Veteran Nigerian singer, Charly Boy has spoken about how he engaged in Eedris Abdulkareem’s feud with American rapper 50 Cent in 2004.
In the latest episode of The Honest Bunch Podcast, Charly Boy stated that he was styling his hair when he received a call from Abdulkareem reporting that he was being manhandled by 50 Cent’s bouncers.
He stated that he stopped what he was doing and mobilised men on three thousand bikes to the Murtala Muhammed Airport, where Abdulkareem was.
When he arrived, he claimed to have been briefed by Abdulkareem and proceeded to confront 50 Cent.
He said 50 Cent apologised after he confronted him.
Narrating the experience, he said, “Back then, if I was walking past the motorcycle park and I waved my hand, all the motorcyclists would follow me. So, I stormed the airport with almost 3000 bikes,”
“On getting to the airport, I asked Eedris to tell me what happened and he said he was booked for a show alongside 50 Cent and he went to sit in the first class in the plane where the rapper was and his bouncers asked him to leave that the first class space wasn’t for Nigerian artists but he refused, then they beat him up.
“Already, 50 Cent’s security team was seeing the tension around the airport with the bike men moving around. I was also very high that day. I said to 50 Cent, ‘You are the one beating my people in their own country? You came to Nigeria and you are beating my people.’”
