NIGERIAN musician D’Banj born, Dapo Daniel Oyebanjo, proved more of a studio than stage musician as he failed to perform to expectations for hundreds of Zimbabweans who thronged the Glamis Arena for the Lion Lager Summer Beer Festival on Saturday night.

The Fall in Love hitmaker’s performance approximated local dancer Beverly Sibanda’s style as he spent much of his time speaking about how Zimbabwean ladies were good at waist-twisting. D’Banj went on to invite 10 ladies, one at a time, including Amara Brown to join him on stage. [size=16pt]Regardless of some of his tracks such as Fall in love, Pop Something, Why Me, Mr Endowed, and Oliver Twist being popular in the country as they received massive airplay on local radio stations and rocked night clubs, the night belonged to his visiting counterpart, Ugandan ragga musician Bebe Cool, real name Moses Ssali[/size]. Bebe Cool put up a sterling performance that sent fans into frenzy matching local artistes who included King Shady, Guspy Warrior and Winky D, who also proved were serious contenders in the genre.

Dancehall star King Shaddy put up a scintillating performance as an opening act, showing energy as he belted some of his hits. With the top-notch opening performance by King Shaddy, man-of- the-moment Guspy Warrior was next to take to the stage. The Seunononga hit-maker did not disappoint as he belted out sing-along-hits like Seunononga, 31 October, among
others. After Guspy Warrior, it was Bebe Cool who took to the stage full of energy, he managed to keep the fans on their feet with
a top drawer performance. His well-choreographed act was well received by fans. He sang some of his songs that included Coccidiosis, Fitina and Mambo Mingi among others. Bebe Cool went on to salute Winky D, describing him as a talented dancehall chanter.
Winky D was next, determined to prove his credentials as the self-styled dancehall king.
As usual, the Mafirakureva hitmaker left fans begging for more. The atmosphere became even electric when Winky D introduced the popular Tendazvaitwa “Lipsy” Chitimbe on stage.

As a closing act, D’Banj found it difficult to match the previous performers who had set great standards. Popularly known as The Kokomaster, D’Banj failed to match what his countryman P Square, did last year at the same event.

hammedkola: And what's the noise and too-much formatting of text about?...Was he not paid for his performance?...Abeg park well and say something else, afterall you can't expect to win all the time

spade:
....The truth now stares at everyone in the face that, without those beats, nothing, and I mean NOTHING, separates D'Banj from Vic O.

spade:

"Was he not paid for his performance?" Shows your embarrassingly shallow mentality.

Was 9ice also not paid for his performances even as his shows were flopping? And with each successive flop, were you not aware his appeal was falling as well?

After his last CD dive-bombed and left craters all over the place, do you still hear of 9ice?

Reincarnated:

LMFAOOOO @ the bolded. Damn. True story. That nigga is wack AF now, he needs Don Jazzy mehn.

spade:

Even Don Jazzy needs him too as dat one don chillax for eternity.
Solar Cletus showed him up as well.

In short, those guys should just reunite already.

hammedkola:

And who told you that is the end of his (9ice) career?....Even if they don't appreciate him (Dbanj) because of unexpected performance in Zimbabwe, will that be the end of his stage performance...This same Dbanj performed in front of the world in SA at the AFCON closing, so what's your own "claimed deep proud mentality" about?

spade:

If you're talking about "Top of The World" here, that doesn't count, as D'Banj was merely contracted by the AFCON organizers to sing a song which he neither wrote, has rights to, nor can accept any awards under.

Also, need I inform you stage acts at events like AFCON, World Cup or Olympics are organized by the CREATIVE DIRECTORS themselves and not the artists?
Are you aware Stephen Spielberg was initially the Director of the Beijing Olympics before pulling out due to political reasons?
Are you aware Danny Boyle (director of Slumdog Millionaire) was the creative director for the London Olympics?

Artistes have no power over their stage acts at events like the aforementioned, as the entire thing is planned by the creative director! So, saying D'Banj performed what-what in South Africa is off the question cuz the act was simply staged by the creative director. And as I even remember, all D'Banj did there was sing while being carried around by a crowd.

Where artistes DO have power over, however, are their personal concerts, tours and random gigs like this one!

And please, take note, this isn't even the first time he's crashing and burning. His Koko Concert from Dec 2012 was also an epic failure, in addition to his Texas 'concert' as well.

Omo, the guy na bonzo abeg. Just tell yourself the truth

spade: The scales are starting to fall off from the eyes of the other Africans as well, and D'Banj's musical vapidness is exposing him seriously.

This dude has proven he's completely powerless without Don Jazzy's beats, as even the songs he went to perform at that concert were all the ones he made when he was with Don Jazzy. What? No Oyato? No Bachelor? No Finally? Of course he realises those songs themselves are garbage no one would pay money to listen to, which is why he still goes back to his vomit from 2 years ago to dig up songs he made back then.

The truth now stares at everyone in the face that, without those beats, nothing, and I mean NOTHING, separates D'Banj from Vic O.

Your stage performance goes a long way in determining what kind of artiste you are; and when that day comes, no amount of fake, caked-up, phoned-in, paid reviews from New York Times will save you. No amount of Lagos hype (the same shhhitt that wants the world to believe clowns like Davido are talented) will save you from the inevitable shame.

And this is even the clown people were juxtaposing with P-Square.
P-Square sef, although they are lyrically vapid themselves, are super-talented stage performers. Filling out STADIA in Zambia, Zimbabwe, Malawi, Ghana, South Africa, Rwanda etc. While this praying mantis dey here dey deceive himself

sandijey: Don't mind the jobless mofo! You just had to compare him wiv psquare wiv their tombo music. The kind of money dbanj has made, I doubt if u or ur family can make quarter!

chinedumo:

abeg who owns top of the world?

spade:

http://xclusive.co.ug/bebe-cool-outstages-nigerias-dbanj-zimbabwe-music-battle/

ebamma: You know what's funny op, d'banj got millions for singing all those wack songs there as u call it, but u Mr op bought an internet connection and posted this here for free

prem love: if i were you i will go to the studio and produce my song and see how best i am than wake up at this time of the night to critise people hand work

Booty butt chic: I can't believe some people really believd d op's write up....tsk tsk.....

U people are slow

mj: Dbanj has always reiterated that he is not a musician but an Entertainer.