Davido, Wande Coal clashes over unreleased collaboration

Afrobeats stars Davido and Wande Coal have become embroiled in a public disagreement over their unreleased collaboration, “Come My Way,” with both artistes offering conflicting explanations for why the much-anticipated song never made it to the public.

The dispute began after Davido discussed the shelved collaboration during an interview with Uncut, explaining that differences over the song's release strategy ultimately brought the project to a halt.

Davido said Wande Coal originally approached him to contribute to the song, and he subsequently recorded his verse.

According to the Timeless hitmaker, however, problems emerged when Wande Coal planned to release the original version of “Come My Way” before putting out another version featuring Davido as a remix.

Davido said that was not what he had agreed to.

He explained that he recorded his contribution as part of the collaboration itself, rather than for a remix, and the disagreement eventually meant the song was shelved.

Wande Coal disputes Davido's version

Wande Coal subsequently challenged that account in a post on X, insisting that the track already had an established release strategy and date before the disagreement arose.

“Carry song come give you as how? Song wey been get release plan and date!!! Song wey no be your own you wan dictate release plan,” he wrote.

The singer also dismissed any suggestion that the song depended on Davido's contribution to succeed, insisting that it performed well without the collaboration.

“That song fkin did well without you on it bruv!!!”

What began as a disagreement over the handling of an unreleased record subsequently spilled into a broader social-media exchange, with the two artistes trading personal jabs.

The clash has now revived interest in “Come My Way”, a collaboration that fans had expected to hear but which has remained unreleased.

At the heart of the dispute is a simple disagreement over who had the right to determine how and when the song should be released — but the contrasting accounts from two major figures in Nigerian music have turned the story into a much bigger public fallout.