Many music icons in this ever-changing world have spoken to us via the music medium and their songs linger and echo in our memory, yet we have failed to look at the germane issues raised in the song. Many sing, making meanings out of life, spreading the gospel of change and hope for mankind, yet with little appreciation shown toward such act of patriotism born out of music, which might be innate in them or made perfect through regular practice and rehearsals.

It is against this background that we respond in what could simply be called reasonable terms to the hit song ‘Implication’ by Innocent Ujah Idibia, better known as 2face. We respond to this song based on the declaration and the question he posed before all of us that he doesn’t know what he is singing right now and whether we are still “feeling his lyrics as usual. “ I don’t know what I’m singing right now, tell me if you feel me right now, come to the dance floor… let’s get implicated together… ole..le” We would like to respond to his question by affirming that he knows what he is singing right now and we are all ready to join him on the dance floor to get implicated together in appreciation of his good work….

The chorus goes thus;

ole le… ole le… ole jelo bunu le le,
ole gwa ole gwa ole jelobunu legwa- implication.

We would like to translate the above for universal acceptance and for the sake of clarity. Simply put, the chorus affirms that ‘he ate, he ate and gave to his husband to eat, she drank, she drank and gave to her husband to drink- Implication. It then implies that through the eating and the drinking perpetuated by the wife, the entire family got implicated. Many have misconstrued the theme of this hit song by limiting it to religion.