I make kumkum music, not afrobeats – Whitemoney

Hazel Oyeze Onou, better known by his stage name Whitemoney, won Big Brother Naija Season 6 and is a singer.

The reality star, whose music has drawn harsh criticism, claimed that his sound was distinct from afrobeats.

He claimed that although his music is classified as “KumKum music,” highlife is an element of it.

On the most recent episode of The House Chronicles podcast, he revealed this.

Whitemoney said, “I’m not even trying to do afrobeats. If I’m doing afrobeats, there is definitely going to be a fuse of highlife in it. And my kind of highlife is not the normal…

“My kind of highlife is kumkum music, you know. It is Cool United Melodies. It is contemporary highlife. It is highlife that you can vibe across all genres. You vibe them in the club, bar.

“My next production, my next drop is different. You will hear the sound. It is not the regular. We added somethings to it to spice it up. It doesn’t just go like that deep highlife where it is only for old people.

“I needed a sound where I can flex my voice perfectly. I don’t have tenor. I needed something that is okay for me that I can just manipulate and sing at my comfort. And that is how I just reached that [kumkum music].”