Why I fell out with Psquare – May D opens up

Nigerian Afropop singer, May D has opened up about his fallout with Psquare and Square Records, revealing that the twin brothers cost him a deal with Akon.

The singer in a snippet of an unreleased episode of the Honest Bunch podcast, said his troubles with the record label started when he was not involved in the music video shoot for the remix of ‘Chop My Money’ which featured the American-Senegalese artiste Akon.

According to May D, 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, when he got to America,  Akon offered him several deals and promised to fly him back to back. 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.

He said, “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.

“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.”