song of the week

The song of the week is kendrick lamar's cut you off, from his 2010 mixtape overly dedicated. what i love about this song is the message, we all know that kendrick always lyrically delivers.
in the song kendrick was saying about how frustrated he is with the people around him, who have no future plans, who are just shallow, all they know how to do is to talk ill about other people and gossip. He treatens to cut them off because they are not having any positive effect on his life, they just surrounding him with negative energy,
he says he is focused on surrounding himself with people that inspire him or people that want the same thing as him.
for all kendrick's fans i know i just took you through memory lane, and if you haven't heard the song, you really have to go listen to it.
we all know how inspiring kendrick is.

Just one me

the world is estimated to have 7.125 billion people 
Africa is estimated to have 1.111 billion people
Nigeria is estimated to have over 173.6 million people
Lagos is estimated to have 21 million people

there are 5 people in my family
3 children
and just one me
just one me

people say they are one in a million
I'm just one in the whole entire universe

Banji Coker

Song for the week

So the song for the week is aramide funmi lowo featuring sir dauda .
Aramide is a breath of fresh air in the music industry, she is among the very  few in the music industry that can actually sing, so when i heard about this her new song i was really excited
The production of the song was on point  and i love the whistling thingy at the beginning . The rendition of the song was also on point.
The message of the song was she airing her frustration of working hard and not getting paid and appreciated for it, now she is taking a stand saying enough is enough. I love the part where sir dauda said "this music must blow by force by fire" (some MFM zones).
My only issue with the song is she taking lines from Rihanna's bitch better have my money,  it was kind of sounding like a cover of Rihanna's Bitch better have my money.
But apart from that i love the song and i need aramide to drop more music  and i hope she gets paid for it 😀.

More to you

Blood filled eyes
Shaking hands
Weakened feets
Flooded cheeks

Faded dreams
Losing hope
Favent pain
Dying soul

All this things
Are what you feel
But what i see
Is there is much more you can be

Banji coker

The struggle

After so much suffering
After so much pain
After so much struggle
For that thing you want to gain

It finally pays off
But there seems to be something wrong
When you get the thing you've always wanted                                                  
But dont know what to do with it

Maybe i miss the struggle
Maybe i miss the pain
Maybe i just want to    
do it all over again

  Banji coker

When i grow up

What is it you want to be? This is a question a friend of mine asked and nobody in the room could give an answer , and mind you we were all in the university. I know you might think we are some kind of irresponsible, lazy, carefree people, but truth is we are as responsible as responsible can get, we are hard working, smart, intelligent and creative( i dont mean to brag). we put our hearts to what ever we find ourselves doing but the problem is we don't seem to find that thing we want to be, what we are going to specialise in and put all our hard work and talent into. This as become a case of ' jack of all trades master of none'.
In schools we were thought variety of subjects and decipline which were meant  to build us to survive in this world, and for those who are all round good find it the hardest to find or discover what they want to be. In secondary school they have to battle with the stereotypes that the smartest students are to go to the science class, because science were seen to be more challenging than the other classes, and since they were good all round its only logical they go for the more challenging class, neglecting the fact that they can strive in other classes or enjoy the other classes more .
The truth is, there is nothing wrong with the education system or the way we grew up. The only loop hole is that we were put under pressure to find what we want to be before we found ourselves and the irony is as we grew and began to grow and spread our wings, we discovered that there is more to us and we are capable of a whole lot more than we thought,  we start getting confused and instead of having a thing we want to be we have
a lot of things we can be or do that we have a problem choosing one.      
But the only advice i can give people like me is to keep working hard in whatever they find themselves doing and leave things to sort itself  out.

Emotions

End of an era

End of an era
End of an age
It has come to the moment
That this love has to fade

I leave you with blessing
I leave you with pain
I'm taking my love ,I'm taking my hate  
I hope we dont repeat this cycle all over again
I hope we Learn from our mistakes

BANJI COKER

Two broken hearts

You broke my heart by not wanting me
Now it seem like i'm breaking your heart by not caring
You call me your enemy
Because i dont act friendly anymore
You say i make you look like a bad person
But You came, broke my heart and left it messy

It took me a life time to get myself back together
I made it through the night and stormy weather
Now that i've patched up my heart
You want us to go back to the start.
                                                                 
What will you do if you were me?
Please think about that

Banji coker

Heart of a fool

I wish i never met you
Cos now, i cant forget you
I'm a prisoner to this feeling
And nothing seems to have no meaning
I dont hate you, i never did and i never will
But you never took the time to care about how i really feel
I feel like a game to you
Something to laugh at with your friends and call a fool  

When you're bored you say you love me
Then you turn around and say i understood your message wrongly
I did love you but i have to stop
To let my bleeding heart have the time to finally clot
I still care about you
And that is something i will always do
I have to stop being a fool
So i might not always be there for you

Banji Coker

Bone of my bone

Being a loner

The wait

I wait for that notification
I yawn to feel that vibration        
I stare at my phone all day
Waiting for someone to type my name
I desperately need to feel important
I only want to be  significant
I crave their attention
I will die for their adoration

No one cares about me
I tied myself to this mental slavery
The only way i can be free
Is if i'm only  wanted by me

Banji Coker

Personality of the week

I know this is new, but I have to celebrate my hommie, the personality of the week

Name: shomuyiwa Abayomi
He is a model, singer, footballer. He is multi talented.

