Folklore musician Segun Akinlolu, popularly known as Beautiful Nubia, on Sunday urged young musicians to use good lyrics to communicate with society.
Akinlolu told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Lagos that there was nothing wrong with youths playing hip-hop, but they should use good lyrics to carry their messages across.
"We should not lay blame the youth, but rather the media that are pushing out the music to the people. So if what the media is pushing out is bad, it takes hold of the public mind.
"If we want honest music, we play it, we do not pretend to be owanbe or American if we want to be truthful to ourselves.
"When we were growing up we listened to Cool and the Gang, but we grew out of it.
"There is a natural process of maturity where people think deep and listen to more reflective music.
"There should always be good message in songs we do for positive changes. I am very particular about that.
"If hip-hop does not addressing that, then there is a problem with the songs," he said.
Akinlolu, however, said that there would be problem when youths grew older and were still doing hip-hop.
He said that Nigerians would grow out of hip-hop and prefer Nigerian music.
"They are trying already to do some collaboration or sing some of the 90s music.
"In the 90s it was reggae, in the70s it was pop. There is no need to push it, we should let them to bring it down to the Nigerian level," he said.
Akinlolu said that he was playing traditional music which reflected what Nigerians were.
"It is traditional music presented in different, contemporary ways.
"I use Nigerian settings to sing the music and say what is wrong in the society.
"It reflects the problems, the challenges we face every day; it reflects how we grew up, what we face every day in our society.
"We try to teach through the music the need for the people to be honest, hard working, good neighbourliness, sincerity consciousness, love and protect one another.
"That is what we are telling society, we are singing for society to change.
"It is the ancient wisdom and philosophy of our people and how they live a clean life."
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