‘I CREATED CONTROVERSY TO PROMOTE MY SONG,’ SPEED DARLINGTON APOLOGIZES AFTER VIRAL VIDEO CAUSES OUTRAGE
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By: Motunrayo Aniwura
Controversial Speed Darlington, a Nigerian artist, has expressed regret to his followers after a video went viral in which he seemed to confess to having sex with a 15-year-old virgin girl.
A decade-old interaction with a teenage girl was described in disturbing detail by the artist in the original video, which has since been widely denounced on social media. This caused immediate outrage and prompted calls for legal action.
On Wednesday, however, Speed Darlington asserted in a follow-up video on his Instagram page that the viral narrative was only a marketing hoax designed to promote his most recent music album.
To his supporters and everyone else who might have found the video insulting, he also expressed regret.
‘’All my followers pissed off about the video I recorded in which I spoke about me sleeping with a 15-year-old, I am an artist. I need controversy to eat. If you are not trending, you are not getting booked. Simple! Nobody is booking something that is not trending.
“I have a new song now. The song is talking about f#ck this, f#ck that. This is my genre. I do not perform Christian music. When I dropped my song, I needed f#ck contents to push it,. That is what I was doing. Don’t give it more like than it is supposed to have.
“If any of you are offended, it’s alright. Apologies.” he said.
on Tuesday revealed that Speed Darlington received backlash after he appeared to confess to defiling a 15-year-old girl in a long-lived Instagram video.
He described the occurrence in Igbo, and the Lagos State Domestic and Sexual Violence Agency and the National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons both responded quickly to it.
During an Instagram live in 2022, Speed Darlington disclosed a fight he had with a neighbor who claimed he had gotten too close to a 16-year-old girl.
The singer filmed two women outside his apartment while he walked around his living room holding a knife to threaten them, saying, “They continually invade my privacy, opening my window, opening my curtain. I’m alone, two people attacking me.”
One of the women, also filming him, was heard saying, “You’ve met your match. Speed comes outside. I will deal with you; I will deal with you. Why are you running? Continue your live video, let them know you’re a rapist. You want to start messaging a 16-year-old girl, a house girl. Open this door, come out.”
“I’m looking for a girlfriend number two, 16 to 20 years old. Anyways all these announcements are a waste. I just need to do what I did before; which is go do a show and spend a week in the village after the show, find somebody to bring her to Lagos,” he said.
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