“I go party, for Ikoyi o” DJ Consequence’s “Blow The Whistle” begins like this, with short intervals between house beats per minute, allowing the story to follow a calm but suspenseful pacing. “Na so this brother, pointing me finger”, Mayorkun story deepens, as it unfolds to be an Ikoyi run-in with a man who 419ned his mother in the past. There’s comedy too here, but the glimmer is how Mayorkun carries melody along the house instrumentation with folk limerick infused ad-libs, a combination that has worked succinctly with Niniola’s hit single, “Maradona”.

“Blow The Whistle” steers clear of grand ideas that would have turned this predetermined dance song, into a pseudo-political song, and somehow that’s a good thing. It won’t be odd for listeners to link “Blow The Whistle” with EFCC’s latest pro-snitch policy amonsgt other heavy reflections of the Nigerian life, but the country is slowly coming out of a long recession and it should be said that we all deserve a song that makes light of all the heaviness.

Interestingly, the same ease of storytelling, dovetails into a refrain that leaves questions on the mind as Mayorkun, concludes “ole ma le ‘everybody”, implying that in some way, we are all thieves. To paraphrase that statement, “Blow The Whistle” can be parsed as a telling of the average Nigerian’s dishonesty. A reminder that all forms of corruption is corruption, and if the whistle will be blown for some, it should be blown for all.

Wait a minute, this is still a DJ’s song that was made for the dancefloor right? Yikes.

Listen to “Blow The Whistle” by Mayorkun below.

Featured Image Credits: Anny Roberts

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Toye is the Team lead at Native Nigeria. Tweet at him @ToyeSokunbi

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