Artists, producers make better music when they live together – Don Jazzy

Don Jazzy has said artists and producers will make better music if they live together with studios and other facilities

He used his life and that of other Mo’Hits crew as an example of when they made good  music in the past.

Speaking in a recent episode of the Crea8torium podcast, the Don recounted how a random incident involving D’Prince at a house where they were living together in Mo’Hits mansion inspired D’Banj’s ‘Olorun Maje.’

His words: “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.’

“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 recalled.

Don Jazzy noted that music creation nowadays is different from the time him and his contemporaries held sway.

He advised the new generation of creatives to associate more to build cohesion between their crafts.