MohBad, record labels and the Nigerian music industry - Part 2 | The Guardian Nigeria News

From the 1990s to the millennium era, another milestone in the growth of the record label industry in Nigeria was visible. New entrepreneurs, nouveaux riches, and budding Nigerian artistes in the diaspora combined forces with dynamic, industrious, educated, and tech-savvy home-based young Nigerians to build a fast-growing, vibrant record label and music industry in Nigeria.

The absence of an effective and proactive regulatory body compounded the problems, leading to regular crises between record labels and their artistes. It should be noted that the presence of an effective regulatory body does not mean the absence of conflicts between record labels and artistes. In recent times, other artistes who have had and are still having legal conflicts with their record labels include Charly Boy versus Premier Records Limited, Kizz Daniel versus G-Worldwide, Skale versus Baseline, Runtown versus Ericmany Entertainment, DJ Zeez versus HF Music, Vector versus YSG, Milli versus Chocolate City, Brymo versus Chocolate City, Temmie Ovwasa versus Yahoo Boy No Laptop Nation , Cynthia Morgan versus Northside Entertainment, and Bella Shmurda versus One-Word Global Records...

Therefore, the moment of signing the contract is not a moment of fun, nor is it a moment to be done in a hurry. It is a critical solemn moment requiring reflection, guidance, and applications of both one’s creative and critical faculties with the support of professionals, including entertainment lawyers.

The MohBad Justice in Creative Industry Bill should be enacted to reform not only the relationships and interrelationships between record labels and artistes, but all the transactions in the music industry and the entire entertainment industry in Nigeria.

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MohBad, record labels and the Nigerian music industryIf you are here to read the rumours about the life, times, and death of MohBad, I am sorry to disappoint you. You can go watch some of the numerous skits, blogs, and videos on social media. Dem boku for there! This is not the place for that. The late Promise Irelioluwa Oladimeji Aloba aka MohBad (1996–2023), is dead, and the stories surrounding the circumstances of his death can be found everywhere. [ad] It can be found in the rubbles of his lyrics and music, and it can be found in the tears of his cries for help and his ordeals in the hands of all his handlers, from his parents, immediate families, friends, enemies, his fans, managers, those who hate his lifestyle and music, record labels, the Nigerian Police, the hired thugs, drug dealers, the Nigerian music industry, and the government.
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