Yesterday, the former members of the defunct Plantashun Boyz, 2Face Idibia and Blackface agreed to settle their long copyright battle out of court and 2Face also agreed to drop the defamation lawsuit against Blackface.
Blackface has now taken to Instagram to update his fans on how things went at the Ikeja High Court on Wednesday.
Blackface started by encouraging everyone to stand up and fight for their rights the same way he did. He went further to say that they agreed that 2Face sang his song without permission and without giving him credit for it and that will be rectified. He also said that he was made to apologise to 2Face for calling him a thief, which is a wrong use of word.
Read what he wrote below.
“I am a human being and a Nigerian who fights for his rights. The problem with many of us is that we are afraid to speak up for what is right or defend the truth when we know it. No be say i too talk my people but I’m just trying to inspire somebody or ‘trying to make common sense’ like Mr Ben Bruce would say
“My people “Don’t sleep on your rights” and users of peoples works make sure the writers/contributors are credited properly
When you speak out, things happen and that’s why I said I will be done with this issues this year 2019 and behold here we are… I can say that the 50 Million defamation suit filed against me by Mr Innocent Idibia aka 2face and his manager Mr Efe Omorogbe has been settled out of court as they both have withdrawn their case filed against me
“It’s true that they sang my song without permission and truly it pissed me off, but that doesn’t legally make them thieves as the lawyers made me to understand.
“Sometimes the words we use matter, that’s why I apologised for using that word when my lawyers advised me…Finally they admitted they made mistakes with my songwriters and publishers rights which they should have informed me before but they never did ,they have promised to rectify them so we wait and I hope they honour this this time and furnish me details to that effect.
“To all my fans, friends, family ,followers and #BFNNation Thank you all for your support I O U guys a big concert #BFNLIC1
Can we now go back to the music ?The #album#risingsun soon be available
AA”
