Reggae/dancehall singer Ahmedu Augustine Obiabo aka Blackface has said he expected Asake’s ‘Joha’ to be a remix featuring him having managed to get into his brain wave in the song’s making.
A few days ago, Blackface called out YBNL’s Asake, accusing him of song theft, claiming ownership of ‘Joha’. He said he didn’t grant permission for a remix.
Explaining the reason for his outburst on social media in an interview with HipTV, the former member of the defunct Plantashun Boiz music group stated he meant no disrespect but expected Asake and his boss, Olamide to have given him credit for ‘Joha’.
He argued Asake may have consciously or unconsciously got access to his brain wave to have been able to come up with the smash hit track.
Blackface said: “First time that people have been consciously or unconsciously getting into people’s brain wave or music. And maybe they don’t even know about it.
“Listening to the music, the first thing that just hit me was the line that I had used in my own music that I released in the year 2020. You understand?! I already released that song in an album already. So hearing it, I was like somehow.
“But no disrespect because these people have really tried to put some work in. But I just feel like, it’s all about you realising let’s give credit to whom credit is due.”
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Continuing, the 49-year-old singer stated: “I’m not out to say somebody is coming up and I just want to put him down because that’s not what it is. Because if you check my first album when I just came out, it was ‘Ghettochild’. And I came up with songs like, Hard Life, E dey Pain Me, Carry Us, Be Your Man and so many songs. And I tried to make sure that I was not entering into anybody’s brain wave, I’m not entering anybody’s line at all. I’m not going to take somebody’s line and do it as if…you know.
“I feel they’re doing it unconsciously, maybe they really don’t know. That’s what I feel now. Because people can just get into wave of music. But then, the reason that prompted my outburst was just the video.
“The video, TG Omori is doing a great job putting all these works, doing all these videos and really setting up and increasing the standard of the music in Nigeria. Kudos to all these guys. But when they said they spent about $165k to shoot the video, I was like, ‘What?!’ You people spent this kind of money and you guys didn’t call me for a collaboration….
“So, there’s an element of, ‘Oh ha, oh ha, come closer, Oh ha’…in that whirlwind of music. And that was the reason why I was like, ‘Come on, this got into my brain wave, somewhere. Because I like to be in a zone where if I create something, I like it to just stay. But I find out that people are trying to…maybe we are in the same brain wave, I don’t know.
“I feel I should be on that song. That should have been a remix with me and him if Olamide has said, ‘My boy is vibing to your song’. But I’m not in their camp. I don’t know what music or sound they vibe with. But I believe there could be a brain wave around that could…you know, it happens.”
