Seun kuti Son of Afrobeat legend, Fela Kuti has fired shots at popular Nigerian artistes using his late father’s lyrics in their songs.
Reportedly Seun Kuti had earlier in a series of posts, some few months back, claimed that Wizkid does not deserve to be called a Grammy nominee, asking him to stop parading himself as a Grammy nominee.
In a new post, Seun while warning fans who compared Wizkid and Burna Boy to his late father, called out artists who steal his lyrics, noting they can not be greater than late Fela.
According to Seun, his late father, Fela is bigger and greater than any other afrobeat artist Nigeria would ever produce. Deducing from what he said even if they steal his father’s lyrics they can never be bigger or more legendary than his late father, Fela Kuti.
He wrote;
“I have warned many of u, many times to stop using your ancestors as a tooth pick, especially those that fought for u but your ignorance just won’t let u be so you can’t learn and that’s why you keep living a cursed life of criminality without direction, infatuation without love, present without future, and pleasure without control.
You are cursed to be indisciplined and you think you are having fun. These kids don’t know!!! #getthesax
You can’t be greater than that which you take and steal from! Until fela comes back from the dead and steals some of your faves music, uses their lyrics the ways they steal his lyrics the and music, your comparison is null and void. Baba ni dads nje!”
It was earlier reported that, musician and son of the legendary Afrobeats maestro, Fela Anikulapo-Kuti, Seun, took a dig at singer, Burna Boy, after the latter declared that no artiste paved the way for him
But in an interview with Sunday Scoop, Kuti said it was wrong to accuse him of criticising his colleague. He said, “I didn’t disagree with Burna Boy.
Why would I disagree with someone about his own life? That would be wrong. I don’t want people to misinterpret what I wrote independently.
I am not personal with my issues. African music has always been a large family for me. So, it is impossible for me not to pay homage to many great African artistes, especially when many of them have impacted our lives directly.
It is a form of disrespect when someone makes a blanket statement and people try to attach it to one person. We are Africans and we are respectful people.
Unlike politics, our musical ancestry has been very loyal and patriotic and we also give them that loyalty and respect. For me, I really respect the African music ancestry, so I wouldn’t criticise Burna Boy.”
The Grammy Awards nominee also noted that the coronavirus pandemic had exposed the failings of the country’s healthcare system. He added, “There are microbiologists and epidemiologists that graduated from our universities.
Those are the people that should be speaking up now but because Nigeria did not give them the opportunity to fulfill their potentials, many of them are now fashion designers, shoemakers and chefs. In a country without the right ratio of doctors to citizens, it goes without saying that the healthcare system is overwhelmed.
The elite are going to be exposed for the hypocrites that they are. So far, nobody has donated the equivalent of the cost of a private jet to Nigeria (to fight the pandemic). Meanwhile, they have made billions off Nigerians. Every Nigerian billionaire is a product of Nigeria’s commonwealth.
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There is nothing special they have added to us. (Rather), we are the ones that have made their lives better; yet, at a time like this, you would see them donating what I consider to be stipends. So, they cannot invest the cost of one private jet in our lives?
Since 1999 that this new democratic dispensation has been creating new billionaires, how many of them have come together to create even one good hospital? And since the coronavirus pandemic started, how many of them have come up with long-term solutions?
Meanwhile, these same people donate billions to political parties during elections. We all need to wake up and to try to make government find a way out of this because the solution is not just sharing hand sanitisers.
There are many African people that do not have access to clean water and without water at all. There is no proper sanitation. Without water, we cannot talk about hygiene.”
