this twitter feed struck me… not only because it’s so true, but also because it led me to think about the legacies that we are leaving on the interwebs. who’s reading? who’s retweeting? who’s reblogging? so many stories being told at once…

Musician A records some beautiful song in the studio
and he listens to it alone and maybe,
gets some of his friends that he normally sits in the bar with to listen to it and they scream, ‘Classic!’
He is enveloped with pride and ego; he records more and more and bam! he has an album, ready to be launched at Eko Hotel.
He knows that fantastic man that puts up almost all the album launch concerts at Eko Hotel.
He contracts him and he places a billboard, with him on it, just before Silverbird Galleria.
The world has taken note of him. He is good to go!
He gets a bespectacled lady to manage him.
The lady takes the job seriously, because she has been paid. She stops picking her phone calls. But she is a manager!
When she eventually picks, she is talking to someone else in the background and finally cuts the call. You are embarrassed.
You call back and she doesn’t pick.
You want to find out how you can book her artiste, but she doesn’t want to talk to you,
because she thinks you have come to beg her to buy you chewing gum! And she is a manager!
The Nigerian musician is struggling to do a remix of one of his songs with an African-American musician.
Kanye West? Clap for yourself, you have arrived! Snoop Dogg? You really have arrived!
The remix has been done and quickly he rushes to Los Angeles or New York?
They shoot a video with their Canon 7D!
Quickly, it is edited and YouTube will be the first to broadcast it.
Bloggers in Nigeria (who are looking for what to write about, even as nobody is paying them) start screaming:
“Musician A featuring Snoop Dogg in blah blah blah.”
2Face Idibia has a record label. 9ice does. Don Jazzy does. 2Shortz does. Banky W does. Everybody does. So, who signs who?
Even the fantasies created by Kennis Music and Storm Records have waned.
We know what has transpired. We know that everyone is living in a hallucinatory realm.
There is just one wind that will blow open the arse of the chicken!
If these little things keep parading themselves as record labels, how are we going to create an empire like Sony Music or Virgin Music?
Why don’t we just do music and release them and stop distracting ourselves with the business of music management?
Why don’t we just focus on the lyrics and let others handle the bags of money we will be gathering if the music is good?
Why don’t we focus on the beats in the studio, while we let the other organize our European tour and treat us like kings?
Why don’t we let our dreams come true on their own, without lying about them?
Why don’t we try and be transparent?

- @bluesandhills