Veteran rapper, Michael Ugochukwu Steven, known as Ruggedman, claims that a lot of “untalented individuals” are hiding behind the Afrobeats banner.
He claims that the term “Afrobeats” is reserved for those without talent.
“When you ask me what Afrobeats is, I would say Afrobeats is what a lot of talentless people hide behind,” Ruggedman said in a candid interview with Chude Jideonwo.
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“They said, ‘Afrobeats to the world.’ I said, ‘No. It’s some artists to the world.’ It’s not the Afrobeats [genre], it’s some artists.”
He also revealed that it is hurting when people tell him on social media that his time as an artist has passed “but what I said to myself is whoever he or she [the troll] is listening to right now is inspired by me.”
