It’s no gainsaying that Ghana’s musicians are talented but as to why our music cannot transcend beyond our own scope remains a mystery. On the other hand, our neighbours from Nigeria continue to make headlines worldwide. One of the factors attributed to this is the fact that Ghanaian musicians fail to help the new entrants.
This is a sentiment Odumja shares. The rapper said popular artistes do not want to support the upcoming ones to help them make an impact in the music industry.
He has this to say: “Backstage in Ghana is so disheartening. When you are an upcoming artiste at backstage in Ghana you are been segregated. The popular artistes are given a different place to be whiles the upcoming artistes are left somewhere. Even talking to the popular artiste is a problem. They will make you feel like you are not even human, they look down on you like you are nobody.
In the UK when you are at the backstage, all artistes are there. The big boys will even walk up to you and ask about how you are doing and encourage you before you go on the stage. They will come back to you and give their opinion on performance and try their best to stay in touch with you.”
He also observed that some popular artistes in Ghana are not considerate with their charges for collaboration with an upcoming artiste; something he thinks must be looked at to afford young musicians to work with their mentors easily.
