At a time many other people were in church on Sunday, Ali Baba in his LASTMA outfit alongside other top artistes took advantage of the relative sanity of the Sunday morning low traffic to lend support to the shooting of JJC new single video, 'African Skank' at Campbell Street area in Lagos Island.
But how does this video get Ali Baba into LASTMA’s uniform?
The director’s idea of dramatizing ‘Skank’ is to situate the comedian at a junction in an area as busy and densely populated as Lagos.
On the spot, the man who is supposed to be a paramilitary official has started hearing the music, which moves him into shaking his body right and left. By the time the first car approaches, all he can do is to stop it and orders the driver to stay still. He does the same to another coming from another direction and launches into a fervent dance.
Angered by the nightmare, the drivers jump out one after the other from their vehicles, fuming and cursing the traffic controller. By this time, the crowd have joined Ali Baba in the dance, while the ‘Skank’ spirit also eventually grips the angry motorists.
Playing different role in the video are Weird MC, Kate Henshaw, Goldie and Capital Femi. Although Skank may not at first sound like a ‘serious’ piece of music, it has the potential to make wave in the dance arena where many new generation artistes direct their focus.
The goal of the hot-paced track is to invite the world on stage, to partake in several types of beats and dances from various parts of Africa.
Among the songs/dances celebrated are Ghana’s azonto, Kenya’s massia and South Africa’s hlokoloza.
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