Multiple award-winning Ghanaian rapper, Macassio, on Sunday, October 28, shut down the Bukom Boxing Arena with his ‘Total Shutdown Concert’.
The “Dagomba Girl” hitmaker rocked over 4,000 fans at the boxing arena for hours.
Maccasio, alongside some up and coming and mainstream musicians, thrilled fans to the fullest on the night with his highly patronised concert.
Check Out : Bless – Chocho Mu Cho (Feat. Kofi Kinaata)
Tuba, Yblaq, Choggu Boys, Gaffachi, One9ra, Wumbei and Wizchild, who are highly known in the northern region of Ghana, took over the stage to deliver some sterling performances.
From the southern part of Ghana came Miyaki, ‘Hipop Alhaji’ FaReed and Medikal who proved their worth, delivering pure class and showmanship on the night.
AMG Business’ Medikal introduced Maccasio on stage but little did the fans know about the biggest surprise on the night.
Halfway through Maccasio’s performance, the fans were taken by surprise, when NKZ Music label frontman Guru popped up to throw his support behind the Zola Music label frontman.
Guru dropped a couple of hits from his catalogue and left the stage for Maccasio to finish what he started.
After dropping hits after hits, Macassio ended his stellar performance with Fancy Gadam’s hit song “Total Cheat” – a sign that he has no qualms with his fellow musician.
Overall, Maccasio proved why he has a major following in the industry and this is just one of the proofs.
Maccasio shuts down Bukom Boxing Arena with “Total Shutdown Concert”
Maazy – Never Give Up (feat Babaloke) (Mixed By Baddezt)
Trip Records unleashes a new joint from Maazy featuring Babaloke. Song titled ‘Never Give Up’ produced by Baddezt.
CHECK OUT: Bless – Chocho Mu Cho (Feat. Kofi Kinaata)
Maazy – Never Give Up (feat Babaloke) (Mixed By Baddezt) [DOWNLOAD]
Vodafone Icons finalist Evance readies debut single "Too Morch", drops Nov. 10
I Will Act Nüde For $2 Million – Actress Fatimah Adeoye Confesses
Fast-rising Ghanaian actress Fatima Adeoye is set to act for a 2 million Dollar role in Hollywood.
In an interview with Ayisah Papabi on TV Africa’s Pae Mu Ka, she told the host she would easily to act nude in a production from Hollywood if the money’s huge.
She said “Yes I will do it… the money is the motivation is not like I will do anything for the money but 2 million dollars is a lot of money for me. It’s my career I won’t even think twice about it… ”
Born to a Ghanaian mother and Nigerian father, Fatimah, who joined the movie industry three years ago has produced her own movie first movie, titled, Aliyah.
She is the winner of the 2015 Discovery of the Year prize at the City Peoples Entertainment Awards. She has also starred in movies like Aliyah, Fake London Boy, Ghana Yonko, and Evil Soul among others.
Watch the interview below:
Magnom – Economy (feat Nshona Muzik) (Official Video)
Just a few days after releasing his new single, “Economy”, which features Nshona music, Magnom has just blessed us with an unorthodox music video for the song. The video reiterates the underlining “bare it all” theme of the song by subtly adding a subtitle while tapping into the look and feel of a gaming era dear to our hearts. Click on the video link to be taken into a an arcade portal to the past.
Koo Kyei – Control It (Feat Stonebwoy) (Prod By Mix Master Garzy)
Ghanaian Highlife musician Koo Kyei has teamed up with multiple award winning Reggae and Dancehall musician, Stonebwoy for his new single, “Control it” produced by Mix Master Garzy.
The highly anticipated song is the musician’s debut under Ghetto Records, an independent management company handling his affairs .
Check out : R2bees – Boys Kasa (Feat. King Promise, Kwesi Arthur, DarkoVibes, RJZ, Spacely, Humble Dis, Medikal x B4Bonah) (Prod. by Killmatic x Killbeatz)
Listen to the song and share your views.
Koo Kyei – Control It (Feat Stonebwoy) (Prod By Mix Master Garzy) [Download]
Cynthia Quarcoo Announced As Keynote Speaker For 2nd Edition Of The Annual Women Ceos Summit On November 9
Founder of Africa 1 Media & CQ Legal, Cynthia Quarcoo, has been announced Keynote Speaker for the 2nd Edition of the Annual Women CEOs Summit.
