At the just concluded VMA awards, South African singer Tyla emerged as the winner under the Best Afro beats category, and this clearly didn’t sit well with OAP Do2dtun.
In a long rant, Do2dtun wrote;
”Aunty @tyla aka am not Afrobeats, I am Amapiano. We have heard you but your song “Water” isn’t amapiano either.
If you thought you were categorized in a wrong category, you should have given the award back or denounced the nomination.
You clearly took an award that didn’t represent you or your sound from that statement you made.
Again, you see why you “ESAUS” need to rethink. You all sold our birthright for peanuts. Afrobeat is Afrobeat not Afrobeats hence the statement you made”
Going forward, Do2dtun chastised Nigerian singers for selling out their birthright, which in this context is Afrobeat.
Do2dtun wrote;
”A few selfish ones renamed an established genre to satisfy their pay masters. Yet again you see why it’s best to let the originators be allowed to educate the world.
Tyla winning Best Afrobeat song is a miss in my opinion but how do you say it isn’t when a few added ‘s’ to it
Afrobeats was a quickie set up to a quick paycheck. Now you see why most of your faves stop identifying with it. It was quickly fixed to fix an identity crisis just cos the paymasters think it had one when in actual fact it didn’t. Now they define it how a few sold it to them
In Nigeria, we create so many great things but dont own so many great things. In my opinion, we should have left it as Afrobeat; educate ourselves; others on why the sound is different; made in Nigeria and what the sound should consist to fit the category”
The crux of Do2dtun’s message about Tyla winning the VMA’s is that she has always categorized herself as an Amapiano singer, and not an Afrobreat artist, so he felt that she was not deserving enough to win under that category.
