Posted by According to singer Omah Lay, the afrobeats genre is under danger.
He bemoaned the genre’s commercialization and its watering down to attract foreign consumers.
Omah Lay said that afrobeats is in bad hands now during an appearance on the Zach Sang Show.
A lot of musicians are singing for money instead of enthusiasm, he claimed, due to the lucrative nature of the genre.
“The Afrobeats industry is bloated with money. He stated that Afrobeats performers are merely after financial gain.
People are meddling with Afrobeats, in my opinion. Additionally, I feel like it’s become too commercialized. I am concerned about the future of Afrobeats at the moment.
One prominent reggae performer from Jamaica, Buju Banton, has called the afrobeats genre “f*ckery” in reference to its recent wave of detractors.
In his contentious interview, he asserted that afrobeats were empty and would eventually die out.