Blackky’s Skank
Few pop stars reach the coveted height of pop stardom… even fewer maintain it for as many year as Blackky, and to hold that status for twenty years is impressive.
Blackky (Nya Edward Inyang) apparently released his sixth album curiously titled, “Reggae Icon” last month and for me, comes as a bit of a surprise. I haven’t heard new music from Blackky for several years and thought that perhaps his time in the spotlight was waning. The title of the album “Reggae Icon” isn’t something that I would associate with Blackky. When I think about reggae icons, I think about people like Bob Marley and Sir Coxcone Dodd for their breadth of material and the influence on Reggae music. When weighed by that criteria, Blakky hardly even registers on the scale… in Nigeria - definitely, but as a whole - definitely not. Perhaps he should rename his album, “Dat Wan Naija Reggae Bobo.”
Anyway, all joking aside… many people remember Blackky for the music he put out in the late 80s and early 90s with tracks like Rosie, Girlfriend and perhaps the most popular of all Blackky’s Skank. Blackky’s Skank is catchy pop tune in which he basically describes how to do his dance… I’ve never seen the dance, even though he says that Michael Jackson, Bobby Brown, Miriam Makeba & even MC Hammer does the Blackky Skank! Well, I’ll give a crisp 10 Naira bill to the first person to send me a video of them dancing the Blackky Skank or better yet, the music video!
Here goes…
The Blackky Skank is very easy
Say it’s for the young & the elderly
Me beg you
Stretch out your hand like a tv pole
And move up your body like you outa control
Say bend your back
Just like a crab
Start to jump up like
A jumping jack
Check out the track, a definite naija pop classic.
Eugene
May 20th, 2005 at 11:28 am
No takers on the 10 Naira eh? Maybe I should bump it up - 100 Naira it is!
June 1st, 2005 at 10:06 pm
Definitely a Nigerian Pop Classic? I still remeber the video.
July 20th, 2005 at 9:01 am
he had a recent (actually about 5 years back) song on air titled “arrow” (not too sure about the name). it’s really nice and makes you think about the struggles of life. here are some lines…scattered lines…whatever, i just love the song:
hello hello arrow
they call me false prophet
living in a ??? jacket
August 1st, 2005 at 6:55 am
Blackky is a reggae icon whether dude likes it or not. Dude is one of the many Nigerians that look down on their local stars and talk shit about them just because they haven’t been accepted by/or became stars in Europe and America.
Elsewhere in the world, local stars are respected as much as any foreign stars, except in Nigeria and thats a big shame. Snoop Dogg is a local star in Long Beach, 50 Cent in New York, The Game in LA. Oh yeah, these cats are international too but thats because of the love and admiration of their people….and that made the rest of the world come to respect them too.
American culture sells because of the style and uniqueness of the American psyche. I wont keep going on and on but dude is apparently ignorant enough to talk trash about an award-winning artist just because he’s based in Nigeria.
August 8th, 2005 at 3:42 am
IKEm,
as advocates for Nigerian music/musicians, your suggestion that we, “talk trash about an artist just because he’s based in Nigeria…” and “look down on local stars because they haven’t been accepted by Europe & America” seems rather ludicrous. Check out our about section to see what we’re all about… also check out some other postings to see what we have to say about some other Nigerian musicians.
Please also note the “all joking aside” part of the post.
October 12th, 2005 at 6:32 pm
This brought back nice memories of growing up in Lagos. Say, where can i buy this? I have looked on Amazon etc and there is nothing listed. I am looking for his earlier works in particular i.e. Rosie and Sugar Stick.
January 14th, 2006 at 8:41 am
keep on the good works man, Love from the U.S - Sammy’Dplus(Your former Drummer)
February 5th, 2006 at 3:01 pm
Well…Music is offline!
April 8th, 2007 at 10:04 am
BLACKKY U ARE GRAET SUPER WONDREFULL MANY NAIJA LOVE UR MUSIC U ARE ROSIE @ AS GOOD 50 CENT @ SNOOP