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Nigerians React as Skales says “No project He Has Heard This Year Can Top His Album”
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Skales sparks outrage as he hypes his album above other projects released this year.
Raoul John Njeng-Njeng, better known as Skales, has stirred outrage after he stated that no album this year is better than his newest release, ‘Sweet Distractions.’
Skales announced this on Twitter earlier today, March 30th, 2022. The singer, songwriter, and rapper claimed that he hadn’t heard a better project this year than his own.
Still ain’t heard an album better than mine THIS YEAR…
This is no diss nor sub— SKALES (@youngskales) March 30, 2022
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Not all fans are taking it well, as a matter of fact, the tweet has not received a lot of favourable reactions. See some of the reactions below:
https://twitter.com/MarcellusMufasa/status/1509153601796644866?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1509153601796644866%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_c10&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fjaguda.com%2Fmusic-news%2Fnigerians-react-as-skales-says-no-album-he-has-heard-this-year-can-top-his-album-see-reactions%2F
What's the name of your album bro? No offence
— Uncle Zee (@j_zackz) March 30, 2022
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Album wey no dey top 200 of Ng apple chart
— Akorede (@Sesyjr) March 30, 2022
Maybe nah only your own album you dey listen to everyday
— OF LAY LAY (@abulesowolagos) March 30, 2022
The singer released his fourth studio album in February. The project comes four years after he dropped his third project, Mr Love in 2016.
On the 14 tracks project, the singer features artists like Blaqbonez, Imanse, Zoro, Rotimi and Kabusa Oriental Choir.
The songs on Skales’s Sweet Distractions fit into three broad categories: revived rapper credentials; animated relationship travails; and the contemporary zest of South Africa’s amapiano.
Better known as a crooner, Skales beginnings as a rapper dictate proceedings on “As Always”, “Katapot” and on album opener “Hope, Freedom and Love”, on which he recounts his mother’s succumbing to a stroke, as well as career slights, drug use, relationship strife and money worries: “It still hurts, I hate the world so much man/Thank God I don’t own no nuke”.
Over woozy synths, emphatic kick drums and roving pianos, Skales finds good synergy “Pants on Fire” with fellow Nigerian artist Blaqbonez who, like himself, started out as a rapper, but later embraced the melodious advantage of his singing voice. “Heart in a casket/I’m done with that love shit” sings Blaqbonez with steely resolve to repair a deep hurt.
On more than one occasion, Skales proves to be a dab hand at amapiano. “Kpakurukpa” siphons the musicality of a non-word for the hook, which is layered with treated vocals and business-like lyrics about fun: “come take this life seriously/Hit the floor make we dance” urges Skales who, elsewhere, enlists the A-list support of Davido on “This Your Body”.
Hit producer Krizbeatz deploys broody synthesizers and patient piano on “Selense” which benefits from the enchanting presence of Zlatan, the inventor of zanku dance craze whose fame has become a source of incredulity: “Why dem dey threaten my life/Say I use dance collect their wife?”.