It’s now
2:50 am in the morning. I am now entering home after the Lord answered my
prayer to make my deeply-slept sister Ruwaida pick my call and help me with the
locked gate. That prevented me from using the burglar approach of jumping the
wall which I usually do. With my Quran chapter 12 on replay and my Zesta
Plantation Fresh Strawberry tea in my jug, I decide to make my observations
from the Shatta Movement Family show staged in Alajo dance to Rudeboy Ranking’s
“Dan Banza” on my monitor.
1. I hate a duicker called Shatta Wale.
On the other hand, our elders say we should never fail to acknowledge its
swiftness no matter how much we hate it. Never will I forget how his presence
helped in unearthing musical talents in Nima-Maamobi and its environs. He has
succeeded in awakening the giants in the youth albeit some of the noisemakers
who claim they are also doing Dancehall.
2.
Rudeboy Ranking is a man from another planet. His performance at the show
was the tour de force of the entire
programme. He has succeeded in winning the hearts and souls of the Dancehall
aficionados in town. I was left wondering whether I was not in town since I
found myself numb when everyone was singing along when he was on stage. A
consistent diligence will see him ripping off the musical charts and placing
him on a high musical pedestal in few months to come.
3.
The 2011 VGMA Reggae-Dancehall artist of the year, IWAN, has suffered a real dip in his hitherto fine
run in form. On a different angular look, IWAN could just be facing the music
of life which is full of vicissitudes. He is still cutting out positive and
conscious-minded lyrical songs which show his class as a force to reckon with
the Reggae-Dancehall industry. After all
is said and done, IWAN will bounce back. That I believe. If you are in doubt, be
reminded that there was a Bandana now Shatta Wale as a reference point.
4.
Mr. Logic and his Shatta Movement Family are doing well. However, they
could be more effective in their ambitions if they cast themselves off the
insults and calumnies they heap on Shatta Wale each time they grab the
microphone. I don’t see the youth kowtowing to their hackneyed story of bringing
Shatta Wale to the lime-light and he usurping their Shatta Movement from them
and bla bla bla bum bum bum. And so
what? They should just concentrate and move on. The youth have their ears
clogged when it comes to bad-mouthing Shatta Wale. They won’t listen to
anything save his good music and positive side.
5. Vibrant Faya should do a thorough
self-introspection to find out if music is really what he can do. With all the money and resources being
lavished on him by the Shatta Movement Family, all he could come out with is
the “Mampi” tune that he has continuously tried to push down through our
olfactory lobes? The guy should be serious if he wants to go far.
6. And if there’s anyone one whom the
organizers must get on the knees and thank fervently, then it is the New-Town
boy Bastero. That guy’s performance was a terrible mystery on the night. He
brought the show back to a heightened sense of vitality after a couple of
clowns mounted the stage to give us gibberish noises. Bastero is full of energy
and should work very hard.
7. Our people from the Zongo should
exercise restraint and learn how to settle issues patiently. The fighting and belligerence will not take
us anywhere. And the Juede guy should be mindful of the fact no matter what there
will be misunderstanding in such enterprises and never should he bring out a
gun no matter the atmosphere.
8. For once I thought I was in a furnace
considering the cloud of ganja smoke that was hovering around the whole place.
The youth smoke beyond reason in modern day Ghana. A serious step must be taken to stem these
iniquitous acts. The nation cannot have its youth engage in wanton smoking
bouts.
9. Ras Kuku should move past the
eccentricity he wants to be known with and come out of the cemetery he is noted
to be living in. His is too talented to be lagging behind. Puom must also be
seen and heard more massively.
10.
Dancehall
is still having its field day in Ghana music. If you don’t know what Dancehall is,
you surely know Reggae. Well, “Dancehall is a rough , immensely scratchy ‘street’ style of Reggae.”
Inusah Mohammed.
NB: The writer is a
National Service Person with the Graphic Communications Group Ltd.
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