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Internet fraudsters fund many Nigerian artists – M.I claims

Veteran rapper, Jude Abaga, popularly known as M.I, has claimed that internet fraudsters fund a major part of the Nigerian music industry.

According to him, it is an indictment on Nigeria as a nation that most of the funding of the country’s music industry comes from the West and from fraudsters.

He insisted that Nigeria needs to do better in terms of funding for the creative industry.

M.I featured as a guest in a recent episode of the ‘So Nigerian’ podcast.

“There’s a lot of controversies when people talk about Yahoo Yahoo, because a lot of artists that is the funding that they have. What I’m trying to say is that, it’s an indictment on our country that we have such talented musicians and that the major funding for the industry comes from the West and the fraud industry. It’s an indictment. It shows that something is wrong. Hopefully, we can do better,” he said.

The rapper urged wealthy Nigerians to step up in funding the country’s musical talents, stressing that young people are the only supporting other young people financially in the Nigerian music industry at the moment.

tompat86:
Ahhhh, my compatriots in the amphitheatre of melophonic gyrations, permit me to ventilate my cranial cogitations on this matter that His Lyrical Eminence, Jude M.I Abaga, has unfurled before our optic faculties.

If indeed our sonorous savants are being fiscally lubricated by the nefarious lubricant of Yahoo-Yahoo pecuniary percolations, then verily, we are dancing Shaku-Shaku on the precipice of an ethical abyss! This is not merely a jejune peccadillo; it is a mammothian indictment on our socio-economic superstructure.

Instead of an autochthonous aristocracy of affluence galvanizing our creative gladiators with legitimate naira nectar, we have the aberrant anointing of artistes by algorithmic brigands of cyberspatial kleptomania. This, my compatriots, is a symphony in the key of national embarrassment.

May our plutocratic patricians awaken from their philanthropic siesta, lest the cantata of our cultural industry be eternally orchestrated by the bass drums of fraudulence and the saxophone of subterfuge.

tompat86:
Ahhhh, my compatriots in the amphitheatre of melophonic gyrations, permit me to ventilate my cranial cogitations on this matter that His Lyrical Eminence, Jude M.I Abaga, has unfurled before our optic faculties.

If indeed our sonorous savants are being fiscally lubricated by the nefarious lubricant of Yahoo-Yahoo pecuniary percolations, then verily, we are dancing Shaku-Shaku on the precipice of an ethical abyss! This is not merely a jejune peccadillo; it is a mammothian indictment on our socio-economic superstructure.

Instead of an autochthonous aristocracy of affluence galvanizing our creative gladiators with legitimate naira nectar, we have the aberrant anointing of artistes by algorithmic brigands of cyberspatial kleptomania. This, my compatriots, is a symphony in the key of national embarrassment.

May our plutocratic patricians awaken from their philanthropic siesta, lest the cantata of our cultural industry be eternally orchestrated by the bass drums of fraudulence and the saxophone of subterfuge.

TouchNfollow:
https://dailypost.ng/2025/08/12/internet-fraudsters-fund-many-nigerian-artists-m-i-claims/

Zyrac:
who has MI funded.
these gatekeepers that don't support upcoming rappers.