For once Sarkodie was quite indecisive on this, he was torn between either releasing his first love, a hip-hop tune or one of his ‘commercial’ songs off his forthcoming Black Love album. And guess how he settled the scores, he took to his twitter handle to seek the opinion of his fans on it. Though the fans were predominantly vouching for the fourth single off Black Love, Sarkodie cited that there was the need for some hot hip-hop for this year’s Rapperholic concert.
Finally, the BET award-winning rapper satisfied both sides by resolving to release both tracks, the hip-hop first then the commercial piece. The rapper truly did what he calls ‘ beast on a track’ on this hip-hop piece he calls Who da man featuring Kwesi Arthur.
The most recent update and in fact, the most official one so far on the reported issues at the record label of multiple award winner, Stonebwoy’s Bhimnation Music Group (BMG) confirms the removal of his first signee, Kelvyn Boy from the label. The dancehall artist made this public yesterday, posting the official statement confirming Kelvyn Boy’s disassociation from the label on his social media handles.
Meanwhile, the rumors which made headlines few weeks to now suggested that, there were some kind of an internal rankle ongoing at the record label and Kelvyn Boy was at the forefront of it, as he was the main reason behind the said issues, it was also allegedly reported to have been due to his misconduct towards the label boss, Stonebwoy. However, though the official statement issued today cited the expiry of their one-year contractual agreement which was eligible for extension and Kelvyn Boy’s conduct, as the rationale behind the decision we could say, the rumors to some extent were actually true.
In view of this, we could again conclude that the reports of Kelvyn Boy’s discourteousness and misconduct towards Stonebwoy have also been vindicated. Going through the official statement, you would notice an evident disclosure of the fact that, Kelvyn Boy’s conduct could be attributed as the one of the main reasons if not the main reason, that called for this drastic resolution on the matter. The statement read: “…the company has considered the expired status of the Agreement as well as the conduct of Kelvyn Boy during its tenure, and has decided not to trigger the option.”
Kelvyn Boy’s reaction to this, few moments after the statement was made public was rather surprising because he actually shared a throwback live band performance of himself singing praises to God on this social media handles. Watching the video, I was left with only one question, “Does this imply he is happy or at least okay with the decision taken?”.
The news of Ghanaian BET award winning rapper, Sarkodie’s recent nomination at the BETs for the 2019 BET Hip hop awards got many so excited, though not being his first time getting a nomination. The rapper’s nod was in the newly created Best International Flow category, with other nominees Ghetts (UK), Nasty C (South Africa), Falz (Nigeria), Tony Lanez (Canada), Kalash (France) and Lil Simz competing.
Personally, I thought it was one of the best news to have hit the country in recent years, but to utmost surprise, others were acting rather surprised to the news, wondering of what did the magic for the ‘adonai’ hit maker. Others claim it all happened just too fast but the truth be told, it did not just happen all at once as they thought, Sarkodie himself kept saying it as far back as earlier in the year, when he released his hip-hip glutted musical piece, Alpha tape(EP). And upon consistently listening to the EP and scrutinizing the lyrics word for word, I got to realize he gave so many clues about the great feats he intends achieving with it this year.
Sarkodie’s alpha tape artwork
Sarkodie’s alpha tape track list
Meanwhile, what was however rather surprising to me was that, he mentioned some of these things as if he could actually see them coming, he sounded as though he could see the future. But from my end, I could say owing to what i have gathered, he knew the great prospects ahead of him because he knew he had worked so hard for it. The statement he made in his ‘Legend’ song on the EP, “ I put in the work me retwen results. M’study me friends m’ahu flaws, m’ahw3 me income m’ahu me profit and loss..” affirms my claim as it literally implies he has put in his best effort into this works so all he awaits are results, he has done his background checks to ascertain his flaws and he has seen his income and also checked his profit and loss as well.
Summing it all up, you would realize Sarkodie’s Alpha tape was the major contributing factor if not the only the factor, responsible for this 2019 BET Hip-hop awards nomination. And he could also foretell the future because he worked so hard to perfect his work pieces, so he could only imagine his works speaking for themselves.
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