Popular comedian Bright Okpocha aka Basketmouth, has lamented growing price of visualising a music production in Nigeria.
He said the fee from two years ago was N7 – N7.5 million but it is now between N27 – 30m.
The comic actor said the price hike was why he decided to do a holdup video for ‘Party’, the lead track from his upcoming album, ‘Uburu’, instead of slashing over N25 million to shoot a standard video.
Basketmouth spoke in a recent interview with The Beat 99.9 FM, Lagos.
He said,
“The visual we have for my song ‘Party’ with Peruzzi is not an official video. It’s 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 – 7.5 million Naira. Now, it is 27 – 30 million Naira.
“I’m an Igbo man so the first thing I thought about was, ‘Okay Bright, if you’re spending N25m on visuals, it’s for uptick, right? Then do a holdup video, do something for uptick as well.”