On November 21- 2013, Nana Poku a.k.a Hammer of the Last Two revealed that a three day peace process had been initiated by the Office of National Hiplife with Reggie Rockstone as the Director beginning November 25,2013.
The aim of this peace talks was to address the feud between the two most influential figures within the Dancehall fraternity of Ghana music and most importantly to ensure that at the end of the process, peace would prevail and Shatta Wale and Samini would put an end to their “fight” .
It is also good news that the likes of Daddy Bosco, Black Prophet, Panji Anoff, Kwame Sefa Kayi and Reggie Rockstone would be on the committee set up to address the feud between Shatta Wale and Samini. These individuals have conducted themselves well within the music industry and I believe they would serve as good influence in ensuring that peace prevails between the African Dancehall King and the Dancehall King inna da whole Ghana.
In as much as I am very happy that hopefully after the three day peace process, we would have some good news to talk about, I am a bit disappointed by the turn of events. It`s an open secret that within the Dancehall fraternity, it`s not only Shatta Wale and Samini who are at loggerheads.
When Shatta Wale released a song dissing Samini as his response to ''scatta badmind'', didn't Iwan also release a song dissing Samini? Doesn't this give us the indication that there is bad blood between Iwan and Samini too? For most music lovers, isn't the ''scatta badmind'' track perceived as a dissing song targeted at Shatta Wale and Iwan?
Didn't Stonebwoy and Shatta Wale nearly exchange blows at the studios of ETV on The Late Night Celebrity Show? Aren't the initiators of the three day peace process aware of all the negative things Iwan spoke of Samini when he got interviewed on Amanda Jissih's show?The aim of this peace talks was to address the feud between the two most influential figures within the Dancehall fraternity of Ghana music and most importantly to ensure that at the end of the process, peace would prevail and Shatta Wale and Samini would put an end to their “fight” .
It is also good news that the likes of Daddy Bosco, Black Prophet, Panji Anoff, Kwame Sefa Kayi and Reggie Rockstone would be on the committee set up to address the feud between Shatta Wale and Samini. These individuals have conducted themselves well within the music industry and I believe they would serve as good influence in ensuring that peace prevails between the African Dancehall King and the Dancehall King inna da whole Ghana.
In as much as I am very happy that hopefully after the three day peace process, we would have some good news to talk about, I am a bit disappointed by the turn of events. It`s an open secret that within the Dancehall fraternity, it`s not only Shatta Wale and Samini who are at loggerheads.
When Shatta Wale released a song dissing Samini as his response to ''scatta badmind'', didn't Iwan also release a song dissing Samini? Doesn't this give us the indication that there is bad blood between Iwan and Samini too? For most music lovers, isn't the ''scatta badmind'' track perceived as a dissing song targeted at Shatta Wale and Iwan?
How sure are the initiators that there isn't any bad blood between Stonebwoy and Samini? Is it not so clear that most of our Dancehall artistes have something against Samini? In as much as the feud between Samini and Shatta Wale has assumed unimaginable heights which does not augur well for Ghana's music industry, I sincerely believe the peace process initiated should have been “holistic” ; holistic in the sense that all cases of feud between all dancehall artistes in Ghana should be addressed rather than concentrating on the Samini-Shatta Wale case alone.
Are we waiting for the feuds between the other Dancehall artistes to re-ignite before we address them? I pray that as you read this piece, we would have received the good news that Samini and Shatta Wale have agreed to stop the dissing game and are ready to live peacefully. I would wish that as mentioned by Shatta Wale at the Bass Awards Nominees Jams, we would have the opportunity of listening to a nice Dancehall tune recorded by both Samini and Shatta Wale.
I also pray the feud between the other Dancehall artistes and also involving Samini and Shatta Wale will not come up again. We want peace in the music industry and I am expecting to listen to a song from Stonebwoy featuring Shatta Wale or Samini, a song from Shatta Wale featuring Samini and vice versa and possibly a song by Iwan featuring Samini. I rest my case.
By Ebenezer Narh Affum
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