To Soapy or Not to Soapy?: On Naira Marley’s Soapy

Published first in June 2019 on ThisisLagos.ng, re-published with their kind permission

Naira Marley, recently arrested for internet fraud, has not let his trouble with the EFCC disturb his creative output.

While incarcerated, he released ‘Why’, bemoaning several frustrating life scenarios. After he was granted bail, he released ‘Opotoyi (Marlians)’, a ribald ditty about salient aspects of the female anatomy. But the song that has brought him another outpouring of outrage is his latest, Soapy.