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You can’t sing, it’s paid promotion that helps you – Portable blasts Wizkid
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Portable criticises Wizkid, claiming that he cannot sing.
Habeeb “Portable” Okikiola has stated that Afrobeats artist Ayo Balogun popularly known as Wizkid does not know how to sing.
Following his previous criticism of rap artists, Portable poked fun at the award-winning musician in a video response.
He claimed Wizkid lacked talent and that he amplified his voice with autotune, which is why listeners could not understand what he was saying in his lyrics.
The Zazuu crooner claimed that Wizzy utilises promotion to push the songs or albums he releases and that his ventures do not succeed due to his talent.
Additionally, Portable chastised him for frequently singing songs about women and questioned whether he would ever sing religious or spiritual songs.
He alleged that whenever Wizkid drops a song and it doesn’t ‘blow’ his team uses paid promotion to get it on the charts.
Watch him speak below:
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Earlier, Portable has drawn his senior colleagues, BNXN and Ruger, into an online feud over who is a better vocalist.
In a viral video, the singer is seen berating his colleagues for the way they perform their songs. According to him, the duo generally sings inaudible words and their songs are largely about women.
In the viral clip, the Zazu Zeh crooner asked both artists if they can do a live band performance before adding that they have only been packaging themselves.
“Come make we teach you how to sing. Can you sing live band? Dem dey package you ni. Come meet me make we teach you. You no sabi sing make we talk true. Make una help me tell Ruger and Buju make dem come learn music from Doctor Zeh hand.”
He suggested that they instead sing songs that were more positive or, even better, songs of praise to God.
In his words; “No be to dey sing for woman woman, Can’t you praise God and sing about reality…”
Portable also called them out for trying to ruin other people’s careers with their ‘streaming farms’ exposure and buying awards for recognition. He also offered to teach Ruger and Buju music, how to sing reasonable songs and stay off-wack lyrics.