Apart from other causes of drug-abuse prevalence among youths, a section of Nigerian musicians is fuelling this malaise, displaying the smoking of weed and other illicit substances on social media.
It is a known fact that secular hiphop and rap music is associated with smoking, violence and sex. Hence, visuals and pictures of some of these artistes smoking weed or other illicit substances are seen in their music videos and gets to the social media. Pictures of Wizkid, Burnaboy, Olamide, Reminisce, Phyno and others smoking these substances are all over the internet and these can get into the sub-conscious of young persons who are in school or out-of-school.
According to Amos Mcroy Jegg, a veteran reggae musician and one of the pioneers of Jastix Band that brought out the late reggae star, Majek Fashek, intake of illicit drugs and alcoholic substances by young persons is a generational phase thing and not particular to the younger generation alone. “Talking about musicians knowingly or unknowingly promoting drug abuse with their videos, I would say it is not peculiar to this generation. We are only alarmed because today’s entertainers have access to far and wider audience than in the past due to the current technological advancement and its attendant opportunities to today’s world.
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