BRING BACK OUR ICE PRINCE
Apparently the hype around the Bring
Back Our Girls movement is regaining
momentum after the buzz around it
seemed to have died down for a bit.
However, in my opinion, it’s not just
the two-hundred-plus girls from
Chibok community that are missing,
there’s someone else that seems to
have gone off the radar completely for
some time now.
Back Our Girls movement is regaining
momentum after the buzz around it
seemed to have died down for a bit.
However, in my opinion, it’s not just
the two-hundred-plus girls from
Chibok community that are missing,
there’s someone else that seems to
have gone off the radar completely for
some time now.
His name is Panshak Henry Zamani,
he was born in Minna, Niger State but
moved to the ancient city of Jos,
Plateau State at the tender age of two.
He’s got brown skin, a bit lanky with a
middle-belt accent. He is a hip-hop
recording artiste, with a bit of a stint
in acting too. He rose to fame after
releasing Oleku , one of Nigeria’s most
remixed songs of all time. He won the
Hennessy Artistry Club Tour in 2009.
Some of his accolades include one BET
Award, one Ghana Music Award,
Headies Awards, Nigerian
Entertainment Awards and two
Channel O Music Video Awards.
he was born in Minna, Niger State but
moved to the ancient city of Jos,
Plateau State at the tender age of two.
He’s got brown skin, a bit lanky with a
middle-belt accent. He is a hip-hop
recording artiste, with a bit of a stint
in acting too. He rose to fame after
releasing Oleku , one of Nigeria’s most
remixed songs of all time. He won the
Hennessy Artistry Club Tour in 2009.
Some of his accolades include one BET
Award, one Ghana Music Award,
Headies Awards, Nigerian
Entertainment Awards and two
Channel O Music Video Awards.
olate City
Music under which he dropped his
debut album, Everybody Loves Ice
Prince in 2011. The album included
singles like Oleku, Superstar and
Magician. The year 2013 saw this
artiste release his sophomore album,
Fire of Zamani. The album had singles
like Aboki, I Swear, Gimme Dat and a
few other banging singles. Shortly
after Audu Maikori stepped down at
the helm at Chocolate City Music, Jude
‘MI’ Abaga was announced as the new
Chairman of Chocolate City with this
artiste as Vice Chairman.
Did I mention that he’s also the father
of a handsome little boy, Jamal, who
he had with a lady who goes by the
name Bimbo Babatunde. He’s said to
have been romantically involved with
female rapper, Eva Alordiah, when he
first came to Lagos.
His musical projects include Everybody
Loves Ice Prince (2011), Fire of Zamani
(2013) and the Trash Can EP which he
released in 2015.
There were rumours that Panshak
Zamani was no longer a part of
Chocolate City, the imprint under
which he achieved pretty much all of
his success. He went on to confirm the
rumours in an interview on a popular
radio station in Lagos during their
midday show. Zamani stated
unequivocally that his contract with
Chocolate City ended two years ago but
remained with the label for purely
personal/relationship purposes. A few
months later, he officially went public
with his Super Cool Cats label and was
said to be on the verge of signing a
new act, Jilex Anderson. Zamani went
as far as introducing Jilex Anderson to
the audience at a show at the
University of Benin.
Panshak Zamani was also rumoured to
be working on launching an urban
fashion line as well as his third studio
album which he has already titled Jos
To The World. It is at this point that
Panshak Zamani went “missing”.
Some of his latest singles including No
Mind Dem, Feelings, Chike (which
features Korede Bello, and sounds like
an annoying remix to Olamide’s Abule
Sowo) and most recently, Excellency
featuring DJ Buckz which he put out a
very below par video for (going by his
previously-set standards).
For an artiste who has been touted by
many to be a “Candy Rapper”, I still
loved and defended him on every
platform I was on. A lot of his music
in the past always came off as cheesy
and wanting to appeal more to the
ladies as well as the fast-tempo-music-
lovers. Obviously he was able to get
away with it, but it seems the fans are
now wiser. It almost feels like he has
failed to reinvent himself or at least
up the ante music-wise. A lot of times
his flow sounds the same, while at
other times, he’s singing people to
sleep. For pete’s sake, who is this
impostor??!
