Logo Benz video Lil Kesh ft Olamide

'Logo Benz' by Olamide and Lil Kesh is why Nigerian artistes should think about their lyrical content

It’s become a Nigerian mainstay that artistes now put out whatever they want without fear of repercussion.

Olamide and Lil Kesh get dragged on Twitter over the content of their latest collabo 'Logo Benz' [Gidi Base]

A dearth of quality lyrics has always been a major problem of Nigerian music, but since the advent of Olu Maintain’s 2007 smash hit, "Yahooze," the mainstream appreciation of wealth in Nigerian pop music has heightened.

Over the 10 years immediately following that song, quality content has gotten worse by the changing tides that listening to music voiced in languages we don’t understand seems better for our children.

Before Yahooze though, there was the D’banj smash hit, “Mobolowon” which touched on credit card scam.

The following era saw the most hideous celebration of vulgarity by the mad merry band, Zee World, Damoche and Skally Mental. In some ways, those songs probably created the infamy of entitlement toward a woman’s body which our society now suffers from in rape and sexual harassment. What we ingest intellectually, impacts our thinking.

Now, there’s a granular glorification of all kinds of vices across Nigerian pop music. When they do not glorify fraud, they are pressurizing young men with songs about aggressive money making a la Victor AD's "Wetin We Gain."

Today, Twitter discussions have been centered around criticizing the new collaborative effort titled "Logo Benz” from Olamide and Lil Kesh. It’s been a bloodbath of criticism as Nigerians are laying the blame at their feet for the continued festering of quality control in Nigerian music.

On the one part, one would understand the Nigerian-millennial anger; they are tired of negative portrayal and stereotype in international media.