Davido & Iyanya: How They Disappoint On Collaborations With Lesser Known Artistes

In a perfect world, superstar singers get featured in a song, where they sprinkle their star voices, in collaboration with an upcoming act, to make good music, good enough for us to move our feet, wriggle our butt, and shout gibberish with a bottle of alcohol in our hand. But in Nigeria, some superstars fail to show up
in the studio with their singing voices, thereby succeeding in adding nothing to the song. Some even get to sour the song with their ‘talented’ voices, and today we’ve decided to call them out. Ladies and gentlemen, we bring you two career culprits, Davido and Iyanya, with the cases against them.

Iyanya

This one’s the worst of them both. Iyanya’s talent never can be questioned, with a vocal delivery fit for a god, and a persona that entertains by default, one would expect Iyanya to be a shoo in for “Collabo Of The Year”, but the reverse always remains our reality. Iyanya the singer never turns up. On any featured song, his most ear-worthy contribution is his signature; “It’s Iyaaanya”, and then he disappears, turning up in your final moments to give a verse or some hook that’s lacking in the expected class and quality. Arguments are that he’s nonchalant when on production for a guest lyrical role, while the cynics are of the thought that he deliberately delivers poorly, not wanting to bestow his brilliance on a song that would not directly impact on his bank account. He disappoints, and you can confirm firsthand {here}

 

 Davido:

The renowned singer of Gobe, and an icon for the young, David Adeleke broke into our collective consciousness with his “Dami Duro” brilliance. Riding on his new found fame, he consolidated with more powerful releases, as “Caro”, “Hollywood”, “Gobe”, and recently the “Skelewu” song (which he pumped full with dance and the promise of $3000). But the real issue here is his perceived lack of individual talent. For his entire hit-making prowess, the man Davido never has totally convinced the musical purists of his credentials as a singer, making many write him off at collaborations which he always finds a new way to deliver abjectly. On joint tracks, Davido fails to come alive, with a voice (that’s far from distinctive) lacking in conviction and gimmick. A track that sums up his consistent inconsistency is here, and you can pull your hair out at how he gets missing in production. “It’s Davidooooo….” And with that he disappears. Weird, isn’t it?

It’s mind-boggling how they both never hit their individual heights, when not taking on full responsibility for the success of a song. Is it deliberate, or does it betray a knack for irresponsibility and carelessness? We all cannot put a finger on it, but let’s not forget this one important fact;

This is Nigeria, anything with a good beat is called ‘beat of life’…