Nigerian Afropop musician Akinmayokun Awodumila, better known by his stage name May D, has addressed his widely reported feud with Square Records and the now-defunct Psquare group.
The singer left Square Records on August 21, 2012, due to internal conflicts, despite having joined the label in 2011.
The 40-year-old rapper hinted that their brief romance ended because the Psquare twin brothers cost him a deal with Akon in a clip from an unpublished Honest Bunch podcast episode.
According to the singer, his issues with Psquare started when he was excluded from the music video shoot for the remix of “Chop My Money,” which included Akon, a Senegalese-American musician.
He eventually had to travel to America to take part in the shoot, May D disclosed, adding that Akon had refused to shoot the video without him.
He claimed that Akon had promised to fly him back to America and made him a number of offers. However, he admitted that he erred by telling the Psquare brothers about his conversation with Akon when he got back to Nigeria.
According to May D, Psquare was first hesitant to sign him to their label and instead promised to assist him, just as they had done with artists such as Bracket and J Martins. But he said that their friendship soured once he told them about Akon’s proposals.
In his own words:
“Initially, they did not want to sign me. They were just like let us help you the way we helped J Martins and Bracket. When we went to shoot ‘Chop My Money’ video, I was in Nigeria, they had gone to shoot the video. Akon did not show up till I came to America, he was like he wanted me to be in the video.”
“I was wondering Akon jumped on ‘Chop My Money’ and they were like yes he did. So I have to be in America for the video because Akon said if I am not in America, he is not going to shoot the video.
“When I got to America, Akon called me to his office and was like ‘Guy I have many deals for you, when you get back to Nigeria, call me. This is my number, I will book you a flight, you will come back to America’.
“He asked if I had any deal with these guys, I said no. He said ‘I am not going to say anything, when you get to America we will talk’.
When I got to Nigeria, as an honest and clean guy, I told Psquare because they were the ones who carried to me there. If I had known, I would not have told them.”