The 2nd Edition of the Annual Women CEOs Summit organized by WomanRising; a flagship network of The African Network of Entrepreneurs (TANOE) will open on the 9th of November at Tomriek Hotel with the Conference Keynote delivered by an outstanding woman; a Lawyer, an Entrepreneur, a Mother, a Mentor and a Survivor; Ms. Cynthia Quarcoo. With the summit theme; The Go To Woman; becoming a household name; Ms Quarcoo will touch on the subject of Business Law and Corporate Governance as essential tools for building a thriving world class business with a recognizable brand.
Ms Cynthia Quarcoo is a legal practitioner with extensive experience as a Corporate and Finance lawyer in Ghana and the United Kingdom. She is the Founder and Managing Partner of CQ Legal and Consulting, where she currently heads the Banking and finance, Energy/Power and Infrastructure Practices. Ms Quarcoo has over 15 years’ experience representing institutional clients. She is an experienced corporate/commercial and finance lawyer with specialization in the energy, financial and infrastructure sectors. An economics and business graduate, Cynthia’s early career as an Analyst at PriceWaterHouse Coopers has strengthened her ability to provide clients with commercially sound legal advice.
In its 2nd year, the Women CEOs Summit brings together emerging and established women entrepreneurs, professional women and business executives aspiring for global business leadership and economic dominance. This year, the theme is The Go To Woman, Becoming a Household Brand and it will feature seasoned speakers and panelists with varied experiences in law, branding, media, business, Human Resource, Public Relations, Finance and Investments.
Notable amongst the speakers and panelists are Ekow Mensah; founder & CEO of TANOE & WomanRising, Kafui Danku; Actress & CEO of ABC Pictures, Ekua Asanteba – Mensah; Media Personality and CEO of MenaCare, Edem Attipoe; Founder & Women’s Advocate of Noble Ladies of Tema West and Vera Ose-Bonsu; Founder and CEO of Start Right Infant & Child Nutrition Network (SCRINN).
Slated for the 9th of November, 2018 at Tomreik Hotel, the 2nd Women CEO Summit is indeed a conference not be missed by any women entrepreneur passionate about building a globally competitive business and brand.
More About Speaker – Cynthia Quarcoo
Cynthia has over 15 years’ experience representing institutional clients. She is an experienced corporate/commercial and finance lawyer with specialization in the energy, financial and infrastructure sectors. An economics and business graduate, Cynthia’s early career as an Analyst at PriceWaterHouse Coopers has strengthened her ability to provide clients with commercially sound legal advice.
An expert in advising firms setting up in emerging markets in Africa, she has a deep knowledge of international trade and customs law. Her experience ranges from establishing businesses and consultancies, to working with multinational firms conducting cross-border mergers, acquisitions, financing and refinancing. She also specializes in insolvency and corporate restructuring, having advised PwC on the liquidation of Ghana Airways in 2005.
Her achievements include, recognition by Chambers Global and Legal 500 as a leading lawyer within the field of ‘General Business Law (Ghana)’. (2009 – 2012 editions) and recognition as a leading lawyer by IFLR 1000. She sits on the Advisory Board of Times of Africa. She is a Contributor to the World Bank’s flagship “Doing Business Project” (2007-2017), Investment Guide to Sub-Saharan Africa: ‘What Chinese Investors Need to Know’ 2011 and The International Trade Centre (Joint WTO and UN Agency), Model Contracts for Small Firms: Legal Guidance for Doing International Business 2010.
Ese Elevate – Your Style (Prod By Short)
Enjoy this banging single from rising act, Ese Elevate.
He calls it ‘Your Style’ produced by Short.
CHECK OUT: Kwesi Arthur – Anthem (Mixed By JayFyn)
Ese Elevate – Your Style (Prod By Short) [DOWNLOAD]
Tax Creative Art Folks On Losses?
I have been observing the on going debate about how GRA is now targeting Creative Arts Folks to indeed TAX them.
