Fuji star, Muri Thunder,
has opened up on why fuji artistes don’t earn as much as their hip hop
counterparts. Muri Thunder who only last week dropped a brand new album
entitled There Is God declared that
the reason was due to poor packaging on the part of majority of fuji musicians.
“Fuji is grassroots and we
can’t deny that but it has to be packaged and taken to the mainstream. See what
the Americans did with hip hop for instance. We need to take fuji to the global
mainstream starting from home. We are getting there but a lot still need to be
done.
“Once we can strike that
balance I can assure you that corporate bodies will come scrambling to endorse
us because fuji is dynamic; fuji has more substance compared to hip hop and is
a strong tool for projecting our Nigerian heritage.
“And that is the reason we
try to do our things differently. My vision is to take fuji to the mainstream.
That is why we are working with Papa Sly Entertainment. a case in point is my
collaboration with Tuface, Kasa Kasa.
It has contributed immensely in taking fuji music to the next level,” the
singer added.
Kwam 1
Aside Ayinde Barrister,
the man touted to have created the fuji genre, one fuji artiste Muri Thunder
has tremendous respect for is Kwam 1.
Describing Kwam 1 as a
mentor he said: “Kwam 1 is like a mentor to me, my big brother. He gave me half
a million for my daughter’s birthday and I have never stopped being grateful. I was at his home and it was paradise. I dedicated
a track to him in my latest album, There Is God entitled Ile Nla. I was at his
country home recently and it was wow!”
Female fans
Fuji is a genre that
attracts women in droves. How is Muri Thunder coping? “It has not been easy,”
he confesses, “a lot of women want me. Imagine
putting on your phone in the morning and the first image that greets you is the
image of a naked woman in various stages of undress. That’s what I experience
on a daily basis and that is what inspired my latest album, There Is God. Girls are bombarding me
with their nude pictures.”
Giving back
Since 1998 when he
released his debut album Optimism,
Muri Thunder has continued to grow from strength to strength. Is he giving
back?
“I come from one of the
biggest ghettoe in Africa which is Ajegunle and I have not forgotten my roots.
I have a football club, Muri Thunder FC and also I have signed three Ajegunle
fuji artistes on my label so I may not have an NGO but I am giving back in my
own little way and touching lives."
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