Hezmatosky:

You don chop since morning so?

How old are you? You sound like one who is still a toddler.

W

Freelane33:
Nawa to Una
Upon everything we Dey go on for this country ,
Una still Dey remember Headies award

So you LL allow your life to stop. They are still having sex in Ukraine even with the ongoing war

Kingcalls:
Stop promoting miscreants... he should not even be recognised in the first place... we should stop rewarding bad attitude.... rewarding olu maintains yahoo song and Kelly handsome increased the number of yahoo boys and it gave birth to people like hishpuppy .... Nice song " pass me the ganjer " influenced alot of youths into doing hard drugs ... Naira marley , Zlatan...these miscreants just promote bad behaviour thats destroying our society... dont forget people like Tiwa savages koloba that promotes prostitution... but portable tops it all with his very bad behaviour outside music

true

Op is one of the one million boys

Absolutely unfair

Nobody cares about headies.. Even top stars don't attend

Seriously unfair, the poor guy was probably catching Cruz with his words, don't think he really meant those words. We have had more real ones in the US and nobody got disqualified

No, I don't

He threatened headies and co-contestants. Maybe this author wasn't aware

Some persons brain so structured to accept anything bad.....

THEY HAVE DECIDED.. HE SHOULDN'T HAVE SPEWED TRASH WITH HE'S MOUTH.. NO SENSIBLE HUMAN WILL SPEAK OPENLY BRAZENLY..

EntPublisher001:
Nigerians Woke up on the 26th of July to meet an announcement from The Headies Award stating their Disqualification of Nigerian Singer Portable from all Nominated Categories in the forthcoming Award Ceremony: the Headies 2022 scheduled to hold on 4th September. The news made the headline and trend for a few days and the Nigerian Music Listeners were divided between those who support the Disqualification of Portable by the Award organizers and those who don't. TrendyBeatz, as an unbiased platform, analyzes the disqualification and why it might be unfair in this article.


Habeeb Okikiola, popularly known as Portable and whom the streets adore as Omo Olalomi, came into the music limelight last December after one of his videos went viral. It was the perfect time when the street sounds needed a street music evangelist to reboot the wobey sound that has suffered a decline after the emergence of the afro-pop new generation of artists.

The video garnered massive acceptance and the lingua laced with the song "Zazoo Zeh" became the new slang. He enjoyed fame to the point that Olamide Badoo, whom the industry knows as the voice of the street collaborated with him, alongside Poco Lee. And ever since then, he has been the subject of virality - always in the news.

If portable isn't on the road creating scenes, he's somewhere behind his camera creating videos on Instagram throwing abusive words in Yoruba laced with curses and with the usual word standing out - "Akoi" (whatever that means)

Portable And Headies Disqualification Saga: The Backstory

Recall that on May 24, Portable bagged two nominations in two categories for the Headies Awards. One of them is the Rookie Of The Year category, in which are also nominated Fave, Ugoccie, AV, and Magixx. The other nomination is the Best Street Hop Artiste category, alongside the likes of Bella Shmurda, Mohbad, Naira Marley, etc.


Unfortunately, the usual Portable drama series got another plot twist on Tuesday when his usual antics of controversy took its toll on him. Earlier before the plot twist, Portable had received a public warning message from Headies to retract a statement he made after he released a controversial video on May 28. In the video making rounds on social media, Portable was seen uttering death-threatening words at his co-nominees, the singer said: “Those are my awards, anybody else who wins I will ask for them to be killed. I will ask them to kill the person. If the organizers give my award to someone else, they will die,” he said in Yoruba. “No go give my award to another person, he go die o.”

Immediately, Portable quickly released another video of him apologizing to Smooth Productions, the organizers of the Headies Awards, refuting everything he said and also acclaiming his craziness. He said: “Headies don nominate “madman” olorin. Streets ti take over. So make una give us our award o.

“No vex, bros! Bros, no vex! If I f*ck up, no be me first dey f*ck up. Plenty people don dey f*ck up. Abeg, I wan collect my award.”
It didn't stop there. Recently, Portable released another video of him shouting with all confidence that he established the notorious vicious gang, popularly known as "One million Boys". The video triggered a lot of online reactions and also made the Inspector General of Police, Usman Baba, order the Lagos police commissioner, Abiodun Alabi, to investigate Portable’s claim of being the leader of the two vicious gangs, and to take necessary legal actions on his claim.

