‘Fatty Bum Bum,’ ‘Remove Your Eye Patch’ – Ruger And BNXN Engage In War Of Words

Nigerian singer, Benson Daniel, popularly known as BNXN, has gone head-to-head with his colleague Micheal Olayinka, alias Ruger, on social media.

Naija News reports that the rift between the duo began in July when Ruger replied a BNXN fan who claimed the latter was a better singer.

In his response, Ruger had insinuated that his success in the music industry was based on his solo songs while BNXN, formerly known as Buju, relied on collaboration to make hits.

“I love Buju, he’s good but he’s not better than me. Everything I’ve done since the beginning was only RUGER. All my hits are JUST RUGER. I’m always proud going on stage around the world with my own hits and everyone is singing along. You see the difference?” he wrote.

BNXN, who recently released his new project, ‘Bad Since ’97, on Wednesday took to Twitter to make a celebratory post after it topped the Apple Music’s Nigerian album chart.

Sharing a picture of the album’s position on Thursday, BNXN tweeted, “What if I, what if I what if I, COOOKKKK #BadSince97”

The line is a reference to Rudger’s hits song, Girlfriend.

Responding to the tweet, Rudger asked BNXN to “get a solo hit then talk to me fatty bum bum.”

Replying BNXN wrote: “The project will ALWAYS be more important than the hit! Look at Burna Boy! That’s my yardstick, you think I wanna blow with 1/2 songs and I no fit come back ?? When he was dropping you didn’t call those songs hits back then but you see now? Open your eye patch.”

Sharing pictures of Ruger’s albums, Pandemic EP and The Second Wave (Deluxe edition), which currently sit at number 64 and 33 respectively on the same charts, BNXN also tweeted, “Project #1 and I didn’t have to whine my waist”.

This article was originally published on Naija News