Popular singer Tiwa Savage has said that she didn’t like the hit Mavin song “Dorobucci” initially. She recently admitted that she thought the song was unimpressive when she first listened to it.
Speaking during an interview with NotJustOk, Tiwa revealed that despite Don Jazzy repeatedly playing the unfinished song at their hotel during her wedding trip in Dubai, she didn’t realize that it was a Mavin project.
According to her, while she already concluded that it was an underwhelming record, she could not tell the music executive to avoid dampening his spirit.
“Don’t know if people know this, but ‘Dorobucci,’ I had Don Jazzy playing that in the hotel when we were in Dubai for my wedding, and I didn’t want to tell him, but I thought it was such a crap song,” she said.
Recalling how Don Jazzy urged her to cut short her honeymoon and return to Nigeria to work on the new record, Tiwa noted that she was reluctant at first before eventually agreeing.
She concluded by saying that coming back to Nigeria and listening to the completed version of “Dorobucci” completely blew her mind.
“And so after the wedding, he asked me when I was going to come back, and I needed to come back. And I was like, no, I think we’re supposed to go on our honeymoon. He’s like, eh, there’s one record, you have to come back to Nigeria.
I got back to Nigeria, and I got to the studio, and I heard the song that I heard him play in Dubai. I was flabbergasted.
I was so angry, like, I don’t know, because this had happened with Eminado too, and I did not like it
I was the last person to record my verse because I was just looking at everybody in the studio, like, do you guys like this really?
So everybody had recorded it and then I was just the last person to record it.
We all know what happened to the record. I don’t know what Don Jazzy does, but yeah, that was… I heard it, and I didn’t want to tell him.
I was like, man, who, I was like, is it Reekado he’s doing this song for? Is it Korede or D’ija?
I was just thinking, ehyaa, like these people, not knowing that I was going to be on the song as well. And it turned out to be phenomenal. So shout out as always to Don Jazzy,” she added.
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