Blackface who has controversially being in the news of late has cleared the air on certain demands from his former partner, 2Baba following a song theft allegation.
Blackface and 2Baba
The crisis currently being witnessed in the Nigerian entertainment industry is taking a new turn as the day goes by and while some issues are being put to rest, some are beginning to come up.
Latest of such issues has been the song theft allegation by Blackface against 2Baba and Wizkid who supposedly infringed on his intellectual property.
Blackface who has been in the news lately over the allegation feels 2Baba, his former partner during their days in the defunct music group, Plantashun Boiz is not treating him fairly after making hits with some of his works.
Not being specific about some of the songs, during an interview with TVC morning programme, Your View, where he was a celebrity guest, the singer stated that he does not want anything from 2Baba but just simple acknowledgment either from him or any other person using his works.
In his words, “2face feels I am someone he can trample upon. I am one person that have taught these guys (2Baba and Faze) how to be good songwriters and taught them the rudiments of music, yet they will just see one as nothing. I am not expecting anything from 2face, just simple credits. Just like when Kennis music signed him, they did ‘African Queen’ and I was not given credit and that took them time.”
Blackface was later advised that rather than continually have issues with artistes over song theft, he should rather make it a business whereby he writes and give the likes of Omawumi to sing, but he was not comfortable with the idea as he cleared the air that he is not a freelance writer.
“No. There are people we call freelance writers and I am not such a person. I have people I am writing for and then I know we have an agreement together so I can’t just write songs for anybody,” he added.