I do not deny. I agree that I do have a poor fanbase, for I am relatively unknown compared to the household names in music, in this country of ours, in Nigeria; and if you happen to stream my music you will realise, it will be stated that the music was released on the 12th of March, 2025. This is untrue. It only depicted like that because of a personal mistake of mine. That was the day it was uploaded, and I had imagined as an independent artist applying, the songs will be sent to streaming platforms immediately, but alas, it was only available for stream worldwide today, the 23rd of April, 2025.
And it will be another wonderment for you,as you ponder and fanthom how it was possible for a medical doctor to find the time to release a 17 songs music album. The world has changed so much that technology has reduced the stress associated with doing many activities in the world. I have tried over the years as a teenager to delve into the music industry but striated circumstances had dissuaded me, and I was never confident to do what I wanted to; and as they say procrastination, is the thief of time.
If you had come across, “Collections of Lyrics” by Irikefe Ikie(my real name), which I had uploaded on the internet years ago, you will find I mentioned that these songs were written between 1989 to 2003, and on second thought now, I must confess that was a mistake. All these songs were actually written between 1989 and 1999, when I was around 17 to 18 years old. The lyrics, vocabulary, melody of the songs had remained the same, as God ingrained them in me since I was a teenager.
I must confess that the kind of music I listened to between the age of 10 and 17 years old helped form my imaginations and the words that helped my writing these songs.
Academic pursuits had swayed me away from living the life of a musician but I latter endulged in learning to play musical instruments despite I had no musical training. It was extremely disheartening but with the pass of time, I realised the more I delved into music theory I became more confident, and could read simple pieces of musical notation despite the fact that over these years I could not still be vast in playing of the guitar or keyboard/piano.
I had envisaged that maybe when I finally became a Consultant in Family Medicine, I could pay attention to music in some capacity. And then, workplace stress took it’s toll on me. I had been marginalised at the work place for too long; and even as I write this I am still oppressed such that my detractors cannot live one day without concocting some new manipulation.
And then early last year in 2024, when the manipulation was at it’s crescendo, my attention was drawn to a rap battle that took the world by storm. This was the rap battle between Drake and Kendrick Lamar. It did not take long for me to realised there was a track called, “First Person Shooter”, that Drake and J Cole had performed in late 2023, that later led to Kendrick Lamar participating in Future’s and Metro Booming’s album in which he had described himself as the, “Big Me”.
Many commentators alluded that this could spark off a rap battle. I watched as J Cole released a 7 minutes free style rap, which he later withdrew from streams and later apologised to Kendrick Lamar. As at this time, Drake (Aubrey Graham) was left alone to fight this battle. And then the smear campaign of Drake started off, which I know you already know everything. Kendrick Lamar went on to win five Grammy awards off the back of abusing and defaming Drake. I never was really too deep in rap battles but I was later drawn on, as new music came on as the rap battle went on. Drakes responses were songs with catchy tones, and I listened to everyone as he released them. Any response from Kendrick Lamar was full of hatred, envy and jealousy, and you could tell he was not happy that Drake had been on the top of the world’s music scenes alone for almost 15 years. So to this day, I cannot tell you that there are any of Kendrick Lamar’s songs that I listened to, for to me they were borne out of hatred.
I later began to see the stress I was passing through at work to be similar to what Drake is going through. People dont come against you, unless you are at the top and they want to bring you down. I later realised that workplace stress has no respect for environment. You could be working in the hospital as I am, and be over-burdened by marginalisation, or you are a world star musician and your peers will gang up to bring you down. The enemy is not playing with you; they just want you down and out.
When my troubles increased and I saw how Drake had handled the conflict despite being betrayed and backstabbed, and was still churning out hits, that I remembered my prowesss in song writing as a young boy, and had to go get those notes, and also churn out my own sounds, probably it would help me face the demons of the workplace that do not want me to be free so I could bring my dreams to fruition.
Later, I had to consult a Producer, whom had done a single for me in 2019, to take care of the entire project. The meta data does not contain his name because of some mistakes of sending this information in haste since 12th of March, 2025, when I initially made those submissions. I take this opportunity to tell the world that it is the melodies and chords that he conjurred with my lyrics that helped to bring this good work. I know you are bordered that I have not still told you the name of the Producer; his real name is Olusegun Olulana, and his artist name is: Landlordonthebeat. His profile on Facebook is Landlordondbeat Emmanuel Olulana, and he is supposed to be connected with me (Irikefe Ikie) on Facebook. At least, I have publicly given credit to whom it is due, and I will make sure I find a way of giving him due credits in our forth coming work, and I hope I will be given the opportunity to make ammendments in the current metadata of this current work, if possible.
But then it is impossible to digress from what made me to go ahead with releasing an album at one of the busiest moments of my life. On this blog or forum that you are seeing this; you could see that from the time , I uploaded information here , it has been meticulously put as to record a timeline to document what I was passing through.
I will continue to pray and hope on God as a christain should, but I will no longer condone the fact that I will be treated as a fool in the work place that people would want my knowledge to be stagnant and under-developed. If you feel that you love only people of your tribe, or those that misadvise you, then you should go ahead and do the work yourself, and not take those that you hate, to marginalise, overwork them; and later claim one is disrespectful, when you under-develope them to always make them look like a fool. You must have realised why I used my story as analogous to the experience of Drake. You will now realise that Drake is a Canadian, and Kendrick Lamar is an American, and the USA is a site that is the center of the world with respect to music; and then you get the idea why Joe Cole had to hands off the beef. He needs to look patroitic, and like every spectator who is either a coward or an accomplice, he will tend to think that since there are more people on the other side, then it is better to give up.
I have put all this information out for everyone to know that despite my debut album, “Undoubtedly Unbeatable”, is full of lovesongs, the behind the scenes impetus for the release at this particular time in my life is due to, “workplace stress”. I want everyone to know that workplace stress exits, prevails and is predominant in our society, and can take place in all environments, and even so called healthcare environments are not exempted from this abnormality.
Just as I want you to maintain and understand that my album is based truly on workplace stress, I implore you to stream the music. It is available on nearly all the main platforms at the moment. The album, once again is entitled, “Undoubtedly Unbeatable”, and my artist name is Mavisdoctor. The tracks are 17, and titles of tracks expansiated as follows: 1. True Love Will Never Die, 2. Deep Down in My Heart, 3. Am Willing to Work for you, 4. I Love You so Much, 5. Undoubtedly Unbeatable, 6. I Want Your Love Forever More, 7. There Will Never Gonna Be Another You, 8. Sweet Lady, 9. Dont Ever Run Away from Me, 10. I Do Want You, 11. Out to Fool Me, 12. This time, 13. I cant Get over You, 14. It is so good, 15. It’s You, 16. Unto You I lift up My Eyes, and 17. Just a Dropout from Your Love.
I have written this work late on 23rd April in the night, and by the time I publish, it will show 24th April, 2025. God bless you as you stream my music. I really need your encouragement to spur me on, and I thank you, once more.
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