Strongman stirs up the rap scene once again with ‘Nightmare’; Video directed by KobbyShots.

On the drill beat programmed by TubhaniMuzik, Strongman flows with ease and hard-hitting punchlines to further cement his space as the Best Rap Act in Ghana and beyond.

Though He is still on the promotion of his top charting 10 Am Album, the Pilolo hitmaker finds time to mesmerize his fans and music lovers with his classic and top-notch rap.

Switching through different rhythms and styles, the Strong Empire CEO flaunts his bilingual prowess on ‘Nightmare’, throwing shades and warning other rappers to stay off his lane.

After winning the prestigious Nescafe 1 song competition Gideon Alabi is known in music as Gidochi has announced new music titled XXL. 

Gido as he is popularly called by friends in the industry will also be releasing his much-anticipated debut EP – Mixed Feeling.

Over the years, the singer is known for hit songs like With You, High with me which featured the Reggae/Dancehall act, Stonebwoy, and he delivered a sterling verse on Fama Me by Jete featuring Sarkodie. 

 Gidochi’s XXL song expresses his profound love for his lover. According to the singer everyone has that one person they share an XXL kind of love with. 

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“These days the love on the street is either go big or go home, so a lot of young people in a relationship want the XXL kind of love – Gidochi noted. 

In showing his excitement about the new single, the Afrobeats, highlife, and soul musician through his social media could not hide how elated he is about the XXL project.

Gidochi Commented:

“The voice of the masses must be heard.
I want to thank you for your support over the years and also your patience as you anticipated my new project. In respect to your demands, I offer you a single from my project
Let’s build synergies as we vibe to the “change”! In your capacity, learn the lyrics, sing it out loud, blow up your speakers, and most importantly share with your loved ones as the theme of the song connotes such! Biggest shout outs to all hands involved in the project! Enjoy and stay tuned! Drops This Friday”.

Gidochi’s record label SuperNova records mentioned that this new single is the lead out of seven (7) amazing songs coming out on the 13^th of November as part of his debut tape titled: Mixed Feelings. 

SuperNova records commented:

“As a label, we have never been humbled and excited about a project like Gidochis debut tape. We know that his fans after he won the Nescafe one song challenge have been expecting something either a song or a project, well, the wait was worth it.” Gidochi will bless us all with a beautiful EP come on the 13^th of November but for now, let’s all enjoy the Kel-P vibes produced song XXL” – the label Assured fans.

Get the brand-new single from Gidochi titled: XXL produced by award-winning producer Kel-P vibes, Click the link below. 

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Music collaborations are very important especially when there is a good gel between two artists. Artists come together to create music to entertain two different fan bases and also tap into each other’s numbers. 

In Ghana, every time music duo, R2bees collaborates with Africa’s most decorated rapper Sarkodie the songs are always fire. 

So it not surprising that in 2020 the Tema base musicians are back on a song called Yawa. 

The new R2bees song featuring Sarkodie is uptempo which is quite different from their previous collaborations with Sarkodie. The duo, Mugeez, and Pae Dae AKA Omar Sterling have always delivered on any music genre that has tried so far including Hi-life music. 

Yawa by r2bees is one for Christmas. The new song is in line with Ghana’s Azonto and it got us thinking may Azonto is really coming back.

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In the past, Sarkodie had revealed that it was time to bring Azonto back and to start the campaign he dropped a song to get his fans ready for the new Azonto season.

Listening to the Yawa song by R2bees, it is not surprising that they chose Sarkodie for this song. The “Gimme way” hit make always knows how to carefully weave his lyrics on beats like this to get people dancing and excited. 

The new R2bees collaborations with Sarkodie come after songs such as the Bayla trap and Ajei, even though Sarkodie and Omar Sterling have jumped on a song called Oluwa is Involved before. 

The Jay directed music video takes viewers back to a time we have to make sure our TV antennas are properly fixed just to watch a black star football match. 

Yawa video is not just hilarious but it has elements of our Ghanaian culture in there with the setting of a typical ghetto neighborhood. 

Enjoy the new R2bees jam featuring Sarkodie called Yawa. 

 We all have heard that there is more than one revenue flow for artists in the music space. A lot of people have shared a lot of ways artists can make money from music. 

Most of the time the list shared includes Appearance Fees, Endorsement deals, sales from Streams, Royalties from music usage, sync licensing fees, and performance fees. 

Most of the time, the people that preach that music is not a strong venture to invest in because it has less return on investment forget that when artists feature on another artist’s song they also charge hence that should be counted as a revenue flow as well. 

If an A-list artist does 10 features a year and charges say $2000 per feature that is $20000 tax-free revenue for the artist. This featuring fee can also help build the artist in so many ways and also keep his business growing. 

All over the world, featuring is not free. As a matter of fact, there is A list artist in the world who specifically charges other A-list artists before they jump on the song with them. This is the business side of the show we always talk about but for some reason the moment an artist puts across a charging fee for a feature, the artiste is seen as in-human. 

