Useful and sensible lyrics can be considered one of the most lacking elements among Nigerian hip-hop artistes. It calls for an urgent need to get more serious with censorship of music in our entertainment industry.

Very few usually take-on the challenge of writing clean and responsible lyrics. Artistes like Lil Kesh, Small Doctor, Katapa and many more are definitely not among these few, and that is evident in almost all of their tracks.

Lil Kesh managed to incur the wrath of the public again with a collaboration with his former boss, Olamide, in a new single tagged “Logo Benz”. It was met with vehement backlash for its provocative lyrics about money rituals.

Logo Benz. No melody. No depth. No message. Just a shameless PROMOTION of ritual killings & desperation for money at all costs, including HUMAN BLOOD. This is filth. Olamide & Lil Kesh didn’t just go beyond the line, they landed in the dustbin of history’s trashiest artists. — Ayò Bánkólé (@AyoBankole) December 21, 2018

First Olamide promoted rape culture with Story for the gods,

then drugs with Science Students, then advance fee fraud with

Poverty die. Now it’s ritual killings with Logo Benz, but people

will still go and cheer him on at OLIC. I’ve never been more

ashamed to be Nigerian. — The Forbidden Fruit (@fabulos_fairy) December 21, 2018

It was being criticized for promoting criminal, immoral and diabolical practices, and bringing the nation into disrepute. The lyrics do nothing else but encourage ritualists, kidnappers, prostitutes, fraudsters, greedy spiritualists, people that want to get money at all cost.

‘Logo Benz’ is purportedly a description of women underwear – panties, having the shape of this logo. It’s a new evil ritual trend in Nigeria, being practised by internet fraudsters (also called yahoo boys), cultists and other money ritualists.

They use various means to get worn panties, which they use for rituals to take virtues from the owner. In essence, Lil Kesh meant that the logo of Mercedes Benz is panties, a subtle reference to the evil ritual. The vulgar lyrics managed to drive home his point of approving money rituals.

Songs like Logo Benz are reasons we need do more in censoring music before they get to the public. The unbridled release of nonsensical songs is a subject of concern about the impact of such music on the youths.

Kapata’s “One Corner” rocked the streets across the nation, especially the South West. There is nothing to explain how such immoral depiction will get into public hears, without provoking series of undesirable conducts.

Timaya also held us confused with his second song about ladies’ buttocks, titled ‘Bum Bum”. One would have expected the second one of the two will take a different angle to the subject; but no, Timaya decided to stick to his guns and fed his fans with very provocative work and visual content.

While entertainers should have the free rein to be creative, it shouldn’t be to the detriment of the society’s values by fueling all sorts of crime and youth delinquency.

The needs are increasing daily, to have a functional censorship board that screens songs, weeding out songs with toxic lyrics. Agencies like the NFVCB – National Film And Video Censors Board should be more proactive and responsible, to save the public of such negative influences.

Hollywood, Nollywood, Bollywood have artistes who play drug barons, serial killers, rapists, murderers doesn’t mean they support those vices.@olamide_YBNL@lilkeshofficial logo Benz highlights societal vices. Take the message and siege the lessons inherent. — Wilson Easzyrail 🇳🇬 (@WilsonIsrael11) December 21, 2018

“Pata ni Logo Benz” – 😳. I never knew it had gotten this bad. I rebuke this song for everybody. Madness!!! Come and learn to code if you need to live a really decent life. You might not get Benz immediately, but you’ll get close 😉🔥https://t.co/vOVDLgca9n #Developer #Benz 😁 — Prosper Otemuyiwa 🔥 (@unicodeveloper) December 21, 2018

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