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Of music, and it didn t have an identity. but as time went on, they fused in the pidgin, the local language, just like hiplife did. nigeria carried the torch but ghana lit the torch. i we dropped the soap. we should have stood by that brand. because our cousins next door did the same thing with afrobeat and they did not budge, and here we are today. let s be clear, first and foremost afrobeats is not nigerian, it s ghanaian and nigerian. # like cabernet sauvignon. # strangers wondering what we on. the originators of hiplife were a bit too precious about what it should be, so as new versions sonically were happening, you could hear people saying, 0h, thisjamba. this azonto is watered down, it s not real. ....
Some young people now don t realise lthe collaborations and work that has| been going on between ghanaian and nigerian artists for the last l 30, 40, 50, 60, 70 years. # palm wine for lunch and dinner for breakfast. nobody will understand i the importance of hiplife until afrobeat is the biggest music in the world we are almost there already. but without hiplife, - there would be no afrobeats. ghana had established that sound before nigerians really got into the stride of things. # like say tomorrow no dey. for them, 99 was like a watershed moment for them and, 99, ghanaians already had megastar hiplife artists. if you were to take the music that they were doing and compare it with what was happening in ghana, what you will find is that it was more like the pre hiplife american imitation sort of music, and it didn t have an identity. but as time went on, they fused in the pidgin, the local language, just ....