Olamide’s record label Yahoo Boy No Laptop is known for writing and performing songs that inspire hustling in the street, but for the last three years, the YBNL artistes have written the worst lyrics ever in the Nigerian music industry.

From story for the gods, down to Logo Benz which was written by Lil Kesh’ a YBNL artiste, YBNL have gone from plaguing the music industry with violent lyrics and misogynistic messages to promoting ritual killing

Here are three more songs YBNL flopped in their lyrics.

1. Story for the gods

When this song was released four years ago, it was a street banger because of the beats, but behinds the drums and the catchy tone is a violent lyric that promoted rape. In this song, the YBNL artiste boasted of how he took dangerous herbs and weeds so as to do “Sina” which is an Islamic word for fornication/ adultery. However, part of the lyrics of the song talked about a woman saying No to sexual advances while the YBNL boss was saying yes with a phrase “story for the gods”.

This song degraded women in a violent way and promoted rape in diverse forms. According to reports, one out of five women are raped in their lifetimes. Which is a troubling discovery because of the trauma raped victims face. However, YBNL artistes didn’t stop here they landed in Science Student

2. Science Student

When this song was released, people who hated the lyrics outnumbered the people who loved it. And when it was time for the translation, listeners translated based on the love they have for the person who sung it.

Actress Lala Akindoju believed that the song encourages young people to pop pills. She said: “This encouragement and promotion to use hard drugs and get ‘high’ under the influence in the name of song and dance is disturbing,” she wrote on Snapchat. “What’s more disturbing is how comfortable all of us are with it. ‘Me’ – I’m disturbed.”

On January 28th this year, The National Broadcasting Commission (NBC) proscribed the song not to be played on airwaves. The Head of Public Affairs, NBC, Hajia Maimuna Jimada declared the song “Unfit for broadcast”.

However, in shooting the video the rapper had graffiti writings on the video scenes that says “Say No to Drugs”. But since the hammer of a ban has already been slammed on the song, the message wasn’t clear.

3. Poverty Die

This should be the caption of a revival programme in a local church, you think?. Although it was close to it because the YBNL artiste donned a sutana and Eniola Badmus was even dancing with him for poverty to die until a disturbing scene appeared.

Here, the YBNL Boss was in a hall filled with guys with laptops on their desks and obviously, they were not learning graphics design or writing project topics. They looked like modern hackers. In Nigeria, internet fraud has been the bane of the society. A lot of young people are engaging in this act for fame and pelf. The song promoted internet fraud as a norm but YBNL wasn’t done

4. Logo Benz

While songs about drugs and excess are nothing new, YBNL recently released a song that promotes ritual killing. In Logo Benz, some part of the lyrics reveals: If Money No enter, I go do blood money”. This has troubled a lot of people considering the number of deaths that have been recorded among young women whom their supposed boyfriends used to acquire Mercedes Benz through rituals.

The most troubling thing about the song is that YBNL artistes are defending the song, saying its for awareness when the lyrics don’t have any undertone of awareness.

Defending the song worst lyrics ever written in the Nigerian music industry, Olamide said: Logo Benz is for the 3rd party to have a glimpse into the current state of youths in our society. (Runs girls x runs boys) “ I’m not sure if there’s anything like 2 much awareness, but pardon me if there is. It’s all over the news, it’s always been in movies, don’t box musicians.

Angry fans have slammed Olamide and his crew, but of course there are internet influencers who are already on gorund defending ‘Logo Benz”.

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