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    BlackFace: The Fall Of A Talent

    Blackface Naija, as we know, is one of the celebrities whose careers can be said to have crashed badly.
    It’s a sad story you and I witnessed.

    Before his career veered off the track and crashed, let’s see the phenomenal artist that Blackface was in the beginning.
    It’s important people know the stuff he was made of, especially the younger generation who unfortunately were introduced to him when he lost it completely, becoming this clown in the media.

    No, BFN isn’t the untalented nonentity you guys call him on his IG page.
    History will always counter this widespread notion people have of him.
    History was made in the late 90s through the early 2000s when the amazing Plantashun Boiz became Nigeria’s top act.
    The boy band set the standard of music groups in the country, their impeccable harmony, their rap-singing on songs was something groups like Styl Plus would later pattern themselves after.
    Now guess who was the brainchild of this incredible invention? Blackface Naija!

    I guess he saw elements of uniqueness in his townsman Innocent Idibia while they were students of IMT Enugu, which later informed the creation of a music group.
    With the inclusion of Faze whom he discovered in the same campus and convinced to join them in 1998.
    So when he says he made the group and its members who they are today, technically these are not outrageous claims.

    BFN was the Don Jazzy of Plantashun Boiz if you followed their journey.
    He single-handedly nurtured the group from the scratch, made all the decisions behind the scenes, and it was his vision that made the band a commercial success in Nigeria.

    If you’re still questioning his ingenuity, virtually all the songs on Plantashun Boiz’s first album ‘Body and Soul’ that catapulted them to the limelight were written by BFN.
    An album that spun classics such as, You and I, Knock Me Off, Ememma, Cousin Cousin, and their self-titled fans favourite Plantashun Boiz.
    How do you say a man whose résumé is this good is untalented?

    So what really happened?
    After their 2003 2nd album, the following year BFN was in talks with Storm Records bosses to secure a deal that allegedly would’ve taken the group to another level, when 2face unexpectedly decamped to Kennis Music as a solo artist.
    I don’t know anybody who’d forgive that easily.

    2face’s actions caused tension in the group that year, 2004, worsened by his release of ‘African Queen’ without giving due credits to BFN who co-wrote it while in Plantashun Boiz.

    Regardless, great solo projects came out of the group’s eventual split.
    BFN’s debut solo album ‘Ghetto Child’ was equally fantastic but not enough consolation.

    The beginning of his mental breakdown was seeing a song he partly wrote clear every major accolade, including an MTV Europe Music Award for 2face, and used as the soundtrack for the Hollywood movie Phat Girls.
    Both feats being the first to be attained by a Nigerian artist and would propel 2face to international stardom.
    All this happening without a mention of Blackface’s input nor a paycheck for his role in the song at the time.

    Sincerely, how would you feel about that if you were BFN?
    It resulted in his several public outbursts. But everyone thought he was just raving mad.

    Somehow, the band members managed to put their differences aside for their last album ‘Plan B’ in 2007.
    By then 2face was already a megastar and didn’t really need the Plantashun Boiz project that much but for the fans.
    Faze was a huge musical sensation at the time of their reunion. While Blackface was obviously the weak link in the group. I can imagine him dealing with a mix of depression and frustration at this point.

    He would later accuse 2face of proving difficult to sing his verses in the studio, you know, fame issues. I can believe that Mr Innocent Idibia wasn’t altogether innocent of putting up this diva attitude in the studio as power had changed hands.

    His frequent attacks on his former bandmate and their legal battle over African Queen rights would cast a shadow over his once stellar career.
    He released 5 albums that made no impact because most music lovers were over him and his loudmouth.
    Plus, he was unwilling to work with the newer artists in order to evolve his sound, calling them incompetent.

    Meanwhile, he was hard broke, since the music thing apparently had long packed up. Often spotted in ghetto environments chilling with ganja-smoking gangs. It’s said to be the reason why his wife left him.

    Unrelenting in his accusations, the troubled singer came down on 2face in 2016. That he allegedly stole his song ‘Let somebody Love’, at the same time accusing P-square of using his “Erimma” beat for their song “Do me” (which is undeniably true).

    Notwithstanding, he had no case, as Nigerians had already built a tower of hate in their hearts against him for feuding with the apple of their eyes – 2face.

    His last major attack was his diss track ‘War’ in which he mentioned 2face as a gay man and more recently Wizkid.

    Sadly, these days a faded Blackface Naija has become the poster boy for ‘bad belle’ syndrome than the respectable artist he once was.
    I guess that’s the part most millennials arrived at and hold on to.
    But never forget that before BFN fell off, he was once a brilliant star, if anything, for pioneering and building the most influential Nigerian boy group of all time.

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