Don Jazzy Confirmed As Producer On Jay Z And Kanye West Album

Mo’Hits C.E.O and sole producer Michael Collins better known to the public as Don Jazzy has been confirmed as a producer on US rappers Jay Z and Kanye West’s upcoming collaborative studio album titled ‘Watch The Throne’.

There had been news about Don Jazzy adding his creativity to the album as soon as he and the entire Mo’Hits crew got signed to Kanye’s G.O.O.D Music a few weeks ago but the producer who hardly talks said it was only a probability in a press conference held in Koko Lounge.

The official track list hit the World Wide Web some hours ago and was confirmed by Hip-hop websites HipHopDx.com and Complex.com. Don Jazzy co-produced ‘Lights off’ which features Beyonce. Other producers on the song are Kanye West, Mike Dean, Jeff Bhasker and Q-Tip. Added vocals on the song come from Seal, Mr Hudson, Don Jazzy, Bankulli and Ricardo Louis.

Speaking with the Mo’Hits hit maker through an E-mail correspondence, Don Jazzy tells Nigerian Entertainment Today (NET) ‘Yes it is true sir. Kinda excited about that. Considering it’s like my major first. And see the amount of heavy weights I worked with. We thank God’.

The producer also let us in on his stay to the Big Apple, ‘We (Don Jazzy and D’banj) haven’t relocated to New York but we kinda spend a little bit more time than normal now just because we need to be closer to a few of the clients we’re working with at the moment.’ He stays somewhere in Soho. He doesn’t share the same apartment with D’banj.

The production for ‘Watch The Throne’ is below…

01 No Church In The Wild f. Frank Ocean (prod. Kanye West & 88-Keys)

02 Lift Off f. Beyoncé (prod. Kanye West, Mike Dean, Jeff Bhasker, Q-Tip & Don Jazzy)

03 Niggas In Paris (prod. Hit-Boy, Kanye West, Mike Dean & Anthony Kilhoffer)

04 Otis f. Otis Redding (prod. Kanye West)

05 Gotta Have It (prod. The Neptunes & Kanye Wwest)

06 New Day (prod. The RZA, Kanye West, Mike Dean & Ken Lewis)

07 That’s My Bi**h (prod. Q-Tip, Kanye West & Jeff Bhasker)

08 Who Gon’ Stop Me (prod. Sham “Sak Pase” Joseph, Kanye West & Mike Dean)

09 Murder To Excellence (prod. Swizz Beatz & Symbolyc One)

10 Welcome To The Jungle (prod. Swizz Beatz, Mike Dean & Ken Lewis)

11 Made In America f. Frank Ocean (prod. Sham “Sak Pase” Joseph & Mike Dean)

12 Why I Love You f. Mr Hudson (prod. Mike Dean & Kanye West)

13 Illest Motherfucker Alive (prod. Southside, Kanye West & Mike Dean)

BONUS TRACKS

14 H.A.M (prod. Lex Luger, Kanye West & Mike Dean)

15 Primetime (prod. No I.D.)

16 The Joy f. Curtis Mayfield (prod. Pete Rock, Kanye West & Mike Dean)

NET

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Branding of Children As Witches to Be Criminalized

A UK-based anti-child abuse charity organisation, AFRUCA, is working with UK groups to make branding of African children as witches a criminal offence in the United Kingdom.

AFRUCA Founder and Director, Debbie Ariyo, who disclosed this in London over the weekend at an event to mark the organization's 10th anniversary said children brought to the UK from Africa were often branded as witches and victimized by their guardians.

"We are working with UK's National Working Group to stop this practice and make branding of children as witches a criminal offence", she said, disclosing that most of its victims and victims of other child abuse practices were from Nigeria.

Debbie stated that the AFRUCA project in Nigeria, which would be launched in December this year, was established to "address issues of child abuse and exploitation at source", anticipating that the organization's operation in Nigeria would be "phenomenal".

She disclosed that the organisation had trained more than 4,000 parents on the best parenting practices that would stop their children from being taken to care homes, lamenting that a huge number of parents have lost the custody of their children to care services due to bad parenting.

In her remarks, Ekiti State first lady, Mrs Bisi Fayemi, lamented that appalling cases of child abuse and exploitation happen on a daily basis, and urged those who could make a difference to act to "stop the culture of impunity" by the perpetrators.

She said Ekiti State had taken the lead in the implementation of gender policy which outlaws discrimination against women and children, and promotes their rights and needs and enhances their chances in life.

Mrs Fayemi, a well-known activist for the less privileged in the UK, commended AFRUCA for its work against child abuse and child exploitation, saying that the organisation has helped many victims to heal and rebuild their lives.

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In Lagos State, home to Nigeria's most populous city, Lagos, more than 1,000 primary schools are dilapidated lacking basic classroom furniture, electricity, and running water.

Part of the problem is that primary education in Lagos State has suffered from decades of under-investment while the population of those that need to be taught increases.

Babatunde Fashola, governor of Lagos State, is trying to close to close the gap on years of neglect. Under his governorship, more than 2,300 new classrooms have been built and many renovated.

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