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 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 this 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, 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.”
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