Afrobeats musician Wizkid and maverick singer Seun Kuti have ruled out a reconciliation, stating that their disagreement will last a lifetime.
Following Wizkid’s assertion that he was superior to Afrobeat pioneer Fela Anikulapo-Kuti in reaction to Seun Kuti’s order to fans to cease comparing the Ojuelegba crooner to the late music giant, the two fell out.
Seun Kuti responded that he can’t make amends with the Starboy leader since he disrespected his late father when asked in a recent podcast if he had resolved his conflict with Wizkid.
The host asked: “Have you and Wizkid settled your Beef?”
Kuti replied: “It is on for life. I don’t have anything to say about him but it is on for life. You don’t say things about my dad and then it is fine. There is no coming back from that.”
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According to Seun Kuti, his father, the late Afrobeat pioneer Fela Anikulapo-Kuti, did not forbid his wives from having extramarital affairs.
He went on to say that this was one of Fela’s worst mistakes, claiming that some of the ladies eventually contracted HIV from their other lovers and gave it to the late singer.
In a recent Instagram livestream, Kuti stated that he was the victim and refuted rumours that Fela was the one who infected his girlfriends.
He said, “Fela made many mistakes. One of the mistakes he made -one day, I saw a video of a lady online saying why are people praising Fela’s legacy despite him giving women HIV and dying of AIDS.
“I said, ‘Oh, Fela you see yourself?’ If Fela was a traditional man, he would still be alive. I will tell you something about him that you might not have known, Fela’s women all had other men.
“Fela did not keep his women to himself. He believed that as he is free to sleep with all the women, the women are also free to meet other men. His law was that they shouldn’t bring the men to his house.
“My father doesn’t leave his house to sleep with other women outside, so it was his women who brought HIV home to him. Nobody is perfect. Everybody make mistakes. But Fela is a man that is on the side of humanity.”
Fela made headlines when he married 27 women in a single traditional ceremony on February 20, 1978, in Lagos.