Haven said that there is also the featuring for the free aspect of the music. That is where two artists connect, vibe, and decide to create beautiful music depending on the vibe they have both created. 

Also, two artists can agree to tap into each other’s fanbase and numbers by collaborating on a song. This type of feature normally happens when there is a genuine desire to reach a certain audience and market so the two artists meet, vibe, and record a song to push each other in their specific market. 

So for features in music, it comes in so many ways but the most common one is two artists having a connection to create music without any monetary charges but all copyrights and royalties conversations are sorted out on paper before the song is released. 

Now, during the week, Ghanaian star Sarkodie replied to a new artist who asked for a feature on his song that it is either he pays or he waits upon the Lord. 

The answer got social media to platform Twitter buzzing. While others praised him (Sarkodie) others also bashed him for been bluntly rude. 

Was Sarkodie wrong in his reply? We think, he was not wrong but sounded rude. Sarkodie just did what many A-list artists don’t do on social media, charge new artist for featuring. 

This is why Michael Owusu Addo as he is known in real life response came out the wrong way. He could have simply said, call management, and discuss the next steps but rather he openly made it sound like he was looking down on the young artist. 

If it was another A-list artist who had tweeted and asked for a feature, Sarkodie’s approach would have been different hence that is why his right answer feels like it is wrong. 

We cannot count the number of features pending on Sarkodie’s desk right now but there could have a business response to a young artist asking for a verse. What if he had the money to pay- Would Sarkodie do the feature? 

We all know rappers do try to sing sometimes and from time immemorial, a lot of rappers we know have tried singing in songs just to show their versatility. 

Well, we are yet to find a Jay Z or a NAS song that has them singing but at least over here in Africa specifically Ghana, a lot of rappers have tried singing and are very much good at it. 

If we are to name drop, we will surely go with names like Sarkodie, Kofi Mole, Kinaata, Ayesem, Freda Rhymz, just to list a few, and now Eno Barony. 

The song – Had I known sounds like a story we have heard before. The late Ebony’s Maame Hw3 comes to mind when you listen to the song but does not mean that the rapper now trying to sing Eno Barony duplicated the story. 

She was able to stay in her lane of bad marriage and abuse of women. The rapper depicts in her video reasons why some women still stay in abusive relationships and marriages. 

Things like “oh the sex is good” are keeping a lot of women in a bad relationship and the rapper highlights it in her song. 

In the video directed by Yvonne Nelson and Salifu Abdul Hafiz, the male character is seen manhandling Eno Barony in so many different ways just because she shows him, unconditional love. 

The story told in the video is a sad truth and reality. At least this song and video will go back to raise awareness of abuse in relationships and marriages. 

In the video, we get to see Eno Barony’s acting skills. Well delivered, she fits into the character so well and gets you to connect with her story of not listening to her parents when choosing a man to settle down with.

 For some time now Eno Barony has also been showing fans her feminine side in some amazing new photos. The “Heavy Weight” hitmaker while blessing our timeline with beautiful girly pictures sometimes reminds us of her hardcore side. 

In this new single, Eno shows us she is not just versatile in music but also she can diversify in her image and branding too.

Had I known is a beautiful song? Did we love Eno Barony singing? – YES, we did but like most rappers, once the singing pays off, going back to hardcore rap becomes a problem, so we hoping Eno Barony will be able to find a suitable balance for her hardcore -die-hard rap fans and her newfound singing fans. 

Had I known by Eno Barony is out now- Listen and watch the video below. 

Ghana’s star and Africa’s most decorated rapper Michael Owusu Addo, musically known as Sarkodie’s kids’ photos have surfaced recently and the fans could not hide their excitement. 

Sarkodie who just released a new monster hit song ‘Gimme way” and still topping charts with hits such as CEO Flow personally has not shared the pictures on his social media page but his fan base Sarknation leaked the photos to the media. 

 For Sarkodie’s daughter, the world has seen her grow so fast from been featured in her fathers’ video for the song Glory to been on the album cover of Highest. 

As for Junior as he is called these photos is the second time the rapper is showing him off to the world. 

The first public appearance of the two was when he has seen sitting on his father (Sarkodie) in their house.  The picture was released on Father’s day.

In these new photos of the Sarkcess kids, the Oofeesto hitmaker and his kids smile beautifully. These smiles are infectious and will get you to do the same. 

The Sarkcessful KIDS.

A gospel artist is one that understands the works of God and most times believes in the Bible. The good book is mostly their guide in either writing their music or living their life. 

For some gospel artists, their music is a ministry, one that is often led by God to reach the world with the word of the lord. 

Many of them actually pray months to their Father for directions before they even record new music, perform or make a move in their music career.

Their connection with God is so tight that they hardly involve themselves in any unnecessary form of promotions or marketing of their music or career. 

However, one gospel artist who has the slogan unbreakable has been broken. Joyce Blessing known for countless hits in the music circles including Adam Nana has come strongly to curse her former publicist over some interesting allegations. 

The Ghanaian based gospel artist Joyce blessing has reign huge curses on her publicist who she claims is causing her pain and money. 