As far as I’m concerned Taxes are collected based on profit made so I don’t know whether there is now new taxes based on losses made.
We can also NOT talk about this Tax issue without mentioning the name of the President who promised us heaven but now wants to serve us hell.
We can also not excuse the Creative Arts Minister who seems to only care about Tourism and have now left our faith to the Tax Man.
Truth is the buck stops with them.
Check Out : R2bees – Supa (feat Wizkid) (Prod. By Killmatic)
Fact of the matter is that ShowBiz is a combination of Show and the Business but unfortunately we are only seeing the Show which is usually fake and the Business side does not exist here due to a number of factors which I will touch on a few.
The Arts industry is an informal one and its controlled by private individuals yet the government has a role to play in making the sector viable and complete.
- The government’s role is to make Laws that will protect the industry.
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To build infrastructure that will see to the growth of the industry.
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To put in place policies that will protect and boost our market.
There are a lot we can talk about but let’s just touch on only this three and move on to our predicaments.
- As at today the music industry in Ghana do not have any where to sell its products and the only option is at Kantamanto fose lane. We have therefore resulted to online marketing but ask yourself how many Ghanaians use credit cards and also have that orientation to purchase music online.
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Our products have been left to the mercy of pirates and thieves and recently musicians were rather arrested by the police for going out there to confront these pirates.
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The industry do not have ultramodern large sitting venues to host our shows whiles this government had it written boldly as part of their manifesto that when they come into power they will build large sitting theaters in every region except Accra making it a total of 9 but they will start with 3 regions yet 2 years down the lane they are now struggling to renovate a 1964 building in Koforidua which was not even part of the initial plan.
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Radio and Tv stations are using our music for free without login in and paying the required royalties but it is in the law books that no station shall operate without login the songs they use, in fact back in the days GBC was doing it manually so what happened to it now that we are in a digital world where it’s suppose to be even easier. Ironically this government again promised that when they come into power they will in collaboration with us purchase a login system software to help us monitor the stations but ask yourself if you have ever heard them mentioning it again after they won the elections.
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We have guidelines that tells us what percentage of foreign content should be shown on our airwaves but what do we see, our airwaves have been flooded with cheap foreign contents which is killing our local content providers but no one seems to care about that. Even if we don’t have any Laws on foreign contents being shown on our airwaves don’t we have common sense to tell us that foreign content will only dilute our culture and eventually kill our local industry?
Recently our Kumasi film makers Kumawood lead a demonstration against foreign soap operas and sent a petition to Nana Osei Tutu the King of Ashanti but ask yourself what really happened after that cry. In fact the whole Ghana industry was nearly mortgaged to India as GOLLYWOOD by Mr Boateng aka Mr India with the assistance of the Ghana Ambassador to India Hon Ocquaye if not for the intervention of the stakeholder of the Movie industry.
Now after refusing to honor your promises which we all know that a promise is a comfort to a fool you have now turn around like sheep in wolf clothes to devour us with Taxes.
Recently the only source of income for the Arts industry i.e. Ghamro was taxed to a tune of 60,000ghc which I stand to be corrected.
Our Deputy Minister in an interview admitted that the Creative Arts people are BROKE and so one will ask himself that why will a government who has done nothing for these people and who is aware that they are BROKE will turn around to Tax the Losses they are making.
As I type today a statutory monies collected by CUSTOMs on behalf of the Creative Arts people have not been paid and the last time we check the information we had was that there was no money in the account. How can there be no money in an account that is suppose to keep monies that belongs to stakeholders.
Nobody is against Taxes but to Tax people on Losses is just inhuman and I believe this debate is too insensitive to the poor plight of Musicians and it must STOP since it is just a Senseless Controversy.
My last personal question is that is the FREE SHS by force or we will go Mad if we abolish it or do we have to force a policy like Free Shs onto ourselves in order to overburden and collapse other industries or what?
#VhimMoveMent
Chymny Crane Teases Sarknatives With His New Song Titled “EGBEE” (Banging)
Rapper Chymny crane has release yet another hot single banger which he titled “Egbee”, a word derived from the Ghanaian Ga speaking language which means (Banging). The rapper over the past week released a controversial song title Advice Yourself in which he lyrically attack the Sarkcess Music CEO Sarkordie. In retaliation to Sarkodie’s diss song (Advice) to Shatta Wale, the rapper jumped on the Advice song’s beat to hit hard on Sarkordie with heavy rap punch lines and words play.
