Veteran South African producer and DJ Oskido has been under the microscope in the last 48 hours over comments directed at D’banj from the DJ’s personal Instagram account.
D’banj is currently in South Africa to work on a new collaboration with Oskido reportedly titled “Ntswebu (Resemblance)”.
On the morning of Saturday, 16th April, this happened –
Source – Linda Ikeji
This is not the 1st time you disrespect me my man you did it with Mafikozolo Khona and stood me up like I’m your fan and u doing it again in 2016 f**k you
But later on Saturday, this happened too.
Source – Linda Ikeji
Details around what happened in between are still sketchy. D’banj was on Metro FM (Oskido works for the same company) on Saturday and appears to have done little to clarify the situation.
So D'Banj says he knows nothing about what Oskido posted. #MetroFM
— Olwee (@Olwee) April 16, 2016
Oskido has apologized and it’s up to the offended party to decide whether or not he accepts it but in the mean time, let me try and count the things that don’t add up.
Source – Instagram
Consistency – If you go through Oskido’s IG account, you’d notice a respect for grammar and proper diction. That rant had 100+ words in it but was punctuated only 3 times. I know “I was hacked” is one of the least believable excuses in 2016 but how likely is it that the person who mans @oskidoibelieve on a day-to-day basis woke up on Saturday morning and suddenly forgot what their English teachers in primary school taught them?
Strange stranger – What kind of “stranger” randomly picks up your phone, has enough time to search for a picture, upload it, compose an essay complete with some of your own signature hash tags and then post it? The first thing that comes to a stranger with this much time isn’t to steal your phone? Impressive. South Africa sounds like a really safe place, we want to move there.
Why me? – Why does this stranger pick on D’banj in particular for abuse? Was there a negative energy towards the Koko master around the place that whoever was in possession of the phone felt was okay to share with the world? Was this energy linked to Oskido in any way?
Congratulations! What’s this D’banj – Mafikizolo – Khona connection? Did D’banj turn down the chance to be one of the biggest African songs of the decade?
Publicity stunt – If this is a publicity stunt, then who or what is it supposed to provide publicity for? The most obvious is the song itself but stirring up controversy isn’t D’banj’s promo style and the more I learn about the veteran DJ from SA, the more I learn that it isn’t his style either. But what if it’s not a publicity stunt? What if there has been a misunderstanding?
Either way, Oskido has some explaining to do and I doubt “I was hacked” alone will hack it.