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Nigerian recording artiste, Flavour has dubbed Afrobeats musicians, ‘lazy’.
The singwr-songwriter whose real name is Chinedu Okoli has agreed with Jamaican reggae icon Buju Banton that afrobeats music lacks depth.
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News Round The Clock (NRTC) recalls that Banton sparked controversy after claiming in an interview that Afrobeats music is āf*ckery.ā
He claimed that Afrobeats had no substance and would fade with time.
Reacting in a recent episode of the āIn My Opinionā podcast, Flavour said Banton was on point.
According to him, Afrobeats lacks depth because its artists are lazy.
āI understand what Buju Banton is trying to say. Kids of today [present crop of afrobeats artists] donāt want stress; they just want to vibe,ā he lamented.
āMaybe Buju Banton is trying to awaken our spirit.ā
Meanwhile, Flavour has distanced himself from the afrobeats genre.
He clarified that heās a high-life artist and not an afrobeats artist.
He faulted the boxing of every African artist under the afrobeats genre in Western media.
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