Popular Afrobeats singer, 9ice (Akande Abolore) has issued a strong warning to Nigerian upcoming artists.

He said: “I was talking about Grammy, and I wasn’t given. Burna got it. We never get am.”

“That’s why I said music, you can be passing a message. That’s why, when you sing as an artist, watch what you say in words because the devil controls music.”

“The devil is the choir master. That’s why we smoke, we do all these things.”

“If you are coming to this industry, understand where you’re coming to. I’m not lying to you.”

“When I had to vomit blood for like six months in my own house… 2010, 2009… No, not even medical. No worries.”

“Me, I’m not Christian. I’m not Muslim. I’m Babalawo.”

“I tell people and people run away from me. For me, I’m African. Traditionalist. That’s what I practise.”

“When Fela was talking, Fela used to go to Ogun, you were like, this guy, what is he doing? And now I know.”

“See, God said, I will never come to you in a different language from your people.”

“And I understand later that this Black community, this Black continent is for Black people.”

“And we have our own messengers. We have our own prophet.”