Tiwa Savage reveals why she initially disliked Mavin hit ‘Dorobucci’

Afrobeats queen Tiwa Savage has revealed that she wasn’t a instrumentality of Mavin Records’ chart-topping deed Dorobucci erstwhile she archetypal heard it.

In a caller interrogation with NotJustOk, Tiwa Savage recalled that shaper Don Jazzy had played the song’s aboriginal instrumental for her portion they were successful Dubai for her wedding. At the time, she had nary thought it was a Mavin project, and she secretly thought it sounded bad.

“I don’t cognize if radical cognize this, but Don Jazzy was playing the bushed successful our edifice during my wedding successful Dubai. I didn’t privation to archer him, but I thought it was specified a unspeakable song,” Tiwa admitted.

Shortly aft the wedding, Don Jazzy urged her to instrumentality to Nigeria to enactment connected what helium described arsenic an important caller record. Although she planned to proceed her honeymoon, Tiwa yet flew backmost and joined her labelmates successful the studio.

To her surprise, the opus had been transformed. “When I got backmost and heard the last version, I was shocked,” she said, adding that the finished Dorobucci sounded thing similar the unsmooth mentation she’d heard earlier.

Tiwa confessed she was inactive skeptical and ended up being the past Mavin creator to grounds her verse. “Everyone other had already recorded their parts. I was conscionable looking astatine them like, ‘Do you guys truly similar this?’” she said with a laugh.

Interestingly, this wasn’t the archetypal clip Tiwa underestimated 1 of her hits. She shared that she besides didn’t similar Eminado erstwhile she archetypal recorded it. Both songs would aboriginal go monolithic hits, dominating charts crossed Africa and beyond.

Reflecting connected the experience, Tiwa Savage praised Don Jazzy’s originative genius and vision, acknowledging however Dorobucci became a taste anthem contempt her aboriginal doubts. “We each cognize what happened to that record,” she said. “Don Jazzy conscionable has that magic touch. I didn’t adjacent cognize I’d extremity up connected the song, but it turned retired to beryllium phenomenal.”

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