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Barely hours to the release of his fourth studio album, &amp;#x27;Moral Instruction,&amp;#x27; rapper Falz on Monday night, January 14, 2019, gathered journalists and industry colleagues together for a private listening session.

Falz holds school themed listening session ahead of 'Moral Instruction' Album release | Pulse Nigeria

Ehis Ohunyon

<p>Themed in the form of a school with the venue shaped to reflect a classroom, Falz had put thought and creativity into reflecting the concept of his new album,<em> ''Moral Instruction''</em> as he shared with all those who gathered the creative process that birthed it.</p>

<p>Walking into the venue, there was an ice cream vendor close to the entrance similar to what happens outside the gates of secondary schools across Lagos State.</p>

<p>The venue had been re-created into a classroom with specially carved wooden tables and chairs made available to seat the guests with a notebook and Mathset also provided on each table.</p>

<p>The evening featured a top number of celebrities, journalists, colleagues, industry personalities dressed in school uniforms in accordance with the event's dress code.</p>

<p>Also present on the night were his parents, Mr and Mrs <strong>Femi</strong> <strong>Falana</strong> alongside the legendary art illustrator,<strong>Lemi Ghariokwu </strong>who worked with him on the album.</p>

<p>The event was anchored by hypeman <strong>Shoddy</strong> and it involved a question and answer session where Falz shared more highlights into each song on the album and what led to them.</p>

<p><em>''Moral instruction is more than an album, it's a movement, it's a re-education, a re-orientation. It is us learning and unlearning some things... </em></p>

<p><em>Quite obviously, we have lost a plot as a people, as a country. Everyday we complain about the state of affairs and how we need to move forward but the real deep rooted problem is re-education. We all have one thing or two to learn,''</em> Falz said.</p>

<p>On why he decided to do the album,</p>

<p><em>''I knew I was going to do it but I just didn't know when I was going to. I just felt no need to delay it anymore, now is the time and I feel like a lot of artists stay away from making contents like this, understandably so, but I have decided that if we have to change the mentality, then we need to be bold, we need to be brave.''</em></p>

<p>He then proceeded to play songs off the album, breaking down each track and those he worked with on the songs.</p>

<p>The album which is a socio-conscious themed project follows the <strong>''27''</strong> album released in 2017 and contains nine songs with guest appearances from<strong> Demmie Vee, Chillz</strong> and producer/friend <strong>Sess, </strong>who also produced most of the songs on the album.</p>

<p>Falz also shared how he went through the stress of sampling Fela's songs while almost giving up at some point.</p>

<p><em>''We sampled three songs from Fela on the album, it was a lot deciding whether to do the samples but I wanted the elements of the original Afrobeat, that was one of the main reasons I wanted us to sample and it was a lot of 'wahala' to clear the samples.</em></p>

<p><em>We had to talk to his estate, talk to different companies in France and another in US that held the right to his Masters, I was this close to giving it all up but then I thought again, for what I want to achieve, I had to go ahead with it'', </em>he explained.</p>

<p>The night also witnessed speeches from his parents alongside Lemi Ghariokwu who narrated how he met Falz and why he felt pleased working with him.</p>

<p>The <a href="https://www.pulse.ng/entertainment/music/falz-has-released-his-moral-instruction-album/1gwgxgb" id="04a7897c-65ff-4407-97f9-6e5ac62641e9">Moral Instruction album is now officially out</a> on all platforms.</p>

Falz at the just concluded 2018 Future Awards Africa

Falz holds school themed listening session ahead of 'Moral Instruction' Album release

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