What makes a song Ghanaian? – Jayso asks

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Ghana boy 11 years ago

I feel you bro Ghanaaians are 1 way they dnt like dynamics.

I feel you bro Ghanaaians are 1 way they dnt like dynamics.
GOD HELP MODA GH. 11 years ago

THESE GAY FOLKS ARE EVERYWHERE, THEY ARE DESTOYING THINGS SLOWLY. THEY MAKE SURE THEY FUSTRATE YOU TILL YOU BECOME PART OF THEM. THEN EVERY SONG YOU MAKE WILL BE A GHANA SONG. YOU PEOPLE BETTER SHINE YOUR EYES BEFORE IT IS TO ...
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THESE GAY FOLKS ARE EVERYWHERE, THEY ARE DESTOYING THINGS SLOWLY. THEY MAKE SURE THEY FUSTRATE YOU TILL YOU BECOME PART OF THEM. THEN EVERY SONG YOU MAKE WILL BE A GHANA SONG. YOU PEOPLE BETTER SHINE YOUR EYES BEFORE IT IS TOO LATE. TAKE YOUR VICE AMISSA ATTA AS A TYPICAL EXAMPLE, HE WAS THE GOVERNOR OF BANK OF GHANA AND NOW THE VICE PREZ OF GHANA, AND DOES NOT EVEN HAVE A LEGITIMATE(REAL) CERTIFICATE, ALL B'COS HE CAN SUCK DICK. GOD HELP GHANA.
EVIL DWARF FROM KYEBI 11 years ago

The day all you "pretenders" stop churning out that crap that you call music, Ghana music will have a new lease of life. You and collaborators at the radio stations are the ones who have destroyed Ghana music. Technology was ...
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The day all you "pretenders" stop churning out that crap that you call music, Ghana music will have a new lease of life. You and collaborators at the radio stations are the ones who have destroyed Ghana music. Technology was invented to to help you do things faster and more efficiently. However, it has rather made you guys lazy, unimaginative and less creative. What is happening is that ones person experiments with a little idea and gets a little success. All of a sudden, everybody's rushing to do the same stuff. This saturates the terrain and brings about stagnation in the music industry. You guys have allowed foreign music styles and nuances to overshadow our own to the detriment of
our own. It is time to go back and do proper music that we can call our own. What pisses me off is the fact that the older musicians of repute are not helping the younger ones. There is no one to mentor the young ones. In fact, they have been atrophied and turned into statues. They are scared of being outdone by the young ones, so they have virtually rolled their mats and gone into "hiding". Let me stop here before I start tearing everybody involved in the music industry in Ghana into smithereens! I am very angry!
btg 11 years ago

Hey bud,

You've hit this outta the ball park. Some of these"wanna-be" so-called rap artistes and producers have done the whole genre of authentic Ghanaian music a disservice, and I am angry.

They churn out crap and proc ...
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Hey bud,

You've hit this outta the ball park. Some of these"wanna-be" so-called rap artistes and producers have done the whole genre of authentic Ghanaian music a disservice, and I am angry.

They churn out crap and proceed to hilite/showcase it when the so-called Annual Ghana "Music" Rap or Hiplife Awards are staged.

How Ghanaian is the music when it comes to the winners over the past couple of years? Where were the the categories of the various genre? We have reduced our music to only hiplife, so to speak because they get the most airplay and recognition. We have allowed ourselves to be brainwashed to the detriment of our common good.

The clownish sponsors and organisers should stop and think vis a vis, what event they are putting up. Is either they do it right by bringing in all sorts of our music into categories or stop it entirely.
I am angry.

Gone are the days where any or every type of music had airplay irrspective of the genre- bosoe, borborbo, adenkum, nnwom kro, da nsuomu just to mention a few.
To be able to enforce it as is done most western countries before the renewal of radio station's licence to operate, there has got to be a percentage of airplay of some of the aformentioned genres of Ghanaian traditional music before the licence is renewed.
This would encourage the resurgence of the traditional and mainstream Ghanaian music and not the CRAP we hear day in and out.
This is what MUSIGA and the others in conjuction with other stakeholders should and must promote on our airwaves.

The question is, why should some of the old artistes even consider to bring rappers to record with it?
Tomi LA 11 years ago

Jayso has been in this industry for a long time and I respect his view on all the questions he just asked. Big ups bro

Jayso has been in this industry for a long time and I respect his view on all the questions he just asked. Big ups bro
planbcity 11 years ago

YES MY BROTHER KEEP HOPE ALIVE N KEEP DOING UR THING

YES MY BROTHER KEEP HOPE ALIVE N KEEP DOING UR THING
wadi isaac (0244224196) 11 years ago

SONG WRITTER, MOVIE SCRIPTER, ADVERT WRITTER and MUSICIAN NEEDS PRODUCER OR SPONSOR OR BUYER 0244224196

I HAVE SO MANY IDEAS BUT I AM UNEMPLOYED AND IN A GREAT FINANCIAL PROBLEM. I NEED GHANAIANS AND THE WHOLE WORLD AT LAR ...
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SONG WRITTER, MOVIE SCRIPTER, ADVERT WRITTER and MUSICIAN NEEDS PRODUCER OR SPONSOR OR BUYER 0244224196

