Promoting Jesus, but dining in the lucrative altars of mammon – Music Journalist, Joey Akan calls out Spyro for criticizing secular artists but still collaborates with them

Music journalist Joey Akan has strongly criticized singer Spyro for his condemnation of the lyrical content in songs by secular musicians.

In a recent podcast, Spyro voiced his disapproval of the song lyrics created by artists like Shallipopi. Specifically, Spyro highlighted lyrics that he believes encourage people to normalize fraudulent behavior, as evident in Shallipopi’s music.

During this discussion, Spyro emphasized the significance of producing songs with lyrics that hold meaningful impact.

Responding to Spyro’s commentary, Joey expressed his viewpoint through his social media handle. He pointed out the irony of Spyro’s stance, as Spyro earns his livelihood from collaborating with secular artists and functioning within the secular music industry. Joey further highlighted that Spyro engages in undermining his colleagues while concurrently promoting his religious beliefs.

He said; ‘’This boy Spyro received his biggest ever song by working with worldly-adjacent artists. He chose Tiwa Savage for a collaboration over his faith-based colleagues.

Chioma Jesus and Dunsin Onyekan lost out on “who’s your guy,” remix.

He’s also signed to a worldly label, performs at worldly events, including an upcoming activation for Trophy, an alcoholic brand that caters to nightlife and winebibers.

But he never fails to ceaselessly attack his colleagues, their professional output,  and their themes of escapism and realism. Add that to a collaboration with DJ Neptune and Iyanya, two ‘worldly’ music stalwarts.

He also will not grace his gospel podcasts, but try to harness numbers from a “worldly” podcast.

Talking about how he hates the secular industry because he is “for Jesus.” While working in it, serving it, benefiting from it, and making a living out of it.

I call hyprocrisy. Promoting Jesus, but dining in the lucrative altars of mammon.’