Sultan Incorporation signee, Nanky has had critics and music lovers talking after the release of his highlife single, Cassette which features King Promise.

With the rising discussion of our identity as Ghanaians on the international music market, Nanky has stepped out as a trailblazing savior who is proud of his roots as he dishes out this hot tune in a Highlife genre.

As more industry personalities like Shatta Wale, Ignace Hego, among several others have called for the acceptance and selection of a single original indigenous genre to push the Ghanaian brand out there, Nanky isn’t wasting time.

‘Cassette’ has all that a modified Highlife song needs to match up with global standards and even get Ghana to the Grammys.

Speaking on this dire topic, he confessed, “It’s about time we do with Highlife, what Nigeria has done with Afrobeats. All we need is to modify and modernize our indigenous sounds for a global appeal as I’ve done with my latest Cassette single featuring King Promise”.

Get ready to be blown away by the exotic visuals directed by Yaw Skyface that accompanies this world-class soon-to-be hit single.

If it’s one from the Sultan Incorporation signed act, then know it’s a certified banger.

Actress Yvonne Nelson has shout outs King Promise for his latest song Slow Down. 

The actress who doubles as a movie executive producer took to her twitter page to write her feelings about the song. 

Yvonne wrote: 

A King, Good music with clapping emojis. 

A king! G O O D music 👏🏽 pic.twitter.com/npq38sruFV

— 𝓨𝓿𝓸𝓷𝓷𝓮 𝓝𝓮𝓵𝓼𝓸𝓷 (@yvonnenelsongh) May 29, 2021

King Promise is signed with Producer Killbeatz Legacy Life Entertainment and Sony music is about to release his new album soon. 

Slow down as released earlier in May is gradually becoming people’s favorite. 

Check out Slowdown. 

Fashion is a big part of an artiste life and brand. In developed music countries, artistes take key interest in fashion and even venture into it as another source of income for their careers. 

Names like Kanye West, Pharrell Williams, jus to list a few have had successful fashion brands apart from their music. 

The biggest basket ball icon, Michael Jordan who leads the Jordans brand has over the years make huge revenues from sneakers down to T-shirts. 

One should not forget that Kanye West became a billionaire when he took over the fashion industry with his Yeezus. 

Knowing what we know now It is however impressive to see our Ghanaian stars take their fashion sense seriously. 

The likes of Kidi, King Promise, Sarkodie, Stonebwoy, Manifest, Pappy Kojo, Kinaata, Joey b, just to mention a few have serious fashion sense and we hoping that one day they break into fashion with their own brands. 

Recently Joey b traveled to the states for the 64th Independence celebrations of Ghana and since then has been making some deep and beautiful fashion statement which he shares on social media. 

Joey B who has gone through different faces of fashion from old school looks to trendy- urban T-shirts’ and sneakers is currently exploring more fashion ideas and we love it. 

In these 5 pictures we have selected, Joey b shows of his style in different ways. 

Let’s check out the Tonga hit maker style and class. 

Not just  a singer, King Promise is loaded with unending melodies  in his pouch – words of Bankuli, Grammy nominated. 

Bankuli is a musician, A&R, Fashion and vocalist who is linked with Kanye West. 

The Nigerian who was also on Beyoncé’s Lion king 2019 project could to hide his joy when he got an exclusive listen to King Promise’s fourth studio album. 

Even though Bankuli did not give too much away when comes to King Promise album, Bankuli did disclose that the album will be melodious. 

Bankuli tweeted: 

Not just a singer @IamKingPromise is loaded with unending melodies in his pouch – his forthcoming album is 🔥🔥🔥 great to get a listen 🎧 🎯

cc @killbeatzgh @ohene_faruku 🇬🇭 pic.twitter.com/EIGy2r9zY3

— Bankulli ( Grammy Nominated ) (@bankulli) March 11, 2021

We got super excited because we had earlier on in the year read that King Promise was going off social media to finish his album and so for Bankuli to give us update, we are excited. 

For those who do not know Bankuli check out his song “Foreigner” featuring UK artiste Not3s below: 

Our new music of the week highlights the best of music from Ghana. Songs from Lynx entertainment signed artist Kidi who releases visuals for his hit single One off his Blue EP. 

Opanka enlists Kofi Kinaata for his highly inspirational song 

Opanka releases the visuals for his song “Hold On” with Kofi Kinaata. The song talks about some of our low moments in life and urges the listener to be hopeful for a better tomorrow.

Sefa – Playa ft. Wendy Shay

KiDi ft Adina – One Man

JAY BAHD – CONDEMN

Dead Peepol – Against 

Killbeatz, King Promise, Ofori Amponsah – Odo Nti

JOEY B | KOFI MOLE | MEDIKAL – AKOBAM

Flowking Stone x Kunta Kinte – Taking Over

Akwaboah – Enjoy ft. Kelvynboy

Kelvyn Boy ft Gyedu-Blay Ambolley – Watch Nobody

Our weekly top 10 most played songs across the country is powered by Ghud Music. The latter is a radio monitoring and data company that monitors over 75 radio stations across the 16 regions of Ghana. 

Ghud Music top 10 most played songs represents the top 10 radio air play most played songs. This week’s top 10 is for week ending October 15th.  

Kuami Eugene’s Open gate is still the most played song in Ghana topping the chart while his label mate Kidi is also back at number 2 for the week with his hit Enjoyment. 

Keche’s No dulling goes down 1 spot to number 3 as Stonebwoy’s Putuu freestyle is still at number 4. 

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Below are the top 10 most played songs in Ghana. 

