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Saturday, April 14, 2012
If you think the war within the recently defunct Mo’Hits camp is over, well think again as things just got messier.
Over the last few weeks, we’ve reported about the bad blood between former label bosses Dapo ‘D’banj’ Oyebanjo and ‘Michael ‘Don Jazzy’ Collins.
The former kicked the producer out of their Lekki mansion, both acts don’t see eye to eye and even all attempts by their parents, close friends, business associates including the Governor of Lagos state to get the once unbreakable duo back together proved abortive.
Now that the label is at the brink of total demolition, both parties are fighting tooth and nail to scrape what’s left of the once thriving empire.
This is all revealed in a recent confidential E-mail correspondence between Don Jazzy and D’banj (published on punchng.com) where both parties go back and forth on E-mails arguing about who earns the rights and highest shares in the Mo’Hits catalogue.
In the private emails believed to have been leaked by one of the camps, D’banj points out Don Jazzy is yet to produce the second part payment from the recentSamsung deal supposedly worth about N44m. And to add salt to the injury, the entertainer has asked Don Jazzy to return the Bentley automobile which he ‘bought for him’ (Don Jazzy).
D’banj clearly points out that he is being ‘more than generous’ with the way he has handled things in the past; when Don Jazzy argues that his younger brother D’Prince doesn’t owe anything to the label because he was never officially signed on, D’banj says it doesn’t matter because he bought the lad an ‘N11m naira car (LR3/Range) without releasing any album ‘just to boost the image which worked’.
‘This is getting more and more dirty by the day. It’s so unfortunate’, a Mo’hits friend told us this morning. No word yet from either party but we’re working the lines to get reactions.
Read the FULL E-mail correspondence below
DON JAZZY E-MAIL TO D’BANJ
That Mo’Hits Records does not already own 100 per cent of the songs. Note that Mo’Hits Records only owns 60 per cent of the songs and 40 per cent belongs to the individual artiste.
So, 40 per cent of the songs is not mine to give. That me (I am) giving him (D’banj) my share of the catalogue does not and will never include him having the right to stop them (the artistes) from performing the songs or give him the right to claim any monies for live performances of these songs. And any loans or debt owed by Mo’Hits records as at today will be cleared by Mr D’banj as I am clearly not aware of any.
So, songs like Wande Coal’s Go Low and Been Long You Saw Me are not part of this catalogue he is receiving. Also, an artiste like D’Prince, not only has he not released any album, he has not signed any contract whatsoever with Mo’Hits Records.
That he has no right to claim any monies for deals that have been brokered already as at today with the catalogues or stop their usage. It is important to note that any unreleased songs done by any artiste (including D’banj and K-Switch) MUST NOT be released and is not part of the catalogue I am giving away.
With these few points, I do hope that you all realise that I have been generous enough to facilitate the End of the “D’banj & Don Jazzy” era as a team.
After this new deal has been signed and sealed, I do NOT look forward to seeing an email whatsoever or hearing from the DKM (D’banj, K-Switch, Mo’Hits) crew, and all is well again.
D’BANJ’S REPLY TO DON JAZZY
In case he (Don Jazzy) forgot, this is the arrangement! 50/50—–song writer/ production, which means for a song X for artiste Y, 75 per cent as per production is fully owned by Mo’Hits and writing is shared 25/25 with the individual artiste co- writing.
So, that’s the deal! So him (sic) saying 40 per cent is not his to give away is more like 75per me and 25per each artiste.
What do you mean by any bills or loans would be cleared by Mr. D’banj? That will never happen because when I ran the company, I ran it perfectly and well. So, if I give him my shares he is left with 100 per cent liability.
My catalogue is everything that has been done with the Mo’Hits system and under the normal agreement we have, that means everything I have recorded or that has been recorded whether new or old, or even classic, whether beat with concept or even idea without beats, anything we did as a team and sponsored by me throughout, then, it is mine. Including K-switch clause and all mine and even Wande’s singles and all till the date of signing even today.
And now, (I) wanna clear the air on this Samsung deal! I would expect by now that you understand that me keeping quiet is being GENEROUS because this is a deal structured under Mo’Hits Records, (and it is) the first deal and income you would ever bring into the company in eight years.
We shared the first 150k (One hundred and fifty thousand dollars) the right way, 1/3 down and that was cool. But after you collected another 130k and did not say anything (that) is and could be described as theft! I only refused to contact them (Samsung) directly because of your reputation. But please don’t call me a fool and let’s know who is generous!”
Please, please, will he (Don Jazzy) return the Bentley because I bought it for him and it was N5.2m more than mine? And Prince that he claims has no signed contract but is actively involved and signed via engagement– I win his catalogue too – all recorded whether released now or not!
This is because no one questioned me when I bought D’Prince N11m naira car (LR3/Range) without releasing any album just to boost the image of the boy and it worked for him! So, let’s get the facts straight, I AM BEING MORE THAN GENEROUS.
Los Angeles (CNN) -- Angelina Jolie, 36, and Brad Pitt, 48, a Hollywood megastar couple since 2005, are engaged, Pitt's representative said Friday.
"Yes, it's confirmed. It
is a promise for the future, and their kids are very happy. There's no
date set at this time. Brad designed the ring," the representative,
Cynthia Pett-Dante, told CNN.
The longtime couple had been insisting that they wouldn't marry unless the nation's laws allowed all couples to marry.
