Nigerian ragga/dancehall act, Ahmedu Augustine Obiabo popularly known as Blackface has finally released his fifth studio album, Defender.
Laced with 20 tracks with features ranging from Azadus, Yungsix and Marvelous Benjy, can the album be a victory statement that will propel the once-thriving one-third of Plantashun Boiz back to relevance?
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Blackface’s solo career has been marred with a lot of controversies, with the singer holding grudges, throwing bitter tantrums about how he supposedly made others great and blatantly blaming others for his own misfortunes in the music industry.
Having lashed out at former ‘friend’ 2face Idibia, P-Square, Tekno and even Wizkid at different times, Blackface’s ‘realness’ has been his Achilles heel, inadvertently making him the black sheep of the music industry where fake relationships and ‘ass-licking’ is the norm.
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His four previous releases Ghetto Child (2007), Evergreen (2007), Jungle Fever, Me, Musiq and I (2008), Dancehall Business (2010) despite littered brilliance amongst them, mostly went unnoticed.
Though Blackface is armed with respectable songwriting skills and unique delivery, it’ll take much more brilliance and humility from the Benue-native to strike gold again in an unforgiving music industry.