Edited by Azizi Powell
This pancocojams post documents various mostly lighthearted comments and tweets that were written in response to one of United States President Trump's gaffes* during a September 2017 United Nations luncheon with leaders of several African nations.
The content of this post is presented for cultural purposes.
All copyrights remain with their owners.
Thanks to all those who are quoted in this post.
*I found another comment that Trump made at that same luncheon -that "I've so many friends going to your countries trying to get rich, I congratulate you." - to be far more serious and disturbing than the probably mispronunciation of an African nation's name. Click https://www.cnbc.com/2017/09/20/trump-congratulates-african-leaders-for-making-his-friends-rich.html for an article about that statement.
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INFORMATION ABOUT THE "NAMBIA" GAFFE TRUMP MADE DURING THE AFRICAN LEADERS LUNCHEON
From http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/trump-mispronounces-namibia-luncheon-african-leaders-article-1.3509832
"President Trump mispronounced the name of a southern African country in a meeting with African leaders in New York City Wednesday.
“In Guinea and Nigeria you fought a horrifying Ebola outbreak,” Trump said at the luncheon during the U.N. General Assembly. “Nambia’s health system is increasingly sufficient.”
The country’s name is Namibia. A White House pool report said the President was referring to Namibia."...
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From http://people.com/politics/donald-trump-nambia-gaffe/ "Donald Trump Refers to the Nonexistent Country of Nambia and the Tweets Are Practically Writing Themselves" by Kathy Ehrich, posted on September 20, 2017
"President Donald Trump mistakenly referred to the African nation of Namibia as Nambia in a speech on Wednesday — and social media users were quick to pounce on the gaffe.
“Nambia’s health system is increasingly self-sufficient,” Trump said at a working luncheon with African leaders. Earlier, he can also be heard mistakenly referring to “Nambia” in his opening remarks.
The White House later clarified in an official transcript that the president was referring to Namibia, a country in southwest Africa, according to The Hill.
Even so, Twitter users were quick to hone in on the error, making jokes and teasing the president for making yet another blunder.
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Trump has often been criticized for his gaffes and misspellings, including time he tweeted the nonsense word “covfefe.”
One Twitter user hearkened back to that much-mocked error, joking that “Covfefe is the unofficial beverage of Nambia.”
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Why did Trump try to praise "Namibia's health system? Here's some information about that Southern African nation's health system:
From http://www.nhp.com.na/about-us/
"Namibia Health Plan (NHP) was established in 1995 to provide a world class, uniquely Namibian medical aid plan to help cover medical costs.
Since then, NHP has grown rapidly to become one of the largest medical aid funds in our country, providing for the healthcare needs of more than 54,000 beneficiaries. We are also the first choice for Namibians as shown by the results of the PMR Africa surveys where NHP was presented with the Diamond Arrow award for excellence in the medical aid industry in Namibia for six consecutive years (2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014 and 2015). NHP was also nominated the most efficient medical aid fund by healthcare providers in 2014."...
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SOME OF THE FICTIONAL NATIONS MENTIONED IN THESE COMMENTS
(given in alphabetical order)
NAMBIA - a fictional African nation referred to by Trump was probably a mispronunciation of the name of the Southern African nation of "Namibia". The names of the African nations of "Gambia" and "Zambia" also sound like the word "Nambia".
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NARNIA
From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Chronicles_of_Narnia
"The Chronicles of Narnia is a series of seven fantasy novels by C. S. Lewis. It is considered a classic of children's literature and is the author's best-known work, having sold over 100 million copies in 47 languages.[1][2] Written by Lewis, illustrated by Pauline Baynes, and originally published in London between 1950 and 1956, The Chronicles of Narnia has been adapted several times, complete or in part, for radio, television, the stage, and film.
Set in the fictional realm of Narnia, a fantasy world of magic, mythical beasts, and talking animals, the series narrates the adventures of various children who play central roles in the unfolding history of that world."...
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WAKANDA
From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wakanda_(comics)
"Wakanda is a fictional nation appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics.[1] It is the most prominent of several fictional Bantu African nations in the Marvel Universe, and it is home to the superhero Black Panther. Wakanda first appeared in Fantastic Four #52 (July 1966), and was created by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby.[2]
Location
Wakanda is located in Northeastern Africa, although its exact location has varied throughout the nation's publication history: some sources place Wakanda in East Africa, just north of Tanzania,[3] while others - such as Marvel Atlas #2 - show it bordering Lake Turkana, near Somalia, Kenya and Ethiopia (and surrounded by fictional countries like Azania, Canaan, and Narobia). In the Captain America: Civil War movie, Wakanda was shown on a map at the northern end of Lake Turkhana, at a fictional point bordering Ethiopia, Sudan, Uganda, and Kenya.
History
The Wakandan royal line began with Bashenga, an ancient Wakandan whose first and only appearance was in Black Panther vol. 1 #7 (Jan 1978). Bashenga was supposedly the first king of unified Wakanda, and the first Black Panther some 10,000 years ago.[4]
In the distant past, a massive meteorite made up of the sound-absorbing mineral vibranium crashed in Wakanda, and is unearthed a generation before the events of the present-day. T'Challa, the current Black Panther, is the son of T'Chaka, the Black Panther before him and a descendant of Bashenga. Knowing that others would attempt to manipulate and dominate Wakanda for this rare and valuable resource, T'Chaka conceals his country from the outside world. He sells off minute amounts of the valuable vibranium while surreptitiously sending the country's best scholars to study abroad, consequently turning Wakanda into one of the world's most technologically advanced nations. Eventually, however, the explorer Ulysses Klaw finds his way to Wakanda, and covers up his work on a vibranium-powered, sound-based weapon. When exposed, Klaw kills T'Chaka, only to see his "sound blaster" turned on him by a grieving teenaged T'Challa. Klaw's right hand is destroyed, and he and his men flee.[4]"...
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WESTEROS
From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Game_of_Thrones
"Game of Thrones is an American fantasy drama television series created by David Benioff and D. B. Weiss. It is an adaptation of A Song of Ice and Fire, George R. R. Martin's series of fantasy novels, the first of which is A Game of Thrones. It is filmed in Belfast and elsewhere in the United Kingdom, Canada, Croatia, Iceland, Malta, Morocco, Spain, and the United States. The series premiered on HBO in the United States on April 17, 2011, and its seventh season ended on August 27, 2017. The series will conclude with its eighth season in 2018 or 2019.[1]
Set on the fictional continents of Westeros and Essos, Game of Thrones has several plot lines and a large ensemble cast but centers on three primary story arcs."
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Click https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_of_A_Song_of_Ice_and_Fire for more information about "Westeros:.
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ZAMUNDA- The fictional African nation featured in the 1988 American movie Coming To America.
From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coming_to_America
"Coming to America is a 1988 American romantic comedy film directed by John Landis, and based on a story originally created by Eddie Murphy, who also starred in the lead role. The film also co-stars Arsenio Hall, James Earl Jones, Shari Headley and John Amos. The film was released in the United States on June 29, 1988. Eddie Murphy plays Akeem Joffer, the crown prince of the fictional African nation of Zamunda, who comes to the United States in the hopes of finding a woman he can marry. The film spawned a brief U.S. television spin-off series."
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Click http://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2014/02/the-origins-meanings-of-jaffe-joffer.html for the 2014 pancocojams post entitled "The Origins & Meanings Of "Jaffe Joffer" & Other Names From "Coming To America" (with videos)".
Also, click http://madamenoire.com/188391/bet-you-didnt-know-secrets-behind-the-making-of-coming-to-america/3/ for other suppositions about the source/s of the name "Zamunda".
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OTHER GAFFES THAT ARE MENTIONED IN SOME OF TRUMP'S COMMENTS
TWO CORINTHIANS
From http://www.npr.org/2016/01/18/463528847/citing-two-corinthians-trump-struggles-to-make-the-sale-to-evangelicals "Citing 'Two Corinthians,' Trump Struggles To Make The Sale To Evangelicals", January 18, 2016
...There were a few stumbles during Donald Trump's sojourn to Liberty University on Monday.
He mispronounced a book of the Bible. He cursed — twice. And on Martin Luther King Day, the GOP presidential candidate said he was honoring the slain civil-rights leader by dedicating to him the record crowds he says he drew for the school's opening convocation. (Students are required to attend.)
"We're going to protect Christianity. I can say that. I don't have to be politically correct," he thundered at the beginning of his speech at the conservative evangelical university.
Then he moved on to cite "Two Corinthians 3:17, that's the whole ballgame. ... Is that the one you like?" Trump asked. "Now the Lord is that Spirit: and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty."
That's a verse that's etched on campus buildings, but that verse comes from "Second Corinthians" — not "Two."
