{"id":443379,"date":"2011-06-17T23:00:49","date_gmt":"2011-06-17T23:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/06\/17\/how-we-sealed-kanye-west%e2%80%99s-deal-%e2%80%93-d%e2%80%99banj\/"},"modified":"2011-06-17T23:00:49","modified_gmt":"2011-06-17T23:00:49","slug":"how-we-sealed-kanye-wests-deal-dbanj","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/06\/17\/how-we-sealed-kanye-wests-deal-dbanj\/","title":{"rendered":"How we sealed Kanye West\u2019s deal  \u2013 D\u2019Banj"},"content":{"rendered":"<div readability=\"72\">\n<p>Members of the Mo\u2019hit crew Thursday in Lagos described the open contract it signed with the American super Kanye West\u2019s record company Good News as the biggest thing to happen to the Nigeria\u2019s entertainment industry.<\/p>\n<p>The contract sealed between Don Jazzy, President of Mo\u2019hit records, D\u2019Banj, Kanye West and management of Good records was witnessed by rap artiste Jay Z and other top rated American musicians.<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-168403\" href=\"http:\/\/www.vanguardngr.com\/2011\/06\/how-we-sealed-kanye-west%E2%80%99s-deal-d%E2%80%99banj\/dbanj-and-mohit-crew\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-168403\" title=\"D'banj-and-mohit-crew\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/478c3a86mohit-crew.gif.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"201\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Narrating the genesis of the deal, D\u2019Banj disclosed that \u201cAfter our collaborations with Snoop Doggy Dogg, we traveled to Dubai on business and that\u2019s where we ran into Kanye. We were quite surprised when he told us he was familiar with our music and was willing to work with us.<\/p>\n<p>We decided that since Snoop was only interested in collaborating with us, we should give Kanye a chance. And that\u2019s how the whole process started\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Now that the deal is sealed, the D\u2019Banj continued \u201cwe will be traveling to America to begin recording of our first album and that will take us away from the country for about three months.<\/p>\n<p>Our going to America does not also translate to relocation, instead we would be spending some time there and the rest of the year in Nigeria\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Don Jazzy who also spoke at the media brief held at the Koko Lounge in Yaba, Lagos allayed fears in some quarters that his record company would abandoned artistes on Mo\u2019hits records saying, \u201c the contract we signed is between D\u2019Banj and Mo\u2019hits records and what this means is that, this is an opportunity for artistes signed our label to get world attention too.<\/p>\n<p>Right now all our artistes have equal opportunity of getting on board the Mo\u2019hit\/Good records collaboration\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>He also spoke about his company\u2019s desire to sign on its first female musician pointing out that this year\u2019s Koko Mansion will dwell on searching for Mo\u2019hits\u2019 first lady.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Comments are moderated. Please keep them clean and brief.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>The rest is here:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.vanguardngr.com\/2011\/06\/how-we-sealed-kanye-west\u2019s-deal-d\u2019banj\/\" title=\"How we sealed Kanye West\u2019s deal  \u2013 D\u2019Banj\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">How we sealed Kanye West\u2019s deal  \u2013 D\u2019Banj<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> Members of the Mo\u2019hit crew Thursday in Lagos described the open contract it signed with the American super Kanye West\u2019s record company Good News as the biggest thing to happen to the Nigeria\u2019s entertainment industry. The contract sealed between Don Jazzy, President of Mo\u2019hit records, D\u2019Banj, Kanye West and management of Good records was witnessed by rap artiste Jay Z and other top rated American musicians<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":443358,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-443379","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>How we sealed Kanye West\u2019s deal \u2013 D\u2019Banj - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/06\/17\/how-we-sealed-kanye-wests-deal-dbanj\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"How we sealed Kanye West\u2019s deal \u2013 D\u2019Banj - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"Members of the Mo\u2019hit crew Thursday in Lagos described the open contract it signed with the American super Kanye West\u2019s record company Good News as the biggest thing to happen to the Nigeria\u2019s entertainment industry. 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