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How I stormed airport with 3,000 bikes to rescue Eedris Abdulkareem from 50 Cent – Charly Boy

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Veteran Nigerian singer Charly Boy has recounted how he intervened in Eedris Abdulkareem’s saga with American rapper, 50 Cent in 2004.

Speaking in the latest episode of The Honest Bunch Podcast, Charly Boy said he was styling his hair when he received a call from Abdulkareem that he was being manhandled by 50 Cent’s bouncers.

He said he left what he was doing and mobilised men on three thousand bikes to the Murtala Muhammed Airport, where Abdulkareem was.

On getting there, he said he was briefed by Abdulkareem and he went to confront 50 Cent.

“Back then, if I was walking past the motorcycle park and I waved my hand, all the motorcyclists would follow me. So, I stormed the airport with almost 3000 bikes,” Charly Boy recounted.

“On getting to the airport, I asked Eedris to tell me what happened and he said he was booked for a show alongside 50 Cent and he went to sit in the first class in the plane where the rapper was and his bouncers asked him to leave that the first class space wasn’t for Nigerian artists but he refused, then they beat him up.

“They also beat his bouncer who tried to rescue him from them. 50 Cent was aware of what happened. After Eedris narrated his ordeal, I asked where 50 Cent was and they pointed to an SUV. So I went into the SUV to confront him.

“Already, 50 Cent’s security team was seeing the tension around the airport with the bike men moving around. I was also very high that day. I said to 50 Cent, ‘You are the one beating my people in their own country? You came to Nigeria and you are beating my people.’”

He said 50 Cent apologised after he confronted him.

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‘I love freedom of being single’ – DJ Cuppy

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Popular disc jockey, Florence Otedola, aka DJ Cuppy, has relished singlehood.

The 30-year-old revealed that she loves the freedom that comes with being single.

On her X handle on Saturday, DJ Cuppy wrote: “Finally starting to really enjoy weddings, since I turned 30. I love the freedom that comes with being single and not being anybody’s plus one. LMAO.”

DJ Cuppy’s most recent relationship was her failed engagement to Ryan Taylor.

The duo parted ways in July 2023, barely seven months after their shocking engagement in November 2022.

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Yemi Alade slams colleagues for downplaying Afrobeats genre

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Nigerian singer Yemi Alade has berated her colleagues who downplay the Afrobeats genre.

She said that while it is not wrong for artists to denounce Afrobeats especially if they feel it doesn’t define their art, it is hypocrisy for them to downplay the genre, adding that it has contributed to every Nigerian artist’s development.

On her X handle, the ‘Johnny’ crooner wrote: “I don’t see anything wrong in informing your listeners of the genre of music an artist makes especially when you feel it doesn’t define your art.

“Just Announce your Genre in peace. Downplaying the role Afrobeats has played in every artist’s development is hypocrisy.”

Alade’s social media outburst is coming against the backdrop of some Nigerian singers including Davido, Wizkid, and Burna Boy denouncing the Afrobeats genre.

They all claimed that they ditched the genre because all African artists boxed into Afrobeats regardless of their musical styles.

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I didn’t make money from popular single Oyinmo – Young Du bombs Carter Efe

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Nigerian singer, Oluwabamishe Abioro, popularly known as Young Duu, has finally broken silence on his beef with popular skit maker, Efe Oderhohwo, aka Carter Efe.

Recall that Young Du had accused Efe of cheating him after their music collaboration that produced his popular song titled ‘Oyinmo’.

However, Efe, in an interview with Saturday Beats, insisted that he did not have any issues with the singer.

He claimed that he had reached out to the singer and that they were good.

Efe said, “Young Duu and I do not have any issues. I reached out to him and asked him why he was spoiling (tarnishing) my image, but he said he wasn’t doing so. Rather, it was all part of promoting our song, ‘Oyinmo’.

“I was paid for the show where I performed the song alone. I performed ‘Machala’, and when ‘Oyinmo’ was played, I initially did not want to perform it, but I did it as a way of promoting the song.”

But in a recent interview with HipTV, Young Duu shed more light on the matter.

According to him, he did not make a dime from the now-popular song with Carter Efe.

He said, “After dropping the song, I saw that Olamide posted about it, and I was happy. In fact, I received a lot of calls asking to be signed to their label. I felt like going with Carter Efe, and that was why when he called me for the collaboration, I responded.

“After recording and shooting the video for the song, I did not hear from him again. A few months passed before I reached out to him. He asked for my account number, claiming he would give me N500,000. To date, he has not given me the money, and he has not taken me to any show.”

He added that the reasons he raised alarm on social media were because of how Efe treated him with disdain and how the public thought he was now rich but selfish.

“The reason I raised alarm on the matter online is that everyone thinks I’m a millionaire. Whenever I reached out to Carter, how he responded was like I’m a nobody. That was why I raised the alarm online on the matter because I felt like a fool. People would not understand. They would be thinking that I’m a stingy person.

He further disclosed that contrary to popular belief, he had no bad feelings towards Carter but just needed to set the records straight, which was why he went online.

“Before I went online, I confided in a few people, and I was advised to do so. It was not about having any bad feelings towards him.”

Asked why he preferred Carter to Portable, he said, “I can only deal with Carter Efe, and not Portable because he has more connections than portable. It’s not that portable doesn’t have connections, too, but I prefer Carter.”

Speaking further, he cleared the air on the misconception making the rounds that he was signed to Portable’s record label.

He stated, “Portable did not sign me. He said he would try to help me by putting my face out there. That’s what he did for me, not that he signed me. We do not have any signed agreement.”

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