OLUMIDE promoting drug Abuse?

Olamide Is rapper's trending song 'Science student' promoting drug abuse?

Source:Pulse.ng

 

‘Science student’ is touching on a sensitive issue, and via Olamide, we can all hold crucial conversations about the need to fix our society and get young people off life-threatening substances.

In January 2017 alone, Twitter user @KoloKennethK tweeted his account of a major drug bust involving billions of naira worth of Tramadol at Lagos’ Apapa Port.

39m tablets of Tramadol, worth N3bn with above prescription quantity per tablet seized at Apapa.

As astounding as the figures are, it only confirms something that the thousands of empty drug tabs on the streets of cities like Lagos and Kano have been trying to tell us. Nigeria’s drug problem is sufficiently documented, even though a walk through the streets will tell you a more vivid story.

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  That’s why Olamide has released his trending record, science student.The new song co-produced by Young Jonn and Bbanks is inspired by the rampant drug abuse of Nigerian youths, who are becoming increasingly creative in the search for new and damaging substances for highs.

Olamide comes from the streets, where he’s witnessed millions of young people trapped in the circle of drug abuse. These young people in the pursuit of new levels of ‘highness’ are seeking out recreational characteristics of dangerous substances, in a bid to improve their highs. In short, ‘normal’ highs aren’t doing it for them, hence they are searching for new combinations of substances and drug cocktails to get high.

“There’s no bark, there’s no leaf…they have mixed gutter water, the eye is now dirty, they have mixed chemicals, science students,” he sings in Yoruba.

The reason why ‘Science students’ is trending isn’t necessarily due to its content. It falls into the ‘street’ trend currently dominating Nigerian music. It also has the added advantage of coming into its own with a trending dance – ‘Shaku shaku’ – which is a huge promotional tool for any record.