The singer mentioned the amount singer and rappers had to part with to get a live studio recording like he is doing with Sarkodie now.
“Doing live is very expensive. If you want to do digital, you can get into a studio, pay the engineer GHc 800 to GHc1000 Ghana and everything will be done. But if you doing live you have to call a bassist, live, percussionist, backing vocalist and that can cost you close to 2200 for one song. Even playing live is expensive because whatever you get you must give the band a reasonable amount. And the instrumentalists won’t be available at the same time and it takes several days for each instrumentalist to come around and play their part.”
The I Do Love You singer bemoaned how Ghanaian acts that he wrote for didn’t appreciate his effort and credit him accordingly.
“There is one thing I believe about Nigerians, when they get, they give you the songwriter some but Ghanaians don’t do that and that’s where our problems lies. I feel its business and it’s not my intention to write songs for people for them to record, become big and later I break them down. I still love to write songs for people but now its business. If you really want me to write you a song, I will give you a contract. If you are cool with it, I will write for you.”
He continued;
“The channels in Ghana don’t work, if it was abroad, I would have been in my mansions with cars and more. Three award winning hit songs? The system doesn't work and artists are not helping too. I have a clean heart to work for people and I expect them to give me what’s due me. But initially all I wanted was the acknowledgment but some did and some didn’t.”
“I had my plans of becoming an artist at some point and it’s not that I started because people weren't giving me credit enough. I did because that was the plan.” He concluded.
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