Nigeria’s reggae
music star, Majek Fashek, who was recently rumoured to be having medical and
mental challenges, has claimed that he is not sick.
The Rainmaker was rumoured to have gone berserk, and was chained
down at his Gowon Estate, Ipaja, Lagos residence by concerned neighbours,
especially when he gets out of control.
It was also reported that Majek now walks around talking to
himself and sometimes sits at a bus stop around his area playing his guitar
while kids make fun of him. But the musician has denied it all, reiterating
that he is mentally and medically balanced.
Speaking with P.M.NEWS on phone yesterday, Majek said he
doesn’t know where the rumour about his purported ill health emanated from.
He described the development as the handiwork of idle people who
are bent on making issue out of nothing.
“I’m okay. Whoever says that I’m not okay is actually the one
that should check himself. As for me, I have become an Orisha (semi-god) so
nothing can happen to me. I know what I’m doing,” Majek said one phone.
Earlier in the day, while speaking to P.M.NEWS reporter, Majek’s Personal Assistant
and Media Manager, MC Morris, debunked the rumour of the musician’s failing
health.
“Don’t mind those people saying rubbish; baba (Majek) is okay. I
was still with him yesterday. When I get to his place today, I will put you
through to him on phone.”
During a recent interview with P.M.NEWS reporter, Majek, whose real names are
Majekodunmi Fasheki, said: “See, people must talk. But they make you more
popular; that is the truth. You cannot fight the press, you cannot fight the
media. They are the ones that will tell the people what is going on, so I
cannot fight the media.”
He further talked about Gangster Raster, the new album he is
currently working on. The album, in the words of Majek, is expected to
resuscitate his dwindling music career.
“It’s a new ace which someone like Ras Kimono cannot do. Kimono
is my boy. I produced him and Victor Essiet and a whole lot of others. What I’m
saying is that my new album is not in Kimono’s level; I’m on a higher level
just like Michael Jackson and James Brown who was a master to Fela Kuti.”
Majek further said that he and MC Morris now have a company
called Underground System Records. The company, which he claimed is already
registered in Los Angeles, California, was created because of young musicians.
“Morris is close to the young ones like Tuface and Wizkid, and
I’m happy to see them shine. We intend to register the company here as well and
use it as a platform to get the youths out of the streets and criminality. I’m
an American citizen. I may decide to go back there now because my wife and
children are there. But I’m here because Nigerians are suffering and there is
nobody to speak for them. Fela is gone, and Femi cannot do it because he is
weak. I fear nobody because I’m a gangster…”
Majek is convinced that he is back in Nigeria to lead a
revolution, because according to him, it takes a revolution to make a solution.
“There are many kinds of revolution. There is bloody revolution,
but we don’t want that for Nigerians. What Nigerians need is a tactful revolution,
so that we won’t shed human blood. What we want is revolution of freedom. Like
Bob Marley said, “emancipate your self from mental slavery… That is the
revolution I’m working on. I have a temple and shrine, and everyday, I pray
against bloodshed among my people.”
Source:
PMNews
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