Afrobeats star Ayodeji Balogun, widely known as Wizkid, has accused Nigeria’s wealthy elite of using poverty as a tool to make the less privileged “worship” them.
Wizkid made the statement while taking jabs at fellow artist Davido on social media on Wednesday.
After starting the feud on Tuesday night, the ‘More Love, Less Ego’ singer continued to call out Davido, claiming he was more successful and wealthier than the ‘Omo Baba Olowo’ artist, despite Davido’s affluent upbringing.
Wizkid referred to Davido as a “spoiled rich kid” and further claimed the ‘Unavailable’ singer is “cheap,” charging lower rates than most of their peers in the music industry.
On his X handle, he wrote, “First off, you’re not as fly as me, can’t sing or make music like me, you can’t dress, you don’t make more money than me, you don’t even got shoes like me. You don’t know yourself. You’re cheap, you pull up for less than we do! Now f*ck off you spoilt Rich child! That’s all u are ! F*ck u and your dad’s money we got ours! Every n*gga around u broke! Your dumb *ss lawyer flies with you everywhere dressed like Basketmouth lol , our lawyers are too busy for dat sh*t! You kids!”
In another tweet, Wizkid countered Davido’s self-imposed title as the “001” of the Nigerian music industry, saying he surrounded himself with poor people to worship him because rich people have weaponised poverty in Nigeria.
“Naija is a place the rich weaponize poverty so you carry all these broke boys in real life and get dem visa so they worship u and not tell u abt yourself. Call you 001 you delusional fuck aye you idiot! The only time you’re 001 is when you’re in your house. You’re not 001 of nothing but Instagram followers!
“You don’t make more money than anybody in Nigeria in music! Cheap guy! Everything about you screams cheap,” he wrote.