Zapp Mallet has stated categorically that the kind of Dancehall music produced in Ghana is just a cacophony of noise that has no flavour like what the originators, Jamaicans do.
According to him, Jamaican dancehall music allows him the opportunity to learn from music while the dancehall music from Ghana only “throws things together”.
He revealed this in an interview on the Y Leaderboard Series with YFM’s Rev. Erskine.
“I really like the dancehall genre. When I hear dancehall, I like to listen but not Ghanaian dancehall. I like to hear original Jamaican dancehall. And when I listen to music, I listen because I want to learn. I hear sounds, break them down and analyze but when I listen to ours, I don’t get anything like that. They just throw things together”.
Explaining why there seems to be a difference between the two, Zapp Mallet educated that usually, producers in Ghana do not put in enough work into the music.
He however said his posture is not to discourage anyone from doing dancehall music in Ghana.
In other news, Ghanaian gospel star, Edward Akwasi Boateng has revealed how he almost went from grace to grass when he was at the peak of his career.
The Kumasi-based gospel musician told Akoma FM’s Kwantenpon Drive with Tony Best that he was able to acquire a house and 17 cars but has sold all the cars to settle his debt. His revelation showed he was hit hard by financial constraints that he had to sell his properties in order to stay afloat.
“My ‘Adea me p3’ album alone sold 555,000 copies and I used part of the money to build my first house which I currently reside in.
“I bought 17 cars while I was in my prime, but as we speak, I don’t own even one. I sold all of them because cassette sales were down and I needed to feed myself and the family and again to settle some debts I owed a bank.”
The musician who has seven albums to his credit is currently making sales off his music on various digital platforms.
SOURCE: www.Ghgossip.com
