Downplaying afrobeat’s role in your development is hypocritical – Yemi Alade blasts colleagues

Iconic Nigerian songstress Yemi Alade has called out her colleagues for constantly downplaying the importance the Afrobeat genre has played in every artiste’s development.

She urged them to quietly establish their own if they didn’t want to be attached to the genre anymore.

Yemi on her X platform said 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.

She wrote: “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

Afrobeat artists are making the mess& you’re picking sides instead of facing your government.”