Veteran hip hop artiste, Michael Ugochukwu Steven, popularly known as Ruggedman, has said a lot of “talentless people” are hiding behind the Afrobeats banner.

The rapper stated this in an interview with popular media personality, Chude Jideonwo.

According to him, the term Afrobeats is for talentless people.

“When you ask me what Afrobeats is, I would say Afrobeats is what a lot of talentless people hide behind,” Ruggedman said in a candid interview with Chude Jideonwo.

“They said, ‘Afrobeats to the world.’ I said, ‘No. It’s some artists to the world.’ It’s not the Afrobeats [genre], it’s some artists.”

He also revealed that it is hurting when people tell him on social media that his time as an artist has passed “but what I said to myself is whoever he or she [the troll] is listening to right now is inspired by me.”