Nigerian Music producer, Seyi Akerele popularly known as Shizzi and singer, Teniola Apata, continue to trade words on social media over the production of the singer’s hit song, ‘Case’.
‘Case’, one of Teni’s biggest songs was released in 2018 and it has continued to pull the strings in the music space.
The drama started on Friday when Teni made a tweet, urging her fans to stay away from those she called “users”.
“Users have no pity, they’ll use you and feel no remorse, don’t let that crown shift. Walk away,” she tweeted.
In a swift reaction, Shizzi, taunted Teni over the post, claiming she is not in a position to give such a tip considering what she did to him.
The record producer who once signed Teni to his record further claimed that he produced ‘Case’ for Teni in 2018 but the singer then gave the song to her in-house producer to reproduce it without giving him due credit.
“Oh you don dey feel am? Them don dey serve you breakfast already? See who’s talking about users???” He quoted Teni’s tweet.
“You, that took a song that I produced with you “Case” and you went and gave your in-house producer to reproduce it without my consent and you released the song and your guy “Nurse Dolor” endorsed it with no remorse till 2day.., you’re talking about users.. nah stop it!”
In her reaction, the ‘For You’ singer dismissed the claim, arguing that she only parted ways with the record producer because he “signed me with no plans”
“You that you wanted to waste my life. Signed me with no plans. You gave my songs away, my mother paid you in full and I got out the contract, I walked away peacefully. Thank God for my mom, I would’ve still been singing on the streets of Atlanta,” she wrote.
The musician also dared Shizzi to drop the song’s stems if he indeed produced the track as claimed.
“Drop the stems if you really produced it. Drop the stems in 10 minutes or you’re a lil bitch,” she had fired back.
Coco “Meredine’ Benson, Shizzi’s wife also waded into the matter to support her husband’s claims. She urged Teni not to “cap if you can’t back it up.”
“Girl stop it right now. My mom heard your version of Case with shizzi before anyone. Y’all repeated it so much while she was in the house with us, she remembered the whole song. When your sneaky version dropped she and me and shizzi were shook. Don’t cap if you can’t back it up,” she tweeted.
After Shizzi’s wife, Meredine took her husband’s side in the heated exchange, Teni revealed that her mother paid and got her out of the music deal with him. The singer who disclosed that her mother gave her a life, added that she also paid Shizzi for her hit single “paraeke”.
“Did your husband tell you my mom paid him to get me out, did he tell you I also paid him 2 thousand dollars for Pareke, clarify o.
“There was never a recorded case, he NEVER PRODUCED CASE, he should drop the stems. I’m awake, I’m up,” she added.
In another swift reaction, Shizzi described Teni as “an ungrateful element”, recounting how the singer’s mother called to plead with him before they parted ways.
He further shared more clips and conversations between the duo in the past to back his claim.
But Teni insisted that the record producer should drop the track’s stem.
“You would have sued me if you produced it, DONT CHANGE THE NARRATIVE. DROP THE STEMS IF YOU PRODUCED IT SHIZZI!!!!!! NO BE VIDEO WE ASK, NA STEMS I WAN SEE.
She also said her mother paid Shizzi when she ended her contract with him.
“But you collected the money. Okay good night!”
Shizzi, however, maintained his stance that he created the song from the scratch, and threatened he could write Sony to take the song down.
I created the idea from scratch it don’t matter if you didn’t record vocals that same day. My idea is my idea and moreover did you credit me or pay for it as the creator ??? And I can ask Sony to take that shit down. Don’t play with me 😂 #toddler #ungratefulelement pic.twitter.com/MlkP8TdgNW
In the heat of the confrontation, Chisom Obinna Onyeke, Nigerian sound engineer, also known as JaySynths, who eventually produced the song, weighed in, saying he and Teni had a freestyle on the track before she later departed for Atlanta at the time.
JaySynths also said the musician originally told her she wanted Shizzi to produce the song for her but things didn’t go as planned between them.
The 33-year-old claimed when Teni later returned to Nigeria, she reached out to him and he produced the song from the scratch for her.
“Teni and I had a freestyle of this song (CASE) before she went back to Atlanta. She had said she wanted Shizzi to produce the song for her (reason for the video) but obviously, things didn’t go the way she planned. She got back to Naija and I produced the song from the scratch,” he wrote.
He also tackled those reacting to the controversy without understanding how music production works.
“Some of you don’t even know what stems is!!! You’ll just open your mouth and ask for stems. Smh,” he added
