Around 2013, D’banj was a manager to everybody in the business.
He was that senior in the music business who had done everything. His arrangement with Mo’Hits had finished in 2012, however D’banj’s melodic profession was hot.
He had scored one of the greatest Nigerian records to get over, “Oliver Twist,” marked an arrangement with Kanye West’s GOOD Music, and teamed up with Snoop Dogg and Big Sean. He was the Nigerian creative dream, a hotshot who was killing it at home and had a promising possibility breaking out.
As of now, D’banj was establishing up his DB Standards, and furthermore assembling his D’Kings Men aggregate, who were chipping away at the collection “D’Kings Men.” He had his sibling, Kayswitch, with him, however on the off chance that he planned to make a stage that would merit anything, he wanted more specialists.
Olamide
This was 2013 and Olamide was viewed as quite possibly of Nigeria’s best rapper as of now. He had quite recently doled out his second studio collection, “YBNL.” The collection had Kay Switch (no curve balls there), Tiwa Savage, Dammy Krane, Davido, Kida Kudz, Reminisce, Base 1, Buckwyla, and Minus 2 as highlighted craftsmen. He previously had singles “Ilefo Illuminati,” “Above all else” and “Moronic Love” circulating around the web in the city, in the clubs, and all over dance floors.
The Olamide you realize now wasn’t the one you know then, at that point. He was a more youthful variant of himself, who was succeeding at a significant level however not at D’banj’s level.
Olamide and D’banj got together and started up discussions about Olamide joining to his record mark. YBNL was in its earliest stages, and Olamide thought about it.
D’banj and Olamide went into talks and started cooperate. A verbal understanding was reached, and Olamide dealt with the DKM collection. He contributed vocals and setting up on three accounts off the undertaking.
The connection was solid to such an extent that the two stars were recognized the whole way across the country, from Lagos to Atlanta, going to occasions together, and hanging out. The tales started to get out and about.
As per the narratives that overflowed the business and separated to the press, Olamide had marked an arrangement with DB Records. It seemed like a perfect pair. D’banj had nicknamed himself Bangalee, and in the soul of manly relationship, gave Olamide his charming one as well; Baddo Lee.
And afterward what seemed, by all accounts, to be affirmation got through D’banj’s sibling Kayswitch. On August 9, 2013, the artist tweeted “Welcome to the family! Baddo.”
Be that as it may, an arrangement was rarely reached. Industry sources say Olamide didn’t proceed with it.
While everything was finished, and the vocalist was offered an agreement, he postponed in marking, and had a shift in perspective, which made him haul out of the arrangement.
Davido
The narrative of how Dbanj ‘nearly’ marked one of Africa’s greatest craftsmen is an untold pearl of an Afrobeats story.
It was around 2017 that D’banj professed to have marked Davido with a Rolex in 2014. Davido later said the story was valid — with the exception of the ‘marking’ part.
Talking in a meeting, he (D’banj) said:
He later pronounced that the little fellow in the story is Davido:
That’s essentially it, D’banj truly might have had the most smoking mark in the business way back in 2014. In any case, that didn’t exactly occur.
Anyway, what is your take?
Will Olamide and Davido Be As Big As They Are Today If They Had Signed To Dbanj’s Record Label In 2014?
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