Nigerian music producer, Oluwaseyi Akerele, popularly known as Shizzi, has opposed Teni Apata, the musician in a verbal war on social media over who initially produced her hit single “Case” from scratch.
The trouble started when Teni took to her Twitter page to advise her fans to walk away from those she called “users” while alleging that these groups constantly exploit people and dump them consequently, this she said on Friday, December 17, 2021.
In her words, she wrote “Users have no pity, they’ll use you and feel no remorse, don’t let that crown shift. Walk away”, a statement that doesn’t go well with Shizzi.
While responding to the statements, Shizzi, however, taunted Teni’s over her post, claiming she is not in a position to give such a tip considering what she did to him.
According to the record producer, he also 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 the necessary credit.
Shizzi stated that “Oh, you do dey feel am? Them don dey serve you breakfast already? See who’s talking about users???” he queried.
“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!”
Teni in her reaction, dismissed the claim, insisting that she only parted ways with the record producer because he “signed me with no plans and wanted to waste my life.”
She said “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.”
The musician also dared Shizzi to drop the song’s stems if he produced the track as claimed.
In audio production, stem refers to a group of audio sources mixed, usually by one person, to be dealt with downstream as one unit.
“Drop the stems if you produced it. Drop the stems in 10 minutes or you’re a Lil bitch,” Teni fired back.
Also, in a swift reaction, Shizzi described Teni as “an ungrateful element”. He also recounted 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, while also claiming her mother paid Shizzi when they ended their contract.
Shizzi, however, maintained his stance that he created the song from the scratch, and threatened he could write Sony to take the song down.
In the heat of the confrontation, Chisom Obinna Onyeke, Nigerian sound engineer, who eventually produced the song, weighed in to share his side of the story.
According to Onyeke, better known as JaySynths, said he and Teni had a freestyle on the track before she later departed for Atlanta at the time.
He also said the musician originally told him 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.
JaySynths stated that “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 (the 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.”
JaySynths also attacked those countering to the controversy without understanding how music production works.
In his words, he stated that “Some of you don’t even know what stems is!!! You’ll just open your mouth and ask for stems. Smh.”
Recall in 2018, Teni released ‘Case’ and the song has continued to pull the strings in the music industry.
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