J Martins 'Checks' Wiz Kid

In the last couple of years, Nigerian musicians have exploded on the scene, reaching levels that some of their predecessors only dreamed of. A typical example is 23 year old afro-pop singer, Wiz Kid, who blew up under Banky W's wings 3 years ago. Wizkid has gone as far as to sign a deal with Tinie Tempah's Disturbing London promotion company, sign a deal with Akon's Konvict Music, and make collaboration songs with a handleful of international stars. But the kid is still a kid, and it is no surprise that he would let the fame and fortune get to his head. He recently called one of his followers 'broke' on Instagram, because the individual corrected his use of English. An older and more mature artist, J Martins has some thing to say concerning this.

In a recent radio interview, J Martins spoke about his displeasures on how Wiz Kid handled relationship with his fans/followers on social media-

I'm not taking any side, don’t mean no beef, no disrespect, and no hate but let the truth be told. I don’t believe because you feel you have a few change you didn't have a few years ago and which you cannot guarantee having in a few years to come then you wake up and look at those people who have cheered you up, loved you, supported your music, bought your CD’s, prayed for you, just because you can lay your hands on some phone and you call them ‘poor’.  

I'm not in and will never be in support of anyone who has such bad attitude. It needs to be corrected, we owe our fans the duty of being good examples that’s why they hold us in high esteem, that’s why you are a role model and if you know you cannot be a good role model you have no business in Music. You don’t know if it’s that person that might help you tomorrow, whoever does that should be checked.

The kid named Wizkid quickly responded to J Martins with a couple of tweets-

By the way, below is the screenshot of the Instagram post that started all these-