Like many Nigerians, while we grew up around some classic Nigerian music, a majority of what we were exposed to growing up in the early and mid 2000s was foreign music. But as we got older, it became clear that there was a whole world of old school Nigerian music we just weren’t privy to. Doing some research over the past two years, we discovered the rich, still relevant sounds from the 1970s, 1980s, 1990s and the early 2000s. Finding these songs also made it clear to us that one of the reasons we didn’t grow up with them was because we lacked a culture of preservation and documentation in Nigeria. Most of these songs were simply not in circulation anymore and people were forgetting about them. We noticed all of this and decided to start Nigerian Funk as a way of preserving, celebrating and introducing the rich music and artists of our past to a younger generation.