Nigerian singer, Raoul John Njeng-Njeng, popularly known as Skales, has slammed his colleagues who ignore the local media.
In recent years, established Nigerian artists have been ditching local media houses for foreign platforms.
Reacting to the ugly trend on the latest episode of the ‘Listen’ podcast, Skales described the actions of those who ignored the local media as “crazy.”
He said, “Any artiste that ignores the local media is really crazy because this is our own. Tearing down our own to go build foreigners’ own. Foreigners that don’t care about us.
“Whether my colleagues like it or not, the local media contributed to their growth. If they didn’t help them, the foreign media they are running to today wouldn’t have known them.”
He also said some of his colleagues who are now publicly ditching afrobeats after benefiting from the genre are “ungrateful.”
Skales added, “our artists need to be careful not to tear down what built us because we are trying to impress the world.”