Don Jazzy & I's Dreams Have Come True, Says D'Banj.....What Tiwa Savage Said About 'Em

D'Banj & Don Jazzy With Snoop Dogg in the good ol' days

First ever MTV The Evolution Award winner, Oladapo Daniel Oyebanjo, famously known as D’Banj, has said the dreams both him and old friend, music producer Don Jazzy had a little over 10 years ago have come true.

In an emotional tribute via his Instagram timeline early Sunday morning, highly elated D'Banj wrote: "Me and my brother...I remember 11 years ago, you wanted me to be youngest living African Legend and I wanted you to be the biggest African producer...We Did it Bro...Dreams do Come true."

At the 2015 edition of MAMAs held Saturday 18 July inside the Durban International Convention Centre, ICC,  in Durban, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa D'Banj won the maiden MAMA Evolution Awards, a new category honouring established artistes who have made an indelible mark on African and global music culture, taken African music to new territories around the world, pushed the boundaries of creativity, and shaped the soundscape of contemporary Africa.

D’Banj beat nine other nominees including compatriots Asa, PSquare and 2face to the awards.
Surprisingly, the Kokomaster dedicated the prestigious prize to his former business partner and producer, Don Jazzy, who is the boss of Mavins Records.

Don Jazzy's produced song "Dorobucci" was Africa's biggest in 2015. The song by Mavins All Star won the MAMAs 2015 "Song of the Year".

The partnership between D’Banj and Don Jazzy ended on a sour note in 2012 and since then they have not had any music collaborations. But both have been growing individually on the continent ever since.

Showbiz entrepreneur Ayo Shonaiya, who alongside DJ Yomi Abass and few others, gave the duo the needed break they needed while in London in the early 2000s, went on the social media to also celebrate the two. "#FactOfTheDay My boys D'banj & Don Jazzy revolutionised music in Africa. Period! The greatest Artiste/Producer combination of ALL TIME!"

I Wish Don Jazzy, D’Banj Reunite —Tiwa Savage  

Tiwa Savage

This article was first published by PMNEWS on 31 July, 2013 
 
If there is anyone who prays fervently for the reunion of former buddies and business partners, Don Jazzy and D’Banj, it is the award-winning songstress Tiwa Savage.

Tiwa, Mavin Records’ first lady, said somewhere at the back of her mind, she prays that the two music luminaries and founders of defunct Mo’Hits Records should come back together.
“I am still in shock and when I listen to songs like Suddenly, I am like is this really happening? And I feel like they have left a void in the music industry in Nigeria and in Africa,” Tiwa said in a special feature on her in the latest edition of StyleMania magazine.

The songstress said she could not really point to what caused the rift between the two friends beyond different news reports she read in the media.

Tiwa, however, admitted that in line with some people’s perception of Don Jazzy,  the super producer is indeed a “mysterious” guy.
“I’ll tell you the honest truth about Don Jazzy…he really is like that. He doesn’t really open his heart easily to people. He just accepts what happens and he moves on. I mean he is the Don, so I can’t go up to him and say ‘Jazzy, what really happened. I just keep my mouth shut,” she said.

In the interview, Tiwa defended the open show of sensitive body parts in her video which has attracted a lot of flaks.
“You know a lot of people say that in Africa we don’t like to expose ourselves and that is actually a big lie because if you check the history of Africa, we were actually very exposed. So I think it is quite ironic because people think that the western world is influencing us whereas we are the ones influencing the western world,” Tiwa argued.

Tiwa emerged a surprise signee of Don Jazzy’s new project, Mavin Records in May 2012 after the demise of Mo’Hits Records label. The old Mo’Hits Crew had as members D’Banj, Wande Coal, Dr. SID, D’Prince and KSwitch.

But after the break-up, D’Banj left with his younger brother, KSwitch, to float his DKM Records label, while the rest of the crew teamed up with Don Jazzy, with Tiwa coming as a wonderful addition to the family. She later contributed a hit track O Ma Ga to Mavin Crew’s debut mixtape, Solar Plexus.

And after a year, 26 May to be precise, Tiwa unleashed her 21-track debut LP comprising different genres, from gospel to Afrobeat and Techno.

—Funsho Arogundade