In the uncut interview, the ” Your Waist ” crooner goes into his side of the story, opening up on the strained relationship with his former business partner, working with other MMMG label mates, moving to Don Jazzy‘s Mavin Records and his new management deal with Temple Music.

Joey Akan: How Did MMMG Start?

Iyanya: We started that label from scratch. I was the major sponsor of the label till my last day. I was in charge of everything. Yeah, once in a while here and there, he go support when he fit, but I was in charge of everything; house, videos, everything.

I was in charge. I was actually the boss of the Triple M G, but my nature ehn, I dey believe say e get where I go come out now tell you say I be boss ehn, you no go even need spell the ‘boss’. All these guys wey dey rush CEO, I no dey crazy about am like that cos I know say na something wey you fit get. Time no dey wey them go talk say you no be boss. So I just focused on the music, say make I focus on the music, make I focus on my performance. Let me just focus on being an artist, believing that we don turn brothers, we don turn family.

People go dey come meet me tell me these things. People wey dey close to me go come dey meet me. But in the past, most of them too been don reject me. So it now started sounding like “oh maybe them dey beef us, or them dey beef the guy say now maybe him don come make am’. Ubi, go con meet me say ‘remember that guy wey been no give you show.’ So e go come make sense to me say the guy just dey talk him shit. Because, the same people wey dey come report am to me, I dey see them with am dey ask for favours. Him go dey do them favours. So I was just like ‘okay, let me wait.

When it dawned on me that I was just in a mix of some fucking guys, na that CAC thing. I just dey like this for my house like one number dey call me, dey call me.

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Joey Akan: What year was this?

Iyanya: Bro to be honest, I can’t really remember what year it was but I think it was like 2012 or 2013 around there. I didn’t pick up the call. The guy messaged me saying “you don’t know me o, but I’m trying to save you.” Na one of those messages wey go touch you. I come reply am say ‘who is this?’ He now said, “just pick your call.”

I picked, and he said, “Bro, I’m a big fan. I love your person. I’ve never met you but I’ve heard good things. I love your music. But this thing I’m telling you, I can lose my job. That’s why I won’t tell you who I am. But I’d tell you what to do’.” Till now, I do not know who that person is. He said, “bro, demand for your CAC.”

I no tell Ubi. I buy ticket, fly go Abuja. As I come reach Abuja, I come demand from the girl wey na one of my control wey dey there. She come facilitate am fast. After two days e don come out. We bring am come my room. Ah bro, when I read this thing ehn, bro, as at that time we don do “Kukere”, we don do “Ur Waist”, we don do everywhere. We don dey make bar. When we dey make that bar, because we no get any investor, and because as I dey see am say as we dey put we dey progress, so I now focused more on just building the label and building everything. So I put all my investment there. And him too, if I no approve money for song, if song no do well him go con meet me say ‘you know say I tell you to approve this money.’ Since then I con feel say make him no dey give me that excuse, so I con dey approve moni, I no know who say everything wey I dey do all these years, all the shows. Even that Dana flight, na God use me save the whole Triple MG from that Dana flight wey crash.

You guys were supposed to have a show?

Bro, that Dana flight wey crash, we were not far from 18, 20 minutes to the airport. In fact, the guy wey book our flight don call us say him go delay the flight small cos of us. Because say him wan collect him ‘egunje’ (commission). Bro, we dey go airport- you see me ehn, my instincts no dey lie. E never lie to me before. I tell them say make we turn back. Everybody con complain. I remember for car that day everybody con dey say ‘ah Iyanya you don get one babe wey you wan Bleep’. I actually get, but that was not the main reason. I just ask say ‘what are we going to do in Lagos?’ they say ‘nothing’. I say ‘why can’t we just do a Sunday evening in Abuja and go back tomorrow morning and start work? Na Sunday now, you just spend your Sunday for air dey waste time dey go dey delay flight. I just use idea turn that thing down. We no reach where we dey go. We try one place to eat, e no work. Before we reach the next one, my phone dey ring, everybody dey call me ‘Are you okay?’

I say wetin happen? them say flight don crash. I say which crash? Them say the Dana that took off from Abuja. As I dey answer that call, Emma Nyra dey call me for inside that restaurant with tears con hug me say ‘I love you, you just saved my life’. Emma dey cry, she no fit hold that tears, Emma dey look me say, “G, I could have been dead today.” It was a very emotional time.

That one con pass. I no know say all these things wey dey happen when these CAC papers come, my name no dey anywhere. So if I bin die for that flight, nothing, ehn? The people wey Ubi pack full Triple M G documents na him brothers. I keep quiet, I no tell am. Na one our egbon (Godfather) wey dey show us love I come go meet. He shock! That time I dey date Freda Francis. I tell Freda. Everybody shock. That our egbon con call am come I con talk say I wan leave. Him always dey get one way of convincing our egbon and because say na he dey support us that time, hee con say make I no leave, make we just settle am.

But guess what ehn, from the day wey I hold that paper, my interest, my happiness, my zeal, ended.

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Can Iyanya not speak English, please? My brain is bleeding from reading that nonsense.