Tony Tetuila: Artistes no longer making waves are easily forgotten by Nigerians

Nigerian singer Anthony Olanrewaju Awotoye, professionally known as Tony Tetuila, has said people stop ‘recognising’ artistes once they stop reigning in the Nigerian music industry.

Tetuila, in an encounter with Sunday Scoop, said;

“You are on your own. People will only recognise you when you are making waves. Once you are no longer reigning, they would go for another person. But, if you have to go for another person, how about the legends from way back? What have you been doing to help them? We have seen artistes begging for help on their sick beds. Who is going to help them? The government is not even creating avenues to support legends in the industry.”

Tetuila also shared his thoughts on why young artistes find it difficult to collaborate with older colleagues. He said;

“Some young artistes are proud. In our time, if somebody like Faze was going for a show, you would see other artistes such as Black Reverendz and Tony Tetuila supporting him. That was the love we had then. But now, everybody wants to brag about having more money than the other person.”

Tetuila was a member of the now defunct hip hop group of The Remedies (along with Eedris Abdulkareem and Eddy Montana). He split from the group and became successful as a solo artist. He is best known for his hit song My Car, as well as Nigeria’s first ever diss track Omode Meta.