Students in the room snickered and laughed, and advisers to two of Trump's top rivals, Texas Sen. Ted Cruz and Florida Sen. Marco Rubio, were quick to point out the gaffe on Twitter."...
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"COVFEFE"
A number of people mentioned the word "covfefe" in their tweets or comments about Trump's "Nambia" gaffe.
Here's information about "covfefe:
From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Trump_on_social_media#.22Covfefe.22
"On May 31, 2017, Trump sent out a tweet that read, in its entirety, "Despite the constant negative press covfefe". The tweet was deleted only hours after its posting.[62] It immediately went viral, becoming an Internet meme and a source of widespread jokes.[63] The tweet was liked and retweeted over a hundred thousand times, making it one of the most popular tweets of 2017 to that date, as people speculated on the meaning of the word "covfefe".[64] About five hours later, Trump deleted it and sent out another one, asking people what they thought "covfefe" could mean".
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FREDERICK DOUGLASS
A few of the comments that were written in response to this latest gaffe [i.e. mispronouncing the name of an African nation at a luncheon with African leaders] also referred to Trump's referring to 19th century African American orator and activist Frederick Douglass as though he were still living: on February 1, 2017: In a televised speech honoring Black History Month, United States President Trump described Frederick Douglass as "someone who has done a terrific job that is being recognized by more and more people, I notice".
Click http://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2017/02/the-self-resurrection-of-frederick.html for a Part III of a three part pancocojams series about Frederick Douglass. Part III includes examples from a twitter page that is supposedly hosted by a "resurrected" Frederick Douglass.
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THE BOWLING GREEN MASSACRE
Some commenters also mentioned the gaffe that Trump's spokesperson Kelly Anne Conway made about a massacre in Bowling Green which never happened - "The Bowling Green massacre is a fictitious incident alluded to by U.S. Counselor to the President Kellyanne Conway in interviews with Cosmopolitan and TMZ on January 29, 2017, and in an interview on the MSNBC news program Hardball with Chris Matthews on February 2, 2017. Conway cited it as justification for a travel and immigration ban from seven Muslim-majority countries enacted by United States President Donald Trump. However, no such massacre occurred"... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bowling_Green_massacre
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SELECTED COMMENTS ABOUT TRUMP'S NAMBIA GAFFE
From http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/trump-hosts-african-leaders-un-nambia_us_59c2b29fe4b0c90504fb0cfe?ncid=inblnkushpmg00000009 Trump To African Leaders: My Friends Go To Your Countries To Get Rich He also praised Africa’s non-existent nation of Nambia, By Jesselyn Cook, 9/20/2017 [Selected comments]-all from 9/20/2017]
1. Fred Arcala
"We should try it improve our relations with Zamunda...they’re like super rich and would be a great place for one of president the Donald’s golf courses or towers."
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2. Skam XChapman
"Prince Akeem Joffer is the longest serving African leader."
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3. Brian Board
"How is his wife doing? She moved pretty far to be with him."
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4. Heather Mazza
"Open up a McDowell's"
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5. Heather Mazza
"Start a new Soul Glo line"
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6. Sigrid Coulthurst ·
"I'm sure Wakanda would be a better option."
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7. Peter Oelbaum ·
"ladies and gentlemen give it up for Sexual Chocolate."
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8. Linge Ndabambi ·
"I think it's actually south of Zemunda landlocked by Pandora."
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9. Rhiannon Mills ·
"Take a left at the wardrobe, pass Narnia, and first stop on the right is Nambia, where covfefe grows wild."
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10. Suzanne Whitney
"Surely Trump knows that the finest healthcare in the entire world is in Munchkinland! Who doesn't know this?"
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11. Will Roane ·
"I certainly hope he opens trade with Wakanda. Just think of the benefits of the Vibranium rights alone!"
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12. Cindy Godet
"He'll be reading the awesome Bible book of 2 Corinthians while visiting Nambia and drinking a nice hot cup of Covfefe!"
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13. Brenda Garrett ·
"I wouldn't be surprised if he doubled down and says there really is a place. The capitol city is Covfefe."
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14. Gerry Huffpo
"Nambia must be when thry speak Covfefe...."
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15. Stuart Tarleton ·
"Namibia is south of Angola on the south west coast of Africa. Nambia is it's small more affluent brother and it is close to Nevernever land."
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16. David Acheson ·
"And it's just south of Mordor."
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17. Everett Vann Eberhardt ·
"Bordered by Zemunda, whose King, James Earl Jones, and Crown Prince, Eddie Murphy, missed his big U.N. speech."
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18. Daniel Villa ·
"I was waiting for him to make a reference to Tarzan and Jane for letting him stay with them while he's there.."
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19. Ken D. Blackwell ·
"Could be worse. He could’ve referenced Wakanda."
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20. Juskin Mitchell
"Don't give him ideas. He might invade them to get the vibranium."
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21. Greg Weiner ·
"Yeah and Wakanda has great resources of Vibranium dude. Check it out. Totally real."
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22. Wade Lance ·
"Two Corinthians walk into a bar in Nambia…"
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23. Christian Hinrichs ·
"Is the capital of Nambia not Bowling Green?
#BowlingGreenMassacre
#neverremember
#Nambia
#vivaNambia
#Covfefe"
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24. Brian Lesyk ·
"According to Two Corinthians, Nambia was an ancient country which bordered Covfefe."
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25. Tricia Lynn
"At least he didn't say Zamunda....."
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26. Dustin Narcisse ·
"I saw Nambia on the Game of Thrones map during the opening credits"
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27. Meryl Vincenzo ·
"Nambia is where they grow corfefe."
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28. Oleg Slivnyak ·
"I remember that not long ago Nambia was at war with Covfefe. Well, look at both of them now..."
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29. David Earl Williams III ·
"He enjoys having his covefefe in Nambia 😂"
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30. Rick Darrington ·
"I think he probably meant “Narnia!”😉😂"
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31. Dana Brewer Harris
"Frederick Douglass is in Nambia right now."
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32. Cecelia Thomas ·
"He probably just wants to meet the Prince of Zamunda!"
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33. Marty Grifka
"Then he can go get covfefe at wakanda and watch the pink panther premiere"
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34. Camille Dickinson
"That's where all those emails from African Princes come from...."
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35. Lee Reed
"The covfefe mines in Nambia?"
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36. Sanjeev Madhav
"Wait! He forgot to mention Westeros! Yuge mistake!!! Complete covfefe!"
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SELECTED TWEETS ABOUT TRUMP'S NAMBIA GAFFE
From https://twitter.com/hashtag/nambia?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Ehashtag
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Julie Lynn @bellafortunate Sep 20
Nambia, the world's top producer of covfefe.
#PrayForNambia #nambia
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Tony Groeblinghoff @groeblbubble Sep 20
Was #Nambia responsible for the #Bowlinggreen massacre? We may never #Covfefe
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Rainbow Doom @RobinCook Sep 20
Frederick Douglass was ambassador to Nambia. This has been brought to you by Alternative Facts Theater.
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Jillian Leyba @jillianfuqua Sep 20
Replying to @groeblbubble @JoyAnnReid
I think #Nambia is also where Frederick Douglass is living these days.
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Tony Groeblinghoff @groeblbubble Sep 20
Many people don't know this but Obama is from Nambia as well.
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Tony Groeblinghoff @groeblbubble Sep 20
That would explain why no Nambians were at the YUGE inauguration ceremony for Trump.
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7.
YS @NYinLA2121 Sep 20
You guys shouldn’t make fun of Nambia.
Without Nambia, we would not have any covfeve.
#Nambia
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8.
bad Trini @LSAT62 Sep 20
Thank God he didn't have to say "Niger". #Nambia
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9.
Tony PosnanskiVerified account @tonyposnanski Sep 20
Say what you want but #Nambia makes the best damn cup of Covfefe this side of Bowling Green.
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10.
TheRealManface @Mr_Manface Sep 22
Things to do in #Nambia
1. Find it
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Here are two more tweets that were written in response to Trump's Nambia gaffe:
From http://people.com/politics/donald-trump-nambia-gaffe/ Donald Trump Refers to the Nonexistent Country of Nambia and the Tweets Are Practically Writing Themselves; by Kathy Ehrich, September 29, 2017
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((((JoshuaWarren)))) @JoshWarrun
Footage of the Prince of #Nambia leaving the @UN after meeting with @realDonaldTrump. // @KagroX @dailykos
2:43 PM - Sep 20, 2017
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This tweet included a gif of "Prince Akeem" from a clip of the 1988 Coming To America movie.
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Benjamin Siemon ✔@BenjaminJS
Nambia doesn't exist and already has better health care than we're about to get from Republicans.
