Abraham Ohene-Djan, a popular filmaker in the heydays of hiplife music has thrown jabs at Reggie Rockstone and Panji Anoff that they are not the originators of the said genre.
Music producers Zapp Mallet and Panji Anoff have always disagreed that Reggie is the granpapa of hiplife music in Ghana.
Abraham Ohene-Djan, made this known in an interview on 3FM’s Showbiz 927 with MzGee who claims Zapp Mallet is the originator and not Reggie Rockstone.
He said “I will say something; it may be controversial; I don’t think it was Reggie [Rockstone] and I don’t think it was Panji [Anoff]…,” the producer-cum-director, who shot Reggie Rockstone’s ‘Twoo Boe’ in 1994,
“I think the person that we really need to look at is Zapp Mallet; seriously, because in terms of who defined the hiplife sound…it was Zapp who first put out what we refer to as contemporary, urban, or African or Ghanaian music. Yes Reggie was the one who was on the beat…Panji was doing his thing…” he added.
He also added that the beat of a music defines the genre not the lyrics or the style of the rapper.
“It is the engineer that creates the genre…a subject or a style of rapper or singing doesn’t define the genre…”
