Lapopiano by Boy Muller is a very funny and true-to-life Nigerian song. It looks at the world through the eyes of an “omo LAPO” an everyday person who struggles with money and has no special privileges.
The song uses a lot of jokes to show the big gap between the rich and the poor. Boy Muller points out how different their lives really are. He talks about basic things, like what people eat, how they sleep, and how they live. While wealthy people enjoy soft comfort and easy access to everything, the regular person is just trying to survive the day. The lyrics make you laugh, but they also tell a very real truth about not having enough.
Even with all the hard times it talks about, the song is not sad. It actually brings a lot of hope. It tells anyone going through a tough time to stay strong and be patient. At the end of the day, “Lapopiano” is a simple reminder that if you keep pushing and working hard, your own time to succeed will surely come.
Boy Muller – Lapopiano Lyrics
Gee
So cannot drink garri
If to say sugar no dey
Wait, are you Cuppy?
Or is your father Dangote?
So you no dey queue for line any time you wan bathe?
Now, you dey ask if I’m okay
Aje, you are not a LAPO baby
So, una dey chop breakfast 7 or around 8?
Your parents wedding picture dey for portrait
So your papa dey pay salary for who dey wash plate
And for who dey lock gate
Pour me water, guy I wan craze
As omo LAPO
Baby, ajepako
Na suffer be the branding
So make nobody come dey whine me
I know that we cannot ball like Ronaldo
But on God, we no dey panic
Cause e still go double once o Shalli
I hear say where una generator dey
E big like say na self-contain
Sorry, I cannot relate
Cause for our own house, we dey suffocate
It’s not funny
Shey kin ma to’yin
Awa man’fi iyo fo’yin
If you no see your Rabbi
Sabi plan B
Abegi, shey na true say una dey chop breakfast 7 or around 8?
Your parents wedding picture dey for portrait
So your papa dey pay salary for who dey wash plate
And for who dey lock gate
Pour me water, guy I wan craze
As omo LAPO
Baby, ajepako
Na suffer be the branding
So make nobody come dey whine me
I know that we cannot ball like Ronaldo
But on God, we no dey panic
Cause e still go double once o Shalli
As omo LAPO
Baby, ajepako
Na suffer be the branding
So make nobody come dey whine me
I know that we cannot ball like Ronaldo
But on God, we no dey panic
Cause e still go double once o Shalli
