Nigerian music executive, Michael Collins Ajereh, popularly known as Don Jazzy, spoken about his work experience with former Mo’Hits members D’Prince and D’Banj.
While speaking in a recent episode of the Crea8torium podcast, Don Jazzy explained that artist and producers living together helped create great music. He recounted an incident which inspired hit song ‘Olorun Maje.’
“I have a theory that says that most of the great music that we made in Afrobeats was when all of us were living together. For instance, D’Banj’s ‘Olorun Maje,’ the idea was from D’Prince and Sunday Are, who was our manager then. Sunday Are was complaining that D’Prince didn’t want to go to radio interviews. He came to report to me but I didn’t even listen because I was working in the studio. So, I told him to go and report to D’Banj because he is like a military man. After he reported, D’Banj started shouting at D’Prince. Then D’Prince now came back into the studio where I was with Sunday Are and pretended like he was dusting some equipment and then began to sing, ‘Some people they want make I cry, some people they want make I die, why? Olorun Maje oooo’,” he stated.
Don Jazzy spoke about the changes in the music production process in recent times, noting that he still tries to be intentional when creating beats.
“The lyrics just fell precisely to the beat I was making at that time. I told him to pause that I like it. That was how the song was born. Also the song ‘You bad, you want it’ was from Dr Sid, who randomly walked into the studio and started rhyming to a beat I was making,” he added.
