Artist Innoss’B has accused Fally Ipupa of being behind the failed feature project he was to do with American artist Akon as a reward after his victory in the first season of the Vodacom Superstar contest.
He revealed the story during a program broadcast on Youtube.
“A sister who was among the organizers of the Vodacom Super Star show wanted Akon to be interested in our artist. But Akon had focused on me since I was the product of the contest he sponsored. So he didn’t know the Congolese artists, the only artist he knew was the little one who had won the competition he was sponsoring “, he said.
He continued:
“It was when we went to South Africa, I understood that they were placing this old man to sing with me and that Akon was interested in this song”
Innocent Balume recounted meeting Fally Ipupa when Akon took him to South Africa for the 2010 World Cup. The native of Goma said Dicap la Merveille was introduced to Akon, as a dancer and had a very specific goal.
“We understood that despite all of this, Akon was not interested and that he only cared about me. That was how my project was sacrificed (…). When I came back here, there was no more follow-up for the song,… With childhood, I was only there with my big brother, we didn’t have a big management because we were discovering things while being in it. That’s how we understood that wars were going on around us, ”said Innoss’B.