In a series of tweets, he argued that he belonged on the same pedestal as afrobeats.
The ‘Your Waist’ singer was answering a fan who tweeted; ” At the point when we notice the Old felines like Olamide, Davido and Wizkid, Iyanya ought to be referenced as well.
In 2011, he released two hit songs. Kukere and Your Waist,” and he has continued to be consistent ever since.
Iyanyan simply wrote, “Agreeing with the post”: Well.”
In a similar vein, he also stated to another fan that his songs gained worldwide acceptance at a time when the internet was not popular.
The fan wrote; “Shout out to @Iyanya he really took Afrobeats to the world. Kukere was a huge song globally! As big as skelewu, (pls correct me gently if I’m wrong) but the impact cannot be erased by even banter.”
Iyanya replied; “They don’t know. Zero internet penetration and our songs were everywhere. They can o my tweet according to the information they have. Let’s count Hits for Hits and tell me how many go fit match”.
Meanwhile, he earlier narrated how his team spent millions of naira trying to feature American-Trinidadian singer, Nicki Minaj.
The artiste revealed that at the peak of his career between 2012 and 2014, he and Triple MG Boss, Ubi Franklin made moves to collaborate with Nicki. He said after Kukere was released and became a massive hit; they pondered over the next big song.
According to Iyanya, his music producer, D’Tunez modified the beat for Kukere and they used it to create ‘Your Waist’ which also received huge airplay.