Veteran Nigerian producer and music executive Olumide Ogunade, popularly known as ID Cabasa, has faulted Senegalese-American singer and executive Akon’s claims that he helped create Afrobeats.
Akon had, in an interview with American actress Sherri Shepherd about a week ago, projected himself as the key to the global push of the Afrobeats genre in the late 2000s.
He argued that his collaborations and partnerships with Nigerian artists and music executives in that early period birthed the Afrobeats known today.
Akon recalled that Wizkid was the…
