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Reactions as Skepta’s new single ‘Tony Montana’ features Portable

“Portable was not joking when he said he will collect Grammy Award.’’

• January 30, 2024
Skepta and Portable  
Skepta and Portable  [Credit: Meiza Ng]

British rapper and record producer Joseph Adenuga popularly known as Skepta has teamed up with Nigerian street hop artiste Habeeb Okikiola known as Portable to release a single ‘Tony Montana.’

The grime MC announced on his official Tik Tok page that he featured Portable in his new song.

Posting a snippet of the song, he captioned it “#Skepta & #Portable – Tony Montana (Jae5 on production).”

After the linkup between the both artistes at British fashion show awards 2023, they finally released a song together and the unexpected collaboration has turned heads in the showbiz space.

Tik Tok user @literally.stunner said “can’t believe portable can flow like this.” 

@alizzyjayy said “Skepta and Portable isn’t a thing I thought would happen.”

 @godwin00111 said “Portable was not joking when he said he will collect (a) Grammy Award.”


Skepta took to his X page to also spread the news about the song saying, “Skepta & Portable dropping any minute now.”


An X user, @Comanda_x posted the snippet on X and said “Skepta x Portable unah, Portable ate I fear.” Skepta replied by saying “With @JAE5_ on production. It’s gone! #TonyMontana.”

Speaking about his previous collaborations with African artistes, he said “I said “Agaracha must come back” you say Wiz taught me. I said “Tofiakwa” you say OD taught me, now I say “Sho-Ko-lo-ko-bango-shay” you say na Portable kmt, when you see them ask them. My parents never raised me with (an) English dictionary.”

Portable’s manager, Babyluvgram also posted on Instagram with the caption “babyluvgram Waka jeje make you no jam agbako @skepta @portablebaeby soon come.” 

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