{"id":3447,"date":"2023-10-19T13:31:44","date_gmt":"2023-10-19T13:31:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=3447"},"modified":"2023-10-19T13:31:44","modified_gmt":"2023-10-19T13:31:44","slug":"i-didnt-know-our-economy-was-this-bad-basketmouth-bemoans-state-of-nigeria-economy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2023\/10\/19\/i-didnt-know-our-economy-was-this-bad-basketmouth-bemoans-state-of-nigeria-economy\/","title":{"rendered":"I didn\u2019t Know Our Economy Was This Bad Basketmouth Bemoans State of Nigeria Economy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Popular comedian and music executive, Bright Okpocha, aka Basketmouth, has lamented the increased price of music video production fees in Nigeria.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Basketmouth recalled how the industry standard fee used to range around 7 \u2013 7.5 million Naira but now costs 27 \u2013 30 million Naira<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>He explained the price hike was the reason he decided to opt for a holdup video for \u2018Party\u2019, the lead track from his upcoming album, \u2018Uburu\u2019, instead of splashing over N25 million to shoot a standard video<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Basketmouth made this known in a recent interview with The Beat 99.9 FM, Lagos.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>He said, \u201cThe visual we have for my song \u2018Party\u2019 with Peruzzi is not an official video. It\u2019s just like a holdup because I did not know that the economy has hit us that bad. 2 years ago, I used to make videos for 7 \u2013 7.5 million Naira. Now, it is 27 \u2013 30 million Naira.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Popular comedian and music executive, Bright Okpocha, aka Basketmouth, has lamented the increased price of music video production fees in Nigeria. &nbsp; Basketmouth recalled how the industry standard fee used to range around 7 \u2013 7.5 million Naira but now costs 27 \u2013 30 million Naira &nbsp; He explained the price hike was the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":3448,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[179],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3447","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3447"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3447\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3449,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3447\/revisions\/3449"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3448"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}