Many would recall that fast rising female rapper, Yewande Ishola Abiodun, better known as Tipsy, began her career as an artiste signed under JJC-led Big Boys Entertainment in 2011 after the music star formerly based in the UK, discovered her while dancing for 9ice a year earlier.
He later got her under his wings and signed her under his record label in 2011 before they parted ways in 2012 although sources say the circumstance of their parting hardly leaves any room for a cordial relationship between them.
In a recent chat with NET, Tipsy explained how she met JJC became an act on his label.
‘I started out as a dancer, then I got introduced to JJC who was at that point trying to re-start his record label, so he signed me on to his record label. At that time, it was called Big Boys Entertainment. We met around late 2010 but he officially signed me around 2011.’
Speaking on why she parted ways with the , said: ‘Our relationship broke up in 2012. There’s not much as to why it broke up, I think it’s just normal when you sign an artiste, you basically sign them so you can develop them and get them to a point where you feel they can move on on their own, so that’s really what happened. We all agreed mutually.’
Tipsy recently dropped a comeback single after she had been off the scene for a while titled ‘S’ole’ and featuring Olamide.