Duncan Mighty is tetchy. When an artist has put in so much work, it is excusable to be like that. But in this case, Wene reacted with little foresight and now, he has to clean up the mess he has made.

Around noon yesterday, following the release of Magnito’s video for “Genevieve”, Duncan Mighty went on a ranting spree. He called Magnito “this fool” because somehow, he could not find himself in the early frames of the video.

Duncan Mighty purportedly flew in to Lagos for the shoot. He also contributed massively to the song becoming an actual thing. How could Magnito just edit him out like that?

“This big fool called Magnito, you brought a beat with no vibe; no hook; no chorus and said I should work on it,”  Duncan Mighty wrote on Instagram.

The PH first son went further to recall how Bracket did the something similar in their video for “Chinelo”.

“I composed the chorus, hook and gave the song a vibe for free of charge with my project mobile studio left PH flew down to Lagos straight to your shoot. Yet what I get in return is editing a video where every effort I made for the song was now you singing it.

“Why inviting me for the shoot when u know this is what you will end up doing? same thing Bracket did in chinelo a song o composed almost everything, including Smash’s verse: They edited the video to their own benefit… Wizy [Wizkid] did not take my glory in ‘Fake Love’ video; Tiwa [Savage] did not in ‘Lova Lova’; OBO [Davido] did not in Aza; Lil Kesh and others did it right.”

Considering the Bracket incident, there was a precedence to Wene’s meltdown. If Bracket could do that to him after all his claims of writing one of the duo’s verse and still gracing it with his own verse, then possibly, Magnito could do too.

But a quick fact check disproved Duncan Mighty’s claim that he was edited out of the “Genevieve” video.

In fact, his name appeared in the opening credit as “Magnito x Duncan Mighty”. Therefore, viewers already know what to expect.

After the opening credits, it would take Duncan Mighty .47 seconds to appear in the video. And he did so alongside Magnito, who already have ample visibility, in a frame that did not stay up to .02 seconds.

Mighty also appeared on the .51 seconds mark, this time in a frame that lasted longer. Next was .57 seconds mark. In quick also appeared on the 1.13 and 1.15 marks.

At this stage, a distracted viewer would have been in no doubt that Duncan Mighty was indeed present in the video.

At 1.56, 2.00, 2.02-3, the PH City First Son appeared again, bobbing head as he croons the hook, even though this particular frame depicted his lateral view.

He would also appear in quick succession at the 3.21-25.

The Paul Gambit-directed video ran for 3.34 and Duncan Mighty appeared nine times in it.

A good explanation for why Mighty thought he did not appear in the video could be because he only saw promo snippets. Another reason could be that he was not patient enough to watch the video beyond the first opening seconds. Or a member of his team informed him, albeit haphazardly, that he was not on the “Genevieve” video after watching it with sparing attention.

People are talking about Magnito, but in what way?

Meanwhile, since Duncan Mighty called out Magnito, the artist has become subject of conversations again. If you had seen “Magnito” on the trends list, you would probably assume he had scored a hit song. But it is not so.

Magnito’s most significant moment in the Nigerian music industry was in 2010 when he released the really clever “Medicine”. The song earned him drastic attention, but by 2011 when he released his debut album Freshout, all the good will he earned with “Medicine” had already waned.

Since then, M-Jizzle has struggled to get recognition from the mainstream despite collaborations with Phyno and others. For someone who has been struggling to claw his way up or to the point he was at after “Medicine”, he needed conversations to be about his music badly. And while the Duncan Mighty yawa is about his music, it is an undesirable conversation.

The artist has now responded to Duncan Mighty in a counter video on Instagram. Magnito said Wene had reacted after only watching the “small video”.

Duncan Mighty has since deleted the post when he realised that he did appear on both the song and the video, contrary to his earlier thought. However, he did not follow up with an apology.

In all of this, Mighty is the biggest winner. Why, because he launched the first attack. And in this present time, first attackers are usually instant winners in a fight like this: they get the visibility; they receive the most genuine sympathy and everything else. By the time the other party has the chance to perform a comeback, people would have already taken sides. The incident is rather telling on the nature of the Nigerian music industry, because keen observers believe this season thing will happen again, due to a lack of structure.

At over 11,000 views barely 18 hours after the release of “Genevieve” video, this is both a win and a loss for Magnito; at least people are watching the video; but on the other hand, this accusation has undermined his credibility — especially as Mighty has not acknowledged his gaffe.