Ycee Criticises Young Artists Over ‘Meaningless Content’
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| Ycee (Nigerian rapper and singer) |
Rapper and singer Oludemilade Martin Alejo, widely known as Ycee, has stated that Nigeria’s education sector is decaying because the government continues to prioritise the wrong things.
Speaking on a recent episode of the Afropolitan Podcast, he called out the growing trend of young artists churning out “meaningless content” solely for the sake of going viral.
Ycee described the current cultural climate as an “Olodo uprising”—a time when shallow entertainment, anti-intellectualism, and virality are rewarded, while thoughtful, intellectually stimulating work struggles for attention.
“The society is not celebrating academic excellence. We are trying so much to accommodate unintelligent and ignorant people because we don’t want them to feel bad. They are now behaving like the majority,” he said.
“It’s not just Yahoo culture anymore, we now have ‘Peller culture’. There is a massive attack on the educational system in Nigeria. Leadership is prioritizing the things that are not important.”
Ycee also spoke candidly about his mental health. He revealed that he was diagnosed with a mental health condition in 2020 during the lockdown, which ultimately forced him to take a hiatus from his music career.
“In 2020 I got diagnosed with a mental health condition during the lockdown. I spent six months in London, in and out of hospital for about three months,” he explained.
