“Success is the most important thing in life. How you achieve it is irrelevant” scratch that quote you can’t be successful in life if your mind set is to keep running over people in order to change the digits of your bank account to six figures or whatever figures. The Yoruba’s (an ethnic group in the southern part of Nigeria) would say, “Ko ye ki adiye maje ifun ara won” meaning chickens are not suppose to be eating each other’s intestines but it is a different scenario when Gabriel Amanyi, aka Terry G (Mr. Bling Bling) supposedly collect the sum of one hundred thousand naira from an upcoming artist Shakar El Swagga to produce and mix a song for the aforementioned artist.

Here is an excerpt from Shakar El Swagga’s note on facebook in an attempt to get back his money.

HOW IT ALL STARTED;

AFTER DROPPING MY FIRST SINGLE, I STRUGGLED TO GET MY SONG PLAYED IN THE NIGHT CLUBS CUZ IT WASNT UP TEMPO SO MANY DJS COULDN’T PLAY IT CUZ IT WAS ‘CRUNK’, SO I DECIDED TO GET A DANCEHALL BEAT SO I CAN PARTICIPATE IN THE SO CALLED NAIJA ‘ALANTA MOVEMENT’[DANCEHALL] LOL, SO I CONTACTED TERRY G.

WHEN I CALLED TERRY G,I TOLD HIM DAT I HAVE WRITTEN A SONG ALREADY AND I HAVE RECORDED THE VOCAL SO ALL I WANT HIM TO DO IS TO MAKE A BEAT ACCORDING TO THE TEMPO OF THE VOCAL AND MIX IT,SO IN THAT CASE,HE IS SUPPOSED TO BE SENDING THE FULL MIXED AND MASTERD SONG BACK TO ME.

WE AGREED ON THE SUM OF ONE HUNDRED THOUSAND NAIRA WHICH I PAID IN FULL AFTER I SENT HIM THE RECORED AND ALREADY MIXED VOCAL SO ALL HE NEEDED TO DO IS TO MAKE A BEAT DAT WILL FLOW WITH THE SONG AND MIX IT WITH MY VOCAL. IT TOOK TERRY G 2 SECS TO SEND ME HIS ACCOUNT DETAILS BUT AS SOON AS HE GOT THE MONEY HE NEVER PICKED MY PHONE CALLS AGAIN.

I WAS FRUSTRATED CUZ THE SUPPOSED PRODUCER DAT I PAID IS NO MORE PICKING MY CALLS.I MANAGED TO GET HIS FRIEND’S NUMBER AND HE PROMISED TO HELP ME.HIS FRIEND TRIED BUT WASNT SUCCESSFUL SINCE TERRY G DOSENT LISTEN TO ANYONE.I WAS PLANNING A VIDEO SHOOT FOR THIS PARTICULAR SONG SO I HAD TO SHIFT IT 3 TIMES BECAUSE OF TERRY G.

AFTER A MONTH,TERRY G SENT ME A BEAT,FUNNY ENOUGH THE BEAT WAS ALMOST THE SAME AS THE BEAT HE DID FOR ANOTHER ARTIST SO I REJECTED IT AND CONSIDERING THE FACT DAT I NEVER TOLD HIM TO SEND ME A BEAT BUT I TOLD HIM TO MAKE A BEAT DAT WILL BE ON THE SAME TEMPO WITH MY THE VOCAL AND MIX IT AND MASTER IT CUZ THAT IS WHY I PAID HIM 100K NAIRA,I CAN NEVER PAY 100K FOR HIS BEAT ALONE.

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