Afrobeats Has Lots Of Talentless People – Ruggedman

A veteran Nigerian rapper, Michael Ugochukwu Steven, popularly known as Ruggedman, has opined that man “talentless people” are hiding behind the Afrobeats genre of music.

He said Afrobeats is for talentless people and a specific category of singers.

He said, “When you ask me what Afrobeats is, I would say Afrobeats is what a lot of talentless people hide behind.

“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 hurts 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.”