With the continues rise Indie label in Nigeria music industry, legendary Nigerian music superstar and record label owner D’banj made a shocking revelation in a recent event.
During this year edition of Social Media Week Lagos, with the topic titled “Changing the Game: Artistes are leaders”, the Kokomaster himself D’banj said most of the new generation record labels are founded by Yahoo boys, and it is only in Nigeria that the owner of a record label doesn’t know anything about music.
Here’s what he said;
Most of the new generation record labels are founded by Yahoo boys. You must understand first, why are you coming into music. Nigerian artistes need a lot of capacity building. It is only in Nigeria that the owner of a record label doesn’t know anything about music.”