Veteran Nigerian singer John Odafe Asiemo, aka Daddy Showkey has revisited a 2004 feud between his colleague Eedris Abdulkareem and American rapper 50 Cent’s crew.
The 53-year-old during a recent live session with media personality, Daddy Freeze said that the ‘Jaga Jaga’ singer never came close to 50 Cent.
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Daddy Showkey claimed that the former Remedies member did not fight 50 Cent.
In his words:
” Everyday una go dey talk say Eedris fight 50 Cent, Eedris no fight 50 Cent, 50 Cent no even dey around the environment when that thing happen that very day.”
Speaking on Charly Boy’s involvement in the controversy, Daddy Showkey said:
“I came back, me and Charly Boy meet for terminal wey him dey come, I come tell and say ‘presido hold on’ because he was the PMAN president then. When I tell them say make we wait to hear from other musicians not Eedris wey dey rant, him no listen to me, the only thing him just dey talk na ‘wey dem, wey dem.’’
The veteran claimed that he begged 50 Cent’s crew with Charly Boy after which they agreed to stay,
He said,
“Charly Boy told them ‘If you stay, you stay at your own risk’, forcing them to leave.”
Eedris, on December 4, 2004 wrote his name into infamy when he fought with 50 Cent’s crew on the plane and the tarmac of the Lagos airport.
After complaining that organisers of the now rested annual Star Mega Jam treated foreign artistes better than their Nigerian counterparts, Eedris sat in the business class section reserved for 50 and his crew on a flight to Port Harcourt.
A fight ensued when he refused to leave the business class with members of his own crew brandishing bottles on the plane.
50 Cent, who refused to board the plane because of the ugly scene created by the Nigerian rapper, left for his country on that day, forcing the abrupt cancellation of the remaining legs of Star Mega Jam that year.
Charly Boy, the president of PMAN that year, came to the airport shortly after the fight started and attempted to broker a deal between 50 Cent and Nigerian Breweries who were sponsors of the concert.
Officials of the company later accused Charly Boy of masterminding the fracas because they had turned down his request for payment to be part of the show like he was when Guinness brought Wyclef Jean to Nigeria.
Although Eedris has apologised to 50 Cent and Nigerian Breweries on a number of occasion, his career, which was at its peak then, never recovered from the self-inflicted damage.
