Omah Lay claims he is being imitated by other Afrobeats artistes

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Nigerian recording artiste, Stanley Omah Didia who is better known as Omah Lay has mentioned that he is being imitated by his contemporaries.

He claimed he started a new sound of afrobeats which many of his colleagues are now copying.

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Speaking in a recent interview with Billboard, the 27-year-old Nigerian musician said, “The artists coming out from Nigeria right now, not just Nigeria but afrobeats in general are taking a bit of my stuff, the stuff I started, everybody tryna copy something.“

The ‘Soso’ crooner also accused afrobeats poster stars of “watering” the genre down in a bid to appeal to foreign audiences to make more money.

He lamented the infiltration of the South African genre, amapiano into afrobeats clubs.

“I don’t think I am happy with what the pioneers of Afrobeats are doing right now. The front guys are watering it down by just chasing the bags.

“I can’t remember the last time I heard a proper Afrobeats Song. It’s now Amapiano in Afrobeats clubs, not a proper Afrobeats song,” he lamented.