"... the message is really clear and everyone knows that the message is the truth.” - Falz
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Mainstream artist cum performing artist, Folarin Falana, prominently known as Falz has expressed that despite the fact that he knew his 'This is Nigeria' video would create contention, he didn't foresee the degree of the present responses.
In a meeting with BBC, Falz opened up on the motivation behind the viral video, "This is Nigeria' and how he feels his pundits have missed the purpose of the video.
The rapper stated, "The video has been extremely generally welcomed. Indeed, even at first when I was discharging it, I didn't kind of envision the greatness of response… I thought there will be some type of response and discussion yet I didn't know how to a great extent it will be gotten.
”It was important, first of all, I was inspired by the original, This is America by Childish Gambino, I thought it was a very artistic and creative way to tell the American story and I thought it will be amazing to tell the Nigerian story in a similar fashion.
“It was very important to stir up a heightened level of political and social consciousness out here.
”Majority of what I have been facing, in terms of backlash is just a matter of people that are trying to shoot the messenger so that they miss the message, but at the end of the day,c
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