To err is human, to forgive is divine. By committing so many errors in interviews in quick succession, Seyi Shay is testing our collective abilities to be god-like in overlooking them.

The singer’s latest gaffe happened when she went on national television in Jamaica to claim Wizkid actually wrote and owns the single ‘One dance’ by Drake. This came after the interviewer talked about Drake sampling dance hall songs.

According to Seyi Shay –

The same debate is going on in Africa right now, that he sampled the Afrobeats, It was actually Wizkid’s song so it was not Drake’s song.

I don’t know if I can I talk about this but it’s actually Wizkid’s song, Wizkid wrote it, Legendary Beats and some other Nigerian producers produced it as an Afrobeat song and they stripped a lot of the music away..

She said that with all the confidence of a woman in the know, Wizkid’s response was however swift and brutal –

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And who can blame him? If news like this makes its way back to the OVO camp, it could hinder Wizzy’s future opportunities for work. Seyi’s apology was quick –

Oshey, Voltron.

It’s never a good idea to form an opinion and stamp it as fact over simple “hear say” and this is not the first time she’s pulled an ITK move in public, remember phoné, phony? Or maybe Ms. Shay thought the interview will not get the kind of legs it did and make its way to this side of the globe? However in her defense, Seyi Shay belongs to the same school of thought as Wale, and that school says Wizkid is contributing more to Drake’s music than the Nigerian super star is being credited for.

Regrettably, this is a school whose teachings I don’t subscribe to. Even Quentin Miller, the man who Meek Mill uncovered as Drake’s ghostwriter, was properly credited as a writer on the records he worked on. So we see no plausible reason why Wizkid’s contribution would be downplayed and even if it was, considering her background as an international singer, Seyi Shay of all people should know about non-disclosure agreements between songwriters and singers. In the music business, not every bit of business is everybody’s business.

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Seyi Shay has been involved in a number of high profile blunders before but this is probably the most damning. When a singer calls out another singer on their BS, it is totally different than when the media or the general public does it. Seyi’s cup is getting full. The singer did some amazing things on this her trip to Jamaica like giving a lecture at the University of The West Indies and meeting a number of big artistes, but guess what everybody is talking about this week?

Perhaps it’s time for Seyi Shay and her handlers to rethink how the singer interacts with the media, at least in the short to medium term. At the rate at which things are going, it’s only a matter of time before one of these blunders makes a permanent mark on her career as they already have on her image.