He is a psychology student in unilag

Instagram: @casse_t

@tomi_nengz wrote this about him


"Happy birthday to this annoying boy😡
Crush stealer🙃
KOS😁
Model of life🙌🏾
The one who gives the best hugs😸😺
Mr lover man💋
Ur +1 today
Wish u all the good things you wish yourself ( including the hottest of all babes)👏🏼👀
Ur simply amazing
Have know you for 5months n some weeks and I don't regret ever knowing you😍😍
Age with grace😍
#rock today#"

Ps. Today is his birthday

Ruined

Music

The dream

we all grew up scared and broken
never felt whole unless we together
never felt this vulnerable
never felt this weak
never felt this lost  
This is not how it was supposed to be

cos i was always one piece of the puzzle
one part of the dream
without each other the four of us could never be complete
the dream was never to be rich  
the dream was never to be famous
the dream was to be happy

          Banji coker

In love again

Slaves to religion

I know i promised not to write about religion again (people have stated looking at me like i'm headed straight to hell) but what happened today,i cant help but say something or in this case write something.
I was going about my daily stroll around my school(walking calms me, it helps me think) as i was coming to the end of my stroll, a guy called me and asked if he could lean on me as we walked together( for those who have ever been in unilag and know the Dli road leading to the medical centre, how dark and deserted that place always is in the night)  i was scared, really scared, i don't have any marshal art skills, i'm a very lazy person and a terrible runner.
But the guy asked for my help, i had sympathy for him because I could related with his pain me being ashmatic. Then i thought to myself we are close to the medical centre he doesn't need my help, i will just take him where people are and where light is( i cant get mugged today).   I  said i will just take him to the medical centre then he said the most disturbing thing  he said he didn't want to go to the medical centre and when i asked why he said he doesn't take drugs , lets take a minute to process this scenario, this guy is very weak that he has to lean on a total stranger when he could just go get treatment and get his strength back. He said something about how he believes if he goes home he will be healed (which is total bullshit). Before i felt sorry about his health now i feel sorry for his mentality, i just cant understand how someone will subject himself to pain  because of a believe( jesus has already suffered for you!!!!) Thats just over doing it
Taking drugs or going to the hospital doesn't mean you dont have faith or believe in god, lets look at it this way, god created the world and all that is in it right? God is the one that gave the doctors knowledge right? So if god wanted us to suffer till we get well when we are sick, there wouldn't be drugs or hospitals.  Does that make sense? Please use your brain, you were not made for any religion. You not the slave of any believe.

Obsessed

What is happiness?

What is happiness? Is happiness a thing? Is happiness a state? Is happiness a destination? Is happiness a person? Or is happiness a place?.
We have always believed that its the things we acquire,  our accomplishments or the money we make are what are going to bring happiness,  but the problem with this theory is that, we can see people that have the money, accomplished a great deal and acquired a lot of things, but are still as miserable as the rest of us or even more miserable.                                
 We believe that happiness is found in our family and friends or in some cases the one true love( the i'm happy when i'm with you people) but the problem with this theory is that people are not trust worthy, they disappoint( they break hearts into pieces). Infact nobody wants to begiven that kind of responsibility, to have someone else's happiness tied to them when they haven't even found theirs.
Somepeople even believe that happiness cant be found on earth, that happiness can only be found in some kind of after life. But the problem with this theory is that "what's the point of living?" If we can't be happy why dont we just stab ourselves and go to the after life and be happy.
I don't thing this theories are wrong infact i think it can add to you having a wonderful life but the thing is, i think we have to own our happiness not place it on an  achievement, a thing, a person or a place. I think happiness is a choice, you can decide to be happy or not. There is nothing like happy ever after(that's the biggest misconception on this earth) because we all know that challengesare going to arise, so instead of enjoying our moments we look at our challenges waiting for the perfect happiness. I think happiness is a moment,  that moment were you are happy with yourself and all the troubles of the world doesn't matter and i suggest you enjoy them while they last.

Sowhere between

He is a shadow

What i do want to be

Finally at peace

Happiest i'll ever be