Renowned Fire Base Crew producer Sir Dan Magic real name Oyerwot Brenny Daniel has fired back at critics claiming he didn’t do justice to Bobi Wine’s ‘Nalumansi’ song.
On 22 March 2023, Bobi Wine released a controversial song dubbed Nalumansi after months of hiatus.
However, Nalumansi left a section of music critics’ tongues wagging, with some claiming that the song’s production wasn’t impressive, as a section of social media users, media personalities, including renowned music analysts, came out and criticized the audio quality of “Nalumansi.”
While taking part in an interview with Spark TV, Dan Magic revealed that the criticism was directed at him rather than the musician because the reviewers failed to understand the song.
Dan Magic added that people like Eddy Ssendi, and Jenkins Mukasa among others have never appreciated anything produced by Firebase Music camp, hence it is no surprise that they have aimed their arena toward them again.
The producer further added that to produce ‘Nalumansi’ he combined efforts with some of Uganda’s celebrated producers including Paddyman, Tonny Houls, Keem Xp, and Bobi Wine himself.
Dan Magic continued by asking how someone could disparage a song that was created by Uganda’s top producers.
Despite the song’s popularity, (which many attribute to Bobi’s political influence) especially on YouTube with over 300,000 YouTube views in less than two weeks, music critics like Eddie Ssendi believe that Bobi Wine and his producer Dan Magic, are detached from the country’s music trends, currently.
Ssendi says that as much as Nalumansi has a richly positive message, the NUP honcho should at least switch to other producers going forward, with claims that Dan Magic seems to be working against him.
However, speaking during an interview, producer Dan Magic, the brain behind most of Bobi Wine’s recent projects since 2016, defended himself as disclosed that actually three more producers were actively involved in the creation of the song.
“By the way, I didn’t produce that song alone, at Firebase, we do as a team when it comes to Bobi Wine’s songs,” said Dan Magic.
He added, “For ‘Nalumansi’, I worked with Paddy Man and Tony Houls. These are among the best producers in the country.”
Dan Magic believes that they did a good job on the song; however, those who criticize it are merely expressing their political rage.
The producer also thinks that some listeners simply failed to understand the song’s message.
