Tuface
Is there anyone that can lay claim to being the purveyor or custodian of wealth? Hardly. So, why are people insinuating that the seemingly innocuous, feel-good song, Only Me, off the international album of comeback music star, Tuface Idibia, Unstoppable, lending credence to this assertion, was dedicated to combating youthful footballer, Mikel Obi?
In the song, Tuface preaches, in vernacular, humility in whatever position one found himself saying poignantly though, ”Not everybody would play (foot)ball. So, make you just dey do your thing, make I do my thing, live and let living instead of to be feeling like a king, on top of nothing, stop the bragging, on top the posing.”
The chorus, delivered in Yoruba, admonishes that one should never think he is the only one that would be rich because “all of us will make this money.” Since the song became a street anthem, breaking all barriers and reasserting the singer‘s musical pre-eminence, there had been a groundswell of insinuations that Only Me was actually addressed to Mikel who is alleged to be so arrogant that he is not on speaking terms with some of his teammates in the Super Eagles.
The story goes that the two superstars met in a London club where Tuface made to greet his countryman only for Mikel to allegedly refuse recognising his presence while also brusquely shunning his greetings. Despite the intervention of Nigerians in the club who tried to introduce Tuface as a popular Nigerian musician, Mikel, allegedly did not budge. The music star, it was gathered, bore the embarrassment with equanimity, or so people thought, until the song was released. But Tuface demurred. Days back, he wrote on his page on social networking site, Twitter, “I hear people saying that the song, Only Me, is for Mikel Obi. For the record, I don‘t have any problem with him. He’s a talented (foot)baller and I have met him once.”
Source:http://www.punchng.com/Articl.aspx?theartic=Art201010290375185
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