28th August, 2013
As the verbal spat generated by rave singer Wizkid’s controversial comment on Instagram calling fan of his “broke person” rages on, a bad blood is already brewing between him (Wizkid) and one of his senior colleagues, JMartins, who happened to be the first celebrity to react to the issue.
“I never called any of my fans broke….that comment was directed to one person that insulted me…not a fan. You have been in this industry long enough to know better than this and I’m very disappointed about your statement,” Wizkid reacted to JMartins’ comments via Twitter on Monday.
Wizkid had written “Broke people always think they have an opinion” to a fan on his Instagram page, after erroneously typing ‘About to perform at this wedding with an hangover! Jah Guide!’.
This led to a particular fan with Twitterhandle @spruzman to send a reply ‘Correct urself man… see d reason why you should go back to school. Lol’
But the fan’s advice didn’t go down well with Wizkid. And his harsh response elicited retaliatory tweets from angry fans.
As soon as the hot exchange went viral, J Martins, as a guest on Hot 98.3 FM Abuja last week, admonished his younger colleague over his coarse reaction to his fan.
His words: “I am not taking any side, don’t mean no beef, no disrespect, and no hate but let the truth be told. I don’t believe because you feel you have a few change you didn’t have a few years ago and which you cannot guarantee having in a few years to come then you wake up and look at those people who have cheered you up, loved you, supported your music, bought your CDs, prayed for you. Just because you can lay your hands on some phone and you call them ‘poor’. I am not in and will never be in support of anyone who has such bad attitude.
“It needs to be corrected; we owe our fans the duty of being good examples. That is why they hold us in high esteem. That is why you are a role model and if you know you cannot be a good role model you have no business in music. You don’t know if it’s that person that might help you tomorrow. Whoever does that should be checked. You have to decide why you are in the music industry. If you know you cannot be a role model then you have no business being there.”
Few hours after his reactions hit the blogsphere, the contemporary highlife star also took to the Twitter to clear the air, saying the reports credited to him are false. “Let it be known that I never blasted @wizkidayo as falsely reported. There is no point trying to create a controversy that doesn’t exist,” JMartins tweeted on Monday.
But EME/Starboy Records leading act was not convinced as he considered JMartins’ comments during the radio chat as a direct attack on him.
However, a top on-air-personality with a leading Lagos urban radio station, yesterday morning cautioned other rising stars like Wizkid to take it slow on how they use their Twitter and Instagram in the sharing of their thoughts, especially once they know they aren’t alcohol free.
“These guys should mind what they post on their Twitter and Instagram page as they have millions of fans following them and watch over their messages. Guess, Wizkid should take it easy in his reaction to this whole saga,” the popular broadcaster said.