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More interesting revelations have come out of a secretly recorded conversation that captured Richie Mensah, Chief Executive of Lynx Entertainment, confiding in a friend why musicians Asem and Eazzy left his record label. NEWS-ONE has laid hands on a copy of the said tape in which Richie described Asem as an ingrate that repays good with evil. Richie, on the same tape, was also heard describing Eazzy as a hypocrite because she really stood by Lynx and gave the company a lot of encouragement when Asem left, only for her to do the same thing a few months later. He went on to describe Eazzy�s decision to leave as unexpected, painful and a stab in the back. �It was unexpected, and felt like the greatest betrayal.� Richie and Eazzy have been friends and close confidants for many years even before her signing onto the Lynx label. On the tape, Richie revealed that his relationship with Eazzy became stronger during the Asem breakaway period and it was one of the reasons why he kept faith with the music industry after the incident. Richie said after Asem�s departure, Lynx threw all its resources behind Eazzy�s career with the aim of putting her on a higher pedestal. Lynx went ahead to shoot one of the label�s most expensive videos till date, for Eazzy�s �Go Go Wind� single. Richie said it was while shooting the video that rumors started making the rounds that Eazzy was considering leaving the label although Eazzy vehemently denied the reports. According to Richie, it therefore came as a shock when, on April Fool�s Day last year, Eazzy hinted that she wanted to leave the label and then days later went ahead to make it official. �It hurt even more, when I had to break the news to my mom who was personally involved heavily in Eazzy�s career. So difficult, that it took two weeks of mustering courage to be able to finally divulge the news to her. The news broke her completely and kept her crying for two days��He said it was only after Eazzy�s departure that the Lynx team found out about her joining the Big Brother Africa reality show even though she was still on the label when she auditioned. Following another betrayal, Richie said, he decided to stay away from the music business even though he had just released �Changing Faces�, the first single off a 17-track album that he had already completed and getting ready to release.