Why Wizkid Is Running Away From Nigeria Because of Me - Blackface

Nigerian musician Blackface who is most popular for being part of the very famous, especially in the early 2000s, music group Plantashun Boyz is accusing a number of musical artistes of copyright infringement and theft of his intellectual property.

The Plantashun Boy has his eyes set on Wizkid, Burna Boy, Asake, and Olamide. During a new interview with The Whistler, Blackface opened up about why he is very upset with these musicians and why Wizkid particularly has been running away from Nigeria specifically because of him. Here is what Blackface said.

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Speaking to The Whistler about his ordeal with Wizkid, Banky W, Burna Boy, Olamide, and Asake, Blackface said:

BLACKFACE: I called them (Wizkid and Banky W) out for sampling my song "I Like The Way" which they changed to "Slow Whine" without my permission. From that time, they have not reached out to me till today, in fact, I think that is the reason why Wizkid is not staying in Nigeria, he knows he will get served, so they are running up and down from Ghana to Benin Republic to Togo, nobody can find them yet, but once we see them and find out where we can reach them, we will serve them.

They (Wizkid and Burna Boy) sampled my music called "Twist and Turn" and they changed it to ‘Ginger’ and I called them out the same way I’m calling Olamide and his artiste (Asake) out now for them to do the right thing. I called out Olamide because he is the CEO of the record label. Asake is under (his label) and he was the one that produced the music. I reached out to them but they never responded that’s why I called them out just for them to know that what they are doing is bad, our industry cannot be on that path where you have to copy to write.

I released a song in 2020 in the album called ‘Defender’ it’s only normal for them to go and take my music because they like my music, so they always copy my music and give it to their producers to remake it. It’s not only Asake that has done this, so many others have been doing this.

How can we stop a criminal from being a criminal, it is only law enforcement that will stop a criminal. Everybody has criminal tendencies, no matter what you will still see people that are thieves being caught and tried. So, people must commit crimes and this is one of the crimes in the Nigerian music industry or the music industry generally. We are spending money to be able to make production. So, when you spend your money to create a job and somebody just stays in his room, picks it up and acts like he has created something, it’s very bad.

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