Charly Boy also claimed 50 Cent apologised after he confronted him at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport
Human rights activist, singer and actor, Charles Oputa, aka Charly Boy has revealed how he handled Eedris Abdulkareem’s saga with American rapper, 50 Cent in 2004.
The close to two decades incident, made the headlines, after the two artistes had a confrontation inside an airplane at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport.
Speaking on the saga in the latest episode of The Honest Bunch Podcast, Charly Boy recounted that he was styling his hair when he received a call from his colleague, Eedris Abdulkareem.
According to him, the rapper told him that he was being manhandled by the bouncers of black American singer, 50 Cent.
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He went on to say he had to abandon what he was doing and mobilised about three thousand men riding on bikes to the airport, where the Nigerian artist was.
He further narrated that when he got to the scene, he was briefed by Abdulkareem and he went to confront 50 Cent.
Charly Boy said: “Back then, if I was walking past the motorcycle park and I waved my hand, all the motorcyclists would follow me. So, I stormed the airport with almost 3000 bikes.”
“On getting to the airport, I asked Eedris to tell me what happened and he said he was booked for a show alongside 50 Cent and he went to sit in the first class in the plane where the rapper was and his bouncers asked him to leave that the first class space wasn’t for Nigerian artists but he refused, then they beat him up.
“They also beat his bouncer who tried to rescue him from them. 50 Cent was aware of what happened. After Eedris narrated his ordeal, I asked where 50 Cent was and they pointed to an SUV. So I went into the SUV to confront him.
“Already, 50 Cent’s security team was seeing the tension around the airport with the bike men moving around. I was also very high that day. I said to 50 Cent, ‘You are the one beating my people in their own country? You came to Nigeria and you are beating my people.'”
The veteran singer added that 50 Cent apologised after he confronted him in his SUV.
