Award-winning Nigerian musician, Yemi Alade has taken to social media to boldly criticize her fellow artistes who downplay the significant role of Afrobeat in their artistic development, labeling such actions as hypocritical.
The songstress urged her collegues to announce their own genre if the Afrobeat genre doesn’t define their art anymore.
In a tweet sighted by Ameyaw Debrah Media, the ‘Johnny’ hitmaker, asserted that it is not inappropriate for an artiste to educate his followers
about the genre of their music but rather hypocritical to dismiss the impact Afrobeat has had on the development of all musicians.
”I don’t see anything wrong in informing your listeners of the genre of music an artist makes especially when you feel it doesn’t define your art. Just Announce your Genre in peace. Downplaying the role Afrobeats has played in every artist’s development is hypocrisy,” she wrote.
Yemi further blamed Nigerians for supporting artistes who degrade themselves online instead of confronting the government about the country’s real issues.
”Electricity Tariff & Fuel are at a 400% increase.Naira to $ is dancing alanta. The weather is unbearably hot. People are busy being wicked 2each other with daily increase in prices. Salaries have not been increased. Afrobeat artists are making the mess and you are picking sides instead of facing ur government,” she added
