaps the most dominant internet force in Nigeria right now and used its reach to draw traffic. The fact that they also utilized the open source Pligg CMS shows a tech savvy that intrigues me greatly. Nigerians generally assume anything free is substandard or bad, especially when there’s someone round the corner trying to sell you the same? product for 50 million.
They still have quite a long way to go but so far so good. I’ll be following their growth closely and so should you. Get to clicking! Go check out that sturvs.
Good Friday – Music September 5, 2008
Posted by slapnigeria in Music.Tags: dbanj, good friday, Ill Bliss, introductions, M.I, naeto c
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Fridays are like our Sabbath and we take them pretty seriously. So, we cannot be mean to anybody/thing/place/event. Ever. On Fridays.
So, in the spirit of that, we are going to start with a post on some of the really cool music that has come out of Nigeria lately.
Dbanj is Hawt & You're Nawt!
D’banj is all kinds of hot right now and his album ‘The Entertainer’ is all kinds of hot as well. From the singles that are coasting all over the radio to some of the more esoteric tracks, Don Jazzy, D’banj, and the Mo’ Hits crew deliver unmistakably Nigerian pop and club jams. D’banj comes off as a happy-go-lucky sort and that vibe permeates the whole album and was enough to put a smile even on this cynical face.
Go pick it up and help support the Nigerian music industry.
Kini Big Deal?
Kini Big Deal shot Naeto C fully into the mainstream. It is a very nice party song and got Nigerians all over the world asking each other ‘Kini big deal?’ even though they should also realise that not everyone is as fire proof as the ‘P’ himself. The video is up on youtube, and for those of you who haven’t seen it, here it is below:
(See? We are really nice on Fridays!)
The other person really impressing us here at Slap! is M.I. He is really bringing something interesting to the local rap game and is a welcome addition to the mix. Ill Bliss also raised a few eyebrows over here with the Mikeworks remix of Dat Ibo Boy. It is a very good track and should be heard as soon as possible. That’s it for this post, but we might still talk about more music later on today.
