Nigerian musician Omah Lay thinks that Afrobeats is declining.
Speaking at his Lagos Warehouse Session on Thursday night, Omah Lay said the massive reception Afrobeats received abroad a few years ago has begun to dwindle.
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“Overseas, Afrobeats is declining. It is facts. Our artistes are doing really great, but the Afrobeats that you guys used to know in 2020-2024 are not the Afrobeats you know now anymore,” he said.
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Omah Lay revealed that he has been studying his idols and looking for a means to revive the Nigerian music scene.
He claimed that his music is going to make a lot of his colleagues improve their crafts and restore Afrobeats’ global momentum.
This is coming after Ruggedman, a senior artiste in the Nigerian music industry stated that only talentless musicians hide behind the ‘Afrobeats’ umbrella.
He argued that Afrobeats is not a genre but a “name” that talentless Nigerians hide behind.
“I don’t like Afrobeats as an umbrella genre for all the music coming out of Africa. That was a mistake. I didn’t liked it from the beginning but when I complained people accused me of being jealous or trying to gatekeep.
“Right now, if I go to the UK to perform, I would be tagged an Afrobeats artistes. It is wrong.
“It is the people in the UK who started this thing of tagging every African music Afrobeats. Nigerians love classicism. They just wanted to give it a name.
“For me, Afrobeats with an ‘S’ is a name talentless Nigerians hide behind. All you need to make an Afrobeats hit is just to get a good beat and a street slang and repeat it as many times as you like. Then spend a lot of money to promote it. That is the Afrobeats with an ‘S’,” he said.
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