Afrobeats superstar Tiwa Savage has opened up about her initial reaction to “Dorobucci,” one of Mavin Records’ biggest hits.
In an interview with NotJustOk, Savage revealed that during her wedding trip in Dubai, she heard Don Jazzy repeatedly playing the unfinished track at their hotel but didn’t realise it was a Mavin project.
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“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 confessed.
The singer recounted that after her wedding, Don Jazzy urged her to cut short her honeymoon and return to Nigeria to work on a new record.
“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,” she recalled.
According to Savage, when she eventually returned and heard the completed version of “Dorobucci,” she was stunned by how much it had evolved.
She recalled a similar experience with her hit Eminado, which she also initially doubted.
“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,” she said.
“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,” she added.
Despite her early doubts, Dorobucci became a massive success.
