Reekado
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Reekado Banks’ manager and brother, Temi
Solomon, insists that his artiste doesn’t feel sorry for saying he is a
better artiste than Lil Kesh.
It will be recalled that when Reekado
was adjudged the Next Rated Artiste at the 2015 Headies Awards, it
generated mixed reactions. Olamide, who was Lil Kesh’s boss at the time,
was furious that his protégé didn’t win the award. While reacting to
Olamide’s public outburst, Don Jazzy (Reekado’s boss) said he was ready
to let Olamide and his boy have the car prize if that was what made them
upset. That comment degenerated into a war of words on the Internet
before both parties were implored to sheathe their swords.
Two years after the ugly event, at his recent Thank You
concert in Ibadan, Reekado declared in pidgin English that he is better
than Lil Kesh and his father. He said, “I remember when they said I
didn’t deserve the Next Rated award. The person that they said deserved
the award, I am better than his father.”
When Sunday Scoop
reached out to Reekado’s manager and brother over the statement, he said
his brother only said what was on his mind, but he didn’t mean to hurt
anyone
He said, “It is not something I want to
talk about. If certain people were annoyed because he spoke his mind, I
think those people are not his fans. Our fans would not complain about
what he said in that manner. He didn’t mean to hurt or harm anyone and
we don’t have something against the artiste (Lil Kesh).”
According to Temi, Banks was not
misinterpreted, neither was he under any influence when he said he is
better than Lil Kesh. He said, “If he said he is better than someone, he
probably meant it. I really want to know the fans who were angry about
it. Was it Reekado’s fans or the person’s fans? He said what was on his
mind and it is not compulsory for everyone to agree with him.
“People who feel that he is arrogant
because he said what he wanted to say have their reasons to think so. If
I say that one newspaper is better than another, it is my opinion. That
he didn’t say a word since the 2015 Headies Awards’ fallout doesn’t
mean he has not felt like talking. So, if he said he was better than Lil
Kesh, it was just an expression.”
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