Our Music Legends Are Running Away Due To Lack Of Support – Veteran Rapper Konga Tackles Younger Generation Of Artistes 

Nigerian singer and rapper Lawal Olalekan Olumo, professionally known as Konga, has tackled the younger generation of artistes over their unwillingness to support the veterans in the music industry.

The veteran star made his displeasure known in a recent episode of the Hits Don’t Lie podcast, pointing out how the sum of N250 million which Afrobeats star Davido gained on his birthday in 2021, should have been given to music legends in the Nigerian music industry.

According to him, such gesture by Davido would have helped in rejuvenating the career of many music legends, with some of them currently working menial labour abroad.

He called on the younger crop of artistes to learn to give back to those who paved the way, in order to make the music scene constantly booming.

He said: "The present crops of Nigerian artists need to humble themselves. Nobody is dragging their money with them. But they have used peer pressure to chase a lot of Nigerian music legends into doing menial jobs abroad.

“If I were part of Davido’s management, one time his friends contributed money to him, I would have said – ‘Davido, carry this money, go and give it to all these legends… bring Baba Fryo back, bring Daddy Showkey. Give Daddy Showkey, Baba Fryo and others N5 million each.’

“If he had done that, the industry would have waken up. Our legends would have dropped a lot of comeback hits. Our music legends are running away due to lack of support. Look at Lord of Ajasa, is that a joke to you? And someone like Olamide will come out to say Wizkid is the greatest Nigerian artist internationally. Where is that coming from? We have been doing international shows for ages.

"You guys are only taking it forward from where we stopped. Fela, King Sunny Ade, Majek Fashek and others have been touring the world for years. Just because our achievements were not documented back then does not mean we did not do anything."