The Nigerian singer and Grammy award-winning singer, Temilade Openiyi, popularly known as Tems, has denied saying Nigerian music lacks “spirituality.”

A music buff with the Twitter handle, @musicbaseafrica had alleged that the singer in her recent interview with American rapper, Kendrick Lamar, stated that she couldn’t connect with Nigerian music because it “sounded so plain and basic, and there was nothing spiritual about it.”

The music buff tweeted: “When I listen to Nigerian music, it sounded so plain and basic, and there was nothing spiritual about it that I could connect to,’ —Tems tells Kendrick Lamar in a recent interview on Intertwine.”

Reacting via the comment section, Tems wrote, “FAKE NEWS!!!! Y’all are smelling fr, agenda must agenda Eyama!!”