Mr. P: One Named Peter | Vibe.ng Magazine October 2017 Issue | Page 11

family for anything, I’ m sorry … They cannot trade their family for me. It’ s like waking up and asking me“ Your family and me; who is more important here?” And I throw the question to you and you cannot even answer it.
Do you think it’ s possible for any music group to remain together till retirement? It is not possible. It has never happened. Never. Some individuals decided to separate 2 individuals by saying this person Is better than this person but my motto is, if you steal from Peter to pay Paul, you’ re paying P-Square.“ Oh I hate this Peter.” Well if you see 2 of us on stage, with Peter on one side and Paul on the other side, you will watch the show like this.( He covers one side of his face with his phone).
The reason why I started responding to social media is because there was something that came out one time. I was advised“ Peter do not say anything” but it’ s affecting me today. When my brother put out that he sings and writes all the songs. I never responded but right now, there are 50 % of our fans and some groups that believe Peter doesn’ t sing. All because I wanted peace. But now if you say anything about me, I will respond. I don’ t respond harshly if you’ ve noticed. I’ m not like last year. I decided to calm down because my family is more important here. I cannot trade my family. If you do not like it, don’ t be my fan. If you do not like the fact that I am standing for my family, then you should not be my fan and I am serious about it. My brother is my twin, fine, but you keep asking me blood is thicker than water. Obviously you think Paul is my blood and my family is the water? You guys better be out of your minds.
Being apart is the best solution at the moment. It’ s not pride. It’ s not ego. It’ s respect. We’ ve lost it.
The highest point of Peter’ s success has got to be going from absolutely nobody to becoming an influential figure in the society and changing a large part of Nigeria’ s notorious reputation through the music. He had received numerous calls from the“ who is who” of the society, over and over again, concerning the breakup and it did not sit well with him.‘ It pains me a lot.’ he says in regret.“ It should be an achievement. It should be“ mehnnn I heard how good you guys are doing” not“ What’ s the problem again?”.
‘ I have achieved the fact that when they call my name or my brother’ s name( of course it will still be tagged as P-Square), it can be said that we have done wonderfully well in the society. I think people no longer talk bad about Nigerians anymore. I don’ t want to give the props to only P-Square. I give it to everybody. The Faze, 2 face, Remedies till Davido, Wizkid, Tekno, J martins, Bracket, Flavour, everybody. We have changed people’ s mindset. Nigerians are known as 419ers, scammers, but now, I think our music has diverted that negative thought from people’ s minds.’
From the little glimpse into the plans for him as an individual act, Mr P is a ticking bomb. His Glo sponsored Dance with Peter show which halted due to the numerous conflicts will soon be back in full effect, He has another reality show in the works, he had just paused his tour to be with the Mrs and the babies for a week, he just dropped arguably the most popular music video on the block – Cool it down-, He had just signed an impressive digital marketing and distribution deal with American based Empire records, P Classic records is still going on strong and has a new act called Singer in addition to Papi J and DJ Switch and we might just have a P-Square cartoon show running soon! Even with all these, he chose to go all modest on me.
‘ I’ m upcoming … I will say it. I won’ t lie. I want to say it boldly. The ones that want to insult me, so be it. When I mean I’ m an upcoming artiste, I’ m an established, comfortable, if you wanna use