It’s not every day that you get to meet pioneering musicians, but that’s exactly what happened to us when we sat down with Show Dem Camp (SDC) in their hometown, Lagos.
It won’t be an exaggeration to say that the rap duo is responsible in defining the music industry in Nigeria today. The Nigeria-born members Ghost (Olumide Ayeni) & Tec (Wale Davies) have dome that by embracing and popularizing the palm-wine music genre, which originated in West Africa.
Palm wine is essentially African, and so is palmwine music. As Tec mentioned in the interview with Globetrotter, it’s “what is organic, what is originally ours.” Through their Clone Wars series, for example, they’re offering “a snapshot of who [they] are“ as Nigerians. Tec continued, “Nigeria is a place where we were born with frustration. We learn to continue to live and adapt with frustration.“ In their music there’s an honest take about young guys trying to make it in this present-time Nigeria.
SDC brings palmwine music to a higher level with Palmwine Music Fest. The festival was founded in 2017 to celebrate African music and introduce West African music to the continent. Ghost and Tec, though, also want the festival to go beyond that and turn it into a platform for up-and-coming African musicians “with the hope that those people, when they’re in that position, they’ll be able to bring up other people as well.“
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PRODUCER & DIRECTOR Kennedy Ashinze
EDITORS Robatron, Chairun Riza
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