Producer, Melvitto real name Melvin Alli-Owe took to social media platform, Twitter to share his story of the dirty dealings that go on in the Nigerian music industry.
He complained about being underrated and even having his sound jacked by someone else with impunity! This is an issue that has become recurring and yet nothing has changed. He is lucky to be above that as he is now signed to One Nation and produced Ayo Jay’s ‘Your Number’.
Read his story below:
“I remember when people didn’t want to work with me cause my beats weren’t “African” enough, now everybody wanna use xylophone and marimbas in their beats.
I remember when people used to say awon boyz were serious, always have critique but never solutions then commas got on fader and everybody wanted to know how that happened.
I remember all the times we opened up for free and we ain’t even get to meet the headliner and all the times we shut the show down before they got on stage.
I remember all the times people wanted to “build” something special and really only looked out for themselves.
I remember the time we opened for Wiz, they told us come to soundcheck, waited for three hours and didn’t get a chance to soundcheck.
I remember the time I went to MMG house to get a verse from Iyanya and I waited in the studio for two hours for nobody to show.
I remember the time we went to Tekno’s hotel to get a verse and we ended up carrying his luggage, dropping him off, no verse.
Shit just last week, I went to sleep finding out a beat of mine’s ended up on Mr Eazi’s album with someone else’s tag or the time when I was in the studio with Wande till 8am recording and arranging “Iskaba” and I ain’t get one “S/O to Mel”.
Or the time when the work I did lead to a deal and I wasn’t even invited to the signing. All the times we help so many people out and all the times they left us in the dust.
Notice how a’won boyz always have features but we never got featured… When you’re good enough to help people but not good enough to feature and people always ask me why I don’t act like I’m famous and that’s because for me it’s always been about the music.
Everybody wanna be famous and important so bad they forget how to be people.”