At Last Hip Hop Guys Force Lagbaja To Remove Mask

For a while now, life with Lagbaja, the masked
man has been so terrible. The advent of hip-hop
in Nigeria actually led to his musical misfortune.
When he started out, not many people were
disposed to his kind of song then but due to the
fact that the competition was not stiff, Lagbaja
was reigning supreme until hip hop came him
through the Remedies etc.
Despite all kinds of stunts displayed by him in
his videos etc, his relevance was dropping by the
day as the global acceptability of hip hop forced
him to leave for America, yet it didn't get it right
unlike before and life, we learnt, became so
unbearable for him. Today, Lagbaja, the Afro-
beat singer, song writer, instrumentalist that was
been inspiring minds with his powerful style of
music since 1993 “finally reveals the face behind
the mask.”
According to Lagbaja, his mask is used as an
icon of man’s facelessness. Lagbaja is a Yoruba
word that means “nobody in particular”. It
depicts the anonymity of the so-called “common
man”. The mask and the name symbolize the
faceless, the voiceless in the society, particularly
in Africa.
He is also known as “Omo baba mu’ko mu’ko”
Often his music is purely instrumental- an
interplay between traditional Yoruba percussion,
drums, chants, western instruments, and
especially the saxophone.
When there are lyrics, they are primarily sung in
Yoruba, English or a blend of the two as is
colloquially spoken in Yoruba cities. Many of his
songs dwell on serious social issues, while others
simply entertain. If truly this is “Omo baba mu’ko
mu’ko”