‘Where’s The Lie’, Social Media Reacts As Journalist Says ‘Yahoo Boys’ Sustained Afrobeats

There have been mixed reactions on social media over a claim made by acclaimed Nigerian music journalist, Joey Akan on Twitter.

According to Akan in a tweet on his official Twitter handle @JoeyAkan, he claimed that Yahoo boys (internet fraudsters) help sustain the Afrobeats industry in Nigeria.

See the tweet below

“Afrobeats Hall of Fame will never be complete without honourary mentions to Yahoo boys who funded and kept alive an industry with no institutional or corporate funding. It’s a reality we hate to admit, but huge parts of Nigerian music history and success were built on cybercrime.

In reaction to his claim, some users backed him up, while other reminded him that the American rap scene was also sustained by drug money.

Here are some tweets gathered by GreenWhiteGreen

@officialdanielrolland Very correct bro, They’re just covering up with music shits…

@md_dopewears Everyone wan hot,that’s why heat dey everywhere ?

@callmedamy Where’s the lie ?

@iamstanlouis Hard to Admit but this is true. Which business Man or Salary earner can actually Pay 8m for an artiste to shoot with TG Omori? Not to talk about the promos required after dropping a song.

@mznekky What do we do with this info

@malikdeking Same way the yankee hip hop industry was funded by drug money

@clustersbym Just like a huge part of Ameican music industry is based on drugs.

@davidksylva Huge parts of American music history and success was built on drugs

@ms_alesh No be only music,even some marriage???but wetin consine me??‍♀️??‍♀️

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