Hot Issues | 16 September 2022 15:18 CET

Davido Attacks Dj Marphosa For Giving Glory To Wizkid

By Agboola Ibrahim

Nigeria Popular singer, David Adeleke, popularly known as Davido, has attacked South African music producer, DJ Maphorisa, for giving credit of his discovery of amapiano in Nigeria to Wizkid and Burna Boy,

The drama started after Wizkid released his latest single ‘Bad to Me’ which infused the popular South African sound, Amapiano.

Reacting to this, a lady took to Twitter to state that Davido introduced Amapiano to the Nigerian music two years ago.

“Davido brought Amapiano from South Africa two years ago and made it a successful genre in Africa and Beyond, Wizkid is now hopping on the same genre after davido made it a successful genre.

This is how many African artists have been benefiting from Davido’s success for over 12yrs”, she tweeted.

Contrary to this, Maphorisa asserted that Wizkid and Burna Boy were the first Nigerian singers to jump on the Amapiano sound in Nigeria.

His statement read, “Kabza & Maphorisa was the first to put Wizkid n Burnaboy on a amapiano song Sponono dat was a historical moment 3 years ago, research before tweet.."

While reacting to the statement, Davido threw mild jabs at DJ Maporisa for his statement, and accused him of hating him despite the fact that he has been nothing but good to him.

“You’ve never liked me y ? I’ve always been good to you …. Anyways ! AWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY NOW!!!!!! Chu chu chu chu chu”, Davido wrote.

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