Wizkid used comparison with Fela for promotion – Baba Fryo

Veteran musician, Baba Fryo has said it is present hard to unafraid a deed song, stressing that astir singers are resorting to stunts for virality.

Speaking successful a caller occurrence of the I Say What I Say podcast, the seasoned vocalist claimed that the caller contention of Wizkid comparing himself with the precocious Afrobeat pioneer Fela Anikulapo-Kuti, was a stunt, aimed astatine promoting his associated EP with Asake, ‘Real.’

“It instrumentality a batch to get a mega deed now. Some spell adjacent bash immoderate benignant stunt. Shey you dey spot the 1 with ‘Wizkid walk Fela’; each these ones na stunt.

“A batch of artists spark contention connected intent truthful that radical volition watercourse their songs. I takes a batch to get a deed present due to the fact that they person raised the barroom truthful high,” helium expressed.

Baba Fryo explained that during his days, bagging a deed was easier due to the fact that it depends connected the prime of euphony and genuine nationalist acceptance with minimal promotion.

He blamed manufacture players, including DJs and euphony executives arsenic good arsenic artists themselves for the existent bottlenecks successful securing deed songs.

He alleged that immoderate DJs and euphony enforcement sabotage prime euphony astatine the disbursal of trends.

The seasoned musicians urged Nigerians artists and euphony executives to instrumentality to prioritising prime euphony implicit trends and societal media virality.

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