May D: Why I fell out with Psquare

May D, the Nigerian Afropop singer, has opened up about his highly publicised fallout with Psquare and Square Records.

The singer joined Square Records in 2011 but left the label on August 21, 2012, over internal disputes.

In a snippet of an unreleased episode of the Honest Bunch podcast, the 40-year-old artiste implied the Psquare twin brothers cost him a deal with Akon.

The singer said his troubles with Psquare began when he was left out of the music video shoot for the remix of ‘Chop My Money’ which featured the American-Senegalese artiste Akon.

May D revealed that Akon had refused to shoot the video without him, adding that he eventually had to travel to America to participate in the shoot.

He said Akon had offered him several deals and promised to fly him back to America. He said, however, that when he returned to Nigeria, he made the mistake of sharing the details of his conversation with Akon with the Psquare brothers.

May D said Psquare had initially been hesitant to sign him to their label and instead offered to help him as they had done with artistes like J Martins and Bracket. However, he said after he informed them of Akon’s offers, their relationship began to deteriorate.

“Initially, they did not want to sign me. They were just like let us help you the way we helped J Martins and Bracket. When we went to shoot ‘Chop My Money’ video, I was in Nigeria, they had gone to shoot the video. Akon did not show up till I came to America, he was like he wanted me to be in the video,” he said.

“I was wondering Akon jumped on ‘Chop My Money’ and they were like yes he did. So I have to be in America for the video because Akon said if I am not in America, he is not going to shoot the video.

“When I got to America, Akon called me to his office and was like ‘Guy I have many deals for you, when you get back to Nigeria, call me. This is my number, I will book you a flight, you will come back to America’.

“He asked if I had any deal with these guys, I said no. He said ‘I am not going to say anything, when you get to America we will talk’. When I got to Nigeria, as an honest and clean guy, I told Psquare because they were the ones who carried to me there. If I had known, I would not have told them.”