I was listening the This American Life podcast while drinking shade-grown decaf and clutching my NPR bag when I heard the best song in the world: I Go Chop Your Dollar. The song is essentially the 419 scammer anthem and has been around for quite a while. You know once an underworld has a musical genre - Nortenos, Gansta Rap - they’ve finally hit the big time.
The intensity with which Nigeria goes after morons and their money is incredible. Like Chinese knock-off farms, if that intensity were channeled into legitimate trade I think everyone would be better off. Until then, let’s keep baiting them.
I Go Chop Your Dollar
I don suffer no be small
Upon say I get sense
Poverty no good at all, no
Na im make I join this business
419 no be thief, its just a game
Everybody dey play am
if anybody fall mugu, ha! my brother I go chop am
Chorus
National Airport na me get am
National Stadium na me build am
President na my sister brother
You be the mugu, I be the master
Oyinbo I go chop your dollar, I go take your money dissapear
419 is just a game, you are the loser I am the winner
The refinery na me get am,
The contract, na you I go give am
But you go pay me small money make I bring am
you be the mugu, I be the master… na me be the master ooo!!!!
When Oyinbo play wayo, them go say na new style
When country man do im own, them go de shout bring am, kill am, die!
Oyinbo people greedy, I say them greedy
I don see them tire thats why when them fall enter my trap o!
I dey show them fire
yes thats not good
The guy has other songs as well …
http://www.sanaga.com/video/557/uzodinma-okpechi-know-when-am-poor.html
Ok .. I am from Nigeria .. The song is funny and the guy is a comedian. The song was actually banned in Nigeria but thanks to the internet banning it had no effect .
You know 419 was a local scam for decades . i.e a lot of Nigerians in Nigeria were getting scammed by other Nigerians and then here came the internet a better way of doing business - well you know the rest .
hahahah yea dude, thats terribly true. lol
Are any specific ethnic groups within Nigeria known for being involved in 419 scams?
No nigerian will reply to a comment like that. If you have something against another ethnic group, you keep it to yourself. Even on the internet. We live in peace because we accept differences.
It’s a commonly misunderstood song. It’s actually the soundtrack to a movie. The singer plays the main protagonist and finally ends up in jail for his dubious scams. So the movie has anti 419 scam sentiments. In the song the singer is in character and he’s showing how scammers are able to justify their involvement in 419 scams. It’s not necessarily condoning 419 scams.
Thanks for clearing it up.
Yeah it would be funny.
Except for the fact that some people have been duped into actually going to Nigeria - where they have been attacked by these gangs.
Unfortunately some have even disappeared.
More should be done to crackdown on this.
Many people seem to view it as a legitimate business, and corruption means that the authorities turn a blind eye to it.
Here si the full mp3. Love it!
http://music.afriville.com/audio/33.mp3
Oh wow! I was looking for that.
Here is the real 419 Scammer Anthem:
“Yahooze”. From the term “Yahoo boys” - many young Nigerians who join chat rooms & entice foreigners into sending money via Yahoo messenger.
http://www.sturvs.com/Music/Yo…..polis-net/
(the one u posted above isn’t 0.1 times as popular as this one in Nigeria)
It’s a more modern video with Hummers and Chryslers, which really is what many scammers in Nigeria drive. Some drinks & girls too.
I second this. I go chop your dollar is a comedy song sang tongue in cheek. Yahoozee is a straightforward taunt. If there is any song that 419 would listen to it would be yahoozee and certainly not this old school chop your dollar sang. I mean, I seriously doubt that guy knows how to use a PC…
http://www.sturvs.com/Music/YouTube_-_Olu_Maintain_-_Yahooze_Official_Video_-_Naijapolis-net/
It’s an insult to say ‘the intensity with which Nigeria goes after morons and their money is incredible’.
Nigeria is a country of over 150 million people, and it might surprise an ignorant American like you, but not all of them are fraudsters. Nigeria doesn’t go after morons. Fraudsters go after morons. And last I heard, no country has a monopoly on fraudsters. Ken Lay was an American.
I happen to be one of those non-Nigerian fraudsters, and feel offended that you imply that the whole country is involved in this nefarious activity.
Your comment is as imbecile as assuming all Americans are…well, take your pick: warmongering, racist, gun-toting, Bible-bashing, pedophile, death-penalty loving, gay-hating, obese, drug-using, trailerpark-living, no-passport inbred morons who know nothing about the rest of the world.
Nigerian (Who am I?)
says……
I happen to be one of those non-Nigerian fraudsters, and feel offended that you imply that the whole country is involved in this nefarious activity.
comment:
The whole country is filled with shit colored pieces of shit.
Nigeria is the joke of the world
It´s a shame for the humanity
I would feel very bad if I were from that shit of country
All of us are laughing from you, stupid mugus and ogas
you must be stupid for that comment. dipshit!
Those first MUGU is life are the Blacks , History has the facts during Slavery. Oyibo will bring Alcohol and rifle and blacks are handed over to them.
This Music reminds me of the GOD must be Crazy that has details of how we lost our valuable and intelligent men to the white.
Most of all is that our leaders with the help of foreign banks siphoned money meant to use for building our countries. Some of our leaders loose this money to their foreign partners .
We all know that Oyibo man is looking for deals desperately in Africa. The give bribes to receive contracts that they abandon at the end.
It is all over the world, it is all a game, so the Name Nigerian added to it is funny.
These are never in our character, 419 must involve 2 greedy person, one the victim , the other the Master.
If ever you look can weigh this facts well, you will see that 419 is everywhere not Nigeria alone.
We never made the guns, but those that made them used them to intimidate us because they need what we have by force.