2Baba Tells Calgary Crowd: ‘I Don Stop to Dey Give Belle’ — Singer Repeats His Famous Confession on Stage in Canada
Nigerian music legend 2Baba has repeated his famous confession on stage in Canada, telling a Calgary crowd that he has stopped getting women pregnant, in a moment that quickly went viral across social media.
The singer, born Innocent Idibia, made the remark on Saturday, October 24, 2026, during a live performance at Rehab Lounge in Calgary, Canada. The show, billed as The VIP Experience and organised by @mallamyankee, brought together Nigerian music lovers in the city for an evening of nostalgia and live entertainment.
Midway through his performance of his hit song True Love, 2Baba paused to interact with the audience, playfully searching for his “true love” among the women in the room. When some of the women appeared hesitant to sing along, he turned the moment into a joke that had the whole room laughing.
“For the purpose of this show, I will pretend like I’ve never seen anything before. Where’s my true love? Is she back there? Is she right here? Is she somewhere here?” he said, before delivering the line that set the internet alight.
“As I said, some ladies they fear to shout. See, everywhere I go these days, I make this confession. As I say, some ladies they fear to shout. I say, I don’t fear to shout. Because I don’t stop to dey give woman belle. Ask anyone, they’ll tell you, I don’t do such thing things again.”
In Nigerian Pidgin, the declaration translates simply: “I have stopped getting women pregnant. I don’t do that kind of thing again.”
A confession with a history
The Calgary moment was not the first time 2Baba has made the confession. He delivered almost the same line in December 2025, during the MC EdoPikin Undiluted with StarBoy and Legends show in Benin City, Edo State, where he told the audience he was making the declaration everywhere he went to “set the record straight”.
“But see, I get confession. I dey make this confession everywhere I go now to set the record straight. I don stop to dey do that kind of thing. I don stop to dey give belle anyhow. I swear, ask anybody now, they will tell you that I’m innocent,” he said at the time.
That earlier confession also went viral, and the Calgary repeat shows the line has become something of a signature moment in his live shows: a self-deprecating joke that the veteran singer returns to whenever he wants to break the ice with a crowd. In Calgary, fans in the audience reportedly mentioned his estranged wife Annie Idibia by name when he asked where his “true love” was, a reminder of how closely his personal life is followed by his audience.
The family saga in the background
The Calgary confession cannot be separated from the family story that has surrounded 2Baba for the past two years. His marriage to Annie Macaulay-Idibia, which began in 2012, ended in January 2025, and the split has remained one of the most discussed celebrity breakups in Nigeria. Annie, a Nollywood actress, was with 2Baba through the most public years of his career, and their two daughters are at the centre of a family that fans have followed closely since the beginning.
Since the split, 2Baba has been linked publicly with Edo State lawmaker Senator Natasha Osawaru, a relationship that has kept him in the headlines and drawn commentary from across the entertainment industry. Legit.ng reported that the Calgary clip gained traction largely because of this timing, with many viewers drawing the connection between the joke and his very public personal life. The singer has not issued a formal statement about his relationships beyond what he says on stage, and the Calgary moment, like the Benin City one before it, was delivered as comedy rather than as an announcement.
Why the joke lands differently now
The remark drew laughter in the room, but it also drew attention online because of its timing. 2Baba is currently navigating a very public family situation involving his wife, Edo State lawmaker Senator Natasha Osawaru, alongside renewed public attention on his relationship with Annie Macaulay-Idibia, his former wife.
2Baba and Annie, a Nollywood actress, broke up in January 2025 after having two children together. Their marriage, which began in 2012, was one of the most followed celebrity unions in Nigeria, and its end has remained a subject of public discussion ever since. The singer has seven children with five different women, a fact that has followed him throughout his career and shaped much of the public conversation around him.
His first known baby mama is Sumbo Adeoye, with whom he has two sons, Zion and Nino. He also had three children with his second baby mama, Pero Adeniyi, between 2006 and 2012. With Annie, he shares two daughters. The family history is well known to his fans, which is why a joke about no longer getting women pregnant lands with a particular resonance: it is the singer poking fun at the very thing the public has talked about for years.
Whether the declaration is a genuine statement of personal change or simply a well-worn stage joke is a question only 2Baba can answer. In Calgary, it was delivered with humour, in the middle of a playful exchange with the crowd, and it should not necessarily be read as a formal announcement. But the fact that he keeps returning to it, in city after city, suggests it has become a deliberate part of how he wants to present himself now: a man who has heard the jokes, and is happy to make them first.
The night in Calgary
Beyond the viral moment, the Calgary show was a reminder of 2Baba’s enduring pull as a live performer. The event, organised by @mallamyankee, drew a crowd of Nigerian music lovers together at the venue for an evening built around his catalogue of timeless hits. Throughout the show, he worked through his best-known songs while keeping the atmosphere warm and playful, pausing between numbers to connect with the audience.
Clips from the performance circulated widely on social media within hours, with fans and commentators drawing the connection between the joke and his very public personal life. Some found the moment hilarious, others saw it as a sign of a man trying to reset his narrative. Either way, the video did what 2Baba’s stage moments have done for years: it got people talking.
The reaction also followed a familiar pattern. When 2Baba made the same confession in Benin City in December 2025, actress Iyabo Ojo was among the celebrities who weighed in publicly on the singer’s divorce from Annie, advising both of them on how their children should be handled and suggesting that his timing was wrong. The conversation around 2Baba’s personal life rarely stays quiet for long, and each new public moment restarts it.
A legend still commanding the stage
For all the attention on his personal life, the Calgary show was also a reminder of why 2Baba remains one of the most respected figures in Nigerian music. His career spans more than two decades, from his days with Plantashun Boiz to a solo run that produced some of the most enduring songs in Afrobeats history. True Love, the song he was performing when he made the confession, is one of those records: a song that has outlived trends, generations of artists, and the many chapters of his own life.
2Baba’s place in Nigerian music history is secure regardless of the headlines. He is widely regarded as one of the founding voices of modern Afrobeats, an artist whose work helped define the sound that would eventually conquer the world. His catalogue includes “African Queen”, “Implication”, “Ole” and “True Love”, songs that have become part of the soundtrack of Nigerian life. Younger artists routinely cite him as an influence, and his live shows, from Lagos to London to Calgary, continue to draw crowds who know every word.
That longevity is what makes moments like Calgary so interesting. A younger artist making the same joke would be telling a story about his present. For 2Baba, the joke is about a past that his audience knows as well as he does: the relationships, the children, the headlines, the apologies. He has spent years in the public eye, and he has learned to meet the conversation on his own terms, with humour, on a stage, in the middle of a song.
That is the paradox of 2Baba’s public image. He is a music legend whose songs are part of the soundtrack of Nigerian life, and at the same time a celebrity whose family life has been debated in public for as long as he has been famous. The Calgary confession sits at the intersection of those two realities: a joke about his past, delivered in the middle of a song about love, to a room full of people who know both the music and the story.
Whether he meant it as a promise or a punchline, the crowd in Calgary laughed, the clips spread, and 2Baba did what he has always done on stage: he turned his own story into entertainment, and let the audience decide what to make of it.
Source: Naija News, Legit.ng, ShakaraSquare, Daily Gist Guide, PUNCH, TV360 Nigeria.