This article explores language use and ideologies in Ajégúnlè amid the members of the Performing Musicians Employers' Association of Nigeria (PMAN). Ajégúnlè has been featured by lack of social cohesion and group identity. Due to the diverse ethnic composition of the neighbourhood, Nigerian Pidgin has been employed as a chief community language in the last decades. The reggae musicians in Ajégúnlè also employ Nigerian Pidgin in their songs and during their weekly meeting. Their sociolinguistic profile proposes that they employ Nigerian Pidgin as a first language. In their discourse they put forward ideologies that are distinct from those commonly associated to the pidgin, and the article called them ‘belonging’, ‘seriousness’, ‘overseas’ and ‘Yorùbá.