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@iamHoltyMate

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Lagos, Nigeria

Joined February 2011

882 Following

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MeekMill

@MeekMill

almost 3 years ago

I watched his whole story on tik tok!!!! They riding for him in Nigeria I love that!

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ForgedFire🔥 @iamHoltyMate

almost 3 years ago

@Updateboyx Mouth no go kill that guy, he too dey talk. Be like he think say that Obaraka family wey him get go fit stand 4 him if wahala gas. Hmm make him sha b careful, me no wan go another candle night 4 any youth again oh. Cus for my country, Justice no Dey always prevail las las.

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@UgwunnaEjikem

almost 3 years ago

Benjamin Best murdered a young girl in cold blood & still had the temerity to gaslight her Mom on social media. Posting away on IG & still seen vibing at clubs, @PoliceNG do your jobs fgs!!! #JusticeForAusta

UgwunnaEjikem's tweet photo. Benjamin Best murdered a young girl in cold blood & still had the temerity to gaslight her Mom on social media.

Posting away on IG & still seen vibing at clubs, @PoliceNG do your jobs fgs!!!
#JusticeForAusta https://t.co/5BTPlQlY7o

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I MAKE CHAPSTICK FOR STONERS🔌 @fingalickngud

almost 3 years ago

Drone owners, WHY?😭😭😭

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be happy.

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CNN Africa

@CNNAfrica

over 3 years ago

Nigerian artist @iamrenike is using her art to tell stories about the Black experience. https://t.co/4DRTa7BnJS

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ForgedFire🔥 @iamHoltyMate

almost 3 years ago

@NyraBillz @_oluwaseun9 See Ment oh 😫😭 Followback bro😎

ForgedFire🔥 @iamHoltyMate

almost 3 years ago

@_oluwaseun9 Kindly followback, we might have couple things to discuss abt this. Thanks

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almost 3 years ago

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Ayekooto

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almost 3 years ago

NO BE TODAY WICKEDNESS BY RECORD LABELS START ###The Story of the Epic Battle Between King Sunny Ade and Chief Bolarinwa Abioro It was in 1974 that the news broke. Chief Bolarinwa Abioro, the Balogun of Ipokia, the Chairman of African Songs Limited, had taken his star musician to court! Everyone who knew KSA knew Abioro. Everyone who knew Abioro knew Sunday Adeniyi. Sunny was the son. Abioro was the father. What could have gone wrong between father and son? KSA was the second artiste to be signed on to the stable of African Songs Limited. Ayinde Bakare was the first. Sikiru Ayinde Barrister was the third. Like most creative people, young Sunny Ade was more concern about his passion and less concern about the business aspect of music. His passion was to play music and to excel as a musician. It was enough that Abioro – one of the biggest men in the music industry at the time – was ready to promote him. They brought documents for Sunny and his band boys to sign. They called it a contract. It could have been called any other name for all that KSA cared. Won ni ko wa je saara, o ni ojo ti wonu ju. Se ata ni won ni ko mu wa ni, abi iyo. You are invited to a free feast, you are complaining about the short notice, are they asking you to bring salt or pepper? Sunny Ade and his boys didn’t hesitate. It is doubtful if any of them read what the contract said. The most important thing was that they were going to become recording artistes. Sunny signed. His band boys signed. Everybody was happy. The contract was for 5 years. However before its expiration, KSA had become a household name. His album, Challenge Cup, sold in excess of 500,000 copies. It was certain that King Sunny Ade was going to dominate the music scene for a very long time to come. African Songs Ltd knew a good product when it saw one. The management of the company didn’t wait for the first contract to expire before they brought a new contract. The new agreement was carefully worded. KSA and his band boys agreed to perform and record exclusively for ASL for a period of five years. ASL had full copyrights to all compositions and recordings of Sunny Ade. ASL was entitled to the sole right of production, reproduction, and use of King Sunny Ade’s performance throughout the world. That was not all. During the period of the agreement, KSA was prohibited from rendering any performance whatsoever to himself, any company or group of persons. The contract also stipulated that ASL had the option to renew the agreement at its expiration for a further term of two years or for any longer period. Sunny Ade had no such right. That was not all. On the sale of every album which price was then fixed at N6.00, KSA and his boys were entitled to a princely sum of 20 kobo. Yes, you read that right. African Songs would go home with the remaining N5. 80 kobo. Onigegewura’s mathematics has never been good. He is just an amateur historian. You can do the sum yourself. Still basking in the euphoria of his growing fame, Sunny gratefully signed again. His band boys signed. 20 kobo was still something. Orogun iya re da sokoto fun o, o ni ko bale, melo ni iya to bi o da fun o? You are complaining that the trousers made for you by your step-mother was not long enough, where is the one your own mother made for you? They were expecting their 20 kobo royalty on every album. Well, when the time came for actual payment, it was then discovered that mathematically and arithmetically, it was not supposed to be 20 kobo. They had not factored the cost of publicity and promotion! And since it was the artiste that was being promoted, he must be the one to bear the cost! After the addition and subtraction, Sunny was given 15 kobo per album. KSA was not Chike Obi, the mathematician. But he knew that 20 kobo and 15 kobo were not the same thing. Compared with his contemporaries in the music industry, KSA realized that he was holding the short end of the stick.....(1)

