Recording a Song Cost $6 Here, Now It's Doubled | Nigeria
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0:00A: Yeah, the expenses is less for each and every one of us.
0:02B: And how much is it, like, would you say, to go and record a song and create a song overall in naira?
0:07A: Then it’s like €1,000. Yeah. So we have to split it between 3 of us.
0:12B: And right now, today is like July 25th. Looking at the peer-to-peer exchange rate, like ₦1,500 is around like $1. So that’s like around $6 USD. And I think that’s important for people to understand because I think people don’t understand how far a few dollars can go in supporting creatives in this environment. But I think it’s cool to see that For you, like, like, what is that like in like a day’s -- like, how much work is that, you know, to get like ₦10,000 to be able to put that together?
0:36A: Let me say, because of how the country is, it’s kind of like hard to raise money at this moment to record a song. Yeah, you have to like do more now to get money to record a song. But if it was then, it’s kind of like less pressure on it. But now you have to work more because even production and all that is costly. I think the production now is double time, and that’s
0:54B: twice as much as it used to
0:55A: be. Yeah, you can, you can record for ₦20,000. Yeah.