3:01 PM - Sep 20, 2017
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ADDENDUM- SELECTED COMMENTS THAT MENTION NAMBIA FROM 9/24/2017 ARTICLE
From http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/trump-travel-ban-north-korea-venezuela_us_59c8457ce4b0cdc7733215a1?ncid=inblnkushpmg00000009
POLITICS 09/24/2017 07:59 pm ET "Trump Issues New Travel Ban That Now Includes North Korea And Venezuela"
The new restrictions, slated to go into effect on October 18, broadens the scope of the ban from Muslim-majority countries.
by Jeff Mason and Phil Stewart
"WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Donald Trump on Sunday slapped new travel restrictions on citizens from North Korea, Venezuela and Chad, expanding the list of countries covered by his original travel bans that have been derided by critics and challenged in court.
Iran, Libya, Syria, Yemen and Somalia were left on the list of affected countries in a new proclamation issued by the president. Restrictions on citizens from Sudan were lifted.”...
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Here are a few selected comments from that article*. All of these comments are from September 24, 2017; numbers for referencing purposes only)
*Note that there were other comments that referred to Nambia.
1. Patty Taylor Dutcher ·
"But what about Nambia? Where can we get our covfefe?"
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2. Benita Cassell
"If you ask Fredrick Douglass he will bring some back the next time he visits Nambia."
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3. Carolyn R Parsons Chaffey ·
"What about Nambia? Any travel ban issued there? Makes about as much sense as the rest."
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4. Mike Clark ·
"I suppose that travel ban also includes Nambia and Coveffe?"
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5. Catherine Race-Kelly
"If he didn't include Nambia and Confefe, why bother?!"
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6. Jack Goodwin ·
"What about Nambia and Narnia? I'm really concerned about immigrants from there"
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Friday, September 22, 2017
Friday, April 1, 2016
What "Mic Drop" REALLY Means (history, video examples, & comments)
Edited by Azizi Powell
On April 1, 2016 Google tried too hard to come up with an April Fool's Day prank, and punked* itself.
"Ooops. That wasn't very funny, Google.
Google's April Fools' prank backfired Friday, making a lot of users very angry and forcing the company to take it down early.
The company announced Thursday it was introducing a "Mic Drop" feature in Gmail, placing a new orange "Mic Drop" option next to the regular send button.
It was designed to end email chains by attaching a gif of an angry minion dropping a microphone, and effectively shutting down the conversation.
"Everyone will get your message, but that's the last you'll ever hear about it. Yes, even if folks try to respond, you won't see it," Google (GOOG) explained in a blog post announcing the gag.
Google traditionally rolls out fun features on April Fools' Day, leaving them live for a couple of days. Last year, the company delighted users by allowing them to turn Google Maps into Pac-Man game.
But this year's gag didn't go as planned, after a number of people accidentally clicked the button while sending professional emails.
"This is horrible -- just sent an email to a client with this stupid icon on it. I can't afford these stupid pranks!," one user complained on Google's product forum." http://money.cnn.com/2016/04/01/technology/google-april-fool-prank-backfires/index.html
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*punked itself = tricked itself
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Did you ever wondered where the phrase "mic drop" came from? This pancocojams post is for you. This post also includes three YouTube video examples of "mic drops". Selected comments from these videos' discussion threads are also included in this post.
The content of this post is presented for historical, folkloric, socio-cultural, and entertainment purposes.
Thanks to all those who are quoted in this post and thanks to those who are featured in these embedded videos. Thanks also to the publishers of these videos on YouTube.
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AN EXPLANATION OF THE "MIC DROP" PHRASE
[revised April 2, 2016]
Microphones (mics) are used to amplify sounds. A person dropping the mic is indicating that no one else needs to use the microphone because what he or she said (or performed) can't be beat (topped) so no one else should waste his or her time trying to be heard.
Participants of rap battles or dissin' (The Dozens) insult battles may not actually hold or use microphones. Instead, those watching might yell "Mic drop!" at the end of a particular rap or insult exchange, thus indicating their approval of that particular rap or insult and their belief that no subsequent rapper or Dozens challenger could possibly do better. Or there could be no actual yelling of the phrase "mic drop", but that phrase might be used to describe how one participant did so well that the competition was effectively over.
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DEFINITIONS AND HISTORY OF "MIC DROPS"
These excerpts are given in no particular order. I've assigned numbers for referencing purposes only.
Excerpt #1:
From http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/mic-drop
Part of a series on Rap / Hip-Hop.
Updated October 2015 by Don.
"About
Mic Drop and Drop the Mic are expressions referring to the practice of intentionally letting a microphone fall to the ground as a display of bold confidence following a successful performance. Colloquially, the expressions have also been used to celebrate the delivery of an impressive argument or insult.
Origin
According to an article on Slate titled “The History of the Mic Drop,” the practice of letting a microphone drop on stage was popularized by rappers and comedians in the 1980s. The earliest known example occurred during comedian Eddie Murphy’s 1983 stand-up special Delirious, in which he drops the microphone on stage after a fan yells “Shut up bi&ch!”* at a heckler .** The earliest known reference to the practice in hip hop is contained within the 1987 track “I Ain’t No Joke” by Eric B. & Rakim, in which Rakim raps “I used to let the mic smoke, now I slam it when I;m done and make sure it’s broke”
[Pancocojams editor: video examples of the mic drops that are mentioned in this article are found on that article's page.]
Spread
During a scene in the 1988 comedy film Comedy to America, the lead singer of the fictional R&B band Sexual Chocolate finishes a song and yells “Sexual Chocolate!” while dropping the microphone ***. In the 2000s, comedian Chris Rock employed the mic drop at the end of his stand-up sets). On September 5th, 2006, a theater house manager published a post on his personal blog,[3] which urged performers to stop damaging microphones by dropping them on stage.
On October 4th, 2011, Urban Dictionary[1] user Nicki Menagerie submitted an entry for “mic drop,” defining it as “when a performer or speaker intentionally drops/throws the microphone to the floor after an awesome performance.” On February 7th, 2012, the Comedy Central YouTube channel uploaded a skit from the show Key & Peele, in which United States President Barack Obama approaches a street rapper, takes his microphone and says “I’m the leader of the free world” before letting the mic fall to the ground ****. Within three years, the clip gained over 4.5 million views and 1,800 comments. On April 24th, Obama appeared on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, where he sings a “slow jam” with the show’s host before dropping the microphone on stage..."*****
On August 27th [2013], the OxfordDictionaries.com[5] added “mic drop” to its online dictionary."...
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*This word is fully spelled out in this article. In that example, Eddie Murphy didn't do a mic drop at the end of his performance, but during his performance, presumably to emphasize and/or to show his appreciation for what a fan said to a heckler.
**Excerpt #2 below points to a 1970 example of "mic drop" by White Northern Irish Rock singer Van Morrison.
***This example is shown in Video #1 below.
****This example is shown in Video #2 below.
*****Click http://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2012/04/slow-jamming-news-non-political.html for an earlier pancocojams post on President Obama slow jammin the news on "The Jimmy Fallon Show".
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Excerpt #2:
From http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/us/definition/american_english/mic-drop
"informal, chiefly US
1 An instance of deliberately dropping or tossing aside one’s microphone at the end of a performance or speech one considers to have been particularly impressive:
he ruffled some feathers with his acceptance speech and mic drop after winning the Best British Album award
figurative the final track is the ultimate mic drop
1.1 [AS EXCLAMATION] Used to emphasize that a discussion is at an end after a definitive or particularly impressive point has been made:
Nuff said. Mic drop!
“This is what we’re doing,” she tells him. Mic drop.
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Here's a comment from that oxford dictionary.com online page:
Neal Buelow, Sep 21, 2015
"I'm curious if anyone knows the origin, as in the first perfomer known to "drop the mic?" According to Lester Bangs, Van Morrison did it in the early 70's. Not sure if there was someone he got the idea from."
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According http://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/lester-bangs-truth-teller, Lester Bangs (born in 1948 & died in 1982) was a (White American) "rock critic... who wrote for Creem magazine and The Village Voice in the seventies and early eighties". Here's an excerpt from Lester Bang's review of a Van Morrison album:
https://personal.cis.strath.ac.uk/murray.wood/astral.html [Van Morrison's] "Astral Weeks" [album review] by Lester Bangs from "Stranded" (1979)
..."Three television shows: A 1970 NET broadcast of a big all-star multiple bill at the Fillmore East. The Byrds, Sha Na Na, and Elvin Bishop have all done their respective things. Now we get to see three of four songs from a set by Van Morrison. He climaxes, as he always did in those days, with "Cyprus Avenue" from Astral Weeks. After going through all the verses, he drives the song, the band, and himself to a finish which has since become one of his trademarks and one of the all-time classic rock 'n' roll set-closers. With consumate dynamics that allow him to snap from indescribably eccentric throwaway phrasing to sheer passion in the very next breath he brings the music surging up through crescendo after crescendo, stopping and starting and stopping and starting the song again and again, imposing long maniacal silences like giant question marks between the stops and starts and ruling the room through sheer tension, building to a shout of "It's too late to stop now!," and just when you think it's all going to surge over the top, he cuts it off stone cold dead, the hollow of a murdered explosion, throws the microphone down and stalks off the stage. It is truly one of the most perverse things I have ever seen a performer do in my life. And, of course, it's sensational: our guts are knotted up, we're crazed and clawing for more, but we damn well know we've seen and felt something."...
