{"id":11650,"date":"2023-02-02T11:04:17","date_gmt":"2023-02-02T11:04:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/?p=11650"},"modified":"2023-02-02T11:04:17","modified_gmt":"2023-02-02T11:04:17","slug":"blackface-blows-hot-stop-stealing-my-songs-warns-artistes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/?p=11650","title":{"rendered":"Blackface Blows Hot: Stop Stealing My Songs, Warns Artistes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Controversial<\/strong>\u00a0singer and songwriter, Augustine Ahmedu, aka Blackface, has, over the years, accused other artistes of stealing his songs. The first and most high profile case was that between him and his former group mate and friend, Innocent Idibia, aka 2Baba. He had accused 2Baba of \u2018stealing\u2019 his song, African Queen, and even though the latter reportedly gave him some financial compensation, the feud between them has lingered for many years.<\/p>\n<p>However, the latest artistes on Blackface\u2019s radar include rave-of-the-moment, Asake, and pop star, Wizkid.<\/p>\n<p>In an interview with\u00a0<strong>Sunday Scoop<\/strong>, he said, \u201cThe time I released the songs (that were allegedly stolen) are online. I don\u2019t want to trend; I just want people to stop touching my music without my permission. I am begging them to stop. I cannot be competing with myself. Many of them plan shows, and they intentionally don\u2019t invite me. They should just give me the credit I deserve.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The singer also stated that he was still giving the people involved some time before escalating the matter. He said, \u201cWe have to improve on what we do to get better. Some members of the public don\u2019t take me seriously because they are not the ones that copy my songs. The ones who copy my songs are not finding it funny. I have not taken the cases to court because I\u2019m still giving them benefit of the doubt for them to retrace their steps. If they don\u2019t do so, I will instruct my lawyer to commence legal action against them.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The singer added that originality and respect were important qualities for any artist to have in order to succeed.<\/p>\n<div class=\"ad-container  margin-top margin-bottom \"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Controversial\u00a0singer and songwriter, Augustine Ahmedu, aka Blackface, has, over the years, accused other artistes of stealing his songs. The first and most high profile case was that between him and his former group mate and friend, Innocent Idibia, aka 2Baba. He had accused 2Baba of \u2018stealing\u2019 his song, African Queen, and even though the latter reportedly gave him some financial compensation, the feud between them has lingered for many years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11651,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[6332],"class_list":["post-11650","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-blackface"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11650"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11650"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11650\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11652,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11650\/revisions\/11652"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/11651"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}