Artists are humans, so I do not think it’s okay to bully them and expect them to keep mum about it.
But in a world like this, the only way you’re not gonna say the wrong thing is if you don’t talk at all. So as a celebrity, when trolls come at you on social media trying to bully you because they think you’re an easy target, what do you do? You say, “f–k it, let them have it!”
That is one of the reasons Wizkid has come to gain the respect of almost everyone who knows anything about the industry in recent years. Wizkid will not fight you, he won’t block you, he won’t hit you back, he won’t even say anything about whatever you’re going on about. Every artist should learn to be like WizKid. Why? Because it makes them look good.
Many young artists do not care about how they look because they’re getting the numbers and the dough (probably), but they really should. If you’re all over the place replying to haters (no this isn’t a dig at Davido), blocking them, and insulting them, it’ll come back and hit you one day.
Buju is a menace on social media and the guy needs to be stopped. If you go around insulting people in their DM’s, blocking them, trolling, chasing cheap clout, you stop being an artist because at that point it isn’t about the art anymore.
An artist (a young one especially) should focus on the art and not what people have to say about them on Twitter. Buju hasn’t done well so far and more people need to call him out for this.
He probably won’t see this but I just needed to say this. Somebody has to say it. He needs some composure to straighten his image. He’s not God. At least, not yet.
