The upcoming musician and the hitmaker of the track Kokoma took to Twitter today to reveal the reason for splitting with Trybe records and its chairman, Lanre Dabiri, popularly known as Eldee the Don.
K9 had left Trybe records silently without a statement from both Trybe records and K9, making their fans having different conspiracy theories. But K9 who seem to be tired with interviewers asking him the same questions about the split, took to Instagram today and reveal what happened :
From left is : K9, Eldee the Don, Aramide, Sojay
Evenin fam. Today I'm pained about many things and I'm going to speak my mind. Anyone who knows me knows I run away from drama. But there's so many things I've left unsaid all this time and I'm going to put it all out there today coz everyone keeps asking me the same question. "What happened with me and eldee and trybe records." Let everyone know the kokoma story.
At this stage in my career I should be making more money than I am, and the K9 name & brand should be bigger than it is. But kokoma didn't get a video, so ppl don't know what I look like and therefore my face can't sellout shows. And I didn't drop a follow-up dance single under trybe so the kokoma buzz died down. I could blame eldee for these things and I'd be justified, because I know I worked my ass off to record lots of songs. All the ppl who came to trybe studio in oniru know. Only God knows the truth about what happened and why eldee and the trybe board didn't shoot that video. Because I've heard different versions from different trybe "insiders". But I can't bite the hand that wanted to feed me. Trybe records gave me a chance in the industry. Ppl don't know but eldee didn't have to sign me. He only wanted to sign the winner of top talent and that was @therealsojay . I got signed thanks to efforts by @musiqlovart who sent songs in for the competition, and @beatsbysarz my friend since 2008 at least, who played my material to eldee at eldee's house. I was still a trainee at access bank training school, working 7am to 10pm. I didn't have the time to do these things. I was new in the game and didn't know the hustle well, otherwise I'd have known to hustle and shoot a video for my song by myself.
So, @eldeethedon it'll take time and the grace of God for me to forget, but I've moved on from all that. The things you said about me to @iam2shotz were unnecessary, but let's say everyone was a little confused then and keep it moving. Now you all know, I'm tired of answering this question in every interview,This issue ends here pls. Thanks. My new single is on its way. #CoupDEtat is coming. Let's Take-Over this year. #CDE #BigBaby #YoungLion Bless.
The Trybe record team are all gone now, and Sojay had been signed by a Edge Records, the same record with Reminisce. Aramide also is signed to Baseline records and Sarz is working as full time producer now.
Eldee who has since left the country as Trybe record doesn't seem to work as he had planned is working on a project called Playdata. A platform that monitor and analyses Nigeria music on the internet, radio to help artist and music investors to know how their song is doing. Playdata provides real time analyses and Eldee seems to be looking forward to the new side project.