Review by Yetunde Ogunleye

I knew I was making a big mistake by listening to the album when it started off with a bunch of guys screaming “hey…ah” like some kinda ritual was going on. I have to admit though, the soundtrack wasn’t so bad. The album wouldn’t be a complete failure if this was year 1998. I think the Nigerian music industry has evolved so much for someone to come out with this crap in 2010 and call it music.

He featured Slow Dog in one of his songs titled Ikenna who featured lyrics like “His name na Ikenna but I call him Jim Iyke….This guy get too much ability. He speaks well, dress well, dey too fresh like say he dey rub Mary Kay” LMAO!

And my favorite quote of all time was from his latest hit song Born To Do This — “Skeptics were born to doubt this, critics were born to break this, cynics were born to diss this, chicks were born to love this! “ Pure poetry!

The worst song on the album was Track 7 “Bad Boys don’t kiss & tell”. The only song that wasn’t so painful to listen to was Who Am I ft. TuFace. The title of the album is Who Am I, and I think Jim Iyke needs to ask himself that question again because he hasn’t found himself yet. I would suggest that he sticks with Nollywood because music is NOT for everyone. In my opinion, he has failed as a rapper. Some people are naturally talented, some people work on it for a long time & they get better, and some just don’t have it no matter how hard they try. Jim Iyke does not have it. He’s not even close.

I wouldn’t call Who Am I a complete disaster because that would be the biggest understatement of the year. His rapping style took me down the memory lane when I was in JSS 2. My class mates and I would come up with the weakest lines ever and we thought we were the stuff

I have a question for Jim Iyke though – What the hell were you thinking?

Fortunately, there were only two tracks on the album (14 & 15) that I didn’t complain about and I guess that was because they were just instrumentals. I definitely give this one thumbs down. I wouldn’t suggest listening to the album to anyone, except you want to torture yourself like I just did.

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