{"id":5240,"date":"2023-12-04T09:03:08","date_gmt":"2023-12-04T09:03:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/i-was-cancelled-for-saying-ghana-influenced-nigerian-music-mr-eazi\/"},"modified":"2023-12-04T09:03:08","modified_gmt":"2023-12-04T09:03:08","slug":"i-was-cancelled-for-saying-ghana-influenced-nigerian-music-mr-eazi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/i-was-cancelled-for-saying-ghana-influenced-nigerian-music-mr-eazi\/","title":{"rendered":"I was cancelled for saying Ghana influenced Nigerian music \u2013 Mr Eazi"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Famous singer and serial entrepreneur Oluwatosin Oluwole Ajibade, aka Mr Eazi, has recalled being a victim of cancel culture after his assertion that Ghana influenced Nigerian music.<\/p>\n<p>DAILY POST recalls that on 11 January 2017, Mr Eazi tweeted that Ghanaian music has a great influence over present-day Nigerian music, which earned backlash, with many fans, colleagues and music buffs threatening to cancel him.<\/p>\n<p>Reacting to the backlash he received in a recent episode of the Afrobeats Intelligence Podcast hosted by Joey Akan, Mr Eazi said he didn\u2019t regret his statement despite the threats.<\/p>\n<p>He, however, lamented that some people who he thought were his friends in the industry joined others in cancelling him instead of chastising him in private.<\/p>\n<p>The \u2018Leg Over\u2019 crooner also berated those who are still \u201chating\u201d him to date, saying his statement wasn\u2019t \u201cdeep\u201d and that they are \u201chating\u201d him for something else.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Eazi said, \u201cWhen the whole issue with me being cancelled, even till tomorrow, I see people come on my [social media] profile and still throw hate. They said, \u2018Oh, yeah, you said that.\u2019 I\u2019m like, \u2018Fam, really? This energy take it to your local politician wey dey run you street.\u2019 You feel me? I didn\u2019t kill anybody. I said what I said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd I said it many years ago. If that is the reason you hate, then you hate me for something else. It\u2019s deeper than that. And realising that just make me feel free. That\u2019s the lens to which I look at e everything. Because I was seeing guys I was saying \u2018Hello\u2019 to, coming out to say, \u2018F*ck Mr Eazi.\u2019 And I was like, \u2018Bro, you could have called me and say Eazi, I just saw this interview, you shouldn\u2019t have said that. This is what I advise you to do.\u2019 But it just became a thing of let\u2019s all band together. And that\u2019s why in my song \u2018We Dey\u2019, I said, \u2018Twitter fingers steady showing fake love.\u2019 Because it\u2019s crowd mentality. It\u2019s trendy to hate you, and now it\u2019s like for clicks.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere are people making art and nobody is caring about their life whether they jump or sit. It\u2019s like they are invisible. Love and hate is acknowledgement of your existence, I\u2019m even blessed to be able to invoke something.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I was cancelled for saying Ghana influenced Nigerian music \u2013 Mr Eazi<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Famous singer and serial entrepreneur Oluwatosin Oluwole Ajibade, aka Mr Eazi, has recalled being a victim of cancel culture after&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5241,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6082,4,5077,15],"tags":[680,171,478,180],"class_list":["post-5240","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-eazi","category-entertainment","category-ghana","category-news","tag-eazi","tag-entertainment","tag-ghana","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5240","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5240"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5240\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5241"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}