Nigerian Rapper 'Vector' Arrested Twice; At Loggerheads With Record Label, YSG.

  

Nigerian rapper Olanrewaju Ogunmefun, popularly known as Vector Tha Viper is currently at war with the record label he's signed to, YSG Ent.

The disagreement between Vector and his label started a few months back after the rapper complained about his progress-rate and the label's nonchalant attitude towards his career. He simply suggested more professional hands be employed to help his career, which the label took as a threat, and when they refused to heed to his suggestions, Vector hired hands he was paying personally.

He has been with the label for over four years and never asked to leave. According to his camp, all he asked for was more work and results. Things actually got worse after Vector took a self-sponsored vacation to the US and returned to meet a furious his record boss, claiming he went to the States to sign a record deal.
 
Some weeks after that confrontation, Vector received an invitation letter from the Commissioner of Police of Lagos state and was summoned to the Area-E command (Festac). At the Area-E command, he was presented with a "breach of contract" petition, claiming that he has engaged external hands to work for him. His father who is a retired police officer hat to get involved and ensured the case was settled amicably.
 

label boss, Obiora Obianodo

Feeling unsafe and threatened, Vector surrendered the car and apartment provided for him by the label and got himself new ones. I guess this didn't sit well with the label boss, Obiora Obianodo. 

Vector who thought the heat was over, went about his daily activities unsuspecting of further harrassment. 

On the 10th of June however, when he was mean to shoot his scene of the Ghetto RMX video by Shank, he was seized by men of the police force at his childhood neighbourhood (Mcarthy Barracks, Obalende, Lagos), which was the location for the video shoot. 

His personal manager Michael Umoru was arrested alongside him and they were taken back to Festac, where they were detained from 3pm through 10pm when his lawyers came through.

According to sources close to Vector, he has been receiving series of personal threats from the label, and he hasn't felt so safe and really did not want to talk to the press about it.

Just yesterday, his twitter account(@vectorYSG) with over 100,000 followers suddenly disappeared, and has been confirmed to be deactivated by his label.

Vectors manager says a new twitter handle @VECTORTHAVIPER has been activated and is now his artistes official handle, alongside the launch of his official Website www.vectorthaviper.com. As at the time of compiling this report, efforts to reach his record label has been abortive.

Culled from LindaIkeji