I HAVE SO MANY IDEAS BUT I AM UNEMPLOYED AND IN A GREAT FINANCIAL PROBLEM. I NEED GHANAIANS AND THE WHOLE WORLD AT LARGE TO COME TO MY AID TO ENABLE ME ACHIEVE MY GOAL IN LIFE

PESONALITY:
> 29 YEARS OLD
> GHANAIAN
> I WALK WITH A PAIR OF CLUTCHES
> FOUNDER AND C.E.O OF GHANA CEDI ENTERTAINMENTS
> MARRIED WITH TWO SONS
> A CHRISTIAN

FIELD

SCRIPT WRITTING: 72 SCRIPTS
AND STILL WRITTING
MOVIES SHOOTED 2
SCRIPTS SOLD 5 (out)

SONGS: 931 WRITTEN (STILL COUNTING)
9DEMOS RECORDED, 1 MASTERED, 1 VIEDEO MADE

ADVERTS WRITTEN: 9 AND STILL WRITTING

EDUCATION:

> SSCE 2004
> DIPLOMA IN COMPUTER SOFTWARE & HARWARE 2008
> CITY & GUILD LONDON MICRO COMPUTER TECH. Part I 2006
> CERT OF RLG INSTITUTE OF TECH.2012

I WILL BE GRATEFUL IF YOU WOULD:
> GIVE ME FINANCIAL SUPPORT
> MANAGE MY TALENTS
>PRODUCE MY MUSIC OR MOVIE
>CONNECT ME TO SOMEONE WHO WILL HELP.
I REALLY NEED HELP TO BE ABLE TO CATER FOR MY WIFE AND MY KIDS SO PLEASE HELP ME
+233 244 224 196 OR isaacwadi@yahoo.com
wadi isaac (0244224196) 11 years ago

I HAVE SO MANY IDEAS BUT I AM UNEMPLOYED AND IN A GREAT FINANCIAL PROBLEM. I NEED GHANAIANS AND THE WHOLE WORLD AT LARGE TO COME TO MY AID TO ENABLE ME ACHIEVE MY GOAL IN LIFE

PESONALITY:
> 29 YEARS OLD
> GHANAIAN
> I ...
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I HAVE SO MANY IDEAS BUT I AM UNEMPLOYED AND IN A GREAT FINANCIAL PROBLEM. I NEED GHANAIANS AND THE WHOLE WORLD AT LARGE TO COME TO MY AID TO ENABLE ME ACHIEVE MY GOAL IN LIFE

PESONALITY:
> 29 YEARS OLD
> GHANAIAN
> I WALK WITH A PAIR OF CLUTCHES
> FOUNDER AND C.E.O OF GHANA CEDI ENTERTAINMENTS
> MARRIED WITH TWO SONS
> A CHRISTIAN

FIELD

SCRIPT WRITTING: 72 SCRIPTS
AND STILL WRITTING
MOVIES SHOOTED 2
SCRIPTS SOLD 5 (out)

SONGS: 931 WRITTEN (STILL COUNTING)
9DEMOS RECORDED, 1 MASTERED, 1 VIEDEO MADE

ADVERTS WRITTEN: 9 AND STILL WRITTING

EDUCATION:

> SSCE 2004
> DIPLOMA IN COMPUTER SOFTWARE & HARWARE 2008
> CITY & GUILD LONDON MICRO COMPUTER TECH. Part I 2006
> CERT OF RLG INSTITUTE OF TECH.2012

I WILL BE GRATEFUL IF YOU WOULD:
> GIVE ME FINANCIAL SUPPORT
> MANAGE MY TALENTS
>PRODUCE MY MUSIC OR MOVIE
>CONNECT ME TO SOMEONE WHO WILL HELP.
I REALLY NEED HELP TO BE ABLE TO CATER FOR MY WIFE AND MY KIDS SO PLEASE HELP ME
+233 244 224 196 OR isaacwadi@yahoo.com
pat 11 years ago

yes its true appietus is killing ghanaian music with his cheap and stupid songs,no wonder they cant even perform live music,i dont understand the kind of music he is doing,he is too greedy thats why he is doing all this shit

yes its true appietus is killing ghanaian music with his cheap and stupid songs,no wonder they cant even perform live music,i dont understand the kind of music he is doing,he is too greedy thats why he is doing all this shit
MANA 11 years ago

well i think he is right

well i think he is right
BisQit 11 years ago

Frankly, I started recording rap songs I wrote myself in pidgin English way back in the early 2000s. Some of them you (Jayso) listened to yourself and was quite impressed thus coming forward with some advise and encouragement ...
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Frankly, I started recording rap songs I wrote myself in pidgin English way back in the early 2000s. Some of them you (Jayso) listened to yourself and was quite impressed thus coming forward with some advise and encouragement. But what did I get from the so-called media houses and their so-called DJs?

Massa, k) y3 twi ndwom na rappo twi na w'ayi de3 3nfa w) Ghana ha kraaaa ooo.

