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Music of Saturday, 23 October 2004

Source: ghanamusic.com

Batman ? The Greatest Hiplifer Of Our Time

Batman Describe it whichever way you want, co-incidental or whatever, Emmanuel Samini, otherwise known in local entertainment arena as Batman is the greatest hiplifer this country has ever known in recent times.

He has the charisma, creativity, style and poise to change the fortune of a musical track from a less known to a well-known or better still a hit track. We?ve seen him transform a number of tracks in the hiplife genre of our music industry into hit tracks, the recent one being the mega hit track known as 'Konkontibaa' coming from the camp of the creative ?rock? of Ghana music, Obour.

Though a number of hiplife artistes including K.K. Fosu and Paa Solo have argued that the assertion is wrong and that it was through their own instrumentality, it was clear that almost every song the young artiste adds his voice to, become a hit piece.

Batman featured on Paa Solo?s ?Sisi Na Adee Womu? track and it was a super hit. He sang along side K.K. Fosu on his ?Suudwe? track and we all saw what happened. One cannot so soon forget about other tracks such as Madfish?s ?Wone Me Baby?, Kokovelli?s ?Zaa-Za?, Nana Acheampong?s ?Dee Obre Na Odee?, Kaakyire Kwame Appiah?s ?Ko No Saa Mama?, Ekow Shailo?s ?Ma Odo Nso?, King David?s ?Ayefe Notse?, Bak Tye?s ?Ahoafe?, his own production, ?Linda? among others.

The young artiste is very fast establishing as the Shaaba Ranks of Ghana music, making sure that every song he features in becomes a hit.