This was a near-perfect show. Every part of the event came together, and Falz gave the best performance of his life on that stage. Nobody expected this. No one stepped into this concert feeling like they were going to die by the warm hands of enjoyment. But the moment we made the decision to attend the decision to attend Falz’s first headline show in Lagos, we had signed up for something that was too good for us, too heavy for us all to handle. Falz is a great artist. He makes music like a sponge; he soaks the best and worst parts of life around him, pumps it full with humour, and passes it through a special artistic filter that garnishes it up, before squeezing it out as new material. It’s a beautiful process that almost always works. And that’s why he’s got a career, a brilliant one that straddles the line between pop music and Hip-hop. He’s too pop to be respected as a Hip-hop artist, but also too Hip-hop to be tagged a pop artist.
