Falz (Soft Work)

So Rapper, Actor and Comedian Falz wasn’t in a joking mood this time when he blasted some Nigerian artists for showing support for fraud via their music.

‘You are an entertainer, you are in a position as a role model to younger ones coming up, but in your music you are greeting all the yahoo boys’– Falz, 26, said in an interview with Hip Tv.

‘All these culture, you are making the young ones think it is good to do it (fraud)’

‘You are destroying our future’.

According to analysis from Naijaloaded Music, his outburst was tied to a song titled Living Things by 9ice released 7 months ago, while a remix ft Davido was released in May 2017, which allegedly ‘glorifies’ internet scammers, or popularly called Yahoo boys.

Falz comment was met with fury by a section of Nigerians.

Take the aspiring and young comedian Segun Wire, who in an instagram post, blasted the ‘Bad Badoo Baddest’ crooner for what he felt as a contempt to the struggles of the average Nigerian.

He wrote:

You know not the struggle !! So why speak ill of it please , how many futures have the yahoo boys destroyed abeg! Shebi na judge they collect bribe for back even before court case and so na senior advocates never destroy futures ?? !! You speak of SOFT WORK ….only GOD knows your own definition of SOFT WORk and why is nobody coming out to judge you for that term SOFT WORK ..now person talk CHACHE you they complain shey na your lappy them they use.

While another group expressed support for Falz.

Orezi

Artist Orezi, 31, via a video on instagram suggested that Falz was right to criticise artists promoting internet fraud in their music considering music artists are role models to youths.

However, it is a surprising view considering Orezi is also guilty of praising the so-called ‘Yahoo Boys’ in one of his songs titled ‘You Garrit’. Orezi subsequently deleted the video.

The sensitivity of this topic has made it very difficult to pick who is Right or Wrong.