The launch of the book titled ‘A Very Good Bad Guy: The Story of Innocent ‘2face’ Idibia’, witnessed a large turn out of entertainers and industry heads with Tee A as host and Ali Baba as book reviewer.
In this report, we bring you 10 punchlines from Ali Baba’s review of the book published, fully funded and edited by NET News, owners of Newsroom, THENETNG, Orin, NECLive and Star, as part of the NET Book Series, a dedicated project to document an important era in Nigeria’s creative industry.
In the words of Ali Baba;
1. The whole 396 pages of this books tells us how much of very good bad guy 2face Idibia is; his travails, challenges and how he;s conquered them all.
2. It takes you through a trip of 2face Idibia’s life; it chronicles his life from grass to grace, peaks of his glory as well as some unwanted details that shouldn’t have been added by the publishers.
3. The book highlights 2face’s humility, doggedness, admirable character, creativity, accessibility, his attraction to armed robbers (laughs) and humanitarian disposition
4. The book shows a celebration of effort, endorsements, cocktail of beefs, disappointment and international tours.
5. The books shows a deep insight of family, bonding and it’s relevance to the success and failure of an artiste.
6. The book will show you how generous 2face Idibia is as well his career as a motivational being.
7. In the book you’ll notice that security is something an artiste should take seriously, because a lot of celebrities suffer ‘fan violence’.
8. The books shows 2face as an entrepreneur, a record label owner and night club owner
9. All through the book, you’ll see the story of how to become a star and the fact that your creativity needs to connect with your audience that’s why he sings mostly in pidgin to effectively pass across his message.
10. You’ll also see that 2face has been selective about the people he chose to work with over the years.