Terry G's manager says Danny Young’s claim is a publicity stunt

Two new singles are currently causing controversy between two singers who are also producers, Danny Young and Terry G.

Terry G was the first artiste to release his own version before Danny Young dropped his own few days after. Ever since then, there have been accusations and counter accusations over the original owner of the song. What however made the scenario worrisome was that Terry G also came under great condemnation when he released his last single, Apako. He was greatly criticized by Sideone for using the same instrumental he (Terry G) produced for his song, One by One and sampling his music at the same time. They later bury the hatchet and moved on.

The melody and rhythm of these two new singles are awfully different but the concept of the song is very comparable. Rhythms & Sounds spoke to the management of both artistes and they gave their different versions of the story.

In a bid to clear the air over this matter, Danny Young’s management decided to issue an official press statement so as to set the record straight for all future reference and to lay to rest every unnecessary rumour.

According to K Lala, whose is currently Danny Young’s manager, the song, Eli Jah was originally recorded by Danny Young as one of the songs on his next album. He said Danny Young and Rocksteady agreed to record a song together on Danny Young’s next album. The day the song was supposed to be recorded, Danny Young put a call across to Rocksteady and he told Danny Young he was at Terry G’s house which is located in the same neighborhood with Danny Young.

Danny Young’s manager, K Lala stated that they met DJ Bombastic (a popular radio DJ with Rainbow FM in Lagos) and Sideone (an artiste) in Terry G’s house. “We played the song and everybody there including Terry G fell in love with the song. They all prospected that the song would turn out to be a massive hit and Terry G admitted that he hadn’t heard any song quite like it and indicated his interest to be featured on the song as well. We resolved to feature Terry G and Rocksteady on the song since we had previously considered the option of working with Terry G too. Based on this deliberation, Terry G later requested for the data of the said song claiming that he wanted to add some baselines on the production. Everybody there including Sideone and DJ Bombastic admitted that the beat was okay as produced by Danny Young but Terry G insisted that he had a different idea. In good faith, Danny sent the data to him to work on and also to record his own verse which was supposed to be the second verse. That was the last we heard of him before we travelled for some engagements in Dubai, Singapore and Kenya. He avoided our meeting before we travelled not knowing that he had another game plan”.

K Lala continued that while “we were still outside the country, people who had listened to the Song aside DJ Bombastic, Sideone and Rocksteady called us that Terry has released Danny Young’s song and they were wondering if he actually gave it out or sold it to him. We decided not to do anything till we return to Nigeria. When we got to Nigeria, we immediately repackaged the song and release it with some punch lines against Terry G on the second verse which was supposed to be his verse on the track. The song was not actually supposed to be out now because we recorded it for the album. We were supposed to drop the singles we shot videos for on our trip. But because Terry G had already released the song, we didn’t have any choice than to release ours and tell the whole world our story. We have witnesses and we are very happy with the way they have all come out so far to defend our claims. One of the artistes present at our meeting that day even warned us not to give the data to Terry G but we trusted him as a friend and a colleague not knowing that he is very mischievous”.

We also spoke to Terry G’s manager, Don T of Now Muzik but he said there is no iota of truth in the allegation. “I called Danny Young that he should send the first version of the song to me but he didn’t. There is no resemblance in the two songs at all and I’m disappointed in the whole publicity stunt”.

We scooped that in few weeks time, Danny Young will release new singles and videos which was their original plan to promote Danny Young’s next album. Danny Young’s manager, K Lala said they are not ready to join issues with Terry G. ““Even though we are aware that this is not the first time he will be involved in such act, we are not ready to join issues with him because we don’t need controversy around Danny Young at the moment.”