Kuami Eugene – Open Gate 

KiDi – Enjoyment

Keche Ft. Kuami Eugene – No Dulling

Stonebwoy – Putuu Freestyle [Pray]

Darkovibes – “Inna Song (Gin & Lime)” ft. King Promise 

Dopenation ft Kofi Kinaata – Thank God

King Promise – Sisa

KiDi – Say Cheese

Kweku Flick – Money

Sarkodie – Oofeetsɔ ft. Prince Bright [Buk Bak]

The son of Africa from Ghana, Kuami Eugene looks like he is not stopping at any time soon with hits as he tops this week’s GHUD MUSIC powered Top10 songs in Ghana. 

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Kuami Eugene who was featured on the second biggest song of the week, No Dulling by Keche tops the country most played songs with Open Gate. 

Check out Africans open gate for Kuami Eugene 

His label mate Kidi also comes in third with his biggest song Enjoyment released 8 months ago. 

GHUD Music is a Music data for Ghana Music Industry. They monitor over 75 radio stations in Ghana and use data analysis to calculate the most played songs of the week. 

The top 10 songs of the week are below: 

Kuami Eugene – Open Gate 

The song has over 3M views on Youtube. 

Keche Ft. Kuami Eugene – No Dulling 

The song as 1.6M views on youtube 

KiDi – Enjoyment. The song has 4.8M views on youtube 

Stonebwoy – Putuu Freestyle. The video has 1.7M views on Youtube

King Promise – SISA. The video has 2.9M views on YouTube. 

KIDI – Say Cheese. This video has 3.1M views on Youtube 

Darko Vibes ft King Promise – Inner Song. This video has 1.8M views on Youtube

Yaw Tog SORE ft O`kenneth,City Boy, Reggie, Jay bahd

This video has over 500K views on Youtube 

Mr. Drew X Krymi ft Sarkodie – Dw3 

This video has 4.2M. views on youtube. 

Dopenation ft Kofi Kinaata – Thank God. This video has over 200K on Youtube. 

Africa cum to Ghana’s most decorated rapper Sarkodie known in real life as Michael Owusu Addo held a writing camp in Ghana. The camp saw the likes of Nigerian star Zlatan, Rex on the beat, Nana Fofie together with other producers in attendance. 

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Sarkodie is probably working on a new album, check out him and Zlatan from Nigeria recording.

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The writing camp also brought unity between artists in Ghana as almost every artist of our time was at this camp to either record, help create music or collaborate with another artist. 

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This Unity between @killbeatzgh @sarkodie @iamkingpromise and all the guys is just beautiful. So damn beautiful. 🔥🔥🔥🔥

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So what is a writing camp? 

For those of you who don’t know what songwriting camp is, well, it’s a gathering of producers and top liners in a pre-selected location for the purpose of cross pollenating creativity and writing. A camp can last for a few days or a week or longer. 

If the above definition for a writing camp is anything to go by then we will say it is the music form of a corporate retreat. These camps in the past are often organized by labels who want an album written for an artist. 

At Sarkodie’s writing camp, we saw a lot of artists recording with different artist and the whole music mood created was something the industry needed to boost Mojoe of musicians especially in this Covid 19 era. 

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The best caption wins? @djmensah X @sarkodie

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Music and musicians were hugely hit with this pandemic as many had to return performance booking fees to agents due to the pandemic so a camp of this nature could not have come at a better time for our African artists and producers. 

Let us share a few of the things you might have missed from the camp. 

1. At the Camp, Sarkodie brought together 2/3 of the whole music industry. A picture of every artist at the writing camp showed that there was unity among our musicians and they had fun. 

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@michaelblackson goes #Madasucker on COVID. Records with @sarkodie and @zlatan_ibile

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The ladies were not left out. At the writing camp we saw our female stars for the first time bonding. Sefa, Efya, Mzvee, others had their best time at this writing camp. 7 out of 10  of the time this things happen without our female stars present so to see them been involved made us happy. 

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@efya_nokturnal in her BIG 🐉 elements ___ Jeez!

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Last night writing camp was ladies night 🖤😊 @s3fa_gh x @akiyanamusic x @mzveegh 🇬🇭🇬🇭🇬🇭📸: @iamkaptin

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The Camp brought together some of the continent’s best producers such as Rex on the beat, kill beatz just to list a few. The co-production power behind some of the songs we will hear when these records come out will  obviously blow our minds.

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Producer @rexxiepondabeat in Ghana working on some some with @sarkodie 🔥🔥🔥.

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Writing skills improvement. We saw from the pictures and short videos how Sarkodie and other artists were always with every artist before they recorded their music. We saw Sarkodie with the ladies where he spent time in listening to them before they recorded. We hoping that this will influence our music in a great way as we go back to been lyrically strong again. 

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Something smells Fishy – aquarium (in #MDK voice) as @sarkodie and @iamkingpromise link up in the studio again.

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@sarkodie and @nanafofiee at the writing camp – work di3 this guy is top notch

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Teaching of branding and Imaging as an artist. For every artist that had the chance to spend some time with Sarkodie, we are expecting that they would have learnt a thing or two about how to make a brand solid. All the videos and pictures released from the camp were properly cut and treated for the glam. Some times the music cannot speak but the images will do a lot of talking. 

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King #Sark at his Writing camp

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Magic … ✍️

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The SarkCess Writing camp had my super star @zlatan_ibile , @michaelblackson and @fuseodg in the building …That African energy on a 💯🔥🔥🔥🔥🇬🇭

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Freedom: we saw how Sarkodie for the first was dancing a lot. A video of himself and King Promise got social media buzzing – that means there was freedom of creation at the camp. Artists had lot of freedom to do what they want to do and hopefully it reflects on the music. 

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Wait for the @iamkingpromise and @sarkodie dance. Dope.

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Congratulations to Sarkodie on this writing camp and to all artists that showed up; this is what Africa needs if we are going to take the world on. 

We need to go together rather than go as individuals.