The real story of Ice Prince’s departure from Chocolate City

Panshak Zamani a.k.a Ice Prince is no longer a signed act on the imprint of Chocolate City Records. Today, the talented rapper released a new song titled ‘Chike‘ featuring Mavin act, Korede Bello. On all the artwork and graphic designs used to promote the song, the ‘famous’ Chocolate City logo was conspicuously missing. Shortly afterwards, […]

Panshak Zamani a.k.a Ice Prince is no longer a signed act on the imprint of Chocolate City Records.
Today, the talented rapper released a new song titled ‘Chike‘ featuring Mavin act, Korede Bello.
On all the artwork and graphic designs used to promote the song, the ‘famous’ Chocolate City logo was conspicuously missing.
Shortly afterwards, he was on Cool FM where he granted an interview and hinted that he’s not been in contract with Choc City for the past three years.
We reached out the Ice Prince’s manager of many years, Tobi Sanni Daniel, CEO of State of Mind Entertainment, who explained that ‘Ice Prince has not been in a contractual relationship with Chocolate City for the past three years’.
The rapper has been with Choc City for almost eight years now, his initial five-year contract expired three years ago, but he chose to stay with the label and not renew his contract.
Explaining further, Tobi says, ‘Just like everything in life, growth happened, there was a rise in his profile that has necessitated a rise in financial value and id very expensive for any label in Nigeria to afford and it didn’t make sense to attempt to stretch the company that far, but the last three years has been very cordial.’
He continued, ‘We chose to stay with the label even without signing papers because we understood the essence of loyalty, we are matured and we are one big family.’
Concluding, he said, ‘So let me clarify once again that no one walked out of a contract, Audu will always remain his godfather and MI Abaga will always remain his mentor.’
Ice Prince has been planting the name of his record company ‘Super Cool Cats’ in our consciousness and now it’s official. He’s no longer under contract with Choc City and his label has already kicked off with the release of his new song, ‘Chike.’
Following in his footsteps is former label mate, Jesse Jagz, who is set to officially announce the launch of his Jagz Nation Records label in a few days.
In 2012, MI Abaga floated his Loopy Records label that led to the speculation that he has parted ways with Choc City. Loopy Records however merged with Choc City in 2015 and MI Abaga became the CEO of the combined label.
Source: NETng