Singer Spyro says he is not interested in dying rich so his children can live on the leftovers. The Who’s Your Guy? star tied inheritance, music spend and faith into one argument: money without grace is a trap.
“I’m not part of the school of thought of leaving money down for children at the end of the day because after I’m gone, I don’t know what you’re doing with it. So once you fall off grace and you don’t have money, you are finished.”
The line is blunt. He is not saying children should suffer. He is saying a pile of cash cannot replace the thing he believes actually keeps a life standing. That thing, for him, is spiritual.
“To everything physical you see, there’s a spiritual part to it.”
He used his own invoices as proof that cash alone does not command streams.
“There are songs I’ve spent a hundred million on and when you go check the streams, sometimes you’re like what’s going on? The most I’ve spent on a music video I think that should be about fifty million.”
A ₦100 million record that still underperforms is, in his telling, the same lesson as an inheritance that cannot save a child who has lost direction.
He then turned the camera on his industry.
“I mean, a lot of us as artists are not even proud to have our children watch our music videos, you know, because it’s pornography, literally.”
The charge is moral and parental at once. A man who refuses to leave a fortune still wants to leave a standard, and he does not think explicit videos pass it.
Spyro has spent years branding himself a “Jesus boy” while insisting he is not a gospel act. That mix has followed him since Who’s Your Guy? exploded in 2022 and the Tiwa Savage remix turned him from a struggling independent into a Headies winner. Team members once pressed him to drop the Christian tag. He kept it.
He still credits Wizkid as a blueprint.
“Wizkid influences everybody. I learned a lot from Wizkid musically.”
The bigger testimony, though, is finding God after his life collapsed.
“I can trace my success back to where I got to the end of myself. I tried everything, I tried talent, I tried everything I could, but everything failed. And then I went back to God. I’m like, there’s nothing I can do now. Even if you don’t help me for myself, at least help me for my mom.”
Spyro has long described his mother as the reason he kept grinding after a difficult relationship with his father and years of being ignored by bigger names.
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