The Coal,The Jazz,The Banj and other short stories!

Damn,I love social media!
It's the honest to God coward's playground.
Since the time of Adam,people have always been at their bravest when faceless or while avoiding face to face confrontation.
Just say anything that pops to your head and add an 'LOL' to it and no one takes offence.
Except your wife's like my friend Josie's,who tore him a new backside when the brother tweeted "Wifeys cooking,causing heartburn since 1912.LOL".
Needless to say,there was no 'LOLing' in that house for a looooong time.
So it came to me as no surprise when the good folks at MAVIN decided to air their laundry on Twitter.
And there is without doubt no better clothes line this side of the galaxy than Twitter.
On the surface,it's about a song allegedly stolen or not stolen but at the core of the matter is a business developed by friends and friends of friends built on poor legal framework.
@DONJAZZY has always struck me as a  man more focused on the art than the business.
Very much like the nerdy scientist in the movies who wants the entire world to benefit from his newly developed genetically modified pest resistant corn while D'banj,God bless his soul,is the greedy billionaire investor who would rather hang his father by the balls than let the wind blow away a fifty Naira note.
And Wande Coal?
That pesky,black guy that everybody expects to die in the very first scene but somehow just keeps hanging on!
Secondly,I know I am pessimistic,cynical and a perennial critic but the song is God awful!
Both versions.
I believe I have heard better songs at a Palestinian funeral.
Have I ever attended a Palestinian funeral?
Well......it depends on who's asking!

Forgot to take a selfie!

Infact the song sounds suspiciously familiar to a song done by Jay Tha Vipa.
Nah.........I didn't think you'd know him.
Jay is the kind of man we refer to as the 'Working Class' guy.
Dude's been trying to 'make it' since the France'98 World Cup!
Yahoo,forex,Online betting,selling Sharwama............name it!
Presently he's an aspiring musician who torments me with free copies of his CD's at my estate gate.
He calls his music AfroHipLife.
DON'T EVEN ASK!!!!!
It would be wise if @wandecoal and @donjazzy just came together and made the song better than the obvious album filler that it presently is.
Or just give the song to Dr Sid
Dude needs a song bad.
Any song!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Dr Dr Sid.........................Shut up already!

It hurts when great partnerships are destroyed on the alter of business and financial considerations.
I spent my entire adult life listening to songs by the Mo Hits Crew and contrary to what half of the world and their dog think,Donjazzy has not always been the life force of the gang.
I remember a fat,bumbling,seemingly always high Wande Coal carrying the crew single handed on the Mo Hits All Star album.
Finally,a repeat of a business breakdown in a unit cannot be a coincidence but God forbid that I spend my imaginary years at Law School trying to judge but @DonJazzy needs to get his house in order or else no amount of free Loya milk and MTN card will stop fans from assuming It's Don Jazzy's(fault) Again.

P.S:Shout out to our Under-17 men whipping the other boys like they stole something.
Adedayo Esan is on the twitter @doctorrotcod

Ogbono feli feli!

Money and women,the two things to devour bonds of  male friendship
                                                  -One particularly wise looking guy in a particularly dull movie I once saw.
Ever since Don Jazzy and his hyper-active sidekick D'banj a.k.a Skibanj a.k.a Capella a.k.a that skinny dude with the over-sized ego and under-sized head first came into our consciousness in 2005 with the ridiculously titled album 'No Long Thing' and the equally retardedly named single Tongolo,it was always a matter of when and not if,concerning the break up of the immensely successful duo.

2005!The hunger days.

They single handedly gave Nigeria and maybe Africa its first truly successful music clique.In Wande Coal and Dr Sid,they had able deputies,artistes with talent and panache.And in K-switch and D'prince,they had two knuckle heads,buffoons just along for the ride.But then,every successful crew needs no-hopers like that.Just ask the Black Eyed Peas!

Hmmm,Will.I.Am,Fergie,Hmmmm

When the rumors started filtering in early in the year about the impending divorce-Dbanj has repeatedly referred to their union as a marriage-most people put it down to the usual social media gossip,like the immensely popular one about Tu-face's periodic death(You guys really need to drop that one.A brother can only die so many times.Move on!)
But as one increasingly vulgar and classless e-mail after another started appearing and getting 'leaked',it was obvious that these previous love birds were about to wash their proverbial undies in public!
One party obviously feels he has the talent to break into the international market and the other party is being a bit more more cautious and ultimately,more realistic.
 You can only repeat ten words in a whole song for so long Mr D'banj!
Personally,losing sleep over the break up of two young men who have made billions of Naira over the last seven odd years at my expense is not an option.
Nah!
This has been the union of a blind man and a deaf man.
The combination of the energy- lacking Don Jazzy plus the talent-lacking D'banj was indeed a winning ticket.
Only time will tell who gets knocked down by a moving vehicle first!