Otolorin Olabode: Saeon’s Birth of the Boychick is the Hip-Hop Project of the Year
SaeonSaeon has a point to prove with Birth of the Boychick. It’s
probably crazy for her, going through a lot of challenges, and
triumphing above them to release this project.
But Saeon rises to the occasion, dropping a deluxe body of work. With
BOTB, Saeon has eventually shown an upgrade from the young lass who gave
us Boogie Down. Since that period, she’s been enmeshed with
controversies of all kind: the Wizkid brouhaha, her battle with cystic
fibrosis. At a point, she admitted she contemplated suicide.
In an industry where female rappers keep evaporating and turning to popstars, the question is who listens to rap in Nigeria?
Quick question: Are there even female rappers in Nigeria? But Saeon is
holding it down in a fading genre, and BOTB seems to be her perfect
project that couldn’t have arrived in at a better time.
With depression issues in the mainstream, her intro, titled Vultro,
addresses how she almost quit music. It’s safe to say, Saeon told her
own life story in BOTB. Every song on the album is laced with a story
centered on her failure, challenges, life issues and how she dealt with
them. If she can, as a weak individual who has been hurt back and forth,
who are you not to overcome such challenges?
Let You In follows in the path of Vultro and is one of the bright sparks
on the album, with a trap inflected expedition into the hurt places in
our hearts. Let You In is probably every lover’s story. Everyone has
experienced a heartbreak at one time or the other. At the end of the
day, we regret letting the other partner in. And initially, she didn’t
want to. So emotional.
Saeon is an embodiment of diverse talents. On some songs on the album,
she’s delivering a mixture of flows percussing deep into the heart. At
another time, she switches into your usual gangster as she did on On It
where she yodels and straight-up raps about “people hustling for a show
just to get the dough.”
There’s cathartic emotional energy on Aii where she displays her
proficient rapping prowess aided by the transformative powers of the
beat. It’s reminiscent of that song you should turn up to at max level
at outdoor Friday parties.
Caution is a message to other rappers telling them to step up their game and how she’s the “new school”
Birth of the Boychick should be hip hop’s project of the year. The juice
Saeon served in this body of work is top notch, and for me, Saeon has
really shown a lot of renaissance and she’s truly reborn. A few projects
have dropped here and there but here’s a body of work with only a
feature where she’s had to work extremely hard to pass the core message
of Rebirth.
The flows and delivery are impressive and on Rebirth there’s this
confidence Saeon asserts through the words “I’m the number one” And she
might be right with BOTB.
Overall, Saeon has proved her mettle with this album. Saeon has made a
beautiful body of work laden with hits that have been slept on. And with
the industry becoming hot with a lot of rap projects lately, Saeon is
relishing progress, growth and upgrade with BOTB.
As she said in Meltdown 48, she’s paid her dues and she deserves some accolades with this album.
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