With the young cats like Ycee, Dremo,
Zoro and a few others looking to steal
the rap crown from hip-hop household
names like Olamide, Phyno and co
who are also not slacking as they are
also working tirelessly to be in our
faces and ears every single time,
Panshak is steady falling my hand o!
So this doesn’t come off as aimless and
useless ranting, ask yourself these
pertinent questions:
Music under which he dropped his
debut album, Everybody Loves Ice
Prince in 2011. The album included
singles like Oleku, Superstar and
Magician. The year 2013 saw this
artiste release his sophomore album,
Fire of Zamani. The album had singles
like Aboki, I Swear, Gimme Dat and a
few other banging singles. Shortly
after Audu Maikori stepped down at
the helm at Chocolate City Music, Jude
‘MI’ Abaga was announced as the new
Chairman of Chocolate City with this
artiste as Vice Chairman.
Did I mention that he’s also the father
of a handsome little boy, Jamal, who
he had with a lady who goes by the
name Bimbo Babatunde. He’s said to
have been romantically involved with
female rapper, Eva Alordiah, when he
first came to Lagos.
His musical projects include Everybody
Loves Ice Prince (2011), Fire of Zamani
(2013) and the Trash Can EP which he
released in 2015.
There were rumours that Panshak
Zamani was no longer a part of
Chocolate City, the imprint under
which he achieved pretty much all of
his success. He went on to confirm the
rumours in an interview on a popular
radio station in Lagos during their
midday show. Zamani stated
unequivocally that his contract with
Chocolate City ended two years ago but
remained with the label for purely
personal/relationship purposes. A few
months later, he officially went public
with his Super Cool Cats label and was
said to be on the verge of signing a
new act, Jilex Anderson. Zamani went
as far as introducing Jilex Anderson to
the audience at a show at the
University of Benin.
Panshak Zamani was also rumoured to
be working on launching an urban
fashion line as well as his third studio
album which he has already titled Jos
To The World. It is at this point that
Panshak Zamani went “missing”.
Some of his latest singles including No
Mind Dem, Feelings, Chike (which
features Korede Bello, and sounds like
an annoying remix to Olamide’s Abule
Sowo) and most recently, Excellency
featuring DJ Buckz which he put out a
very below par video for (going by his
previously-set standards).
For an artiste who has been touted by
many to be a “Candy Rapper”, I still
loved and defended him on every
platform I was on. A lot of his music
in the past always came off as cheesy
and wanting to appeal more to the
ladies as well as the fast-tempo-music-
lovers. Obviously he was able to get
away with it, but it seems the fans are
now wiser. It almost feels like he has
failed to reinvent himself or at least
up the ante music-wise. A lot of times
his flow sounds the same, while at
other times, he’s singing people to
sleep. For pete’s sake, who is this
impostor??!
With the young cats like Ycee, Dremo,
Zoro and a few others looking to steal
the rap crown from hip-hop household
names like Olamide, Phyno and co
who are also not slacking as they are
also working tirelessly to be in our
faces and ears every single time,
Panshak is steady falling my hand o!
So this doesn’t come off as aimless and
useless ranting, ask yourself these
pertinent questions:
Prince really do?
Prince as a rapper?
his own against the younger,
hungrier and fierier rappers in
the game right now?
Having answered these questions, it
wouldn’t be totally out of place for me
to conclude that Panshak Zamani is
gradually slipping into oblivion. Call
me crazy, but I don’t recognize the
impostor passing himself off as the Ice
Prince I used to love and adore so
please, before it’s too late, BRING
wouldn’t be totally out of place for me
to conclude that Panshak Zamani is
gradually slipping into oblivion. Call
me crazy, but I don’t recognize the
impostor passing himself off as the Ice
Prince I used to love and adore so
please, before it’s too late, BRING
BACK OUR ICE PRINCE!!!!!!
Post a Comment