EFA – E2DFA SONG REVIEW
“My
enigma didn’t make it to the top 10, was it that bad? Was it boring?” is the
rhetorical question that EFA Iwara spiked at the listeners on E2DFA. The rapper
who is currently signed to Bayo Omisore owned Jus’ Kidding entertainment
released E2DFA a couple weeks ago and he says it is his most personal work to
date.
Meanwhile, the unproven prolific
rapper earlier gave us a panoramic view of his capabilities with his freestyle
over the Don Jazzy produced “enigma” beat competition where he specifically
narrates a certain political uprising, presumably in Jos where a man was killed
while his wife and daughter were at home expecting him to arrive. Unfortunately
the gunmen were also at the doorstep waiting to commit another gruesome act. He
did the same on his 5 tracker ‘Waka’ EP.
EFA‘s conscious part was really
drastic with a lush and lucid wordplay direct from his heart. E2DFA is not just
another conscious song from EFA, but also a song that cuts across a wide range
of challenges faced both by the music industry and Nigeria in general ranging
from his own personal struggles, and the negative attitude of Nigerian parents
toward music, particularly rap: “…then I have a father who didn’t understand,
I sent you to school to get a job that’s the plan”.
E2DFA seems to create a feeling of nostalgia
in a very emotional and avid listener of song lyrics, but it is a sort of
masterpiece from a highly underrated rapper to combine his intelligence and
mindful thoughts into a message inclined narrative song devoid of the typical
women, weed, wine, money and properties rap that floods online media and radio
stations today. His wordplays were sporadic and exquisitely intertwined with comprehensive narratives and straightforward
puns like; “back then we had the dream of
blowing up/, but now it all has a different meaning” and “…they say darkness is
where the evil get it’s pass/so I say only in the dark can you see the stars” .
Among the numerous messages instilled in this song is the
wistful chants against sectionalism and regionalism rather than nationalism in
the final verse where he dropped a paranoid line which sees him clearly defying
being attached to any ethnic group in Nigeria on; “so let’s bring peace back to the country/ whether military or
civilian/I am not Hausa, Yoruba or
Igbo/ pardon me if am just Nigerian” and “… so I fight for freedom you can see
the scars”.
E2DFA is a grilled spontaneous
overflow of EFA’s emotion; delivering poetic
and heartfelt verses with the flute-laden background tune produced by D’ Tunes
suited the grandeur of the song and also complemented the numerous rhetorical
questions asked by EFA; “if the truth
will set you free, why we spit in bars?”. Awesome !
Beneath is a link to the song:
Download E2DFA
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Thots tha Wordsmith
Under the watchful eyes of Tha Watcha
1 comment:
Am glad Efa dropped this I was starting to think I'd have to drop standard just to go main stream. GGMUB bro,keep killing it.
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