Brymo, Pray Wisdom

I like Brymo because he’s not your regular artiste. His music is different and in a class of its own. He’s also carved a niche for himself as a result. He stands out in his craft, and I give it to him.

Unfortunately, I have not had the privilege to thank him for attending my dad’s 70th birthday in London some 11 years ago, when my friend, Alariwo of Africa, hauled him to the Executive wing of the famous 805 Restaurant on old Kent Road. Too bad, I’m still not doing that now.

Brymo, there’s something about being tagged controversial in one’s calling or chosen lifestyle that leaves one with respect at all times. It doesn’t necessarily connote negativity. Being controversial could be positive by standing firm on your beliefs, away from the maddening crowd.

Therefore, I don’t have a problem with the fact that a section of the media has tagged you controversial, so long it speaks to decent principles, acceptable by an average right-thinking mind.

But your recent engagement with the Adekunle Gold family is completely out of line and character, and equally bereft of wisdom. Even more unfortunate is the fact that you have yet to see it as a major misstep on your part. Instead, you went ahead to double down.

It does not matter whether wanting to get “intimate” with a woman was a lust you nursed before she was married or that you even had your way at all. That’s one of the things that should die with you as a grown ass man.

The heart of a “real man” is expected to be so large that you can’t possibly view all of its contents with the smallest camera science has ever invented. There are things a man is not expected to say to anyone at all. They live and die with you, more so that it’s never been public knowledge.

The woman in question is married now and happily, too. She is also a colleague as well as her husband. Whatever fantasy you had before her current ststus should have perished in your mind and not to be treated to a salivating public. To what end? So, stop pontificating, Brymo.

You disrespected that woman, demeaned her husband, and embarrassed her family and friends. You should show decency and maturity by apologising to them, as the husband has demanded.

Make no more effort to justify this utter claptrap. It reduces you, instead.

Olawale Olaleye