God for help wenna lame and too artistically-inclined media houses abreast ema selves and see how good a song would perform both on air and off air when given the chance to do so. Be it danceable or non- danceable.

Ayo, Jayso! Good piece here. Word Up!!!
Nana Owusu. BELGIUM 11 years ago

U CALL THIS MUSIC. TOO MUCH NOISE. I WILL BETTER LISTEN TO DR PAABOBO NANA AMPADU AND OTHER TRUE MUSICAINS RATHER DAN BUYING THE WASTE THEY CALL SONGS.

U CALL THIS MUSIC. TOO MUCH NOISE. I WILL BETTER LISTEN TO DR PAABOBO NANA AMPADU AND OTHER TRUE MUSICAINS RATHER DAN BUYING THE WASTE THEY CALL SONGS.
before-before 11 years ago

that stupid thing you dey do..you call it music.... fuck off

that stupid thing you dey do..you call it music.... fuck off
before-before 11 years ago

your ass

your ass
BOY JOE 11 years ago

THERE ARE NO MUSICIANS IN GHANA.IF THERE,YOU COUNT ONLY ON KOJO ANTWI,GYEDU BLAY AMBOLLEY,PAA KOFI YANKSON,JEWEL ACKAH AND THEIR KIND.THE LATTER-DAY SINGERS CALL THEMSELVES MUSICIANS BUT CANT READ A NOTE IN MUSIC.HOW SAD!WHAT ...
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THERE ARE NO MUSICIANS IN GHANA.IF THERE,YOU COUNT ONLY ON KOJO ANTWI,GYEDU BLAY AMBOLLEY,PAA KOFI YANKSON,JEWEL ACKAH AND THEIR KIND.THE LATTER-DAY SINGERS CALL THEMSELVES MUSICIANS BUT CANT READ A NOTE IN MUSIC.HOW SAD!WHAT THEY DO IS BRAINSTORMING.I KNOW BECOS I USED TO DO THAT WITH MY COLLEAGUES WHEN WE WERE IN SCHOOL WAY BACK IN THE 70'S DURING THE SCHOOLS MUSIC COMPETITIONS AT THE ARTS CENTRE.TODAY,INSTEAD OF MUSICIANS WE HAVE SINGERS WHO TRY TO PARADE THEMSELVES AS MUSICIANS.SEE,JUST SINGING DOES NOT MAKE YOU A MUSICIAN!!!ONE MUST BE ABLE TO READ MUSIC NOTES,COMPOSE AND ARRANGE MUSIC.JUST LIKE IN THE GHANAIAN FILM JOBS(I DONT THINK GHANA HAS A FILM INDUSTRY YET)GHANAIAN SINGERS AND HALF-BAKED OR UNTRAINED FILMMAKERS KEEP CHURNING OUT GARBAGE THEY CALL GHANAIAN FILM AND MUSIC AND ARE SO SO HAPPY WITH IT BECAUSE THERE ARE NO OTHER QUALITY ENTERTAINMENT TO APPRECIATE.WHY?IN THE LAND OF THE BLIND MEN,THE ONE-EYED MAN IS THE KING.IN GHANA EVERY GARBAGE IS GIVING A STANDING OVATION.HOW SAD!OUR ENTERTAINMENT CRITICS(DO WE HAVE ANY?) ARE INEXPERIENCED OR STOMACH-DIRECTED.WHERE IS THE REAL CRITICAL MASS TO CRITIQUE OUR ART FORMS?I BET THAT IF ANY OF OUR SO-CALLED ARTS CRITICS SHOULD READ THIS COMMENT HE/SHE WILL FEEL BAD BUT THE FACT IS THEY DONT KNOW WHT THEY DO AND SO ARTS CONSUMERS PERISH FROM THEIR (ARTS CRITICS)IGNORANCE OF LITERRAY AND ARTS APPRECIATION.THE CRITICS THINK ABOUT THEIR POCKETS(SOLI) AND DAMN THE CONSUMER.I KNOW BECAUSE I AM A JOURNALIST.AT THE MOMENT,WAHT WE HAVE IN GHANA ARE SMALL BOYS AND AND GIRLS WHO HAVE NO BACKGROUND KNOWLEDGE OF ANYTHING IN THEIR FIELD OF THEIR SO-CALLED PROFESSION.THEY JUST WRITE OR TALK IMPULSIVELY,PRETENDING THEY KNOW.THAT,IS THE BANE OF THIS COUNTRY.AND IT IS COSTING US A LOT.BECAUSE A VERY CRITICAL APPRECIATION OF OUR ART FORMS SHOWS AN ABSOLUTE BASTARDISATION OF ENTERTAINMENT--PROFANITY IN FILMS AND MUSIC.THAT MAKES SAD ABOUT SOME OF THE COMMENTS I HAVE READ ON THIS ISSUE.IN ANY CASE,IF ANYONE,COMES ON STRONG WITH ANY NONSENSICAL ARGUMENT ,HE/SHE IS SIMPLY IGNORANT ,STUPID,PLEBEIAN,MYOPIC,NARROW-MINDED,PATHETIC,FOOLISH ETC,ETC ad valorem.

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