Music artist, Okafor Uchenna Victor, popularly known as Mr Real, has expressed concern over what he described as high level of intellectual property theft in Nigerian music industry.
The ‘Legbegbe’ crooner claimed that Afrobeats as a genre lacks originality, stressing that a lot of songs and ideas on its scene were stolen.
He noted that upcoming artists are the most affected but often don’t get justice because they don’t have much supporters to create awareness about the injustice.
He claimed that even veteran artists like Blackface who is always vocal about song theft have used other artists’ intellectual properties in the past without approval.