Singer Tiwa Savage has admitted that she once thought Mavin Records’ hit song “Dorobucci” was a “crap song” when she first heard it.
Speaking in an interview on NotJustOk, uploaded on Monday, Tiwa recalled that Don Jazzy had repeatedly played the song while they were in Dubai for her wedding.
“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.
According to her, Don Jazzy kept playing the track over and over, though she didn’t know he was working on it for the Mavin collective.
After her wedding, Don Jazzy urged her to return to Nigeria to record the song, even though she planned to go on her honeymoon.
“He’s like, eh, there’s one record, you have to come back to Nigeria,” she recounted.
Tiwa said she was shocked when she finally heard the full version of the song in the studio.
“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,” she said.
She also revealed that she was the last to record her verse because she doubted the song’s potential.
“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?” she said.
Tiwa added that she had felt the same way about her earlier hit “Eminado,” which she also didn’t like at first.
Despite her doubts, “Dorobucci” went on to become one of Mavin Records’ biggest songs.
“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,” she said.
Tiwa praised Don Jazzy for his creativity, adding that she never expected to feature on the song herself. “It turned out to be phenomenal. So shout out as always to Don Jazzy,” she concluded.