Asked about this position after the engagement announcement, Pitt's representative didn't have an immediate comment.
Jewelry designer Robert
Procop of Beverly Hills, California, designed the diamond engagement
ring after a yearlong collaboration with Pitt, his representative said.
Pitt "wanted every aspect
of it to be perfect, so Robert was able to locate a diamond of the
finest quality and cut it to an exact custom size and shape to suit
Angelina's hand," the representative said. "Brad was always heavily
involved, overseeing every aspect of the creative design evolution. The
side diamonds are specially cut to encircle her finger."
The couple has six
children, including three biological children together. Pitt adopted two
of Jolie's children whom she had earlier adopted from Cambodia and
Ethiopia, and they together adopted a boy from Vietnam. Their biological
children include twins.
Jolie, the daughter of
actor Jon Voight and actress Marcheline Bertrand, won an Oscar for her
role as a mental patient in the 1999 film "Girl, Interrupted."
Pitt, who grew up in
Springfield, Missouri, was nominated for an Oscar and won a Golden Globe
for his role in the 1995 science fiction film "Twelve Monkeys."
Jolie was previously married to actor Jonny Lee Miller and actor Billy Bob Thornton.
Pitt earlier had been married to actress Jennifer Aniston.
The couple has used their international celebrity to draw attention to a number of humanitarian causes.
Despite ongoing reports
that Jolie and Pitt began their love affair during the making of 2005's
"Mr. and Mrs. Smith" -- while Pitt was still married to Aniston -- Jolie
insisted to the UK's Stylist magazine in 2010 that their relationship
began after the film.
"We became friends on the film set," Jolie said, "but (the relationship) began after."
TITANIC” Tonight at 8 and concluding tomorrow at 9 p.m. on WCVB (Ch. 5).: C+
How do you top James Cameron’s epic
“Titanic,” the highest grossing film of all time and currently back in
theaters in a 3-D edition?If you’re “Downton Abbey” scribe Julian Fellowes, you send that ocean liner crashing into the iceberg not once but four times.
In a twist to trap viewers, each of the first three hours airing tonight ends on a cliffhanger involving the fates of key characters.
The fourth and final hour, airing at 9 p.m. tomorrow, the 100th anniversary of the vessel’s sinking, flashes back one last time and then reveals who lives and who dies.
As dramatic twists go, it never quite floats.
Viewers are forced to relive scenes already aired from slightly different angles. It’s meant to build tension, but in most cases, the payoff is not worth the wait and it seems like a way to run out the clock.
Fellowes is revered for his work on “Downton Abbey” (which opened its first season by revealing that the heir to the family fortune had gone down on the Titanic), so how can I say this without seeming Anglophobic?
This is a veddy British production — straitjacketed and stuffy.
Fellowes is obsessed with class and seems an apologist for the privileged, suggesting that many warrant their positions by dint of their moral authority and not the luck of the genetic draw.
There were about 2,200 people aboard the Titanic, and he seems to be telling almost as many stories.
He blends fictional characters with real-life Titanic survivors and victims, most notably, for this area, anyway, 27-year-old Harvard graduate and wealthy book collector Harry Widener. In this imagining, Harry has a passionate but chaste romance with a budding suffragette.
While there are no big names here, you’ll recognize several faces.
Linus Roache (best known for his role on “Law & Order”) plays the Earl of Manton, married to the cold Louisa (Geraldine Somerville, the “Harry Potter [website]” films). Annie Desmond (Jenna-Louise Coleman) is the impossibly upbeat second-class serving maid who attracts waiter Paolo (Glen Blackhall).
“Peter the Painter” (Dragos Bucur), a real anarchist who dropped out of history around 1911, seeks a new start in America but finds escaping his past impossible. As John and Muriel Batley, a married couple confronting decades of dashed dreams, Toby Jones (“My Week with Marilyn”) and Maria Doyle Kennedy (“The Tudors” and “Downton Abbey”) are superb.
On Tuesday, the "Born This Way" singer tweeted "Just killed back to back spin classes. Eating a salad dreaming of a cheeseburger." She then added the hash tag #PopSingersDontEat.
Some of her followers interpreted the inclusion of the hash tag as encouraging fans to avoid eating in order to become thin.
But it upset those who recalled her admitting earlier this year to having suffered from bulimia as a student and imploring people to stop obsessing with being overly thin.
"I'm gonna say this about girls: The dieting wars have got to stop. Everyone just knock it off," Gaga said at the conference held in Los Angeles and hosted by former California First Lady Maria Shriver.
The singer also has been an outspoken advocate for empowering youth who feel like outsiders, and the irony between what the singer has said in the past and her tweet was not lost on her more than 22.7 million followers in the Twitterverse.
One post from @StuddedBlack on Friday read "I was on the verge of becoming bulimic and now I just might because of YOU. #PopSingersDontEat"
Others, like this from @fluffness said, "People are taking the #PopSingersDontEat thing way too seriously! Acting like Gaga promotes that. She didn't mean it that way..."
A separate blog post on proud2beme.org, which is affiliated with the National Eating Disorders Association, said "If it was meant to be a joke, there are plenty of people who aren't finding it so funny."
Since the April 10 tweet, Lady Gaga has failed to address the flood of comments. She has only tweeted a few times, telling fans about listening to Radiohead and thanking them for buying tickets to her shows.
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