Deep breath:
In August two thousand and eleven, in the wake of their signing with Kanye's Good Music record label, D'banj and Don Jazzy of Mohits - one of Nigeria's biggest record labels - released another single, and with it the Oliver Twist phenomenon was born.
(I apologise for that sentence.)
Moving on. Twitter just uncovered another cover of the song done, not by Estelle or Tinchy Stryder or even Jay-Z (we would just love that!) but by a white band on YouTube called Ryan Parrott & The Rumours.
Background: The Mohits Crew uploaded a home-video to YouTube as part of an online video competition, offering cash prizes as high as $2,500. A flood of booty-shaking entries rolled in, but the top winner was a group of guys who just had fun with it - all over the streets of Lagos.
In August two thousand and eleven, in the wake of their signing with Kanye's Good Music record label, D'banj and Don Jazzy of Mohits - one of Nigeria's biggest record labels - released another single, and with it the Oliver Twist phenomenon was born.
(I apologise for that sentence.)
Moving on. Twitter just uncovered another cover of the song done, not by Estelle or Tinchy Stryder or even Jay-Z (we would just love that!) but by a white band on YouTube called Ryan Parrott & The Rumours.
Please watch:
Background: The Mohits Crew uploaded a home-video to YouTube as part of an online video competition, offering cash prizes as high as $2,500. A flood of booty-shaking entries rolled in, but the top winner was a group of guys who just had fun with it - all over the streets of Lagos.
The Mohits video:
The winning video:
I feel like Linda Ikeji, posting randomness as news, but I wanted this on my blog for easy access.
And if you hadn't seen it before now, you're welcome ;)
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