Yet another war is brewing, in another label-artiste relationship.
Sources close to Tonye Ibiama’s Grafton Records, and the label’s lead act Mtrill, have told NET that both parties are spoiling for ‘war’, following protracted battles that have damaged their relationship and caused Mtrill to walk out of dealings with the label.
Now based in Lagos, Mtrill is one of Port Harcourt’s finest rappers. He was signed on PH label Xcel Music before joining Grafton.
The deal, according to insiders, covered two Nigerian albums and one UK release.
But after one album (No 1) and a mixtape, things have fallen apart and the centre no longer holds.
‘He’s requesting for a clearance letter to leave the label’ Ibiama who recently relocated to Nigeria from England, told NET. ‘But he still owes me one album, and I’ve handed over the matter to my Lawyers’.
But Mtrill disagrees.
‘Our contract has ended’ he tells us. ‘We couldn’t reach a compromise, so we had to let it go’.
‘I’m now an independent artiste’.
So what went wrong? And why do label-artiste relationships always end up in one controversy or the other?
And how will this ‘battle’ end?
We’re watching with very keen interest…
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