Spyro has spent years being dragged for looking like a church boy who still knows the way to the dance floor. On The Link Up, the Echoo Room podcast hosted by Teddy A, Sade and Moet, the Who Is Your Guy? singer refused to apologise for either room. If people are going to tell him Jesus is good, he said, they should be able to see that goodness on a successful man who still walks close to God, even when the internet decides that mix is fake.
The chat sits inside a longer conversation about faith, industry darkness and the life of a pastor’s child who did not stay on the altar. Oludipe Oluwasanmi David grew up under a general overseer father and a minister mother, sang in church, then built an Afrobeats career on records such as Billing and the Tiwa Savage remix of Who Is Your Guy? He has said before that university felt like escape from forced devotion, and that Harvesters later brought him back without the old fear. On this set he went further. A visible Christian who is also winning, he argued, now shocks people because it has become fashionable.
“It’s the new cool.”
Teddy A asked the obvious follow-up. What about the popular faces who only wear church language because it photographs well? Spyro would not hunt them.
“I think it’s also good to have those kinds of people too because even if you’re pretending, at a point, God will arrest you. It becomes real. A lot of times, it starts with different motives. For a lot of us, we were looking for women and it took us to church before God arrested us. It’s fine. God loves everyone.”
He is not blessing hypocrisy so much as refusing to play gatekeeper. Motives can be messy. Women, status, a useful image. He still believes the encounter can outlast the performance.
He also answered the charge that has followed him into clubs. People see him there and pile on, asking what a Jesus boy is doing under those lights. He apologised for coming off as judgmental, then used the same Jesus they quote against him.
“When people say I am judgmental, I apologize for that impression. You see me in the club. I go to the club. I do things and people drag me online asking what I was doing there. If Jesus were alive today, he’d be chilling in the club. Jesus was chilling with the tax collectors. He was never judgmental. He was seen with people you’d never imagine.”
The gospel reference is the meal with tax collectors and other people the religious class would not sit beside. Spyro is mapping that table onto Lagos nightlife and daring the comment section to admit the inconsistency. He has said on the same show that he does not need a pulpit to minister, that God needs foot soldiers in every industry, and that clean, faith-shaped music is the lane he chose because songs form people.