As his fans await the release of one of the  most anticipated Nigerian rap album of the year, Hip Hop World Award winning rapper, Terry Tha Rapman has dropped  a freestyle off Young Money’s “Roger that” beat. Terry was in the studio listening to a track he recorded with Kefee when the original young money track beeped from a mobile phone. In his own words “Men, put that phone on vibrate, in fact gimmie that beat, lemme kill it once and for all”.

He scribbled a few things on a tissue paper and stepped in the booth and delivered a couple of bars, in spite of struggling with a cold. Sounds like a 2pac tale right? Well Listen Up and see if he nailed it on the ‘Roger That’ Freestyle. Terry’s the ‘Boyz Are Not Smilin’ album is expected to drop very soon. Download wallpaper for free!

Born Terry Madaki, he started rapping back in 1991 in secondary school during school shows and bonfire nights. Shortly after he finished from secondary school, he recorded a demo which gave him recognition in Kaduna through radio airplay. Then he was known as Terrific. He later changed this to Tha Rapman after he hooked up with a group, Tha Croc City Click, in 1995. They recorded a demo-tape which got serious airplay with hit songs like “fashi” and “Tha illest”. Though the group was popular, it was within the Kaduna city’s turf. Six foot plus heard the tape while he was in Kaduna, he and took it down to Lagos. Tha Croc City Click got more recognition from their breakthrough in Lagos radio stations. They even had a review in one Nigeria’s fast selling Hip-hop magazine. After attempts to get a recording deal over a period of five years the group split up.

Terry attended Kaduna polytechnic to get a National Diploma in Mass Communications. He graduated and after the February 2000 Sharia riots erupted in Kaduna, he had to relocate to Jos (Plateau State) like a lot of Christians because of security reasons. In Jos he waxed a five track demo CD and sent it to Lagos, where it got airplay in the Rhythm FM by DJ EL Dee and it caught the attention of Six Foot Plus , who was in Lagos promoting his single. Six foot plus then got in contact with Terry in Jos, hooked him up and the rest is history.

Terry Tha Rapman signed up with Payback Tyme Records. He got critical acclaim when he dropped ‘Money Hungry Chicks’, a track which he addressed women who sell their bodies for material gains and the men who take advantage of them with the money. He goes under several aliases, like Afro Joe, Joe-Spazm, and Speedy Gonzalez (fastest rapper in the whole of Naija).

After a one year hiatus, Terry moved to Lagos from Jos.  He hooked up with friend Yisa Jibril (J Vox) and recorded a couple of tracks, one of which was Na Beanz which made serious waves in Lagos with a straight to cut video directed by Nomoloss.