Nigerian rap industry has been thrown into mourning as rapper B-Elect the true Thorobred is dead. The rapper and PR expert whose real names are Andrew Erighono died today, June 8th.
B-Elect was a member of the now dysfunctional rap group The Thorobred which was made up of iIlbliss, Obiwon, Elajoe and Amaka in 2004.
Some of his former group members have taken to Twitter to mourn his death although the cause of death is undisclosed.
See tweets below:
Damn rest in power B-elect…. Sad moment for Naija hip hop
— Pappy young (@gbogzybabs) June 8, 2019
Good night big homie B-elect @belect
A thorough bred, through and true.
We will do our best to immortalise you. This hurts more than anything else right now.— M-trill Teria (@Mtrillteria) June 8, 2019
I remember my last conversation with B-Elect. Dang. 💜
— Maka (@theofficialmaka) June 8, 2019
In his words during an interview, he said;
“It was made up of Ilblis, Obiwon, Elajoe and Amaka; we all went to the University of Nigeria together. At that time, rap music wasn’t really huge, though there were the likes of Ruggedman and others. Thorobred represented people who are really skilled and very crafted in their art.”
Just as it appeared the group was about coming up with an album, everything came crashing; and the members parted ways.
“Ilblis left Nigeria, Obiwon was a banker then and Elajoe did some stuff for Big Brother Nigeria. We actually recorded songs, but due to individual aspirations, we couldn’t come up with an album. But we had a track, Street-Hop, which was a blast then; it was one of the most played songs on MTV Base. Efe of Now Music shot the video.”
