Baba Nee Replies 9ice With ‘2ice As 9ice’

It has been common knowledge among industry insiders for a long time that the person who has been on the receiving end of several verbal jibes in 9ice’s previous in several tracks in 9ice’s Gongo Aso album, and his most recent ‘tradition’ album, is Baba Nee, an upcoming artiste and a contemporary of 9ice. Baba Nee has apparently been made the butt of 9ice jokes in songs because he who has been alleging for a long time that 9ice has been stealing his lyrics for his tracks.


Finally it appears that Baba Nee Has had enough of the verbal jabs and public ridicule and has finally decided to take the fight to 9ice both lyrically and legally.

From all indications it appears Baba Nee apart from the fact that Baba Nee has retained legal counsel to take 9ice to court for using his lyrics without credit, he has also decided to fight music with music by releasing a very controversial hit single titled ‘2ice as 9ice’ in which he openly accused 9ice of stealing his lyrics and then boldly challenged him to a public lyrical fight for the members of the public to judge who is the real king of tradition.

The ‘2ice as 9ice’ track is a very hip party track full of proverbs directly challenging 9ice and insiders are already saying that the titanic fight between the established 9ice and the new upstart Baba Nee is a battle for the ages. Baba Nee has also raised the stakes by shooting a very explicit music video that will leave no one in doubt that there is a serious beef between the two of them.

Many music lovers may not be aware of the problem between the two but it appears the problem between Baba Nee and 9ice go way back to almost 3 years ago. Baba Nee claimed that he used some lyrics at a contest organized by Kenny St Brown sometime in 2005. According to him, 9ice was also present at this event. Shortly thereafter, 9ice released his first single and later an album which Baba Nee claimed contained some of the lyrics he had used at the Kenny St Brown music contest. In addition, he said he noticed 9ice started using some of his moves that he had perfected over the years to the knowledge and observation of 9ice.

Deep investigations into the genesis of this feud show that there has a been simmering controversy between the two for about 2 years now with Baba Nee accusing 9ice of stealing his lyrics for some of the tracks in his first album Gongo Aso without giving him credit and most recently in his latest album titled Tradition. According to Baba Nee the has been using some of the lyrics and singing style that 9ice used in his ‘Gongo Aso’ album since 2004 and he is upset that 9ice did not give him any credit or apologise when confronted . According to BaBa Nee ‘If anybody can get the video footage of the 2004 competition organized by Kenny St Brown, a concert in which I performed before 9ice, they will hear me use some of the lyrics that showed up in the Gongo Aso album. When I tried to complain to 9ice and some of our mutual friends, I was rebuffed and generally ignored. Since I didn’t have any money to fight the fast rising 9ice and I had no label to take up the fight for me, I was forced to accept this flagrant use of my lyrics and style without being given any credit.’

To make matters worse, 9ice also threw jabs at Baba Nee in his previous album calling him all sorts of derogatory names and making fun of him in several tracks including Gongo Aso.

It appears that Baba Nee might have decided to let the matter rest and the controversy would have died last year if only 9ice had not gone ahead again to use some of the lyrics of Baba Nee in his new ‘Tradition’ album particularly in the track titled ‘Pete-Pete’.

When Baba Nee heard the album and noticed that the ‘Petepete’ he had been talking about in his single track since last year was also used in 9ice new album he lost his cool and decided to challenge 9ice once and for all on this matter. Apart from challenging 9ice in court, Baba Nee finally decided to fight music with music by releasing a new single track titled ‘2ice as 9ice’ in which he essentially called out 9ice to a battle of lyrics so that the public can judge for themselves who is the real king of tradition. Baba Nee believes that if only 9ice would come out and join him in a straight-up urban lyrics fight, it would be clear to everybody who is stealing whose lyrics.

It has been reported that this development, coupled with the threatened lawsuit, as well as the courage and determination of Baba Nee to challenge 9ice on his own turf through music has got the 9ice in such a frenzy that 9ice is pulling out all the stops to prevent the 2ice as 9ice album from hitting the airwaves.