Renowned dancehall performer Ahmedu Augustine Obiabo, also known as Blackface, who was a member of the erstwhile Plantashun Boiz group, has expressed his doubts about the group’s chance of reforming.
From the late 1990s until the mid-2000s, the Plantashun Boiz group—which featured Blackface, 2Face, also known as 2Baba, and Faze—ruled the Nigerian music landscape. The group broke up in 2004, got back together in 2007, and then broke up again.
Blackface stated unequivocally in a recent interview with Channels TV that there was minimal possibility of the group ever getting back together.
He added that if a reunion was possible it would have long happened.
He said,
“I don’t see that [Plantashun Boiz reunion] happening. If it is something that would have happened, the members would have deemed it fit to sit down and discuss going forward. Of which they haven’t done and don’t want to do. I don’t want to cajole someone into doing what they don’t want to do.”
On his relationship with his former bandmates, Blackface said, “I talk to Faze and I talk to brothers of Innocent Idibia [2Baba]. His family are all my friends. But personally me and him we have nothing to discuss. It has to be business. There is no need waiting for who is not ready to be committed to a project.”
Recall that Blackface recently accused his colleague Shallipopi of stealing his sound from his recent album, “Shakespopi.”
Known for making repeated accusations, Blackface has charged that several musicians, such as 2face Idibia, Olamide, and Asake, have stolen his songs.
Shallipopi was added by Blackface to the list of musicians that are allegedly stealing his work in a recent Instagram post. He asked, frustrated, if modern musicians could still make original music without attempting to recreate his sound.