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Italics were added by me to highlight this part of that sentence.
That said, I think it's important to note that Van Morrison threw his microphone down and stalks off stage. Those words in italics denote anger. In contrast, in its African American vernacular use, the mic is dropped out of the person's hand in a cool, unconcerned, way and the person walks off stage. The person who does a mic drop isn't wasting his or her energy showing anger. He (or she) is too self-confident to do that. (Notice the references to President Obama being "cool" in the selected comments that are quoted for Video #3 below.)
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Excerpt #3:
From http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Drop+The+Mic
"Drop The Mic
A phrase describing the action performed after getting the better of someone.
Calling someone out so hard that you just walk away indisputably victorious (See 8 Mile)
After serving someone, I just drop the mic, and walk away
by Partyjamo October 31, 2011
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"serving" [someone] = African American Vernacular English term meaning "beating or winning against someone".
"8 Mile" is a 2002 R rated semi autobiographical American movie about a struggling White rapper. The movie, starring Eminem, includes a scene of him purposely dropping the mic at the end of a rap battle.
"Calling someone out so hard" = talking about them so bad
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Excerpt #4:
From https://www.quora.com/What-does-drops-mic-mean-exactly-How-did-the-phrase-come-into-use
"What does "drops mic" mean exactly? How did the phrase come into use?
-Joshua
A "mic drop" is the rap/comedy parallel to spiking a football. It says, "My performance was so definitive that there's nothing more to say."
It seems to come mostly from black culture...
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Notice that the commenter wrote that "it [examples of mic drops] mostly* come from black culture". I assume that "black culture" in that comment means "African American culture".
No one really knows who was the first person to ever purposely do a mic drop. Excerpt #2 points to the first documented* use of a mic drop was by White Rock performer Van Morrison. It's possible that Van Morrison could have "invented" that drop the mic gesture or he could have picked it up from someone else.
As an African American, my sense is that one of the ways that we (African Americans) demonstrate our creativity is picking up performance ideas from anywhere and everywhere by being alert to new ways of interpreting already existing words, gestures, music, fashion, etc from Black and non-Black cultures.
The "mic drop" could be an example of this form of creativity.
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*Italics added by me to highlight that word.
Here are two comments from that page:
[anonymous] Written 5 Sep 2012
"Jay Best,
My understanding is that this is what one does after completing a successful rap battle.
You have so completely schooled the person, therefore the conversation is now over. So completely over that there is no longer any requirement for a microphone."
**
Trevor Sullivan, Linguist, written 12 Feb 2012
"It's a borrowing from rap culture and stand-up comedy since the 80s, it's hard to tell which came first. When a comedian tells a jaw-dropping joke, or has made some kind of awesome point, or a rapper in a rap battle has just laid down. Most of the modern fascination with it originates with this Comedy Central Sketch that involves the President taking part in a rap battle, then dropping the mic, which the president himself then parodied, leading to a renewed public interest in the practice."
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FEATURED VIDEOS
Video #1: Randy Watson and Sexual Chocolate - Coming to America
Russell Peterson, Published on Jan 31, 2013
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Here are two comments from this video's discussion thread:
Christopher Slaughter, 2015
"1:59 at the end of his song. Sexual Chocolate.. (few clap).. SEXUAL CHOCOLATE!! (No one claps). Then he drops the mike! Classic! lmao."
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mark alan G, 2015
"Best exit in movie history. Randy Watson!"
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Video #2: Key & Peele - Obama Raps
Comedy Central Uploaded on Feb 7, 2012
President Obama schools everyone when he shows up at a rap battle.
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This is a skit that was performed by African American comedians Kay & Peele. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Key_%26_Peele provides this information about that performance duo:
"Key & Peele is an American sketch comedy television series created by Keegan-Michael Key and Jordan Peele for Comedy Central. Both Key and Peele previously worked on MADtv.[4]
Each episode of the show consists mainly of several pre-taped sketches starring the two actors. The sketches cover a variety of societal topics, often with a focus on American popular culture, ethnic stereotypes, and race relations.[5] Key & Peele premiered on January 31, 2012[6] and ended on September 9, 2015, with a total of 53 episodes, over the course of five seasons."...
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selected comments from this video's discussion thread:
I'm particularly interested in documenting the use of African American Vernacular English.
I've assigned numbers to these comments for referencing purposes only.
2013
1. Gianfranco Gonzalez
"im the leader of the free world (then walk away like a boss)"
**
CEEEEEEEEENA
2. "I'M THE LEADER OF THE FREE WORLD .. LOL ONE SENTENCE JUST NAILED IT :p"
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3. T3hL4wnm0w3rM4n2
"Owned."
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4. Davids hidden
"straight up murdered the mic with only 7 words, DAMN!!!!!"
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2014
5. Zoe Nazario
"He says 7 words and he wins ??"
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Reply
6. Psychedelic House
"How can you top that"
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7. Zyril Co
"and that's how Obama met his anger translator"
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This comment refers to ongoing Kay & Peele skits that features the fictitious rapper Luther who President Obama competed against in the above skit. In a number of subsequent Kay & Peele skits, Luther says what President Obama really wants to say but doesn't because Presidents are supposed to be dignified and "presidential" in public at all times. While President Obama uses standard American English words and his demeanor is calm, Luther uses African American Vernacular English, including profanity which is often bleeped out in the "Kay & Peele" Obama anger management videos that are found on YouTube.
**
2015
8. Jabobacus Woofles
"Can someone explain the video? I don't understand it"
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Reply
9. Chuck Kaslow
"There really isn't any way to make a comeback after that."
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10. Claresa Everlasting
"It's not a howling with laughter skit; it's more subtle. The rapper is going on and on boasting that he's the man, but he's just some guy on some corner with some friends. Political beliefs aside, the President actually is 'the man' and can sum up his power, prominence, influence, etc. in 7 words and leave. The rapper has been bested and has no comeback. That's hilarious to me!"
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Video #3: Obama Drops the Mic
TheEllenShow, Published on Jan 15, 2016
President Obama's last State of the Union address had an unexpected ending. Watch what happened, here!
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selected comments from this video's discussion thread:
February 2016
1. Mohamed Farouk
"Did he really do that or or is it photoshop work?"
**
Reply
2. Bluecrusade [March 2016]
"+Mohamed Farouk It's edited."
**
3. Innocent
"Damn son! That was fire.. who knew politics could get people hyped!"
**
Reply
4. simon sharkeye
"You know it was fake right?"
**
March 2016
5. TriishkaMSP
"Funny how people actually think it's real"
**
6. Havocks Crysis
"Clearly fake, the arm changes as he moves the mic. Had me for a second though"
**
7. cauzin diem
"Obama is officially the coolest Prez we ever had, a real brother."
**
8. Rizwan Anwar
"he was mimicing ICE CUBE from the 80s. State of the union also happens to be one of the titles of his films."
**
9. Marceline Abadeer
"It would be awesome if he actually dropped the mic"
**
10. MadmanLostcity
"Obama is Probably the realist president we'll ever get. He droped the mic! Lmao.. Obama should be president for the next 4 years again."
**
11. Raven
"Obama be the boss tho"
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12. robert beeks
"Respect from the904 to Barack Obama that's how you do it . Southside Chicago standup!!!"
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"904" is apparently a telephone area code for Chicago, Illinois.
"Respect from" means "giving props to (giving proper respect to __" This is the same or very similar to "giving a shout out to __".
"Stand up" is a vernacular phrase that means to "to represent" a geographical area or group. That phrase is probably from "stand up and be counted."
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13. XxXLegendGamingXxX BS
"gangster!!!! damnn"
**
14. Zachary See
"MY MAN OBAMA DROPPING THE MIC"
**
15. ayyachris
"THUGLIFE"
**
16. salvador jacinto
"like a BOSS"
**
17. Lin vc
"Obama you are the man..."
**
18. Avi Harkishun
"Coolest President ever!"
**
19. Black Lightning
"Bruh I thought that was real
**
20. Jazmin Ochoa
"Well duh it's fake but it's funny"
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UPDATE: May 1, 2016
[This video was added on Feb. 6, 2017 as I found out that the previously embedded video is no longer available.]
