“[The Alté movement] for us, it stemmed more with the lifestyle thing than music," says Teezee. It is noon in Lagos and Teezee and I are speaking via Zoom. We are trying to trace back the multi-layered origin of the Alté movement and his role in turning it into an extremely popular. Teezee is a Nigerian alternative hip-hop artist and remains one of the pioneers and leading faces of the Alté movement.
“Prior to the late 2010s and the proliferation of easily accessible internet, the media diet of Nigerian teenagers and young adults was restricted to television and radio and bootlegged VCDs and early iterations of cable television,” says Edwin Okolo, a Nigerian journalist who has covered the subculture extensively. “But the Alté generation draws its influences from all of the media prior to 2010,” Okolo says.
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