"2face's manager replies Blackface over song theft allegation" [READ MORE]

After Blackface’s allegations that 2Baba stole his song Let Somebody Love You and threatened to take him to court. He also claimed 2Baba wanted him dead so he can appropriate all his songs.

2Baba’s manager Efe Omorogbe has responded to the accusations hurled at the Hypertek Digital label boss by former group mate Blackface. He said that Blackface did co-author songs with 2Baba, but he is given full credit and paid royalties, if the songs are used.

“When my attention was drawn to Blackface’s twitter rant about the “theft” of his songs by his ex-band mate 2Baba, my initial reaction was to ignore what I perceived as an obvious marketing gimmick for his new single. The reaction from a vast majority of people on social media who read about the allegations was evidence that the ploy had backfired.

Blackface’s press interviews since the twitter rant has made it necessary for me to present the flip side and set the records straight.

2Baba and Blackface do have a bunch of songs they co-wrote in their days as Plantashun Boiz. Both artistes have collectively and individually recorded and commercially released materials from this collection.
2Baba has always given Blackface (Austin Ahmedu) co-writing credit every time he recorded any song that has Blackface’s input – No matter how minimal.
Blackface has neither given 2Baba (Innocent Idibia) co-writing credit nor sought permission” to record any of the materials they jointly authored.
Blackface has earned royalties off his shared publishing rights for about a decade.
A huge chunk of income he has made derives from royalties earned by the commercial exploitation of the successful materials performed/recorded by 2Baba.
2Baba did not and couldn’t have stolen “Let Somebody Love You” from Blackface. The song was released about 2 years ago. Blackface complained about his name being misspell on the CD sleeve and we personally apologized to him.
Yes Blackface contributed to the writing of the first verse of the song. The second verse was entirely 2Baba. Bridget Kelly wrote her verse and Efe Omorogbe wrote the outro verse.
Efe Omorogbe is not 2Baba’s manager on “Let Somebody Love You” but a co-writer.
The intro verse was lifted from the song “How?” written in 1997 and recorded in 1999 at Dolphin studios, Surulere. Blackface didn’t write that bit. Couldn’t have written that bit.Blackface cannot in 2016, touch Efe Omorogbe’s writing from 1997.
Blackface should be honored to have shared co-writing credit with 2Baba. I am. For each and every song we have collaborated on. Blackface should be grateful 2Baba recorded their co-authored materials to ensure a lifetime of royalty income for him. Blackface should record and release his own version of “Let Somebody Love You” and keep 100% publishing on that version. Oops! 2Baba will still be entitled to a share.
Blackface is not in 2Baba’s league as a songwriter. Their post-Plantashun Boiz’ catalogs speak for themselves.Blackface should go to court to seek redress if he indeed believes he has a case. Blackface should know that nobody ever secured a court judgement via a twitter rant or media tour.
Blackface must have realized by now that the unfortunate tirade has not made “Killa” a hit at least, not at the moment. We grind our way to the results we seek bro. Just HARD work, No short cuts!

Blackface just released a single Killah and many believed he his rant about 2Baba and Wizkid stealing his songs were publicity stunts. Even Paul Okoye of Psquare said 2016 is year of cheap publicity.