The grandpapa and originator of Hiplife, Reggie Rockstone has rubbished claims by Ghanaian reggae artiste and radio presenter, Blakk Rasta that Hiplife is dead.
Reggie who was speaking on The Zone with Naa Ashorkor and AJ Sarpong according to StarrFmOnline, stated that Hiplife cannot die once rappers continue to rap in their local language. He further stated that though the genre may evolve into something else, the tree of Hiplife will always be there.
“Usually I will let Blakk Rasta slide because he is an attention seeker but then again certain things shouldn’t be allowed to slide because some of us have sacrificed and still sacrificing for this movement to be as prolific as it is today. How can he narrow the death of a genre down to a language?…It’s ridiculous and it makes no sense.
Blakk rasta has never been to Jamaica and his claim to fame was speaking ‘patoa’ on radio which was entertaining to Ghanaians, so how can he turn around and chastise artistes for doing same … I call him ‘jafaking’ and not Jamaican.
When I returned home from England, the first thing I did was rap in Twi, which was a reverse of what everyone did because English was my first language…I learnt to speak Twi.
He talked about legalizing “Marijuana” and when put before a committee he begged like he stole something…I need to check him if no one will.”
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