The eldest son of Late afrobeat pioneer and music Legend Fela Kuti, Femi Kuti in a new interview with HipTV spoke on the rising issue of drug abuse in the country and bare his thoughts on 'artistes' joining the Nigerian music industry for the wrong reasons.
Read excerpt from the interview below...
While speaking on people joining the music industry for the wrong reasons, Femi said,
"We must insist to teach our children music properly or else there will be pandemonium in the industry. Everybody is oining music for the wrong reason.. It's not about the fame. Music is very gidly and it's so important that if t's not done properly, I feat that we are going to have a very sad future in the industry. So thats's why I keep insisting that young boys and girls should learn a musical instrument."
While speaking on drugs and substance abuse in Nigeria, he said;
"The drugs and alcohol abuse is everywhere, It's just not Nigeria. The great Europe and America - It's a big problem there too. But what they do since they know it's a problem is an institution - they have rehabilitation centers. When you cfrash, you go into rehab. The only institution we have is Yaba left and its not ghjen ghen enough. Sensible peope will understand there is a problem. How did America/Europe tackle these pronblems? Even my father's time, they were on hard drugs..Heroin, cocaine and everything. I don't know if Nigeria has gotten there but the Alchohol is a massive problem. We hare to start tackling it now or else we are going to be in big problem."
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