Tanzanian music legend, Diamond Platnumz who featured Davido on the remix of his hit track “Number One” in 2014 recalls how the collabo almost left him bankrūpt.
He said,
“Before doing the first video version of “Number One” at Ogopa Djs in Nairobi, my video cost used to be about N300k per video. But with Number One, I went ten times higher and spent about N4-million or thereabout to fly Ogopa Djs video crew to Cape Town, South Africa, and shoot my video. “
“The outcome was amazing, and that gave me the green light to approach Davido for a remix. But to my greatest surprise, Davido charged me $50k for his verse which I was the one who gonna write it and I really needed it so I did everything possible.”
“I took loans from Tanzanian banks to finance my video and collaboration with Davido in Lagos because I had to travel there with my crew. “
“And even though the song opened more doors for me, I svffered before finally paying off all the loans I took inorder to get Davido on that song.” [CONTINUE READING HERE]>>>>>
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