{"id":1212578,"date":"2022-09-28T12:59:22","date_gmt":"2022-09-28T12:59:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/09\/28\/how-davido-paid-an-american-dj-handsomely-to-put-his-songs-on-repeat-in-a-nightclub-american-based-ghanaian-musician-lawrence-mensah\/"},"modified":"2022-09-28T12:59:22","modified_gmt":"2022-09-28T12:59:22","slug":"how-davido-paid-an-american-dj-handsomely-to-put-his-songs-on-repeat-in-a-nightclub-american-based-ghanaian-musician-lawrence-mensah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/09\/28\/how-davido-paid-an-american-dj-handsomely-to-put-his-songs-on-repeat-in-a-nightclub-american-based-ghanaian-musician-lawrence-mensah\/","title":{"rendered":"How Davido paid an American DJ handsomely to put his songs on repeat in a nightclub- American-based Ghanaian musician Lawrence Mensah"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div data-td-block-uid=\"tdi_33\">\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<p><span class=\"td-adspot-title\">&#8211;  &#8211;<\/span><br \/>\n<!-- ResponsiveAll --><\/p>\n<h2 id=\"h-in-an-interview-with-accra-fm-host-nana-romeo-mr-music-mensah-a-ghanaian-based-in-america-has-revealed-how-nigerian-artists-make-themselves-relevant-and-sustain-their-supremacy-outside-the-shores-of-the-country-musically\">In an interview with Accra FM host Nana Romeo, Mr  Mensah, a Ghanaian based in America has revealed how Nigerian artists make themselves relevant and sustain their supremacy outside the shores of the country musically. <\/h2>\n<p>He emphasized that he has seen Davido pay DJs at nightclubs to play exclusively his music. He claimed to have seen Nigerian superstar Davido giving the DJ enormous sums of money and paying for all the food and beverages at the pub in exchange for the DJ playing just his songs.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was at the American Nightclub when I noticed Davido confronting the DJ and beseeching with him to put his songs on rotation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe moment Davido arrived at the Nightclub, he offered the DJ a huge sum of money and paid for all the food and drinks at the nightclub in order for the DJ to play only his songs, causing the clubgoers to excitedly take over the dance floor.\u201d Mr  Mensah finished.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"instagram-media\" data-instgrm-captioned=\"\" data-instgrm-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/tv\/CjCxokZArDM\/?utm_source=ig_embed&#038;utm_campaign=loading\" data-instgrm-version=\"14\" style=\" background:#FFF; border:0; border-radius:3px; box-shadow:0 0 1px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.5),0 1px 10px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.15); margin: 1px; max-width:540px; min-width:326px; padding:0; width:99.375%; width:-webkit-calc(100% - 2px); width:calc(100% - 2px);\"\/>\n<p><span class=\"td-adspot-title\">&#8211;  &#8211;<\/span><br \/>\n<!-- ResponsiveAll --><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async defer src=\"https:\/\/platform.instagram.com\/en_US\/embeds.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8211; &#8211; In an interview with Accra FM host Nana Romeo, Mr Mensah, a Ghanaian based in America has revealed how Nigerian artists make themselves relevant and sustain their supremacy outside the shores of the country musically. He emphasized that he has seen Davido pay DJs at nightclubs to play exclusively his music. He claimed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1211434,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[1540,26500,488,1750,3391,8330,2124,1045,355,199,3121,11243,4662],"class_list":["post-1212578","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-american","tag-americanbased","tag-davido","tag-ghanaian","tag-handsomely","tag-lawrence","tag-mensah","tag-musician","tag-nightclub","tag-paid","tag-put","tag-repeat","tag-songs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1212578","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1212578"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1212578\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1212578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1212578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1212578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}