President Obama Drops the Mic | White House Correspondents' Dinner 2016
ABC News, Published on May 1, 2016
From the first lady to Donald Trump, everyone was fair game.
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For those wondering, this really happened.
Click https://www.boston.com/news/politics/2016/05/01/president-obama-drops-mic-quite-literally-final-white-house-correspondents-dinner-speech for a synopsis of President Obama's speech at that 2016 Dinner.
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On April 1, 2016 Google tried too hard to come up with an April Fool's Day prank, and punked* itself.
"Ooops. That wasn't very funny, Google.
Google's April Fools' prank backfired Friday, making a lot of users very angry and forcing the company to take it down early.
The company announced Thursday it was introducing a "Mic Drop" feature in Gmail, placing a new orange "Mic Drop" option next to the regular send button.
It was designed to end email chains by attaching a gif of an angry minion dropping a microphone, and effectively shutting down the conversation.
"Everyone will get your message, but that's the last you'll ever hear about it. Yes, even if folks try to respond, you won't see it," Google (GOOG) explained in a blog post announcing the gag.
Google traditionally rolls out fun features on April Fools' Day, leaving them live for a couple of days. Last year, the company delighted users by allowing them to turn Google Maps into Pac-Man game.
But this year's gag didn't go as planned, after a number of people accidentally clicked the button while sending professional emails.
"This is horrible -- just sent an email to a client with this stupid icon on it. I can't afford these stupid pranks!," one user complained on Google's product forum." http://money.cnn.com/2016/04/01/technology/google-april-fool-prank-backfires/index.html
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*punked itself = tricked itself
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Did you ever wondered where the phrase "mic drop" came from? This pancocojams post is for you. This post also includes three YouTube video examples of "mic drops". Selected comments from these videos' discussion threads are also included in this post.
The content of this post is presented for historical, folkloric, socio-cultural, and entertainment purposes.
Thanks to all those who are quoted in this post and thanks to those who are featured in these embedded videos. Thanks also to the publishers of these videos on YouTube.
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AN EXPLANATION OF THE "MIC DROP" PHRASE
[revised April 2, 2016]
Microphones (mics) are used to amplify sounds. A person dropping the mic is indicating that no one else needs to use the microphone because what he or she said (or performed) can't be beat (topped) so no one else should waste his or her time trying to be heard.
Participants of rap battles or dissin' (The Dozens) insult battles may not actually hold or use microphones. Instead, those watching might yell "Mic drop!" at the end of a particular rap or insult exchange, thus indicating their approval of that particular rap or insult and their belief that no subsequent rapper or Dozens challenger could possibly do better. Or there could be no actual yelling of the phrase "mic drop", but that phrase might be used to describe how one participant did so well that the competition was effectively over.
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DEFINITIONS AND HISTORY OF "MIC DROPS"
These excerpts are given in no particular order. I've assigned numbers for referencing purposes only.
Excerpt #1:
From http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/mic-drop
Part of a series on Rap / Hip-Hop.
Updated October 2015 by Don.
"About
Mic Drop and Drop the Mic are expressions referring to the practice of intentionally letting a microphone fall to the ground as a display of bold confidence following a successful performance. Colloquially, the expressions have also been used to celebrate the delivery of an impressive argument or insult.
Origin
According to an article on Slate titled “The History of the Mic Drop,” the practice of letting a microphone drop on stage was popularized by rappers and comedians in the 1980s. The earliest known example occurred during comedian Eddie Murphy’s 1983 stand-up special Delirious, in which he drops the microphone on stage after a fan yells “Shut up bi&ch!”* at a heckler .** The earliest known reference to the practice in hip hop is contained within the 1987 track “I Ain’t No Joke” by Eric B. & Rakim, in which Rakim raps “I used to let the mic smoke, now I slam it when I;m done and make sure it’s broke”
[Pancocojams editor: video examples of the mic drops that are mentioned in this article are found on that article's page.]
Spread
During a scene in the 1988 comedy film Comedy to America, the lead singer of the fictional R&B band Sexual Chocolate finishes a song and yells “Sexual Chocolate!” while dropping the microphone ***. In the 2000s, comedian Chris Rock employed the mic drop at the end of his stand-up sets). On September 5th, 2006, a theater house manager published a post on his personal blog,[3] which urged performers to stop damaging microphones by dropping them on stage.
On October 4th, 2011, Urban Dictionary[1] user Nicki Menagerie submitted an entry for “mic drop,” defining it as “when a performer or speaker intentionally drops/throws the microphone to the floor after an awesome performance.” On February 7th, 2012, the Comedy Central YouTube channel uploaded a skit from the show Key & Peele, in which United States President Barack Obama approaches a street rapper, takes his microphone and says “I’m the leader of the free world” before letting the mic fall to the ground ****. Within three years, the clip gained over 4.5 million views and 1,800 comments. On April 24th, Obama appeared on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, where he sings a “slow jam” with the show’s host before dropping the microphone on stage..."*****
On August 27th [2013], the OxfordDictionaries.com[5] added “mic drop” to its online dictionary."...
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*This word is fully spelled out in this article. In that example, Eddie Murphy didn't do a mic drop at the end of his performance, but during his performance, presumably to emphasize and/or to show his appreciation for what a fan said to a heckler.
**Excerpt #2 below points to a 1970 example of "mic drop" by White Northern Irish Rock singer Van Morrison.
***This example is shown in Video #1 below.
****This example is shown in Video #2 below.
*****Click http://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2012/04/slow-jamming-news-non-political.html for an earlier pancocojams post on President Obama slow jammin the news on "The Jimmy Fallon Show".
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Excerpt #2:
From http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/us/definition/american_english/mic-drop
"informal, chiefly US
1 An instance of deliberately dropping or tossing aside one’s microphone at the end of a performance or speech one considers to have been particularly impressive:
he ruffled some feathers with his acceptance speech and mic drop after winning the Best British Album award
figurative the final track is the ultimate mic drop
1.1 [AS EXCLAMATION] Used to emphasize that a discussion is at an end after a definitive or particularly impressive point has been made:
Nuff said. Mic drop!
“This is what we’re doing,” she tells him. Mic drop.
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Here's a comment from that oxford dictionary.com online page:
Neal Buelow, Sep 21, 2015
"I'm curious if anyone knows the origin, as in the first perfomer known to "drop the mic?" According to Lester Bangs, Van Morrison did it in the early 70's. Not sure if there was someone he got the idea from."
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According http://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/lester-bangs-truth-teller, Lester Bangs (born in 1948 & died in 1982) was a (White American) "rock critic... who wrote for Creem magazine and The Village Voice in the seventies and early eighties". Here's an excerpt from Lester Bang's review of a Van Morrison album:
https://personal.cis.strath.ac.uk/murray.wood/astral.html [Van Morrison's] "Astral Weeks" [album review] by Lester Bangs from "Stranded" (1979)
..."Three television shows: A 1970 NET broadcast of a big all-star multiple bill at the Fillmore East. The Byrds, Sha Na Na, and Elvin Bishop have all done their respective things. Now we get to see three of four songs from a set by Van Morrison. He climaxes, as he always did in those days, with "Cyprus Avenue" from Astral Weeks. After going through all the verses, he drives the song, the band, and himself to a finish which has since become one of his trademarks and one of the all-time classic rock 'n' roll set-closers. With consumate dynamics that allow him to snap from indescribably eccentric throwaway phrasing to sheer passion in the very next breath he brings the music surging up through crescendo after crescendo, stopping and starting and stopping and starting the song again and again, imposing long maniacal silences like giant question marks between the stops and starts and ruling the room through sheer tension, building to a shout of "It's too late to stop now!," and just when you think it's all going to surge over the top, he cuts it off stone cold dead, the hollow of a murdered explosion, throws the microphone down and stalks off the stage. It is truly one of the most perverse things I have ever seen a performer do in my life. And, of course, it's sensational: our guts are knotted up, we're crazed and clawing for more, but we damn well know we've seen and felt something."...
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Italics were added by me to highlight this part of that sentence.
That said, I think it's important to note that Van Morrison threw his microphone down and stalks off stage. Those words in italics denote anger. In contrast, in its African American vernacular use, the mic is dropped out of the person's hand in a cool, unconcerned, way and the person walks off stage. The person who does a mic drop isn't wasting his or her energy showing anger. He (or she) is too self-confident to do that. (Notice the references to President Obama being "cool" in the selected comments that are quoted for Video #3 below.)
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Excerpt #3:
From http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Drop+The+Mic
"Drop The Mic
A phrase describing the action performed after getting the better of someone.
Calling someone out so hard that you just walk away indisputably victorious (See 8 Mile)
After serving someone, I just drop the mic, and walk away
by Partyjamo October 31, 2011
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"serving" [someone] = African American Vernacular English term meaning "beating or winning against someone".
