Gyedu Blay Ambolley has argued that Shatta Wale’s assertion that he is the King of Dancehall is a fallacy because he can’t be better than those who created the Dancehall.
“You sitting down here calling yourself Dancehall King, we know that the Dancehall was created in Jamaica. So are you a better king than those that created it, you who is an imitator,” explained Ambolley on 3 FM.
The highlife legend then added that we copy too much from the outside and for that matter; we struggle to promote our own stuffs
“Because we are not being real to ourselves, we don’t have anything that is of our origin coming from our side of this world. We are doing too much of a copy than becoming creative. That is the problem we have.”
Gyedu-Blay Ambolley is a Ghanaian highlife musician, songwriter, producer, and composer. The first musician from Ghana to formally incorporate rap forms into local highlife rhythms, Ambolley created the musical genre Simigwa.
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