King of traditional kologo music, King Ayisoba, says Ghana’s rapper, Sarkodie, is no match for him when itcomes to live stage performance.
According to him, no hip-life artiste in Ghana canrubshoulders with him withregards to live band performance, adding the rapperholic cannot perform in countries he (Ayisoba) perfoms.
“Sarkodie is not fitfor thoseshows because he (Sarkodie) cannot perform to a live band, the only thing Sarkodie can do is to mime to his songs on CDs,”he toldOnua FM.
King Ayisoba argued that incountries that he has performed, the organisers of the shows he performedon, would prefer engaging American rapper, Jay-Z to Sarkodie “The organizers ofthose shows will prefer Jay Z than bringing Sarkodie because he (Sarkodie) doesn’t have a band.
” For him M.anifest and Wanlov Kubolor are the only hip-life artistes who are performing well in the industry among their contemporaries.
“M.anifest and Wanlove arethe only artistes who are doing well compared tothe rest of the hiplife musicians we have here in Ghana.
“The Whiteman I work with always tells me he prefers to invite a highlife artiste from Ghana than inviting a hip-life artiste to the event he organized.”
