Legendary Nigerian musician, Innocent Idibia, popularly known as 2Face, has stated that the \u2018African Queen\u2019 song turned out to be a problem for him despite the spark it gave to his career.<\/p>\n
Abia Radio News<\/strong> reports that \u2018African Queen\u2019 is one of 2Face\u2019s top songs that resonates with many of his fans.<\/p>\n However, 2Face, in a recent episode of the Entertainment & Lifestyle show, said the song has been a burden despite the huge blessings it brought to him.<\/p>\n The 50-year-old musician added that he is grateful for everything.<\/p>\n He said, \u201cAfrican Queen has been a very huge blessing, and e come turn to problem join for me. But I am grateful for everything.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n African Queen, released in 2004, propelled 2Face to international stardom as he became the first African artist to win the BET, MTV Europe, and MOBO awards.<\/p>\n However, the song has remained a subject of controversy for over two decades.<\/p>\n The first controversy surrounding the authorship of the song arose from 2Face\u2019s former bandmate, Blackface\u2019s repeated claims that 2Face had stolen the song from him.<\/p>\n 2Face, in a previous interview, admitted that \u2018African Queen\u2019 was originally a collaboration with his former bandmates, but denied stealing the song.<\/p>\n Additionally, a new controversy arose after Billboard named the song the \u201cgreatest Afrobeats song of all time\u201d in August 2025.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n \u00a9 2025 Abia Radio News, a division of Tee Global Innnovations [abiaradios@gmail.com]. [email\u00a0protected]<\/strong><\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Legendary Nigerian musician, Innocent Idibia, popularly known as 2Face, has stated that the \u2018African Queen\u2019 song turned out to be a problem for him despite the spark it gave to his career. Abia Radio News reports that \u2018African Queen\u2019 is one of 2Face\u2019s top songs that resonates with many of his fans. However, 2Face, in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":237252,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3],"tags":[1115,195],"class_list":["post-237251","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-2baba","tag-2face"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/2face-Idibia-1000x600.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237251","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=237251"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237251\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/237252"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=237251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=237251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=237251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}