Famous Ghanaian rapper, Sarkodie, has acknowledged that Nigerian artists take pleasure in plenty of monetary help from billionaires and enterprise executives within the nation, in contrast to their Ghanaian counterparts.
Speaking in a current episode of the When We Sit podcast, the Azonto crooner mentioned Ghanaian artists typically do music on their very own with none monetary help from fellow Ghanaians.
He mentioned Nigerian businessmen love supporting and investing in skills, which give Nigerian artists monetary benefit in Africa.
“What Ghanaian artists do is natural. I give a marketing strategy, even with that it’s onerous to get some folks to come back in. But in Nigeria, I feel they take plenty of danger, many of the wealthy folks with cash, take plenty of danger to place their folks on. If I breakdown what it takes to do the O2 Arena, you’ll freak out, however then we nonetheless must do it,” he mentioned.
He recalled assembly Nigerian billionaire, Tony Elumelu, and being shocked by the quantity he instructed him he was investing in a Nigerian artist, whom he believes is the way forward for Afrobeats.
