YCee, a Nigerian rapper, has voiced concerns about what he called society’s increasing fixation with wealth, claiming that the chase of money has damaged people’s morals.

The rapper claimed in a recent interview that “so long as you make money” has become a popular excuse for wrongdoing and that even nations who are experiencing war and more suffering than Nigeria still do not display the same degree of dubious activity.

In response to the issue around the term “Olodo Uprising,” YCee asserted that he did not create it and that those who accused him of being elitist or classist misinterpreted his remarks.

The rapper also discussed his educational background and disclosed that he only has a secondary school diploma. He claims that he had intended to attend the University of Lagos to study computer science but was unable to achieve the admission requirements at the time.

Read what he said below;

“I hate what the pursuit of money has done to us as a society. There are societies that are worse of than Nigeria. War-torn societies where people do not behave as badly as Nigerians. And the excuse is always so long as you make money.

The whole Olodo Uprising frenzy, I didn’t coin the phrase. I feel a lot of people missed my point and are trying to make it seem as though I was classist of elitist because I have some level of education. Mind you I just have my school cert o. I don’t have a university degree.

It got to some point in SS2 when I couldn’t read anymore, I was like I’m done. I had wanted to study computer science, but I couldn’t meet the cut off to study in UNILAG but now they’ve reduced cut off maybe if I had written now I’d have gotten computer science…”