Long after their public falling-out, former manager Lawrence Nana Asiamah Hanson, known widely as Bulldog, has offered one of his most detailed and candid assessments of Shatta Wale yet, describing the dancehall king as an obsessive worker who has quietly stockpiled enough unreleased material to outlast a generation.

Speaking on Joy Prime, Bulldog said that talent, while important, was never the full story with Shatta Wale. “One thing you cannot take away from Shatta is work. The guy is a machine. He’s a workaholic,” he said, adding that the artist records so relentlessly that his hard drives hold music enough to fill albums for decades.

“If Shatta stops today, we can release albums for the next 30 years,” he claimed.

Bulldog drew a sharp line between natural ability and effort, offering a philosophy he applies across his work in artist management. “Talent is different from work. If talent slows down, work will always beat it. If you don’t put in the work, you won’t get anywhere,” he said.

On the management partnership itself, Bulldog was measured about the credit he deserves. He said Shatta Wale’s team came to him at a point when the artist had spent nearly a decade struggling for mainstream visibility, unable to cut through without the kind of traditional media access that Bulldog’s outfit had carefully cultivated through prior work with artists including 5Five.