Blackface: “Radio Stations Won’t Play My Songs Because I’m In Their Bad Books”

Blackface said Nigerian musicians are not doing enough in talking about the problems facing the country. The singer has a point.

The singer may just be echoing public consensus about Nigerian artists’ position on the ongoing killings and police brutality prevalent in the country.

The former Plantashun Boiz member stated in an interview with Punch that musicians are not willing to talk about the killings in Benue and other parts of Nigeria.

He said most of the musicians making attempts at talking about it were only doing so for political reasons.

“It does not affect my state alone. Sadly, the musicians are not doing anything about it. Some musicians just claim that they help victims either to gain public praises or for political reasons. Why can’t we come together and think of ways we can stop the killings probably by staging a concert?”

Blackface explained that he had always done conscious music, but his music does not often receive airplay because he was blacklisted by influential radio personalities.

“I did a song which preaches against the killings but radio stations would not play it because I am in their bad books. Simply because I said some people stole my songs, that is why they placed me in their bad books,” Blackface said.

“If I release a song titled, ‘Stop the killings,’ and the radio big boys do not play it, only a few people would listen to the message I am preaching which is of national benefit. The so-called big OAPs like [Daddy] Freeze, who is always talking about pastors, are on the radio but they are not doing anything to push socially conscious songs that preach a message.”