"8 Mile" is a 2002 R rated semi autobiographical American movie about a struggling White rapper. The movie, starring Eminem, includes a scene of him purposely dropping the mic at the end of a rap battle.
"Calling someone out so hard" = talking about them so bad
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Excerpt #4:
From https://www.quora.com/What-does-drops-mic-mean-exactly-How-did-the-phrase-come-into-use
"What does "drops mic" mean exactly? How did the phrase come into use?
-Joshua
A "mic drop" is the rap/comedy parallel to spiking a football. It says, "My performance was so definitive that there's nothing more to say."
It seems to come mostly from black culture...
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Notice that the commenter wrote that "it [examples of mic drops] mostly* come from black culture". I assume that "black culture" in that comment means "African American culture".
No one really knows who was the first person to ever purposely do a mic drop. Excerpt #2 points to the first documented* use of a mic drop was by White Rock performer Van Morrison. It's possible that Van Morrison could have "invented" that drop the mic gesture or he could have picked it up from someone else.
As an African American, my sense is that one of the ways that we (African Americans) demonstrate our creativity is picking up performance ideas from anywhere and everywhere by being alert to new ways of interpreting already existing words, gestures, music, fashion, etc from Black and non-Black cultures.
The "mic drop" could be an example of this form of creativity.
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*Italics added by me to highlight that word.
Here are two comments from that page:
[anonymous] Written 5 Sep 2012
"Jay Best,
My understanding is that this is what one does after completing a successful rap battle.
You have so completely schooled the person, therefore the conversation is now over. So completely over that there is no longer any requirement for a microphone."
**
Trevor Sullivan, Linguist, written 12 Feb 2012
"It's a borrowing from rap culture and stand-up comedy since the 80s, it's hard to tell which came first. When a comedian tells a jaw-dropping joke, or has made some kind of awesome point, or a rapper in a rap battle has just laid down. Most of the modern fascination with it originates with this Comedy Central Sketch that involves the President taking part in a rap battle, then dropping the mic, which the president himself then parodied, leading to a renewed public interest in the practice."
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FEATURED VIDEOS
Video #1: Randy Watson and Sexual Chocolate - Coming to America
Russell Peterson, Published on Jan 31, 2013
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Here are two comments from this video's discussion thread:
Christopher Slaughter, 2015
"1:59 at the end of his song. Sexual Chocolate.. (few clap).. SEXUAL CHOCOLATE!! (No one claps). Then he drops the mike! Classic! lmao."
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mark alan G, 2015
"Best exit in movie history. Randy Watson!"
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Video #2: Key & Peele - Obama Raps
Comedy Central Uploaded on Feb 7, 2012
President Obama schools everyone when he shows up at a rap battle.
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This is a skit that was performed by African American comedians Kay & Peele. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Key_%26_Peele provides this information about that performance duo:
"Key & Peele is an American sketch comedy television series created by Keegan-Michael Key and Jordan Peele for Comedy Central. Both Key and Peele previously worked on MADtv.[4]
Each episode of the show consists mainly of several pre-taped sketches starring the two actors. The sketches cover a variety of societal topics, often with a focus on American popular culture, ethnic stereotypes, and race relations.[5] Key & Peele premiered on January 31, 2012[6] and ended on September 9, 2015, with a total of 53 episodes, over the course of five seasons."...
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selected comments from this video's discussion thread:
I'm particularly interested in documenting the use of African American Vernacular English.
I've assigned numbers to these comments for referencing purposes only.
2013
1. Gianfranco Gonzalez
"im the leader of the free world (then walk away like a boss)"
**
CEEEEEEEEENA
2. "I'M THE LEADER OF THE FREE WORLD .. LOL ONE SENTENCE JUST NAILED IT :p"
**
3. T3hL4wnm0w3rM4n2
"Owned."
**
4. Davids hidden
"straight up murdered the mic with only 7 words, DAMN!!!!!"
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2014
5. Zoe Nazario
"He says 7 words and he wins ??"
**
Reply
6. Psychedelic House
"How can you top that"
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7. Zyril Co
"and that's how Obama met his anger translator"
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This comment refers to ongoing Kay & Peele skits that features the fictitious rapper Luther who President Obama competed against in the above skit. In a number of subsequent Kay & Peele skits, Luther says what President Obama really wants to say but doesn't because Presidents are supposed to be dignified and "presidential" in public at all times. While President Obama uses standard American English words and his demeanor is calm, Luther uses African American Vernacular English, including profanity which is often bleeped out in the "Kay & Peele" Obama anger management videos that are found on YouTube.
**
2015
8. Jabobacus Woofles
"Can someone explain the video? I don't understand it"
**
Reply
9. Chuck Kaslow
"There really isn't any way to make a comeback after that."
**
10. Claresa Everlasting
"It's not a howling with laughter skit; it's more subtle. The rapper is going on and on boasting that he's the man, but he's just some guy on some corner with some friends. Political beliefs aside, the President actually is 'the man' and can sum up his power, prominence, influence, etc. in 7 words and leave. The rapper has been bested and has no comeback. That's hilarious to me!"
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Video #3: Obama Drops the Mic
TheEllenShow, Published on Jan 15, 2016
President Obama's last State of the Union address had an unexpected ending. Watch what happened, here!
-snip-
selected comments from this video's discussion thread:
February 2016
1. Mohamed Farouk
"Did he really do that or or is it photoshop work?"
**
Reply
2. Bluecrusade [March 2016]
"+Mohamed Farouk It's edited."
**
3. Innocent
"Damn son! That was fire.. who knew politics could get people hyped!"
**
Reply
4. simon sharkeye
"You know it was fake right?"
**
March 2016
5. TriishkaMSP
"Funny how people actually think it's real"
**
6. Havocks Crysis
"Clearly fake, the arm changes as he moves the mic. Had me for a second though"
**
7. cauzin diem
"Obama is officially the coolest Prez we ever had, a real brother."
**
8. Rizwan Anwar
"he was mimicing ICE CUBE from the 80s. State of the union also happens to be one of the titles of his films."
**
9. Marceline Abadeer
"It would be awesome if he actually dropped the mic"
**
10. MadmanLostcity
"Obama is Probably the realist president we'll ever get. He droped the mic! Lmao.. Obama should be president for the next 4 years again."
**
11. Raven
"Obama be the boss tho"
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12. robert beeks
"Respect from the904 to Barack Obama that's how you do it . Southside Chicago standup!!!"
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"904" is apparently a telephone area code for Chicago, Illinois.
"Respect from" means "giving props to (giving proper respect to __" This is the same or very similar to "giving a shout out to __".
"Stand up" is a vernacular phrase that means to "to represent" a geographical area or group. That phrase is probably from "stand up and be counted."
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13. XxXLegendGamingXxX BS
"gangster!!!! damnn"
**
14. Zachary See
"MY MAN OBAMA DROPPING THE MIC"
**
15. ayyachris
"THUGLIFE"
**
16. salvador jacinto
"like a BOSS"
**
17. Lin vc
"Obama you are the man..."
**
18. Avi Harkishun
"Coolest President ever!"
**
19. Black Lightning
"Bruh I thought that was real
**
20. Jazmin Ochoa
"Well duh it's fake but it's funny"
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UPDATE: May 1, 2016
[This video was added on Feb. 6, 2017 as I found out that the previously embedded video is no longer available.]
President Obama Drops the Mic | White House Correspondents' Dinner 2016
ABC News, Published on May 1, 2016
From the first lady to Donald Trump, everyone was fair game.
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For those wondering, this really happened.
Click https://www.boston.com/news/politics/2016/05/01/president-obama-drops-mic-quite-literally-final-white-house-correspondents-dinner-speech for a synopsis of President Obama's speech at that 2016 Dinner.
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Wednesday, October 14, 2015
Flavour- "Golibe" (A 2014 Nigerian Video That Reminds Me Of Scenes From Eddie Murphy's Movie "Coming To America")
Edited by Azizi Powell
Latest revision- Feb. 17, 2021
This pancocojams post showcases the official video for Flavour's "Golibe" video and includes selected comments from that video's discussion thread.
The lyrics to the song are included in this post along with some explanations of Igbo words in that song and that video script.
The content of this post is presented for cultural, entertainment, and aesthetic purposes.
All copyrights remain with their owners.
Thanks to Flavour N’abania for his musical legacy. Thanks also to all those associated with this featured video and all those who are quoted in this post. In addition, thanks to the YouTube publisher of this video.
Click http://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2014/05/coming-to-america-african-dance-shes.html for a pancocojams post about the movie "Coming To America".
Also, click http://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2015/10/davido-aye-nigerian-afro-beat-video.html for a pancocojams post on Davido's record entitled "Aye". The plot of that Nigerian record is about love between a poor farmer and a prince's fiancée.
