The long-running dispute over who wrote the 2004 smash song “African Queen” has been addressed by Nigerian music icon Innocent Idibia, better known by his stage name 2Baba.
Speaking with Nedu on a South African podcast, 2Baba explained that he and former Platanshunz bandmate Blackface worked together to create the smash song African Queen, which not only brought him fame but also introduced Nigerian music to a global audience.
“It’s a collab. I wrote most of the song actually, but we wrote it together,” he said.
Blackface, who has maintained that he is the only author of the song, has made charges that 2Baba finds disappointing.
Tubaba continued, “For me, the law and the legal things speak for themselves. So I’m not somebody to come and start… I don’t know what his intentions are. I don’t know what I’ve ever done to him.”
Despite the ongoing public criticism, the African Queen singer claimed that he has always respected Blackface.
“They (the things he says) are absurd. They are just ridiculous, and they are very, very painful. He (Blackface Naija) will come to his senses one day,” he said.