The Comedian Ayo Makun, popularly known as AY Comedian, has opened up about his longtime beef with his colleague, Basket Mouth.
In an interview with media personality Chude Jideonwo, AY revealed how Basketmouth used to connect him with events when he was starting out in the comedy industry and how a particular event sparked the rift.
"Back in 2006, Basketmouth had a lot of Saturday gigs, like two or three weddings." So what he used to do at the time was attend one, then leave the venue and catch up in the other, and then you'd need someone else to stand in for you. That is the opportunity I received from him, and I am grateful for it to this day.
"Now, something funny happened. One of the gigs per se, I got his endorsement to go stand in. Normally, we got N30,000 at that time, and N30,000 was everything to me at the moment.
"N30,000 would buy me my pack of indomie, recharge cards, fuel for my ‘I better pass my neighbor’ generator and then the opportunity to pay just one or two people to join me to do one or two skits that I can just quickly put out.
"When I got this job, people were surprised to see me around the venue because they expected a basket." To cut a long story short, the individual was delighted with his performance. There was a contact exchange. Then I walked away.
"I haven't run N30,000 in two weeks." I decided to ask for N30,000 because I hadn't seen the N30,000 and I was hungry in Iponri, and he said this guy hasn't remitted, this person hasn't paid, and they're not happy about it all.
"And then me, I was like, Ahahn... But this person, na, shebi, you tell me you were impressed and happy? Give my oga some money, make my oga settle me, and all of that. Me, I don’t care if you give Basket N100,000 for the job; my N30,000 is my N30,000.
"It was very funny to now hear from them, knowing that this full payment had been made long before the event."
"I said ‘O-kay, is that the situation?’. So I forwarded this one’s message to this one and vice versa. So now they started fighting each other and all of that.
"I didn’t do that because I wanted to get at Basketmouth per se." I did that because I was hungry; I was hustling and needed food on the table at the time.
