Banky W responds to Samklef over royalties claims on Wizkid’s ‘Pakurumo’
Empire Mates Entertainment record boss, Bankole Wellington, famously recognized as Banky W, has responded to music producer, Samklef‘s allegations that he took his name off as the songwriter of Wizkid‘s blow song, ‘Pakurumo.’
The music producer, Samklef, who is presently at swords drawn with Banky W following his tell all interview with Ebuka, had dragged the label boss for cutting him off his (Samklef’s) royalties for his donation to Wizkid’s debut album.
Remember that Wizkid released two albums, one of which was ‘Superstar’ and the other ‘Ayo’, under the EME records before he left to hustle worldwide acclaim.
Wellington had claimed in the said interview that Wizkid owed his record label three albums as specified in their contractual arrangement.
Apparently not impressed with Banky’s claims, Samklef, who produced Wizkid’s then hit song, ‘Pakurumo’, off the ‘Superstar’ album, said in a Live Instagram session that Banky W had failed to properly compensate him (Samklef) for his input in the hit song.
He also posted a similar message on his Twitter page where he wrote:
“Claiming all my 11 years royalties for WiZkid super star album in a bit. My Laywers will reach out. It’s 50/50. Anybody wey don collect my money better reach out o! Samkef fine were o! Make dem tag Banky o! My money go don plenty o! Before him go use am campaign for election.”
Hours after, on Saturday morning, Samklef, whose real name is Samuel Oguachuba, hinted on his social media pages that Banky had agreed to pay him “performance royalty” and “mechanical royalty” on the song.
Nevertheless, things took an intriguing turn promptly after Samklef shared a screenshot to prove that his name had been supplanted with one Steve Micheal as the composer of ‘Pakurumo.’ Which according to him, is untrue.
The music producer mentioned Banky W’s handle in his caption on the picture and instructed him to reach out to him for translucency.
“Nigerians make una see o!! Dey took my name off and put Steve Micheal. As composer for pakurumo. @bankywellington how far now ? How did we get to this ? Dm me ur email bro. No time to play. Let’s fix things and move on. @sonymusic @sonymusicafrica,”
Samklef’s post read.
In reaction to the accusations, Banky said;
“@samklef I don’t think you understand that my name is not there and was NEVER there. EME’S name is not there. We have never taken a dime of these royalties and never will. We have never controlled them. You need to take this up with whoever is controlling this and for goodness sake stop talking about me. I’m not the one in charge. I’m minding my business, please handle yours,”
Banky W replied.
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