The trio that were known as The Remedies were Eddy Montana Remmedy, Tony Tetula and Eedris Abdulkareem. They surfaced in the Nigerian music scene in the late 1998 with their own brand of Hip-Hop music tagged Afropop.
With their debut album code named ‘Peace Nigeria’ , which was released on Kennies Music in …., they ruled the scene and became the favorite of the now generation (youths) and the genre of music that is known today as Afrobeats thatbis stll burning.
In fact, there were about the originator of rap music in Nigeria, rap music that originated from America.
“Remedies as a group was formed in 1998 and we started work without delay because we were hungry to uplift the game,” Abdulkareem the only member of the group that is still musically visible told me in an interview for this book.
And true to his remarks, it did not take for ages for them to begin to burn their energy on the big stage. They started playing big shows, opening shows for big stars or sharing same stage with them.
The album, which gave them national acclaim and popularity was ‘Mo Sako Mo. A fantastic album that still commands airplay till date.
They played the Rothmans’ Groove Concert sharing stage with Caron Wheeler of Soul to Soul fame and getting the big purse. And then, the unexpected happened. The big money divided them. They went their separate ways with Tetula going solo first and releasing ‘Omode Meta N Sere… ‘
Eedris followed next as a solo ariste and releasing series of album including the phenomenal ‘Nigeria Jaja’ that caught the attention of Nigeria’s president, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo. The prophetic album is still relevant till date as all the artiste sang about in the album is still happening in Nigeria. He became Nigeria’s numero uno Afropop artiste, which they incidentally ponieered. And also, he became the mouthpiece of other voiceless artistes who were too timid to speak out over what they passed through in the hands of corporate Nigeria that were using music to sell/popularise their brands. This earned him the sobriquet of ‘Mau Mau SoulJah’ from this writer.
