Goldie, J Martins At Daggers Drawn Over SA Video Shoot Drama

Between Goldie and J Martins, who is a bigger star? If you can honestly answer that question, then you would have arrived at half the answer to this current brouhaha going on between both Nigerian super stars.

Reportedly, Goldie invited J Martins to South Africa in November to appear in the video shoot for their duet “Give It To Me” but the “Oyoyo” crooner demanded a business class flight ticket which she couldn’t afford and after much persuasion, he accepted to be in SA for the shoot with a caveat – he will be met by Goldie herself. But to his utter dismay, a representative was sent instead.

J Martins declined to follow the rep since he wasn’t known to him especially as he was in a foreign country and needed to be safety conscious.

The drama took a turn for the worse when J Martins checked into a $700/night hotel (approx. N108,500) again, declining the hotel already booked for him by Goldie. That day, both singers couldn’t see as J Martins feigned tiredness and a bit of sickness and wanted to be left alone.

On the morning of the shoot, J Martins supposedly asked for a refund of his hotel bills which summed up at $3,500 and after much cajoling, he agreed to accept a refund of $1400. If the Kennis Music signed act thought her worse days were over, she was mistaken.

J Martins didn’t show up on set till 3pm later that day and when he eventually did, he insisted on receiving his $1400 refund. That settled, he started to act unprofessional – complaining about the costumes, refusing to take instructions from the set handlers, taking phone & making phone calls on set etc.

Appalled at the turn of events, the video shoot crew, who were mostly whites, packed their equipments and left unceremoniously and Goldie is upset (you remember upset Goldie in BBA Star Game?) because she lost quite some money in the process

Goldie and Roki Fight tears house apart (talks about her favourite sex position)

The drama never ends! This afternoon, Starmate Goldie threw her toys out of the cot and verbally attacked Zimbabwean Housemate Roki for what she termed “disrespect”. 

Goldie flew out of the house like the proverbial bullet and fired off a verbal fist to the jaw. 

Between sobs, the Nigerian Housemate threatened to leave and go back home because Roki does not know how to talk to her. 

“He always picks on me and says I have fire inside, then uses vulgar language around me”, she complained.
Roki didn’t seem moved and instead brushed her off, telling her to “Shut the eff up”. He then swiftly backed-pedaled and apologised, after realising Goldie was not taking any of this lying down. 

DKB and Prezzo scrambled to her side and tried to calm her down, to no avail. DKB scooped Goldie up in his arms, like a groom taking his bride over the threshold and managed to calm her down. 

When Roki tried to push for a chance to apologise, the boys advised him to let it go and apologise later.

Goldie is in the building. The controversial ‘Touch my Body’ singer, who is signed to Kennis Music recently spoke to online radio Zoodrums regarding her image, her relationships with other artistes in the industry, and even answered some naughty questions. You’ll enjoy it…

Let me start by asking what is your least favourite séxual position?

I wouldn’t know because I haven’t tried one that I didn’t like yet, so if I did try one that I didn’t like, I would…

So what’s your favourite séx position?

 I think I’m very old school…hmmm. The missionary style…

No. That’s wrong. Goldie is not allowed to do it the Missionary style.

 I’m not?

You are not. You are Goldie, you are crazy. You wear all these outlandish out fits and people are supposed to go like ‘What the hell’ when they look at you.

We are really the timid ones in the end.

Really?

(Laughs) Don’t get the wrong impression…(laughs) Everybody thinks I’m this monster, let people know that I am boring.

You’ve been on the scene for a few years and then someone, for example, Tiwa Savage, just swoops in. How does it feel when you go for events and people are all over an artiste like Tiwa Savage? Do they react more because of the raunchy séxual image or the pretentious one?

I wouldn’t say Tiwa Savage just swooped in. She’s been someone who has been doing music for a long time …

I mean in the Nigerian system.

You have to understand that music comes from a long while back. This repertoire is on her profile. If you see someone that has been signed on Sony Music as a song writer for five years. Someone who has done competitions, she tried to compete in X factor and you saw the pain when she was turned down. She just deserves a break, and besides, she’s a hard worker. She’s talented and a fantastic person. She was around for my birthday and she was like I’m going to come and eat jollof rice and she tweeted it ‘Goldie, your rice rocks’. Tiwa is like the sweetest female artiste. You cannot hate on her. You have to love her. For all, I think she deserves all she gets.

