00:00 Kenneth Oguweje is a major voice on Splash FM in Ibadan, Nigeria.
00:04 One of the first radios to launch the ongoing boycott on Naira Mali's songs
00:09 after the troubled circumstance surrounding Mubad's death in September.
00:14 Naira Mali is a major suspect in the case of Mubad's passing
00:18 and investigations are still ongoing with charges pressed against him.
00:22 Let's see what happens.
00:23 Let the investigations go on with the police.
00:26 Let's see if he's found culpable.
00:29 Let's see if he is what we think him to be.
00:32 And that's why we had to put a stop, a pause on his music on the airwaves.
00:37 Lade is an emerging artist on the Afrobeat scene.
00:43 In 2022, one of her tracks was played over 8 million times on TikTok in less than five weeks.
00:51 Lade was shaken by Mubad's death.
00:53 Unlike him, she never signed a contract with a record label.
00:58 It's important that you face your craft by yourself.
01:02 Face it, whatever it is you need to do, do it when you're supposed to do it.
01:05 It's not until you're in a group of different individuals or separate individuals
01:10 or individuals with maybe more money or whatever.
01:13 Afrobeat is now having a global impact.
01:15 Peter Egwu has experienced this boom at first hand.
01:19 He's a sound engineer by training and CEO of Chocolate City,
01:23 a successful indigenous urban record label.
01:26 According to him, Mubad's affair is bad publicity for the entire Nigerian music industry.
01:32 I feel like we're a young industry.
01:36 And when I say young industry, this is the industry that most people that run
01:40 are not really educated and equipped for it.
01:43 So we have a lot of knowledge lacking.
01:46 And when you even talk back to, for example, an artist owns certain rights,
01:49 the producer owns a certain right, who owns what rights.
01:53 And sometimes when these things are not clearly defined, once money starts entering, there'll be problems.
01:57 Mubad's tragic death could serve as an electric shock to all those involved in the Afrobeat's innovative scene.
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