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Yemi Alade, a Nigerian pop star, on Monday revealed that male artistes are rated better than female artistes even if the female is doing better than the male.

However, the 27-year-old is standing her ground and as told those who don’t respect her to “get out” of her face.

“When you list five male and five female artistes first of all, even if the female artiste’s music is doing better than the male’s, they will still give more respect to the guy, just because he’s a guy,” the 27-year-old told NAN in an interview.

“I don’t know why the woman can’t be respected, I don’t know why. But I have come to live with it but I do know that when I am dealing with people, if you cannot respect me, you have to get out of my face.”

Urging women not to be discouraged by challenges, Alade described herself as a feminist.

“I believe that there is that struggle for the females but I don’t believe that because of that struggle we should be sleeping at our posts. I believe that every challenge and opportunity is for you to overcome; a challenge is not to stop you,” she continued.

“So when you see the challenge, you rise above it; so any woman that is seeing this challenge and sitting at home and crossing her legs, she has decided to fail.

“No woman is living on an island with only females; if being a feminist means I strongly believe that the girl child can do just as well as the male child, then call me a feminist. But if that’s not it, then I’m not that.”

The University of Lagos graduate is popular for her hit single Johhny.