Some Musicians Ought to be in Jail for Song Theft – Black Face Fires Shots at 2Face as Cold War Continues

While speaking in an exclusive interview with HipTV, Black Face, an erstwhile member of the defunct Plantashun Boyz, took his row with his former band-mate, 2Face Idibia to another level.

In a clip posted on Instagram, the  aggrieved musician, whose anger is that he was neither acknowledged nor rewarded for his role in writing 2Face’s multiple award-winning song, ‘African Queen’, showed that he was not willing to rest his case yet.

Black Face also grabbed the opportunity provided by the interview to kick against efforts by another band mate, Faze, to broker peace between himself and 2face. Implying that Faze’s peace move was not necessary.

 

“Faze is my friend and he is going to do his own bit. But, one thing that he does not know is that who feels it, knows it. He didn’t write the song, I did. So he does not know what I am talking about.

 

“It is easy for him to call for peace. But then, it is the duty of the offender to apologise for his action. I can’t keep quiet about what happened because I haven’t offended anybody. I have not stolen anybody’s song,” he said

While speaking in a tone that seemed to suggest that the Federal Government had not done much to stem the tide of copyright infringement nor set up the required structure to fight it, in the country, he revealed that some of the worst offenders were fellow musicians.

He said, “Had the Federal Government introduced an appropriate punishment for stealing other people’s songs, many music artistes would be in trouble today. If the penalty required offenders to spend some years in jail, many so-called big artistes would be in prison by now.

 

“Some of them steal songs from fellow musicians based in the country or abroad and pass them off as their own. This is very bad for culture and the creative sector. It is also bad enough for the honest and hardworking Nigerian artiste who goes through a lot of trouble to survive.