Ghanaian dancehall music is dead - Blakk Rasta

Controversial Ghanaian reggae artiste and host of
Taxi Driver on Hitz FM, Abubakar Ahmed known in
showbiz as Blakk Rasta says dancehall is dead and
he will be shocked if the music genre achieves
what it did back in 2014, this year.
The opinionated musician said this on Hitz
Entertainment News while denouncing reports that
he said dancehall artiste Shatta Wale will not go
anywhere in a recent interview on ETV.
Clearing the air, Blakk Rasta said, “I did not go out
to say Shatta Wale’s music will not go anywhere, he
(the interviewer) asked me about Ghanaian
dancehall so [my answer] was a general
description and prediction of the dancehall scene in
Ghana”.
According to him, “the interviewer then zeroed in
and asked me about some artists like Stonebwoy,
Samini, Shatta Wale and I talked about all these
artistes one after the other but the writer decided to
pick only Shatta Wale and put him up there and say
Blakk Rasta said it. What about Samini, what about
Stonebwoy?”.
On his opinion on dancehall music, he said, “If
dancehall is able to do what it did in 2014, I’ll be
shocked because for me dancehall is dead”.
“I travel out and I don’t hear Ghanaian music. It’s
full of hype and they are not letting the music talk
they are doing the talking and the hype.
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They talk about the richest Ghanaian artistes and
the most flamboyant Ghanaian video, all this won’t
take us anywhere, the way they are doing it, it
won’t last”.
The ‘Barrack Obama’ hit singer stressed that, “It’s
true that Ghanaian dancehall music will not go
anywhere, it’s all about Patois. If you don’t speak
Patois, you can’t do dancehall that’s what I’m
saying will not go anywhere.”
He advised that dancehall artistes sing in other
dialects instead and refrain from using profane
words.
“It won’t work unless a few of them decide to be a
little bit more conscious, sing in the local dialects
apart from Patois and refrain from using profane
words.”
“The music won’t go anywhere if we all sing profane
dancehall. Why don’t they sing about ‘Dumsor’, why
don’t they sing about how pretty African women
are, why don’t they sing about the African
continent, why don’t they sing about the suffering of
the ghetto, why don’t they sing about prosperity,
sing about love rather than the guns and that they
killed 20 people? There are so many things we can
talk about which will uplift and develop us rather
than this nonsense which is presently going on,” he
continued.
“It’s just a suggestion, it’s just an opinion, if you
want your business to last this is what yo