Reminisce couldn’t be bothered if his song Tesojue was banned by the Nigeria Broadcasting Commission. Claiming the ban will never affect is career.
According to him,
“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. Although it is very disappointing, it has little or no effect on my 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? 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,”
Although he wasn’t the only victim of the regulatory house, 18 songs and videos from local and international artistes were also removed from air due to major reasons – “Vulgar lyrics and Obscene videos”.
Songs affected range from the current to past hit songs.Olamide’s music appears twice on the list. The buzzing ‘Bobo’ single, and his collaboration with CDQ and Masterkraft ‘Indomie’ are affected. Wizkid’s ‘In my bed’, Phyno’s ‘Yayo’, Reminisce’s ‘Tesojue’, Iyanya’s ‘Gift, and many others.
[dropcap type=”1″]D[/dropcap]avido’s controversial visual for ‘Fans mi’ also took a hit, but with a special reason. The NBC frowned on it because the“Video promotes ostentatious lifestyle, violence, drug trafficking and indecent exposure.”
On the international front, Nicki Minaj’s sexually explicit ‘Anaconda’ was axed, Ace Hood and Rick Ross had their ‘Bugatti’ visual removed, and he popular ‘Post to be’ by Omarion. No Nigerian artiste have reacted to the ban.
