Veteran Nigerian singer, Friday Igwe, popularly known as Baba Fryo is very angry with his junior colleague, Michael Adebayo a.k.a Ruger for copying his style without his permission.
The Denge Pose crooner, expressed his dissatisfaction towards Ruger during an interview recently.
He said; “Ruger didn’t take permission from me before copying my style of using eyepatch. There was a time I came across his interview on Facebook and he was claiming an incident involving him and a soldier inspired him.”
“I was disappointed. I soliloquized, ‘Africa! Black people will never give credit to whom it is due’.”
However, the galala singer, took turns to praised the likes of Burna Boy and Adekunle Gold.
He said: “A lot of people said Burna Boy is crazy but Burna Boy mentioned ‘Denge Pose’ in his song and he mentioned my name. He knew why he mentioned my name. Yet people say he is crazy. They call him an alien but he always does the right thing.”
“When Adekunle Gold wanted to sample my song, his team reached out to me and I gave them permission. But some of this new generation artists, they believe that once they hit stardom, the legends before they who created the ideas they are tapping from, they wouldn’t want to say the truth so that the legends won’t benefit from their shines.”