Controversial rapper, Eedris Abdulkareem, has accused embattled Charly Boy of exploiting others for his personal benefit.
The former Remedies member made the allegation in an Instagram post on Saturday amid allegation that Charly Boy collected money from President Muhammadu Buhari’s election campaign spokesman, Festus Keyamo.
“Charly Boy is a typical full time Naija hustler. He knows how to strategically create and maintain a very high nuisance value and then exploits the same for optimum profit. For him and his ilk, there are no principles or morals in the business,” Eedris began.
Going back to 2004 when he clashed with crew of American rapper, 50 Cent, at the Lagos airport, Eedris said Charly Boy’s weird persona was created for “stomach infrastructure”.
His words: “He (Charly Boy) specialises in taking advantage of peculiar circumstances to manufacture positive or negative hype and benefit for regular stomach infrastructure, which he usually uses his created weird persona to execute just like he did with me during 50cent and Nigeria Breweries.”
Eedris wrote his name into infamy on December 4, 2004 when he fought with 50 Cent’s crew on the plane and the tarmac of the Lagos airport.
After complaining that organisers of the now rested annual Star Mega Jam treated foreign artistes better than their Nigerian counterparts, Eedris sat in the business class section reserved for 50 and his crew on a flight to Port Harcourt.
A fight ensued when he refused to leave the business class with members of his own crew brandishing bottles on the plane.
50 Cent, who refused to board the plane because of the ugly scene created by the lesser known Nigerian rapper, left for his country on that day, forcing the abrupt cancellation of the remaining legs of Star Mega Jam that year.
Charly Boy, the president of PMAN that year, came to the airport shortly after the fight started and attempted to broker a deal between 50 Cent and Nigerian Breweries who were sponsors of the concert.
Officials of the company later accused Charly Boy of masterminding the fracas because they had turned down his request for payment to be part of the show like he was when Guinness brought Wyclef Jean to Nigeria.
Although Eedris has apologised to 50 Cent and Nigerian Breweries on a number of occasion, his career, which was at its peak then, never recovered from the self-inflicted damage.