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Yesterday, while surfing YouTube videos of contemporary Nigerian music, I happened upon the official video of Flavour's love song "Gollibe". I was really impressed by the song and its video, which was directed by Clarence A. Peters. (Watching various YouTube videos, including Yemi Alade's "Johnny", I've learned that videos directed by Clarence A. Peters are very high quality).
At least three people wrote in that video's discussion thread that it was a Nigerian (or Igbo or African) version of the Cinderalla fairy tale. I can see where they're coming from - In both "stories" a poor girl ends up marrying the prince. But it also occurred to me that that Golibe video is a Nigerian (or Igbo or African) version of some of the story of and some scenes from the 1988 movie Coming To America - the scene where the prince meets the African bride his father chose for him, and the scene in the bar when the prince tries to find the woman he wants to marry.
Coming to America is a movie about a prince from a fictitious African nation who rejected his father's choice of his bride, and traveled to the United States to find his own bride. The video for Flavour's love song "Golibe" is produced like a clip of a movie. That video is about a man who has several encounters with a poor woman. We're not aware that the man is a prince until near the end of the video. In that scene a number of women are paraded in front of that man who is seated with his father and mother- the king and queen. The man ends up choosing the poor woman who he is shown marrying at the end of the video.
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SHOWCASE VIDEO: Flavour - Gollibe [Official Video]
Official Flavour, Published on Dec 1, 2014
-snip-
Commenters in this video's discussion thread wrote that the stars of this video are Nigerian celebrities.
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LYRICS* - GOLLIBE
(Flavour)
Otego m chobara nwa di mma m ga-alu
(For long I have been searching for a good girl to marry)
E don tey I have been searching for you
Otego m chobara asa di mma oyoko
E don tey i have been searching for you
Fortunately oo m we funu nwata di mma
(Fortunately I have found this good girl)
Anwuta atabeghi ya
she has no mosquito bites (beatiful with a smooth skin)
baby na sweet paw paw
(beatiful, sweet like a paw paw fruit)
Baby get something, lekenunu nwata nwere something
(there is something about her)
(lekenunu nwata nwere something - look this babe has something)
Achara ugo nwanyi nwa bu Ugegbe onyibo
context- (she shines like a precious stone)
like a foreign mirror
(ugegbe literally means - mirror)
(oyinbo - white or foreign)
Nwata makata mma le le (makata makata)
(Nwata - This girl, makata - is so beautiful)
Iye eeeehh (makata makata)
Omakata mma eeeeeh (makata makata)
nwata di mma
I say nwata makata mma le le (makata makata)
Iye eeeehh ooo (makata makata)
ololo olooooo(makata makata)
nwata di mma
(good girll)
Nwata makata mma le le (makata makata)
Omakata mma eeeeeh (makata makata)
Iye eeeehh (makata makata)
nwata di mma
I say nwata makata mma le le (makata makata)
Omakata mma (makata makata)
Iye eeeehh ooo (makata makata)
nwata di mma
(good girll)
Golibe golibe
(Golibe - The name of the girl)
(Golibe literal translation - rejoice)
Your mama born you well
(you were well brought up)
Golibe yoyoyo eeeee
Nwata golibe
(this girl Golibe)
Ugegbemuooo Golibe na mama gi musiri gi ike
Ugegbemuooo - (my mirror), Gollibe na mama gi(your mother), musiri gi ike (gave birth to you strong)
loose context (my precious diamond or stone you were well brought up)
Golibe yoyoyo eeeee mma si na chi
nma (beauty), si na chi (comes from God)
(Golibe your beauty is a Gift from God)
*posted by C Duke (2015) in that official video's discussion thread. Note that this transcription includes the commenter's correction for a typo. The commenter said that these lyrics were "loosely translated".
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SELECTED COMMENTS
These comments either summarize the plot of this featured video or provide information and explanations about the meaning of Igbo words in Flavour's song "Gollibe".
All of these comments are from 2015. These comments aren't necessarily in consecutive order. I've assigned numbers for referencing purposes only.
1. zwitterion
... "He is saying that he is lucky to have found a beautiful, well mannered girl for a wife after many years of searching....and he is convincing her to give him a chance. Her name is "Gollibe" which means "Rejoice" in Igbo language.
Hope that helps you put the video into context"
**
2. Marcella Maitland
"Beautiful song!!! What is he saying??? Please explain to your Jamaican sister."
**
3. Nene Christi
"He's just talking about how he has been searching for a girl to marry and he stumbled upon one girl that was very beautiful, not too flashy of proud like some other girls. He's saying the girl's mother born her well, basically saying her beauty is beyond words."
**
4. BAENGEL SONJI
"Gollibe Gollibe your Mama born you well. That's all I understand. I guess the girl name is Gollibe.. don't really understand but I Love the story."
**
4. victor enemuoh
Reply
"+BAENGEL SONJI gollibe is a girls name lol I know a lot of Nigerian girls named gollibe"
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5. Abiye Douglas
Reply
"It simply means start rejoicing or be happy"
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6. Ababacar Diouf
"what is the meaning of MAKATA MAKATA and GOLLIBE plz"
**
7. C Duke
Reply
"+Ababacar Diouf makata makata means so or very beautiful
and Gollibe is the name of the girl. The translation for the name Gollibe means rejoice"
**
8. Esther Ajakaiye
"so according to flavor , a man must almost hit my sister and i with his car due to his careless driving, then i must run to help him when trips over because he wasn't looking where he was going. and then i will hop in to his car just anyhow. then find out he was doing identity fraud all along in order to get married to him in the end LOOOL #trolling"
-snip-
In another comment Esther Ajakaiye explained that in the context of her comment “#trolling” meant “joking”.
**
9. Tunde Ola-luwoye
"+Esther Ajakaiye Roflmaol, that was funny,really funny,its amazing how your mind works..i'm in stitches right now.."
**
10. dave averena
"Your mama born you well" huh
**
11. AfricancoolChic
Reply
"+dave averena It's a pidgin English expression. Your mama carried you for 9 months, gave birth to you and raised you so well. My Pidgin English isn't perfect, but I think that's what it means."
**
12. Kolawole Oyewole
"Flavors version of Cinderella story. Love it!"
**
13. bandile21
"A Cinderella story, Nollywood version!"
-snip-
“Nollywood”= Nigeria’s movie industry; the term is a form of “Hollywood”.
**
14. Kady Diallo
"That song makes me cry so nice a poor can get mary whit a rich God bless u Flavour u r a great men luv u more"
**
15. rachel mbehtalkshow
"please can anyone help translate??? thank u"
**
16. Victory Ekwueme
Reply
"+rachel mbehtalkshow otego nm chobala nwa di mma agama lu_- its been long i have been looking for a good girl to marry, fortunately i have found you. nwata makata makata- the girl is beautiful, very beautiful.. golibe your mama born you well- Rejoice your mother gave birth to you well*. Golibe means rejoice."
-snip-
*In standard American English this sentence would be “Gollibe, (a female name meaning "rejoice")your mother raised you well.
**
17. l tx
"One music video with a better storyline line than every Nollywood movie. Lol."
**
18. Amaka Onwuneme [written in response to another blogger's commenter's point that the word "makata" means "male sexual organ" in Lingala, another traditional African language]
That's the diversity if language , but in the igbo language it means more beautiful, continous beauty (makata makata)...:)
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19. Nel Leo
Reply
"My friend, he is singing 'makata mma' meaning exceptionally beautiful in Igbo. What ever it means in your language is irrelevant to the song and anyone."
**
19. KazoomD
Reply
"+8AUGROMAN there is no amakata either. It is written as “nwata ma ka ta mma”, probably why ppl keep writing makata"
**
20. Esther Iguh
Reply
"Flavour is an Igbo man, a Nigerian, expressing his music in that language. Flavour was not talking about body parts! Just enjoy the music & don't attempt to translate his vernacular to your language"
**
21. funa shakas
"+8AUGROMAN Don't go about making wrong corrections. What Flavor sang was makata not amakata. There is no word like amakata in Igbo. The A sound that most people perceive is the last letter in the word nwata "Nwata makata mma". Makata is a word just like 'crying' is a word in English. It is made up of the verb root ma which means be beautiful and the suffixes ka-ta which express continuity. You can add these suffixes to every other Igbo verb. Speaking as an Igbo linguist. Don't get it twisted."
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This pancocojams post showcases the official video for Flavour's "Golibe" video and includes selected comments from that video's discussion thread.
The lyrics to the song are included in this post along with some explanations of Igbo words in that song and that video script.
The content of this post is presented for cultural, entertainment, and aesthetic purposes.
All copyrights remain with their owners.
Thanks to Flavour N’abania for his musical legacy. Thanks also to all those associated with this featured video and all those who are quoted in this post. In addition, thanks to the YouTube publisher of this video.
