“Streaming Farms Are Destroying the Nigerian Music Industry” – Blaqbonez Warns

• Blaqbonez made this statement while reacting to singer Magixx’s recent criticism of musicians who use bots or automated systems to artificially boost the number of plays their songs or albums receive on streaming platforms.

Rapper Emeka Akumefule, better known as Blaqbonez, has expressed deep concern over the negative impact of streaming farms on the Nigerian music industry.

According to him, the damage caused by artists who rely on stream farming is “irreversible.”

Blaqbonez made this statement while reacting to singer Magixx’s recent criticism of musicians who use bots or automated systems to artificially boost the number of plays their songs or albums receive on streaming platforms.

“Y’all faking your numbers I hope you sleep well at night… keep deceiving your family members,” Magixx wrote via X.

In his tweet, Blaqbonez cautioned that the manipulation of streams in the Nigerian music industry would eventually lead to serious consequences.

He wrote, “The irreversible damage we done to our industry, one day it’d finally come crumbling down, for now let’s keep acting like the charts mean anything more than a showcase of the people who can afford to buy it, its like iTunes in the 2000s all over again.”

The irreversible damage we done to our industry, one day it’d finally come crumbling down, for now let’s keep acting like the charts mean anything more than a showcase of the people who can afford to buy it, its like itunes in the 2000s all over again. make i go hustle https://t.co/0gIqiOdZ8D

— emeka (@BlaqBonez) July 30, 2025