Michael Collins aka Don Jazzy (Mavin
Record Boss) and singer Wande Coal had a disagreement yesterday,
with the music producer accusing the Afro Pop star of stealing his song Baby Face,
released in the early hours of Tuesday.
Wande Coal, who released
the single under his personal label; Black Diamond Entertainment, had joined MAVIN Records last
year, following the split between Don Jazzy and former label mate, D’banj,
which signaled the end of their company; Mo’hits.
Fans began to suspect
strongly that all was not well between Coal and Mavin when few months ago, he
released a new single, Kilaju which was produced by Maleek Berry
and released under his Black Diamond imprint.
An earlier indication of
gradual separation between the two was also noticed after the release of Coal’s
video “The Kick” on May 10, 2013 which had no indication of Mavin Records, but
Coal’s record label Black Diamond Entertainment.
Things got awry after
the release of the fun upbeat track titled – Baby Face, which got Jazzy taking
to his twitter page to blow his boy’s cover. Claiming the ownership of the song
which he said he produced a year ago, the label boss said; “How long will I
continue to sweat and some people will choose to steal from me. I am nice and
easy going doesn’t mean you should disrespect me.”
Perhaps his words could
have kept people wondering who the music producer was referring to, but for the
response of Coal, which did not appear to be denying the allegation.
“It is with sad heart
that I make this response. Steal from you? I served your for 10 years, why are
you not happy with my progress. Is it bad that I kept quiet and moved on with
my life? You have my phone number, email address and my DM to communicate with
me, but you choose twitter attention syndrome. After all these years of being
loyal to you, I can never believe you will ever say this to me, trying to bring
me down on twitter.”
Wande Coal was one of
the reasons D’banj and Jazzy parted ways in 2012, thus the new tussle is a
further break of the group, Mavin, which had Don Jazzy, Wande Coal, Tiwa Savage,
D’Prince and Dr SID. Jazzy, cannot be said to have full autonomy over
savage, as her label 323 Entertainment is merely in partnership with Mavin
Records. With the clear exit of Coal, industry watchers are of the opinion that
this may just be the end of the one-year-old Mavin Records.
The war of words between
the two continued with Jazzy debunking insinuation by Coal that he may not be
happy with his progress. “Without collecting a dime from you; if I wanted to
stop you, why would I allow you release Rotate without my company credit. Why
would I allow you perform around the world?”
But it appears some fans
are taking sides with Coal. Responding to Jazzy’s tweets,
they had wondered why he chose to go public without first talking the issue out
with his boy. To them, Jazzy replied: “I can decide to shut him down with one
call. But didn’t. All I ask for is “give me my credit” and nothing else. I
honestly expected you all to come at me with me being childish, but enough is
enough. Even if I send my legal team on him una go complain too.”
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