Click http://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2014/05/coming-to-america-african-dance-shes.html for a pancocojams post about the movie "Coming To America".
Also, click http://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2015/10/davido-aye-nigerian-afro-beat-video.html for a pancocojams post on Davido's record entitled "Aye". The plot of that Nigerian record is about love between a poor farmer and a prince's fiancée.
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Yesterday, while surfing YouTube videos of contemporary Nigerian music, I happened upon the official video of Flavour's love song "Gollibe". I was really impressed by the song and its video, which was directed by Clarence A. Peters. (Watching various YouTube videos, including Yemi Alade's "Johnny", I've learned that videos directed by Clarence A. Peters are very high quality).
At least three people wrote in that video's discussion thread that it was a Nigerian (or Igbo or African) version of the Cinderalla fairy tale. I can see where they're coming from - In both "stories" a poor girl ends up marrying the prince. But it also occurred to me that that Golibe video is a Nigerian (or Igbo or African) version of some of the story of and some scenes from the 1988 movie Coming To America - the scene where the prince meets the African bride his father chose for him, and the scene in the bar when the prince tries to find the woman he wants to marry.
Coming to America is a movie about a prince from a fictitious African nation who rejected his father's choice of his bride, and traveled to the United States to find his own bride. The video for Flavour's love song "Golibe" is produced like a clip of a movie. That video is about a man who has several encounters with a poor woman. We're not aware that the man is a prince until near the end of the video. In that scene a number of women are paraded in front of that man who is seated with his father and mother- the king and queen. The man ends up choosing the poor woman who he is shown marrying at the end of the video.
****
SHOWCASE VIDEO: Flavour - Gollibe [Official Video]
Official Flavour, Published on Dec 1, 2014
-snip-
Commenters in this video's discussion thread wrote that the stars of this video are Nigerian celebrities.
****
LYRICS* - GOLLIBE
(Flavour)
Otego m chobara nwa di mma m ga-alu
(For long I have been searching for a good girl to marry)
E don tey I have been searching for you
Otego m chobara asa di mma oyoko
E don tey i have been searching for you
Fortunately oo m we funu nwata di mma
(Fortunately I have found this good girl)
Anwuta atabeghi ya
she has no mosquito bites (beatiful with a smooth skin)
baby na sweet paw paw
(beatiful, sweet like a paw paw fruit)
Baby get something, lekenunu nwata nwere something
(there is something about her)
(lekenunu nwata nwere something - look this babe has something)
Achara ugo nwanyi nwa bu Ugegbe onyibo
context- (she shines like a precious stone)
like a foreign mirror
(ugegbe literally means - mirror)
(oyinbo - white or foreign)
Nwata makata mma le le (makata makata)
(Nwata - This girl, makata - is so beautiful)
Iye eeeehh (makata makata)
Omakata mma eeeeeh (makata makata)
nwata di mma
I say nwata makata mma le le (makata makata)
Iye eeeehh ooo (makata makata)
ololo olooooo(makata makata)
nwata di mma
(good girll)
Nwata makata mma le le (makata makata)
Omakata mma eeeeeh (makata makata)
Iye eeeehh (makata makata)
nwata di mma
I say nwata makata mma le le (makata makata)
Omakata mma (makata makata)
Iye eeeehh ooo (makata makata)
nwata di mma
(good girll)
Golibe golibe
(Golibe - The name of the girl)
(Golibe literal translation - rejoice)
Your mama born you well
(you were well brought up)
Golibe yoyoyo eeeee
Nwata golibe
(this girl Golibe)
Ugegbemuooo Golibe na mama gi musiri gi ike
Ugegbemuooo - (my mirror), Gollibe na mama gi(your mother), musiri gi ike (gave birth to you strong)
loose context (my precious diamond or stone you were well brought up)
Golibe yoyoyo eeeee mma si na chi
nma (beauty), si na chi (comes from God)
(Golibe your beauty is a Gift from God)
*posted by C Duke (2015) in that official video's discussion thread. Note that this transcription includes the commenter's correction for a typo. The commenter said that these lyrics were "loosely translated".
****
SELECTED COMMENTS
These comments either summarize the plot of this featured video or provide information and explanations about the meaning of Igbo words in Flavour's song "Gollibe".
All of these comments are from 2015. These comments aren't necessarily in consecutive order. I've assigned numbers for referencing purposes only.
1. zwitterion
... "He is saying that he is lucky to have found a beautiful, well mannered girl for a wife after many years of searching....and he is convincing her to give him a chance. Her name is "Gollibe" which means "Rejoice" in Igbo language.
Hope that helps you put the video into context"
**
2. Marcella Maitland
"Beautiful song!!! What is he saying??? Please explain to your Jamaican sister."
**
3. Nene Christi
"He's just talking about how he has been searching for a girl to marry and he stumbled upon one girl that was very beautiful, not too flashy of proud like some other girls. He's saying the girl's mother born her well, basically saying her beauty is beyond words."
**
4. BAENGEL SONJI
"Gollibe Gollibe your Mama born you well. That's all I understand. I guess the girl name is Gollibe.. don't really understand but I Love the story."
**
4. victor enemuoh
Reply
"+BAENGEL SONJI gollibe is a girls name lol I know a lot of Nigerian girls named gollibe"
**
5. Abiye Douglas
Reply
"It simply means start rejoicing or be happy"
**
6. Ababacar Diouf
"what is the meaning of MAKATA MAKATA and GOLLIBE plz"
**
7. C Duke
Reply
"+Ababacar Diouf makata makata means so or very beautiful
and Gollibe is the name of the girl. The translation for the name Gollibe means rejoice"
**
8. Esther Ajakaiye
"so according to flavor , a man must almost hit my sister and i with his car due to his careless driving, then i must run to help him when trips over because he wasn't looking where he was going. and then i will hop in to his car just anyhow. then find out he was doing identity fraud all along in order to get married to him in the end LOOOL #trolling"
-snip-
In another comment Esther Ajakaiye explained that in the context of her comment “#trolling” meant “joking”.
**
9. Tunde Ola-luwoye
"+Esther Ajakaiye Roflmaol, that was funny,really funny,its amazing how your mind works..i'm in stitches right now.."
**
10. dave averena
"Your mama born you well" huh
**
11. AfricancoolChic
Reply
"+dave averena It's a pidgin English expression. Your mama carried you for 9 months, gave birth to you and raised you so well. My Pidgin English isn't perfect, but I think that's what it means."
**
12. Kolawole Oyewole
"Flavors version of Cinderella story. Love it!"
**
13. bandile21
"A Cinderella story, Nollywood version!"
-snip-
“Nollywood”= Nigeria’s movie industry; the term is a form of “Hollywood”.
**
14. Kady Diallo
"That song makes me cry so nice a poor can get mary whit a rich God bless u Flavour u r a great men luv u more"
**
15. rachel mbehtalkshow
"please can anyone help translate??? thank u"
**
16. Victory Ekwueme
Reply
"+rachel mbehtalkshow otego nm chobala nwa di mma agama lu_- its been long i have been looking for a good girl to marry, fortunately i have found you. nwata makata makata- the girl is beautiful, very beautiful.. golibe your mama born you well- Rejoice your mother gave birth to you well*. Golibe means rejoice."
-snip-
*In standard American English this sentence would be “Gollibe, (a female name meaning "rejoice")your mother raised you well.
**
17. l tx
"One music video with a better storyline line than every Nollywood movie. Lol."
**
18. Amaka Onwuneme [written in response to another blogger's commenter's point that the word "makata" means "male sexual organ" in Lingala, another traditional African language]
That's the diversity if language , but in the igbo language it means more beautiful, continous beauty (makata makata)...:)
**
19. Nel Leo
Reply
"My friend, he is singing 'makata mma' meaning exceptionally beautiful in Igbo. What ever it means in your language is irrelevant to the song and anyone."
**
19. KazoomD
Reply
"+8AUGROMAN there is no amakata either. It is written as “nwata ma ka ta mma”, probably why ppl keep writing makata"
**
20. Esther Iguh
Reply
"Flavour is an Igbo man, a Nigerian, expressing his music in that language. Flavour was not talking about body parts! Just enjoy the music & don't attempt to translate his vernacular to your language"
**
21. funa shakas
"+8AUGROMAN Don't go about making wrong corrections. What Flavor sang was makata not amakata. There is no word like amakata in Igbo. The A sound that most people perceive is the last letter in the word nwata "Nwata makata mma". Makata is a word just like 'crying' is a word in English. It is made up of the verb root ma which means be beautiful and the suffixes ka-ta which express continuity. You can add these suffixes to every other Igbo verb. Speaking as an Igbo linguist. Don't get it twisted."
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