Controversial music producer Prince “Oskid” Tapfuma and his
label Oskid Productions have parted ways with AB Communications subsidiary Six
Finger Records amid alleged contractual breaches and unprofessionalism on the
former’s part, it has emerged.
The two parties entered into a partnership in 2016, which
saw the award-winning producer set base at AB’s ZiFM Stereo studios in
Newlands.
“Oskid and his team were sent packing from the studio
recently and this is because there was a misunderstanding, hazvina kupera
zvakanaka [it did not end well],” said the source close to the developments.
“The guys had become very unprofessional and as we speak
there are artistes complaining about their conduct that includes delaying
people’s projects and generally inconveniencing artistes.”
This is not the first time the once red hot Oskid has been
accused of mischief. In 2016 the Standard ran a story where he was being accused
of “double bookings, not turning up for scheduled sessions and treating some
big names as sacred cows at the expense of other paying artistes”.
While his mobile lines went unanswered, Oskid Productions
representative Shepherd Tsandukwa dismissed as false the alleged circumstances
leading to the separation saying that they took the new route to grow their
brand.
“There is nothing true about this [alleged
unprofessionalism], but yes he [Oskid] did split with ZiFM. The move from the
station is going to make us more open to work with everyone because some people
had concluded that we were part of ZiFM and that made it hard to grow,” said
Tsandukwa, adding that they were now open to “work with many people”.
“We have now grown bigger and better and we have a lot of
projects in the pipeline like the Oskid Talent Search, (but) we respect ZiFM
for where they have taken us so far and we will continue working with them.”
However, in a conflicting statement, AB Communications boss
Susan Makore told Standard Style that they had to offload the Oskid team due to
differences in their vision of the future.
“Due to different interests, we have decided not to renew
the agreement that we had and that is the situation,” said Makore without
divulging the “interests”.
“I cannot disclose the projects that we want to pursue now,
but we just thought that our direction into the future was different from
theirs, so we just felt that it was time to part ways.”
Meanwhile, it is uncertain how the nomadic Oskid, who has
hopped from Kenako Music, Million Dynasty and now AB Communications, among
other stables that succeeded the move from Gweru — where his career begun —
will fare under a new establishment yet to be revealed.
However, his move to the capital city has so far been
marked by massive achievements that include production of some award-winning
hit songs for artistes like Winky D, Jah Prayzah, Killer T and Fungisai, among
others.
Personally, he has won numerous awards including Best
Producer at the Zimdancehall Awards, Zimbabwe Music Awards for Producer of the
Year, and Best Producer at the Star FM People’s Choice Awards. Standard
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