Sometimes in June, a video also showed him and some of his guys seemingly assaulting a man called DJ Chicken. This scene was recorded somewhere in the Ilogbo area of Ogun State. This also got the state police’s attention. On June 20, Portable was ordered to turn himself in at the nearest police station which he complied with and was interrogated, then released on bail.


Headies Resolution: A Right Decision?

After the accumulations of all Portable's drama and controversial behaviors, The Headies finally announced that they have disqualified the singer from the categories in which he was nominated for the 15th Headies Awards scheduled to take place in Atlanta this September.

Just after the news of the final resolution by the most reputable and biggest global awards for Afrobeat Music in Africa, The Headies, the news sparked a lot of discussions and reactions online about how the resolution is the best and how it's not.
The Unpopular Opinion: Is It Not The Right Decision? One good thing to note is that, while this looks like a good move, Headies Award criteria, however, have never stated anywhere near the requirements that good character off the mic, is also a prerequisite for the honors. And if we are taking a moral stand now, and not separating the art from the artist, then fairness should swing the hammer fairly.

If we look across the nominations list. Are those people on the lists all saints and angels? Sugar, spice, and everything nice? A real salt of the earth collective?

Award shows like The Headies should not be gatekeepers of morality. The job is to cast shiny trophies and hand them over to people who have shown artistic distinction. A music award show.

A platform to celebrate artistic brilliance and not a moral tool for censoring behavior.

However, a second thought on the matter says otherwise: If such acts displayed incessantly by Portable are indulged, will it not be a bad representation of the value culture in the music industry? A bad influence on the little ones?

Do you think that's the best punishment for Portable's waywardness? Or do you think instead of punishing him with disqualification, he should be banned from traveling to the United States with the team to attend the award ceremony? Thereby, reprimanding the artist instead of the art.

What are your thoughts?

Source: TrendyBeatz

Go and undisqualify him now.

He asked for it and he got served. Stop supporting nonsense

lexy2014:


Go and undisqualify him now.

no mind am

davidtemi:
No, I don't

bed of the same feathers

EntPublisher001:
Its really unfair

tell him to watch his mouth

Now that he has decided to lay low after disqualification from headies and police summon after beating up DJ chicken , have you seen him trend for one day ?
Guy knows he's empty lyrically and does not have what it takes in the music industry and the ONLY way he can trend is through controversial circumstances and that's why he has been at the center of controversies after dropping 'zazu' which Olamide helped push to limelight .
Trust me , portable will die a natural death without controversies and he knows this cos his music is wack .

illicit:
He didn't see it as sport

He called it war and all is fair in war

It is not a sport

Chopcy29:

It is not a sport

Any competition is sport

Someone win is someone's loss

Please who has small pin charger?

Donkenny511:
Portable's disqualification can be seen in two ways.

1. He's the scape goat that headies want to use to cleanse all the artist non challant behavior. People like Olamide who curses on their stage and Naira Marley who was arrested of fraud by EFCC. Maybe Headies feels all this need to stop.

2. The show is happening abroad, Headies may be afraid of Portable's behavior and may want to distance self from this. No brand want to associate with somebody who you are not sure of what they can do or say at any point in time.

I can't risk it too

USA is too far to tolerate rubbish

well said

You guys should stop disturbing us with portable and yoruba music award called headies,, am saying it now ,

does he even deserve nomination talkless of winning the award?that lout of a guy.

Lorry load of TRASH FOR LAWMA

Headies should have known better that portable is known for uncouth ulterances.

Totally agree.

Burns Boy used cult lyrics & slangs in his song but was never ban.

Teni used violence of kidnapped on her song & her lyrics glorified Tout, Violence, Kidnapping, Killings but was never ban.

Other artists did worst, but were never ban.

Note... I'm not a fan of Potable.

Stomoney:
He don tey wey I don remove my hands on anything relating portable matter.

Stomoney:
He don tey wey I don remove my hands on anything relating portable matter.