Rapper, actor, and songwriter, Folarin Falana, popularly known as Falz, has charged Nigerian entertainers to stop glorifying fraudsters in their songs.
The “Ello Bae” singer gave the admonition in an interview with HipTV posted on social media on Thursday.
He said the extent some entertainers go in glorifying fraudsters and glamourizing fraud in songs make the younger generation believe it is legitimate to engage in such activities.
“You are an entertainer in a position as a role model to younger ones coming up and in your musical record you are greeting all the Yahoo boys. You are greeting all the fraudsters; calling their name personally, hailing them, wire wire mo fe ja se. All this culture you are making the young ones think it’s cool to do it, it’s not, you are destroying our future,” the rapper said.
The 26-year-old lawyer turned entertainer was taking clearly taking a dig at 9ice whose song ‘Living Things’ is considered a fraudster’s anthem.
The song has words like “All am after is to make my money. Only stealing can destroys a child. Wire, wire.”
While some fans agree with Falz, some others say he does not have the moral right to criticise others after letting Davido insult Ovation publisher, Dele Momodu, in his song, ‘Bahd Baddo Baddest’.
