If you've not been on Ubi Franklin's Instagram Live, you've missed and still missing a lot. E no good to dey judge from 1 side. May D needs to be flogged.
I will summarise Ă fter rhe whole thing
I joined the live when Ubi was interviewing a US based lawyer named uduak. Cynthia Morgan and Jude Okoyes's contract was the topic. They both discussed about the structure of the contract and everything. Now b4 i move to the "ingrate" MayD, Cynthia Morgan and the person who ....
..interviewed her did what most artistes who have left their labels did by playing the Victims card and we all fell for it. Ubi brought on Jude and asked him questions about the Cynthia's issues with him. As some of already heard few days ago that it was Cynthia n her then ...
..manager who drafted the contract and took to Jude to sign. It didn't end there. Jude Okoye never wanted to venture into "record label" business as he was doing "PSquare". It was Cynthia Morgan's manager (forgotten her name), who happens to be a trusted person that convinced/...
....persuaded Jude to invest in Cynthia. Because it wasn't his(jude's) plan in the first place, there was no existing structure in place to take care of such things(contract), which made him ask them to draft n bring for signing. Cynthia Morgan lied to the fans to buy empathy..
..against anothers integrity. That is defamation of character(abeg i no be lawyer). There's a statement from Jude Okoye in the interview that stuck with me. When Ubi told him that people accused him of bringing some artistes down, he said something........
"How can i invest money and resources on something/someone and still pray or work for that to fail?"
The truth about the whole saga is in that quote. Cynthia Morgan just decided and felt she can do away with the label just like that.The problem of these labels lies with the fans
Most fans always take the side of the artist. Music business is like every other business. You don't expect someone to just wake up and forget a N40m investment just like that. The Vevo account thing and name issue is another 1. She played the name card to justify her reason for.
changing it herself, thinking it would make Jude not earn anything from her going forward.(She enter 1 chance). In the same live session, Donjazzy, Audu, Teebills even ChairmanHKN were dropping comments. Of all their different views on the way forward for the industry, 1 thing ..
..was uniform, their acceptance that a scapegoat be used to set an example to put an end to all these issues between labels and artistes and i fully support that. You can't come to me begging me to give u money without collateral and expect me to forget the money 2mrw. I be NGO?
Now to MayD's issue. Let me start from where Ubi said he called MayD to invite him to the live and he agreed, but changed his mind when he heard Jude would be on it too. Jude don suffer for these people hand and i feel for him(Not about the money). I also judged him wrongly...
MayD was not an artiste under Jude Okoye. There was never a contract between the 2. Jude was only helping him initially when they started. Along the line, he saw potentials and decided to legalise what he has been spending on him by getting him to sign a contract, but d isi ukwu
..refused/rejected the contract and that was it. How can you not sign a contract with someone and then go about saying stupid things about the person. Do you all know that sometime last year, the same MayD went to Judes house and was begging him to forget everything that happened
..and that he has learnt his lessons and all? That he will sign the contract if Jude presents same to him again? Just last year ooo! Same person dey talk nonsense today. Same Jude reached out to him to get an info concerning a line in a song recently released by rude boy just...
..3 months ago? Like you speak with people and then later go behind them to spew rubbish and defame their character? Jude spent money on MayD. He did videos for him, pushed him and got what in return? Na Jude say make Cynthia and MayD's fans stop to dey listen to their music?
Ndi be anyi ndeewo😜 There were other interesting picks from the live session, but let me leave it here for now.
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