Olamide, Lil Kesh flayed for ‘promoting ritual killing’ in new song

By Pascal Oparada

Nigerian singers, Olamide Adedeji known simply as Olamide and Keshinro Ololade, known as Lil Kesh are being flayed by Nigerians on social media for encouraging cyber crime and ritual killing in their new song.

Social media users are angry at the duo for what they termed legitimising criminality and voodoo.

In the song, they were quoted as saying if they do not make money, they will make blood money.

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Many were angry at the duo for not setting good examples but instead, glorified a get rich quick mindset which, according to them, is making Nigerian youths lazy.

Others believe they were just mirroring the society in their new song.

Olamide, the owner of the record label, YBNL an acronym which stands for Yahoo Boys No Laptop, has been flayed in the past for encouraging drug peddling when he released Chemistry video in 2017.

Some of the reactions are below.

This Olamide and Lil Kesh song is painful to listen to. A song that glorifies rituals, internet fraud and blood money. What does "If money no enter, I go do blood money" mean? That song will get across to millions of youth, that's the worst part. There is no excuse for this.
— Isima Odeh (@IsimaOdeh) December 20, 2018

Olamide is a cancer to the Nigerian music industry and youths in general

This new song with lil kesh is just rubbish

What kinda lyrics is this ?

“If money no enter i go do blood money”

Are you freaking kidding me ? ? ?

Super wow !

Nah! Olamide is canceled!
— Terry (@Terrybrainz) December 20, 2018

Music is usually a reflection of the society from which it originates at the time it is produced.

So, Olamide and Lil Kesh are just producing music that reflect our society at this point in time just as Fela's music in Fela's time.
— Faisal (@JajaPhD) December 20, 2018

Why is the new Lil Kesh and Olamide song promoting/glorifying ritual killings/blood money?? Why must you use terrible lyrics like this??
“If money no enter i go do blood money”

There needs to be a line that you can’t cross when it comes to lyrics in music. This is one of them.
— ? DaddyMO ? ?♠️ (@officialdaddymo) December 20, 2018