Shasha Marley is certainly out with an album now after seven years behind the scene.

Asked why he was off the scene for such a long time, he said he laid low for that time because God wanted him to go through spiritual changes in his career and personal life and to also perfect whatever he is doing.

7 stands for perfection, “God created the world in six days and rested on the seventh day” he said. So it’s the way of the Almighty to take him through spiritual perfection.

The reggae artiste who has done collaboration with the Grammy award winner Isaac Hayes about prevention of AIDS has a distribution deal in Australia and will be touring the country next month for some gigs with his men.

Though the quality associated with this fine reggae artiste, smokes all over the album there are a lot of questions on two tracks that talk about the fait that an average hard core Rasta man will need herbs.

On one song he sang, “Rawlings say Boom, Boom, Boom and Kuffour say waaa, waaa, waaa. 

Asked to explain the rationale behind the song he said he got it through revelation. He said he once met a mysterious woman on an airplane who he had a chat with. She told him she likes how Ghanaian politics is growing and that she was around when the former President J J Rawlings made the Boom speech and Kuffour also made the Waaa waaa speech. 

The fact of the matter is these two leaders are not on good terms which is an unfortunate incident because they are supposed to set a precedent for the rest of us to follow and if it turns out to be otherwise, then it clearly spells out how bad our leadership is.

Basically, the song is to remind people about how the politicians are exploiting us and leaving us hungry whilst “Dem Belly full”.

So in effect, the song is meant to portray the political situation in the country and its status and warn people of them because even Jesus condemned politicians.

He said this particular song came after he had finished doing the entire album of thirteen songs. He said after having a chat with the lady on the plane, he couldn’t find her again after a frantic search, just to contact her again for probably another insightful conversation but mysteriously she was no where to be found.

Two weeks later he dreamt he had seen her standing in a corner and when he went up to her, she looks him in the eye and tells him to do the song. He asked her which song and she said “The Boom Boom and Waaa Waaa song”.

 As he laughed out loud, he woke up and three days later, the song came running through his head like that and that continued for 5 consecutive days until he could take it no more so he went to see his band in the studio and they decided to put something together without even rehearsing.

The first try was done so perfect and sang the song from A to Z without realizing what he was doing. After playing, they all heard the song and were surprised how well-laid it was. They didn’t even try to do it again because it was perfectly done the first time.

Talking about the ‘Maata’ song, he said he is surprised people are mistaken it to mean different things. They say he is talking about flatulence because it goes like “Maata Fish, Maata Tish and Maata Po; and in Ghana that sounds like “I have farted Fish, Tish and Poo….

He feels it’s absurd that people are taking it that way. He gave an example that the name Oko in Ghana is a Ga name but in Nigeria it’s profane; you dare not say that word in public. Again amongst the Fantes they say “Nnyow” (yes) but in South Africa it’s too profane among other examples.

He said those words are names of some folks from Papau New Guinea who helped him back in the seventies when he was young but lost track of them and is now trying to reach them through his song.

“The Maata Fish, Tish and Poo are names of one family with the same surname. That is why a verse in the lyrics goes like, ‘Maata’. Try and get in touch with I through shashamarley@yahoo.com”, he continued.

So he wishes people will listen to the lyrics well because there is much of conscious vibes in there. Asked whether he will love to stage a show and unite Kuffour and Jerry, he said yes just like Bob Marley did once in Jamaica. But he wonders if those two will really honour an invitation like that. He stresses that, the politicians are taking us for granted and they have been doing so for a long time.

He feels it’s about time we sit up and love another and be each brother’s keeper because politicians can only divide us not unite us. He said the heart  of politicians’ is so hardened there is nothing you can do to change them.

To end his interview, he said he wish that peace prevail among us and we shouldn’t forget to learn to broaden our horizon and also everybody should make it a duty upon himself to grab a copy of his album to benefit from the lyrics in it.