Nigerian Artistes Just Steal Songs – Blackface

The feud between the former members of the boy group, Plantashun Boiz deepens, as 2face Idibia takes Blackface to court.

In an Instagram post shared by Blackface, he made available a writ of summons instigated by Innocent Idibia, aka, 2face and his manager, Efe Omorogbe, requesting he appears in court.

The former members of the Plantashun Boiz have been at loggerhead following the break-up of the group in 2004, with Blackface claiming he wrote the song, ‘African Queen’, which was a hit single from 2face Idibia’s debut solo album, ‘Face2Face’.

This war has waged on for several years with threats of court cases and rumoured settlements.

The enmity however resurfaced in 2014, when another single, Let Somebody Love You from 2face’s Ascension album reportedly contained lyrics written by Blackface.

This has led to Blackface raising a storm on various media platforms, claiming his former bandmate stole the song from him and included his manager [Efe Omorogbe] as a co-writer, without any credit given to him.

In 2017, Blackface was a guest on Loosetalk Podcast, where he restated these claims, which led to a response from 2face, who accused him of defaming his character, with Efe Omorogbe threatening to go to court.

Blackface was contacted for comments on the court summons and he says his lawyers are on the case, ”We are on it, have you guys called them to ask them? I never see where people dey steal person thing dey say, na dem wan carry them go court.

The summons is with my legal team, the legal team are just going to address it and file my defense from them”, he said.

We also reached out to 2face Idibia’s manager, Efe Omorogbe, who stated that, ”I don’t really want to comment on this, our lawyers are addressing the issue and we really don’t want to sensationalise it.

It’s a defamation suit, our lawyers have repeatedly told him to stop making insubstantiable claims about people stealing your stuff, he has refused to comply, our lawyers are suing for defamation.”