Are you going to be doing collaborations with her?

We have spoken about it severally, we’re just looking for a subject matter.

What do you think it’s going to sound like?

I don’t know, but we are just looking for a proper subject matter that would be true to me and true to her.

We hear you have a lot of money and that’s why you have gone so far in the industry. You have got all these fantastic fashion people…

I don’t think it’s about money. I think it’s about talent and about people loving your work. There are people who are rich and have tried singing, but nobody knows who they are, so it’s not about money.

What would you say about your relationship with people in the industry? Do you think that has helped make you a bigger and more successful artiste or a less successful artiste?

What exactly are you asking?

I’m asking if you have a very good relationship with other artistes in the industry.

Oh yes! I do. I’m very polite with everybody. Everybody is always polite and we all understand and appreciate each other and that’s what counts. Unfortunately, I would love to have more time to spend with people, but I don’t have enough time. Throughout last year, I think I saw my dad just once. That’s how little time I have to spend with even my family.

What do you think about D’banj’s recent utterances about the ‘Occupy Nigeria’ protest that went down?

Its unfortunate. You know, what I have realised is that there are lots of things that are wrong in this country and lots that are right, but unfortunately, we dwell on the wrong ones. D’banj interviewed our President when he was campaigning. He had his view, so did so many. D’banj, in his own way, is trying to satisfy his conscience. Nobody knows what he is going through, and I feel as outsiders we shouldn’t judge based on what he says. I can’t judge him because I don’t know him or his mental state…

What would you have done differently?

Under what circumstances?

If you had to interview the President…

First of all, I am an artiste. I would not have interviewed the President, maybe if I was a presenter, I would, but I am an artiste and my job is to pass my message across to people through my music. My job is not to interview the president, so we cannot compare because it probably would not have happened.

Album Review – All That Glitters is not Goldie

All that glitters is not gold. Goldie’s reconstructed Gold Reloaded LP reminds us of that. Beneath the shiny surface of her pop contraptions lies the fact that Goldie isn’t much of a singer. To be fair, she has never positioned herself as a vocalist, but more of an entertainer.

On Gold Reloaded, Goldie recruits a solid crew of beat makers, Sarz, OJB, Master Kraft, Tyrone, Oga Jojo, Kas Beats and Legendary Beats. She rides on their pop-based beats with her somewhat feeble voice to create tracks. The result is mixed. Goldie surprises on ‘What’s My Name’ produced by Master Kraft which is a credible dance track. It’s so good that it is quite shocking that Goldie could have come up with such a track. Another surprising track is the Timbaland-influenced ‘Breathe Again’ produced by a veteran of the boards OJB Jezreel. OJB uses Goldie’s limited vocals to great use and comes up with a song that will leave many baffled. Truthfully, Goldie shouldn’t be on a song this good. OJB squeezed water out from the rock with this song, showing that he still has the juice. Rap lovers might even like ‘Hands Up’ featuring Banky W and Magnito, where Mr. W rhymes a verse on the hip-hop joint.

The goodness, however, stops there. Goldie’s shortcomings are glaring on other songs. Her voice is limited. In this pop era where acts like Rihanna and Cassie have record deals because they have learned to use very little of what they have, Goldie hasn’t discovered how to use her voice to great effect.

‘Shoko loko bang oshe’ is a poor song that rambles on and on, ‘Fine’ could have been a better song if a singer with a better voice rendered it. It has the potential to be great but it’s not just for Goldie. ‘Who’s the boss’ feat Baba Kekeis…well, your guess is as good as mine. ‘Point and kill’ featuring Kas just belongs in (if it ever existed) Pop Hell. ‘Lulu’ produced by Kas sounds a whole lot better.

The remaining part of the album is filled with remixes of her hit singles ‘Gboko Lowo E’, ‘Don’t Touch My Body’ and ‘Jawo Jawo’. The original versions of these songs are bonus tracks on the LP.

While this album from Goldie is far from the real precious metal, as it only produces a few shiny moments, these moments are fleeting, and too far apart for you to mine into something more durable and lasting.