{"id":242042,"date":"2026-03-29T05:47:59","date_gmt":"2026-03-29T05:47:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/2baba-makes-bold-prediction-about-afrobeats-future\/"},"modified":"2026-03-29T05:47:59","modified_gmt":"2026-03-29T05:47:59","slug":"2baba-makes-bold-prediction-about-afrobeats-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/2baba-makes-bold-prediction-about-afrobeats-future\/","title":{"rendered":"2Baba Makes Bold Prediction About Afrobeats\u2019 Future"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"mvp-content-main\">\n<p>Nigerian music legend, Innocent Idibia, popularly known as <strong>2Baba<\/strong>, has dismissed fears that the Afrobeats genre might be heading to relegation on the global stage.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Abia Radio News<\/strong> reports that 2Baba, in a recent interview with Yaw on Wazobia FM Lagos, expressed confidence in the future of Afrobeats.<\/p>\n<p>According to the African Queen crooner, contrary to some negative predictions, Afrobeats can never die on the global stage.<\/p>\n<p>2Baba argued that the country\u2019s endless pool of young talent ensures continuity, noting that young artists are the lifeblood of Afrobeats.<\/p>\n<p>He said, <em>\u201cAfrobeats can never die. If you listen to some of the young Afrobeats artists now, you will agree with me that the genre is in safe hands.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cRecently, one of the young artists, Fola, remade my song \u2018If Love Is A Crime.\u2019 I really loved it. Soft, smooth vocals. It is amazing. The present crops of artists have special flows. I love their styles.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>In other news, cergywoman <strong>Sunmbo Adeoye recently opened up about the struggles she faced after marrying Pastor David Adeoye<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>The mother of three revealed that some members left the church because of her past relationship with music star 2Baba.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking during an interview on The Morayo Afolabi Show hosted by Morayo Afolabi-Brown, Sunmbo shared details about her emotional journey, the pain she endured, and how her faith helped her rebuild her life.<\/p>\n<p>She said she refused to let one chapter of her life define her future and chose instead to see purpose in her experiences.<\/p>\n<p>She also spoke about meeting her husband, Pastor David Adeoye. According to her, she did not feel the need to defend herself or explain her past to people.<\/p>\n<p><!-- CONTENT END 2 -->\n                                                                                                            <\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nigerian music legend, Innocent Idibia, popularly known as 2Baba, has dismissed fears that the Afrobeats genre might be heading to relegation on the global stage. Abia Radio News reports that 2Baba, in a recent interview with Yaw on Wazobia FM Lagos, expressed confidence in the future of Afrobeats. According to the African Queen crooner, contrary [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":242043,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-242042","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Nigerian-Singer-2Baba.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242042","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=242042"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242042\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/242043"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=242042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=242042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=242042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}