The Nigerian Grammy-nominated artist David Adeleke, better known as Davido, has asserted that he is the most criticized singer in Nigeria because of his affluent background.
According to Naija News, the OBO crooner stated in a recent episode of the ‘Culture Knock Out’ podcast that the ‘rich kid’ stigma could have impacted his career had he not concealed his background initially
The Afrobeat singer mentioned that he had already achieved a couple of hit songs by the time his background was revealed.
Davido affirmed that the animosity from critics did not prevent him from putting out his music.
He stated, “I’m the most criticized artist in Nigeria. What I mean is, I’m on fire and have been for some time. Initially, they were unaware of my dad’s wealth. The stigma of a rich kid doing music didn’t turn out to be as crazy for me as it should have been.
People didn’t know my father was rich. It was too late, I already did three hit songs before they found out that my dad had money.
“But I just wanted to do music. I didn’t care if I had to become homeless. At that point, that was all I wanted to do. Nothing would stop me. Over time, people started hating me because my dad is rich. But I keep on dropping good music, and it keeps working out.
“It happens to everyone, once you become the biggest in anything, you will get criticised. You are doing an election, people love you and they vote for you. But when you become president, they hate you.”
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