For Naeto C, the storm over the nature of his contractual agreement with Storm Records is definitely over. The rapper has finally released a new album for his fans, who had been longing for it after a long break, which was apparently due to matters having to do with the record label.
In a recent interview with The Punch Newspaper, the ’10 over 10′ rapper, bore his mind on why it took him 3 years to release another album. Hear him: ‘To be honest, it took me a while to release this album because a lot of things were happening with the label, Storm Records that I was working with. The label had problem and it affected what we had already built. You see the success of other prominent record labels in the country and you can see what some artistes have done for the record label. It shows. I did not have that. Even when I got married, I was still releasing songs but what happened with Storm Records affected me a bit and things were not the same again. It was no longer fun to do music there because those were the people I started with. Having to lose the people I started with did not put me in a very good mood to do music. I later got over it and I have been working on this album. It is more of a personal thing.’
But was Naeto C actually signed to the label? This is how he responded: ‘I was never actually signed to Storm Records. There was never any paper work and when problems began, I decided that I had to take matters into my own hands as opposed to leaving it in the hands of people in Storm Records because I knew that they already had issues there. It was just a function of telling, Obi Asika, that I had some songs that I wanted to release independently and he understood. At a point, I actually brought a management company into the picture but they were scared. We never had any issues in terms of me stepping aside.’
And speaking on his effort to still make things work with the label, he recounted :’… I tried my best because the owners of the record label, Obi Asika and Olisa Adibua, are my big brothers. I have known them for a very long time and Obi Asika is my cousin. I have made numerous efforts to see if it is something that could be salvaged but when you are dealing with adults, you have to be careful. I did try numerous times to make things work,’ he concluded on the matter.