You’Re Greater Than Your Dad’ – Motunrayo Kuti Hits Back At Wizkid Over Fela Comparison
Motunrayo, the daughter of Afrobeat legend Fela Kuti, has weighed in on the ongoing rift between Seun, her brother, and singer Wizkid.
The tension began last week when Seun criticised Wizkid’s fanbase for what he perceived as disrespectful comparisons between the ‘Ojuelegba’ hitmaker and the Afrobeat legend.
He argued that such comparisons undermined his father’s monumental legacy.
The conflict escalated on Tuesday evening when Wizkid rebuked and posted a series of messages laden with insults aimed at Seun. He also declared himself greater than Fela.
Seun fired back with a sarcastic comment at Wizkid.
Reacting to the controversy in a video shared on her Instagram page, Motunrayo expressed strong displeasure over what she described as double standards from the public and Wizkid’s supporters.
She also referred to Wizkid’s father as a “nobody,” arguing that the ‘Ojuelegba’ hitmaker is greater than his own dad and not Fela.
“Wizkid cannot tolerate people talking to his nobody of a father. He is pained that they insulted his father, but his own FC keeps downgrading our own father, and you all are telling us to keep quiet, insulting us,” she said.
“So you people cannot tolerate them disrespecting your fathers? You people are crazy and just embarrassing yourselves up and down. It is Muniru Olatunji that Wizkid is greater than not Fela. Most of you lack home training because if you do, you are supposed to understand where we are coming from but you do not.”
Meanwhile, former senator and ex-presidential adviser, Babafemi Ojudu has criticised comparisons between younger Nigerian musicians and Fela Kuti, saying the late Afrobeat icon’s life and work remain “unmatched”.
Ojudu shared his opinion in a Facebook post on Tuesday while reacting to the ongoing online dispute between Wizkid and Seun Kuti, Fela’s son.
The 64-year-old said he hoped Wizkid’s comment describing himself as a greater artiste than Fela was the result of a “misquotation”.
“I sincerely hope he was misquoted, because even if he were to live ten lifetimes, his art and his life could not measure up to Fela Anikulapo-Kuti,” he said.
The politician said Fela was not just a musician; he was a movement, a conscience, a revolution in human form.
The former lawmaker said “Fela’s music birthed Afrobeat,” a genre now studied globally and performed on the world’s biggest stages.
According to him, Fela stood fearlessly against military dictatorships, using music as a weapon against injustice, corruption, and state violence.
“For this, he was arrested over 200 times, brutalised, imprisoned, tortured, exiled and silenced, yet never broken,” Ojudu said.
Ojudu said any young person comparing himself to Fela must first endure imprisonment, exile, and loss while retaining creative integrity.
He described Fela as a multi-instrumentalist, composer, bandleader and cultural theorist whose work fused jazz, highlife, funk, Yoruba rhythms and political poetry.
“Fela did not chase acceptance; the world came to him,” he said.
Ojudu said anyone making such comparisons should be ignored, adding that Fela “did not run, Fela stood, Fela fought, and Fela remains immortal”.
The former lawmaker’s admonishment came after Wizkid declared himself greater than Fela during a heated clash with Seun.
Seun, who responded with a sarcastic post calling Wizkid a “short man,” had earlier attacked the singer’s fanbase. He had accused them of disrespecting his father’s legacy by comparing Wizkid to Fela.
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