The Nigerian street sound is a blanket description for everything we think soundtracks the inner-city soundscape and determine a culture behind it.
Lagos is the nucleus of Nigerian pop culture. If things fly in Lagos, they will fly in other locations because, there’s a subconscious approval when it passes through Lagos. Asides that, the multiculturalism of Lagos promotes unique concepts.
That said, the Nigerian street sound is not just what people enjoy, it’s a product of inner-city cultural inspiration by Nigerian lifestyles through music which define the industry direction for a particular time.
When it’s all said and done, nothing lasts forever; the baton is passed and trends change hands, giving way to new sounds which then rule for a while before expiring. The idea the Nigerian street sound is cultural as it is ephemeral.
Galala
In Nigeria, we seldom had definitive sounds that distinctively punctuate the soundscape. Out of the few we’ve had, the most distinctive remains galala, inspiring the konto culture.
Galala is a lifestyle, representative of the Nigerian inner-city struggles with Ajegunle as
