{"id":2914,"date":"2022-12-03T06:24:36","date_gmt":"2022-12-03T06:24:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.ng\/?p=2914"},"modified":"2022-12-03T06:24:38","modified_gmt":"2022-12-03T06:24:38","slug":"rap-is-dead-afrobeats-is-the-new-pop-wizkid-shades-rappers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.ng\/rap-is-dead-afrobeats-is-the-new-pop-wizkid-shades-rappers\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8221;Rap is dead, Afrobeats is the new pop&#8221; &#8211; Wizkid shades rappers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Nigerian musician, Ayodeji Balogun popularly known as Wizkid, has referred to rap music as dead and boring.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The singer made the statement in a recent interview with 10 magazine (a British luxury quarterly magazine published in London, UK).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em><strong>READ ALSO: <\/strong><\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/news.ng\/i-have-been-single-for-too-long-wizkid-declares\/\"><em><strong>\u201dI have been single for too long\u201d \u2013 Wizkid declares<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Big Wiz said:&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cAfrobeats is the new pop. I sold two million copies in America off of one song! Even some American artists don\u2019t have a diamond record. If I\u2019m being honest, I don\u2019t listen to any other genre of music anymore.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He described rap as boring, stating that rappers use the same beat repeatedly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Wizkid stated:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t listen to rap \u2013 that shit is boring to me. It\u2019s dead now, it\u2019s tired. These guys do the same shit, rap on the same beats and the same flows.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em><strong>READ ALSO<\/strong><\/em><strong>:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/news.ng\/comedian-broda-shaggi-reacts-as-wizkid-unfollows-him-on-social-media\/\"><em><strong>Comedian Broda Shaggi reacts as Wizkid unfollows him on social media<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In another news, Wizkid has achieved another f<a href=\"https:\/\/news.ng\/wizkid-sells-out-17000-capacity-arena-in-amsterdam\/\">eat after he sold out<\/a> a 17,000-capacity Ziggo Dome Arena in Amsterdam during his concert.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Ziggo Dome is considered the biggest entertainment venue in the European country.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Videos of the performance on Twitter showed the arena packed to the brim as the singer thrilled the fans with various hit tracks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nigerian musician, Ayodeji Balogun popularly known as Wizkid, has referred to rap music as dead and boring. The singer made the statement in a recent interview with 10 magazine (a British luxury quarterly magazine published in London, UK). READ ALSO: \u201dI have been single for too long\u201d \u2013 Wizkid declares Big Wiz said:&nbsp; \u201cAfrobeats is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":2916,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,81],"tags":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2914"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2914"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2914\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2917,"href":"https:\/\/news.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2914\/revisions\/2917"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2916"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}