Legendary Ghanaian musician, Gyedu Blay
Ambolley, who has on many occasions described
himself as the originator of rap music in Ghana is
now contesting the Guinness Book of records that
the Sugarhill Gang are the originators of the genre
worldwide.
The ‘Radum zo’ hitmaker who said his style of rap
was taken from a Liberian mad man called
Arakayan told Morning Starr host Kafui Dey on
Friday that he was the first person to have made
the type of music popular and commercialized it.
“I am [the originator of rap] in the whole world not
only Ghana. Yeah because if you go into the
Guinness book of records they said that the
Sugarhill Gang originated rap, and if you check the
date, their date was around 78, 79.
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Mine came out in 73 commercially so I’m
challenging the Guinness book of records on that.
“We are corresponding though. Because I think that
somebody isn’t doing his or her homework
well...anything coming from Africa, many a time
they look down on it but this time we're gonna
stand up and claim it…”
When asked by the Morning Starr host “So you are
not the grandpapa [of rap] you are the Godfather of
rap worldwide?”, Ambolley said “I’m telling you!
Because if you wanna check the record and
everything, Boom! It’s right there”.
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