Justifying A Dialectical Affinity Between Music And Heroism: A Review Of Faze’s Originality Track

Chibuzor Orji (Faze)

In 2008, precisely four years after the foreseeable and what turned out to be the final collapse of Plantashun Boy, a group consisting 2face Idibia, BlackFace Naija and Faze himself, Chibuzor Oji, known by his stage name Faze released his sensational and nationally endorsed album titled Originality. And due to the gradual and incredible improvement reflected in his previous albums, coupled with the expressed optimism on more progressive shift towards perfection in the next one, probably did Faze have the premonition that the album Originality, would make him one of the Nigeria’s best-selling artistes, and thus put his name into the cannon of musical legendries by the time he might have tailed behind epochal relevance. 
 

But releasing the album with all his passion and ruggedness, which later turned out to be ‘the most anticipated album of the year’ seemed to be the wisest decision ever taken for his musical carrier. This unarguably is due to the fact that the album, through its most hit and eponymous track Originality puts Faze on the trajectory of casual remembrance by the time he has irrecoverably lost his then powerfully flamboyant, though lingering musical spirit in the contemporary Nigerian musical spotlight.

Does It Matter (for a corps member killed in Rivers)

And does it matter
if our death headlines
the page of newspapers
covers the screen of TV sets
and waves of radio at night
in a land where skulls of dead men
are the broken staircase
that lead to the throne of thorns

Does it matter
if we all die one day
like dogs hit by vehicles at dusk
for the glory of callous gun men
and the victory of their gods

Does it matter. . .