Earlier on in the year, Joyce Blessing marriage hit the rocks and rumors circulated that it is the publicist of the Ghanaian gospel star called: “Juliana Ntiamoah” who caused the marriage to fail. 

Joyce Blessing since the incident has been mute for so long until recently audio surfaced on the internet where the spirit-filled gospel artist was heard reigning curses on her former publicist 

Joyce blessing is said to have alleged that her former publicist did not only cause her pain but also messing with her Youtube channel. The audio stated that the former publicist has been causing strikes on Joyce Blessings new Youtube channel, causing her (Joyce Blessing) to loose huge sums of money. 

If that is the case, what happened to forgiving your fellow man 77X7 and as a firm believer of the word of God, we were expecting that Joyce would have exercise some patience before pouring curses on the young women. 

Listen to the audio below.  The audio is in a local dialect in Ghana called Twi. Joyce Blessing also states emphatically that she has done every thing to pay off the former publicist hence this curse will surely manifest (not the rapper tho).

For many youths in Nigeria, the fight for bad governance didn’t start today neither did it start yesterday. 

The fight against bad governance in Nigeria started so many years ago and still the people are fighting for the end of bad governance. 

Musician Zlatan Ibile has added his voice to the ongoing End Sars protests happening in Nigeria. 

The Zanku hit maker who together with his friends led the Ghana version of the ENDSARS campaign has released a one minute song pouring out his disappointment and frustration. 

In the song Zlatan opines that Fela Kuti (the Afrobeat Originator) has been fighting bad governance and police brutality so all these years when he was alive and yet nothing has been done. 

Quoting the lyrics in the song, Zlatan who was full of pain when rapping on this new one minute END SARS song said: 

“I was born on the 19th  December 1994, and ever since I was born Nigerian government never gave a Fxxk. Fela died saying this, different president same old sh#t”. 

The Youth of Nigeria including their celebrities have been protesting for close to a week and over asking their leaders to come to their aid by putting an end to SARS (A special Anti-Robbery squad) formed by the government. 

 Zlatan Ibile new song SORO SOKE, End SARS is one that tackles the issues in Nigeria heads on and hopefully will inspire young people to not loose focus but fight for a good course. 

Listen to the song here: 

The African Giant as he is called now, Burna Boy has dedicated his BBC1xtra performance to his fellow Nigerians during these crazy times of police brutality. 

Burna Boy earlier on when the whole endsars protests began in his country, Nigeria, mounted billboards across Nigeria in support of the campaign on end police brutality. 

The Twice As Tall award winning afrobeat artist also launched a Project protect as a way of supporting his fellow country men and women fighting for their lives a d freedom. 

Project Protect is Under @thereachng PROJECT PROTECT is an initiative set up to provide financial, medical and legal resources during and after #ENDSARS protests.

Burna Boy who just released visuals for his new song “Real life” featuring Stormzy, dedicated his performance on BBC1xtra to all Nigerians. 

The 23 hit maker wrote: 

Shot my headline performance for @bbc1xtra a month ago, had to call up everyone in the building to make sure we shed a light on the atrocities happening in Nigeria. The youth have had enough!! We’re demanding better so this is for you. Every single person supporting and fighting for a better life/country 

In the wake of all the things happening in Nigeria, the youth have not just come together to protests but they are supporting each other with food and all kinds of welfare to make sure that every one fighting for the over 20 innocent souls lost will not be in vain. 

Burna Boy’s Monsters you made speaks volumes during thee times. Listen below

 Blackway, real name Yaw Sintim-Misa is the man behind the American NFL song of the season. The republic records signed rapper delivered a song called Heavy weight in less than 12 hours and it became the NFL song of the year. 

Born to Ghanaian comedian, broadcaster and actor Kwaku Sintim Misa popularly called KSM, BlackWay since has dropped several projects includingRadiant Child,Radiant Child Reloaded, New Yhana, and Good.Bad.Faded. His video for “Cake” with Bandhunta Izzy went viral on WorldStarHipHop. He rapped alongside Gucci Mane on “That Fast”. 

The Ghanaian rapper also has records with Busta Rhymes and once featured in rapper Manifest’s Beat 2 challenge where he was part of the top rappers to ‘kill’ the beat. 

According to the Ghanaian star based in USA, he had a call to create a song for the NFL and within twelve hours he returned the call with a track title Heavy Weight. 

In an Instagram  live with NFL star Melvin Ingram, Blackway disclosed how excited he was when he had the call that his song heavyweight was the official song of the season for the NFL.

“Heavyweight” debuted during ESPN’s Monday Night Football broadcast featuring the Los Angeles Chargers at the New Orleans Saints, and was featured across pre-game and in-game broadcasts.

This is a big win for Ghana and Blackway who in 2018 collaborated with DJ duo Black Caviar on a track forThe Spider-Man™: Into the Spider-Verse soundtrack called “What’s Up Danger. It’s been viewed over 19,000,000 times on YouTube alone. 

Check out heavyWeight by BlackWay

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