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Kwaw Kesse, Ghana’s self proclaimed King of the Streets has described Ja Rule as a spent force with no relevance in today’s hip-hop world.
The opening performance at the Ninth-MTN-Ghana Music Awards night by Kwaw Kesse and his group was, to say the least, so poor that some of my friends and I were put off; the group was too loud and one could not decipher what the artistes were doing on stage.
Finally, it is all over, and the results of the lucky winners of this year’s MTN Ghana Music Awards, were released at the National Theatre, amidst a yellow carpet of celebrities who graced the occasion.
Ms. Abena Turkson, Public Relations Officer of Charterhouse, Event Organisers, Ghana Music Awards (GMA) few weeks ago told Radio Gold’s Solid Gold Countdown that Ja Rule’s coming is based on a social cause but Ghanaians are yet to be told exactly what the so-called cause is all about.
Why should two great “sons” of Peace Fm battle it out on air on such a trivial issue whiles these others sit their “somewhere” to take credit? What happened last Saturday on Entertainment Review program is a disgrace to the two and I totally condemned the behavior of the two: Me yie Otwe anaa Adowa?
This is the continuation of last week’s topic on the Richest Hiplife artist. This week we are going to look at the assets, investment, cars and others which qualify them to be called rich…. Fortune, they say has long conferred fame and popularity on those who work for it. So our recent obsession with the “who is wealthy” has spawned a new generation of musicians who doesn’t want what has befallen their predecessors to occur to them, therefore have been careful about how they lived their lives.
What do Ghanaian musicians and actors want - wealth or fame? They deserve both; don’t they? Sadly, it seems many of them are getting massive media publicity while still hustling for bus fares to move around. Don’t even talk about cars and houses because many, if not most of them, simply do not own any.
The politics of music can be just as intoxicating as the politics of governing a country. It seems musicians who get into the politics of power play within the industry lose themselves eventually to the animosity and factionalism it brings. Most of them end up dropping their musical instruments entirely. One typical example is Carlos Sakyi, but he’s not alone in this.
When given the chance to choose between TV3 Mentor and Stars of the Future, many would go for TV3 Mentor not because they don’t like the organisers of Stars of the Future but for the fact contestants on Mentor made a lasting impression on them. How many of the contestants on Stars of the future does anyone remember even with their European and American English accent?
The music industry in Ghana for the past two decades has recorded low patronage of musical albums due to the increasing rate of piracy.
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