DeeOneAyekooto's tweet photo. NO BE TODAY WICKEDNESS BY RECORD LABELS START

###The Story of the Epic Battle Between King Sunny Ade and Chief Bolarinwa Abioro

It was in 1974 that the news broke. Chief Bolarinwa Abioro, the Balogun of Ipokia, the Chairman of African Songs Limited, had taken his star musician to court! Everyone who knew KSA knew Abioro. Everyone who knew Abioro knew Sunday Adeniyi. Sunny was the son. Abioro was the father. What could have gone wrong between father and son?

KSA was the second artiste to be signed on to the stable of African Songs Limited. Ayinde Bakare was the first. Sikiru Ayinde Barrister was the third. Like most creative people, young Sunny Ade was more concern about his passion and less concern about the business aspect of music. His passion was to play music and to excel as a musician.

It was enough that Abioro – one of the biggest men in the music industry at the time – was ready to promote him. They brought documents for Sunny and his band boys to sign. They called it a contract. It could have been called any other name for all that KSA cared. Won ni ko wa je saara, o ni ojo ti wonu ju. Se ata ni won ni ko mu wa ni, abi iyo. You are invited to a free feast, you are complaining about the short notice, are they asking you to bring salt or pepper? Sunny Ade and his boys didn’t hesitate. It is doubtful if any of them read what the contract said. The most important thing was that they were going to become recording artistes. Sunny signed. His band boys signed. Everybody was happy.

The contract was for 5 years. However before its expiration, KSA had become a household name. His album, Challenge Cup, sold in excess of 500,000 copies. It was certain that King Sunny Ade was going to dominate the music scene for a very long time to come. African Songs Ltd knew a good product when it saw one. The management of the company didn’t wait for the first contract to expire before they brought a new contract.

The new agreement was carefully worded. KSA and his band boys agreed to perform and record exclusively for ASL for a period of five years. ASL had full copyrights to all compositions and recordings of Sunny Ade. ASL was entitled to the sole right of production, reproduction, and use of King Sunny Ade’s performance throughout the world. That was not all. During the period of the agreement, KSA was prohibited from rendering any performance whatsoever to himself, any company or group of persons. The contract also stipulated that ASL had the option to renew the agreement at its expiration for a further term of two years or for any longer period. Sunny Ade had no such right.
That was not all. On the sale of every album which price was then fixed at N6.00, KSA and his boys were entitled to a princely sum of 20 kobo. Yes, you read that right. African Songs would go home with the remaining N5. 80 kobo. Onigegewura’s mathematics has never been good. He is just an amateur historian. You can do the sum yourself.

Still basking in the euphoria of his growing fame, Sunny gratefully signed again. His band boys signed. 20 kobo was still something. Orogun iya re da sokoto fun o, o ni ko bale, melo ni iya to bi o da fun o? You are complaining that the trousers made for you by your step-mother was not long enough, where is the one your own mother made for you? They were expecting their 20 kobo royalty on every album. Well, when the time came for actual payment, it was then discovered that mathematically and arithmetically, it was not supposed to be 20 kobo. They had not factored the cost of publicity and promotion! And since it was the artiste that was being promoted, he must be the one to bear the cost! After the addition and subtraction, Sunny was given 15 kobo per album.

KSA was not Chike Obi, the mathematician. But he knew that 20 kobo and 15 kobo were not the same thing. Compared with his contemporaries in the music industry, KSA realized that he was holding the short end of the stick.....(1)

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ForgedFire🔥 @iamHoltyMate

almost 3 years ago

Lessons from as far back as 70s. King Sunny Ade (KSA) vs Chief Bolarinwa Abioro (ASL) - 1974 https://t.co/tFeVEl6yjw

ForgedFire🔥 @iamHoltyMate

almost 3 years ago

@DeeOneAyekooto My Question is where is Chief Bolarinwa Abioro and the whole of his ASL today? 🤷🏽‍♂️ This life that we got nothing on, nothing we brought when coming, neither are we going with nothing. Aye afowoba file 🤦🏽‍♂️