Ghanaian hiplife musician and rapper Michael Elliot Kwabena Okyere Darko popularly known as Obrafour has disclosed that he was the one who brought sanity to hiplife music.
Speaking on Asaase FM on Tuesday, the rapper said when rap was first introduced into the system, the elderly thought it was all about noise and did not appreciate it so the rap genre needed someone to introduce some level of sanity so I chose the name “abrafour” just to do just to it.
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“When the propounders of Hiplife brought Hiplife and the revolution caught up, our elderly thought it was an empty noise so it needed somebody in the caliber of the executioner to bring some sanity so I chose the name. we know the work of the “abrafour” [ executioners] at the palace; they administer justice aside that they are the sole protectors of the thrown so it needed somebody like myself”
Explaining how he brought sanity into the rap sector, he said he only criticized the works of those who were already in the industry without having issues with them. “You have to drill holes into the works of others and then streamline them”, he said.
According to him, he did not have any negative intention towards drilling the works of other artists but he only wanted the elderly to accept the rap music. “any new thing is difficult for people to grab so it needed somebody to come in like that and make it a bit easier with the kind of adages and so on…”
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“I don’t know the mindset of the propounders of Hiplife as at the time. But then for me, I thought they knew that Hiplife originated from here [Ghana] because I will take you back to the settings at the palace; when the chief speaks, we have the linguist who makes it a little easier for the people to understand.
“And look at the way the linguist goes about making the chief’s statement audible…it was pure poetry and that was what our brothers from the diaspora remembered. This rap thing is actually from Ghana.”
Source: www.ghgossip.com
