The singer returns with a new record, and a lesson to go with it. When Runtown dropped ‘Mad over you’, he didn’t see how instrumental that record would be to Nigerians and how it stimulated a new dominant sound formation in Nigeria for 2017.Credit has to go to Mr Eazi who flogged the melodic, mellow Highlife sonic progression to stardom. And while he held it down for too long, and rode his moment into the sunset, Runtown showed everyone else that it can be democratized, stripped down, and reassembled for a different hit. It was his efforts at ‘Mad over you’ that created the ‘Pon pon’ wave and dominated Nigeria. From Davido to Tekno, numerous Nigerian musicians found joy within the boundaries of ‘Pon pon’, effectively transforming 2017 into a Pon Pon-fest.Runtown himself have tried to seize the moment and extend the value of the record. Follow-up records ‘Painkiller’, and ‘For life’, achieved considerable success.
