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So Hip life as a genre is 26years old, did you know?

I was scrolling through my feed on instagram and I came across a post by Reggie Rockstone that said: ‘Hip Life is 26years old’. For a minute, I thought it was another usual post of grand Papa until I realized he was really serious. Wait, Reggie Rockstone, did you say Hip life, as a music genre is 26years old, for real? To begin with let me say, happy 26th birthday to Hip life in Ghana....

World's bigggest Names in Music for Afro Nation Music Festival in Ghana - 27- 30th December

Ahead of this summer’s sold-out festival taking place in Portugal’s Algarve region, Afro Nation will take the party to the people of Ghana for what promises to be a vibrant celebration of music and culture.   Bringing together the global African community between 27th and 30th December in Accra, the festival follows the recent news that all tickets for this August’s event in Europe - spearheaded...

Rapper Sarkodie is a step ahead of his colleagues, this is WHY?

For all my years of following Sarkodie and Ghana music in general, I can say that there is something unique about the brand Sarkodie aside just his music. Michael Owusu Addo popularly known, as Sarkodie is a master of his time because he always knows what to do to go to the next level. Have you seen the new direction for Sarkodie on social media? He is more...

"Disregard All Asamoah Gyan Extortion Stories Online Against Entertainment Journalist Osarfo Anthony" – Legal Team

Lawyers for Arts/Entertainment journalist Osarfo Anthony, Dr. Maurice Frank Ampaw and Apanga Lamtiig have advised everyone – both home and abroad to disregard all online stories about their client which sought to implicate him as an extortionist. Accra Circuit Court 9 judge, Ms. Afia Agbanu Kumador, on Wednesday, 20th March, 2019, acquitted and discharged Arts/Entertainment Writer Osarfo Anthony,...

3Music Awards fueling an innocent Rivalry to promote their awards on 30th March

In 2018 a new award scheme was introduced by a group of young men led by one able music entrepreneur Sadiq Abdullah called 3Music. The tag for the scheme is “here for the music’ meaning everything about the music was taken inconsideration hence their categorization and calendar is very different from the very popular awards scheme we know. The 3 Music awards...

Dear female Stars: “Don’t loose your Self over Sex Appeal promotion”.

For sometime now I have been monitoring some female artistes in the music industry and their branding. I must say that it is very interesting to see these young talented female singers and a rapper use the most powerful tool of promotion and marketing, ‘SEX Appeal’ to drive their brand. Sex sells in showbiz no doubt, it is one ‘fast’ way of getting your brand known, getting talk-ability...

Shatta Wale might have set a Trap.

Dancehall artiste Shatta Wale might have just created a trap for us as an industry and this time it might just have caught more fishes. Shatta Wale is known for creating the best of hit singles from chaos or getting the best of attention in the media from Chaos. Remember when he was supposedly arrested after misbehaving at the Ghana Music awards some years back. After that whole confusion...

Shatta Wale Coughed and Pope Skinny fell Sick

Some where in 2013-2014 I had a visit from my two seniors; Cypha and Juwaid concerning a fall out between a certain Shatta Wale and them. The whole fall out was because Shatta Wale stabbed them in the back by stealing their popular nick name “SM” and has refused to change it.The issue was so huge that it got fans talking, mostly against me(NanaYaw18) because some thought I wanted to destroy someone’s...