Recalling that Wizkid earned backlash after he denounced Afrobeats on social media recently, Nigerian singer Joeboy believes his Grammy-winning colleague’s recent comment on Afrobeats was taken out of context, stating that he was misunderstood and he simply meant his identity as a musician shouldn’t be boxed up only on “Afrobeats”.
Reacting in the latest episode of the Big Friday Day Show with Tacha on Cool FM, Lagos, Joeboy insisted that Wizkid was misunderstood, stressing that the singer wasn’t ditching Afrobeats. He further explained that his decision to cease identifying as an Afrobeats artiste was because he makes “all sorts of music.”
Joeboy said: “Wizkid’s statement is being misunderstood, he is not running away from Afrobeats. All we are saying is our identity is Afrobeats but please don’t box us because we can make other genres of music too.”
The social media space was thrown into an uproar when Wizkid initially made this statement with many chastising the Global artist pointing out that he shouldn’t move away from the genre and it’s wrong for him to disassociate himself from it given its the sound that made him who he is today.