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72 Nkechi M. Christophetheir audience with their beats, but some lyrics also request them to go overboard,for example, to get drunk or do the absurd. Lurid message but good beat, Faze’sKolomental thrilled youth and topped the chart.Lyric (in Pidgin)As you dey fall in ohMake you take note ohSay dis party ohNa for craz people ohMake you mentalMake you displayShow your madnessMake you craz dey goDance nonsenseNa the concept ohNa the senselessSee I don koloMake una hold me ohIf una no fit ohNa to join me koloMake we mentalTranslationAs you are falling in [i.e., As you join the party]Take noteThat this partyIs for mad peopleGet madBehave as a mad personExhibit your mad behaviourKeep that act onDance irrationally [i.e., as a mad person]That is the ideaThat is the senselessnessSee, I have already gone madTake hold of meIf you are not able toThe best option is to join me in the madnessLet us all get madThe music video of the above lyric actually shows people acting as if mentallyderanged. Students observed the impact this had on its audience: “people go all outof their way to behave madly whenever the song is played, throwing chairs,jumping on each other, behave[ing] like thugs, etc.” Youth respond to the messagesof the music they listen and dance to. Biggiano’s Shayo encourages drinking to astupor in parties, because the lyric says:To attend my party you must shayo [get drunk].You no fit try come my party make una no shayo [You can’t attend my partywithout getting drunk]All of una must shayo [All of you must get drunk]Students observed that violent fighting and raping resulted from excessivedrinking. Similarly, although banned some months after its release, Konga wreckedhavoc in its promotion of indiscriminate sex. A line in the song says anyone at a