Though there are so many rappers in the country’s mainstream music today, nothing can be said of hip-hop in Nigeria without mentioning Modenine. Dubbed the custodian of the Hip-Hop World Awards’ Lyricist on the Roll statuette for continuously winning the prize since the inception of the award, he releases ‘Da Vinci Mode’, his fourth solo studio album, to great expectations

Punch lines

Typical of Modenine, he isn’t just about making music, he displays why he is considered a great lyricist. …
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Gap’ will be there for you.”

Born in little Troup, Texas, and raised mostly in Plainview after age two, Jernetta Brown moved back to her home state from California - and, specifically, to Brenham in 1996 - where she authored this featured slogan for Standing in the Gap Ministries, an entity which she registered as a Texas business activity back in 2005. …
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