TMFaceOff: Lil Kesh “Ibile” Vs Reekado Banks “Oluwa Ni”

Kesh In The Banks

2016, what a year to be alive!

2016 kicked started on a very high note, as we have witnessed from the first day of the year, and the high momentum is still being maintained.

We are yet to enter the third week of the brand new year 2016, but we have heard a series of dope joint already, so we have decided to look into – the man whom many believe should have won the next rated artist of the year for 2015 at the just concluded Headies Award – Lil Kesh’s banger “Ibile “ and his counterpart  – next rated artist of the year 2015 winner – Reekado Banks’ banger “Oluwa Ni” too.

Let’s start with Lil Kesh’s “Ibile”

Great effort from two baddest YBNL producers “Pheelz & Young John” with the same calypso pattern they are known for, sounds good but I expected something more if you asked me.

Lyrically, keshy is still repping the street 100!!! “Street Ti Take Over” The chorus is off the hook & the verses are dope as well except for the fact that the pace the song took from verse one is not the same way it ended, I didn’t feel Keshy much from verse two till the end possibly because it sounds like what we have heard before. Obviously Baddosneh had a very large influence on the delivery.

I will suggest Keshy needs to do something new. [No beef intended Bro]

Delivery to me I will say it’s above average.

Moving over to Reekado banks’s “Oluwa Ni”

Altims on the beat! Production wise I give this piece thumbs ups, although the beat sounds like what I’ve heard before, it still bursts my brain though. Rekeeky fine boy starts his new year with thanksgiving; giving all the glory and gratitude back to God “Oluwa Ni”.

Lyrically Reekado Banks knows what he’s doing, gushing about how a small boy got to be man and all the blessings associated with being signed by Don Jazzy.

The song can pass as a refreshingly calm and simple joint, with closely laid vocals on an afro beat with rhythm spinning from its core.

Style wise, Banks drops layer by layer everything in place, flipping a bit to a fast paced delivery that hallmarks the high point of the track in an irregular pattern.

Spreading the already established West African ties, he borrows a little of the Ghanaian creole which makes me get a sense of his versatility and passion to embody the African sounds from its roots to the world.