By Oyinkansayo Wole-Bodunde.
Bella Shmurda, a Nigerian singer, has removed himself from the secular music industry.
He stated that his artistic focus has shifted towards creating conscious music.
In a recent appearance on the Afrobeats Intelligence podcast, he shared his new perspective. He said, “At this point, I feel like I’m not in the secular music industry anymore, in that sense that I no longer make music that follows trend. I no longer do songs for trends. I don’t think I’m in that space anymore. I just want to make music for the reason I want to do it, which is to uplift people’s souls, making people self-conscious and being aware of who they are, and helping people go through life with my music, and I don’t really think any of my colleagues want to do that. I can still do trendy songs once in a while. But I feel like I know my space already now. Even if I want to make trendy music, I do that and quickly return to my purpose, and I feel like that’s the balance.”
