So, I finally
got the full confirmation about JayZ’s ethnicity as a Yoruba man. I had
difficulties trying to convince people he traced his origin to Nigeria, and
more precisely to Kwara State. I was a teenager when that happened— always glued
to the T.V, if I wasn’t getting slain in the spirit by some interesting book
that kept me company back then.
It was on
N.T.A that I saw him wearing that turban and getting interviewed… the reporter
did say he just got a chieftaincy title and all other information she or he
said… I can’t vividly tell the sex— that part really has become completely hazy
to me.
As always,
funny stuffs find it hard to leave our memory and so did his talk…. It was so
hilarious I laughed so hard and fell off the couch. He said— in that very
beautiful African-American accent which isn’t really up to the standard of the
highly recognized American English… but of course more polished than the
colloquial African-American English…
” In Nigeria,
we have the Hausa tribe, the Yoruba tribe and the aibou tribe (ibo)”. That rang
a bell in my head. It keeps ringing in seizure-struck manner every time I see JayZ
or Beyonce on T.V. Now, Igbo people take note…. It is now aibou people…with an
easy stress on the second diphthong...lol.
I recently
discovered he came to see Bukola Saraki, the then governor of Kwara State and
currently the Senate president, in 2006. A Street was even named after him,
Shawn 'Jayz Carter 'Road? Soon, Beyonce might have her own road named right after his…lol.
As, always, his dynasty is incomplete without a chick like her…just saying. So,
what name would you want it to bear?
I suggest
the Beyhive street, for all her zealous fans in Kwara State.
So, may our
lives be as upgraded as jayZ’s and Beyonce’s
Cheers!
More throw back pictures after the cut
PICTURE CREDIT BELLA NAIJA
and i heard he is igbo too. i have issues believing all these. i know they all are from africa and mostly west africa, so it is possible he is from nigeria, it will be better seeing the video where he says he is from yoruba tribe
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