Nigerian music producer and song writer, Vtek Da, Awesome, has revealed the reason Nigerian singing duo, Peter and Paul Okoye of the Psqaure fame had issues which made them allegedly split.
Vtek, who was Psquare’s official producer and the beat
maker behind the duo’s ‘Personally’ hit song and mostly the ‘Double Trouble’
album, added that
to say he was in the know of the imminent break-up of the
brothers is an understatement, as he has spent years with them.
In a chat with Leadership, the Bayelsa-born sound
engineer addressing the claims that he was the genesis of the break-up the twin
brothers experienced said, “To be completely factual, there is a way you can
say that it is true.
“From the beginning the P-square is like Paul the singer
and Peter the dancer. Along the line, I showed up and then Peter started
singing. There were sessions where Paul wasn’t around and Peter is around, and
I tell Peter that we should do it and he says we should wait for Paul, but I
insisted that he can do it and we recorded and it was a great sound.
“Later when he took it to the others, Paul wasn’t
comfortable with it because he believes he is the Singer and should be him who
sings. But I don’t see it that way.”
Asked if Peter’s limitation to dancing and Paul to singer
majorly caused the feud, Vtek said, “I think they just created it out of their
own mind that way. For me I don’t think it should be like that because it was
Peter who did Eje Ajo and it was okay. I did the writing and it was Peter who
did the lead in it. Though Paul didn’t want it simply because ‘Eje Ajo’ was out
of the box, Paul believe in African sound which he justified, but Peter wanted
something different.
“Peter wanted us to do the 2nd verse. We were talking,
waiting for Paul to come and do his part and nothing much happened. There is so
much detail to it which I don’t want to analyze.
“If you want to resist something, resist it on business
line and not on family line. Though they are all great guys, infact Jude is a
great guy.
“Peter has been able to merge his greatness with his work
and Paul is a very good guy especially when you want to chat with him. But when
it comes to the way they are doing business, there are a lot of holes.
“I am speaking for myself because I am an independent
person. The idea of the Vtek being the genesis of the problem, I can’t deny
because of the Vtek subject. I know Peter became bolder when he started
recording with Vtek.
“There was an interview where Peter said Vtek composes
and produces. That makes Peter too to be saying that he wants to be singing too
and that causes a lot of rift. It now sparkled old injuries,” Vtek revealed.
”When asked what his relationship with Peter was like, he
said, “My relationship with Peter was from the beginning very good because Mr.
P is always looking out for me. There was a time a family member of mine needed
to do surgery, I explained it to all of them; including Jude, but it was
actually Peter who helped out.
“I am not saying that he is perfect, but my relationship
with him is perfect. He always tells me that Vtek produce and brings it to me
and let us sees and discuss.
”The song titled, ‘Eje-Ajo’, it was Peter telling me that
let us do something outside the box, different from the usual P-square sound,
some days after I sent him ‘Eje Ajo’ and it was a hit, which really made our
relationship to be stronger.”
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