“There was no time I left music,
but the system has changed. At present, we don’t have raw talents in the music
industry; people doing music now are the ‘Yahoo’ and drug boys. They took over
the industry.
A ‘Yahoo boy’ can just enter the
studio because music is easy now unlike before when you would have to pass
through many processes to release a song. Then you would sing from the
beginning of that track till the end, but they cut corners nowadays which also
explains why their songs don’t last more than six months. When they play some
of my songs like Denge Pose and Notice Me, people still dance to them and
remember the lyrics. Many things have changed.
“It is not true that I quit music
out of frustration. It can never be so. When I was growing up in Ajegunle, I
became used to gossips. I cannot be moved by dirty talks because I have been
hearing it all my life, especially when my music was famous. I am not the only
artiste that has gone silent over the years; we have many but I am not willing
to mention names. If they said I left music out of frustration, they should
describe frustration. If I was frustrated out of music, I would tell people
myself.”
Baba Fryo said that to keep body
and soul together, he became involved in land speculation despite the fact that
he is from Delta State.
“I am still doing my music obviously; I go to shows. Also, it is not only Yoruba who are land speculators (Omo Onile) in Lagos. I collect my entitlements too, I sell lands. It does not matter that I am from Delta. Was I born in Delta? I was born and bred here, so I have the right to collect entitlement. I have lived in Lagos all my life,” he said.
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