If there is a list of Nigerian Celebrities in which they are all arranged in their order of relevance, Davido will comfortably sit at the top of the list as he is the most-followed Nigerian celebrity on Instagram, the Richest Nigerian musician, most-followed Nigerian on Twitter, Nigerian Celebrity with the most expensive house, and the list of his achievement goes on.
Despite all these achievements over his other peers in the industry, a good number of Nigerians still think that the DMW boss isn’t talented but just a good businessman. You will wonder why they think so, but the reason isn’t far-fetched as critics have continually slammed him for buying most of his hit songs instead of writing them himself. Songwriting is something that is normalized in other parts of the world, especially in the West but here in Nigeria, an artist who uses songwriters becomes a subject of ridicule.
In this post, will be bringing to you all of Davido’s hit songs that were written by someone else, including the name of the writer, and how it happened.
List of Songs Davido’s Songs That Was Written By Someone Else
Song | Main Songwriter | Remark |
Fall | Kiddominant | During an Instagram live video, between Kiddominant and Peruzzi, Kiddominant who produced ‘Fall’ revealed that he wrote the song. See Here! |
Fia | Peruzzi | After Peruzzi and Davido’s fallout with Peruzzi’s former record label boss, he revealed that the song was originally written by Peruzzi and went on to release the original version of ‘Fia’ which Peruzzi sang. |
If | Tekno | Davido’s second-biggest record was written by Tekno who also produced the song. |
Gobe | Password | The song was written by an upcoming artist. According to his then-manager Kamal Ajiboye, Davido bought the song from him for the sum of ₦350,000. Listen to the original version by Password here! |
Aye | Runtown | Even tho the public has connected the dots and proved that Runtown wrote the song, they have both denied it. But the record was written by Runtown. |
Pere | Dammy Krane | Davido himself revealed that he co-wrote the song with Dammy Krane. |
Gbagbe Oshi | General Pype | Davido bought the song for the sum of ₦1,000,000 from General Pype. |
Like Dat | Teni | Teni revealed that she wrote the song for Davido and fans slammed her for bringing personal business to the public. |
Risky | Peruzzi | The hit record ‘Risky’ featuring Popcaan was written by Peruzzi. |
Nwa Baby | Peruzzi | Peruzzi also wrote ‘Nwa Baby’ for Davido |
Dodo | Kiddominant | Kiddominant who produced the song for Davido, was also responsible for the songwriting. |
Assurance | Peruzzi | Peruzzi also wrote ‘Assurance’ for Davido |
The Money | Kiddominant | Kiddominant who produced the song ‘The Money’ by Davido featuring Olamide was also responsible for the songwriting on Davido’s part. |
1 Milli | Adekunle Gold | The song ‘1 Milli’ off his ‘A Good Time’ album was written by Adekunle Gold |
Jowo | Deinde | The song ‘Jowo’ was first and originally released by Deinde. He was later signed to DMW and his version was eventually taken down and Davido released his own edition of Jowo. |
So Crazy | Peruzzi | Davido’s verse on the song ‘So Crazy’ by Davido featuring Lil Baby was written by former DMW artist, Peruzzi. A video also surfaced online showing the studio session of Peruzzi recording ‘So Crazy’. |
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They write the song, u drop the hit, ah love u die davido