- Skales has reacted to Wizkid’s comment on hip-hop.
- Recall the popular singer claimed that hip-hop is dead.
- Giving a contrary opinion and explaining in detail what he believed Wizkid meant by his statement, rapper cum singer, Skales spoke in a recent interview.
Nigerian rapper cum singer Raoul John Njeng-Njeng better known as Skales has reacted to award-winning Afrobeats singer, Ayodeji Balogun aka Wizkid’s controversial claim that “hip-hop is dead.”
Skales who spoke in a recent interview with Hip TV gave a contrary opinion to the “Ojuelegba” crooner’s statement, nothing that everything in life has time and season.
The rapper further explained that Wizkid must have made the statement because hip-hop isn’t as popular as it used to be back in the day.
Skales asserted that if everyone goes by Wizkid’s standards, they’d soon declare afrobeats or amapiano dead.
In Skales’ words:
“Everybody has their opinion. Wizkid has his own opinion so that [‘hip-hop is dead’] is his opinion. But for me, my own logic for life is that everything has time and season.
“Everything is going to come and go, and there is going to be another recycle, which means, if you are hot today, you might not be hot tomorrow. Today, if it’s rap that everybody is feeling, tomorrow it will be Afrobeats, and next tomorrow it will be Amapiano, and so on.
“So I won’t say hip-hop is dead. You can’t say something is dead; it’s just not its time anymore. The excitement has moved somewhere else. I’m sure very soon, they will say Afrobeats is dead. It’s just timing. Nothing is meant to last forever. That’s why we all die one day.”
Meanwhile, Davido became the latest Nigerian artiste to denounce Afrobeats after Wizkid, Burna Boy and Fireboy recently ditched the genre.
Appearing on an edition of the Business Untitled Podcast, the ‘OBO’ crooner lamented the “boxing” of all African artists into the Afrobeats genre regardless of their musical styles. Davido added that he is an Afro fusion artiste.
