“Flavour Agrees with Buju Banton on Afrobeats’ Lack of Depth

Nigerian highlife singer Chinedu Okoli, popularly known as Flavour, has agreed with Jamaican reggae icon Buju Banton that afrobeats music lacks depth.

In a podcast interview, Flavour supported Banton’s view, stating that Afrobeats lacks depth because its artists are lazy.

“I understand what Buju Banton is trying to say. Kids of today [present crop of afrobeats artists] don’t want stress; they just want to vibe,” he lamented.

Flavour suggested that Banton might be trying to inspire a change in the genre. He also made it clear that he is a highlife artist, not an Afrobeats artist, and criticized Western media for labeling all African artists as part of the Afrobeats genre.