Nigerian musician Oladapo Daniel Oyebanjo better known by his stage name D'banj has spoken on the moral disparity between his generation of musicians and the present crop of musicians.
The ‘Koko Master’ noted that there is a huge difference
between the moral compass of the times his generation of musicians held sway
and now.
He disclosed that sometimes he calls his colleague 2Baba who
was engulfed in scandals for having children out of wedlock years back, to
jokingly chide him for not encouraging him to do the same.
D’banj noted that, unlike his generation where having a
child out of wedlock could end one’s career, celebrities are now being
celebrated for having children out of wedlock.
Speaking in an interview with The Beat FM, Lagos, the Koko
Master said, “Our generation was so hard. If you had a child out of wedlock,
your career could just end. But now everybody is just embracing it.
“I am angry. Sometimes I call 2Face to chide him for not
encouraging me back then because it is something different when you now see
them celebrating with their kids. They are in their 30s and their kids are
teenagers.
“But I think it goes beyond people, it goes to your state of
mind: Are you mentally and financially ready? You don’t have to have everything
in the world, if you’re ready to embrace what is coming to you, I think that is
the best.”