Check Out : Kofi Kinaata – MalaFaka (Prod. By KinDee)
Since the release of his new hit song Advice Yourself, Chymny crane has received some heavy criticism from Sarknatives for attacking their King whilst SM fans rallied in his defence amids the controversy which is still a topic of discusson on social media after days of the song’s release. To address Sarknatives of their attack on his brand for Advising their King with the Advice Yourself , the talented rapper went back to studio and recorded a danceable song to celebrate his successful defeat on Sarknatives which got them in rage after his Advice Yourself song’s release a week ago.
Rapper Chymny crane went ahead in his new song to address Sarknatives not to take his lyrical attack personal since its part of the spice to showbiz, not leaving SM fans out of the song. He showed appreciation to the SM fans for Defending him after his attack on Sarkodie by promising not to let them down, he went further to state that Advice Yourself was a moment of Clarity.
Click the link to download and enjoy.
Chymny Crane – Egbee (Prod By NAD Xclusive) [Download]
Patoranking – Everyday
Exactly two months after the release of his world changing song “Heal D World”, Patoranking drops “Everyday” to wrap up the year in grand style.
Everyday is a modern twist on an ecclectic mix of dance and techno, delivered by a renouned Dancehall/ Afrobeat artist. It is a fresh surprise that set to take dancehalls and Dj mixes by storm.
The Alubarika crooner started the year strong with a colorful dance visual to his song “Available” which took the dance floor by storm and was followed with a Reggae vibe “Suh Different” which also turned out to be a favourite with the ladies. It gained momentum as it spread across the African continent and then unto foreign shores taking over the airwaves, playlists and ruling the entire summer.
In August, Patoranking reflected on the tragic goings-on around the world and expressed it in his Grammy Award winning -worthy song “Heal D World” which highlighted different parts of our involvement as global citizens on our present day predicaments and the main solution; Love one to another.
Still on a roll and fresh off the “20th Anniversary Miseducation of Lauryn Hill” USA tour with the Legendary Miss Lauryn Hill. He also opened for her at the Tidal X Brooklyn Charity event in New York, sharing a stage alongside legends and global superstars such as Lil Wayne, Meek Mill, Nick Jonas, Lil Kim, Teyana Taylor and a host of others. Patoranking was the only African representation to perform at the event. He drops Everyday for his ever supporting fans all over the world to dance and vibe to as the year draws to a close.
Check Out : Kofi Kinaata – MalaFaka (Prod. By KinDee)
He is definitely one who has remained consistent, grounded and hardworking in making sure he delivers and his fans are entertained and inspired.
Patoranking – Everyday [Download]
Strongman – Undefined (Prod by Unda Beatz)
Sarkcess Music signed rap act, Strongman with this creative punchlines filled Hiphop track. He calls it ‘Undefined’
CHECK OUT: Kelvyn Boy – Hustle (Prod. by Keezy)
Strongman – Undefined [DOWNLOAD]
Apolo Imon: JOC unveils new Artist
Nigerian musician, author and creative, Apolo dropped a 7 track EP entitled Fila. The crooner brings forth a mix of vibely mid-tempo beats and a dynamic voice to create the perfect post-summer wave.
The project was made in less than a week but does well to keep the audience bopping to each song. This is the confident expression of originality crafted by Ghanaian producer Kuvie, as they balance African sounds from both countries of Origin and more. Apolo stands out with his unapologetic style, unique voice and relaxed but precise approach to the beats provided.
JOC, a creative company owned and managed by award-winning radio jockey Joel Orleans of Y 109 FM, is partnering young talented singer Apolo, to enhance his career.
According to Orleans, this partnership will catapult the fairly unknown act unto the world stage.
“We are partnering with Apolo to help nurture his talent and creativity. With the support of our partners, we want to project his ability to the world. I must stress that Apolo is an incredible talent. Working with Kuvie, he has created magic, and we can’t wait for the world to experience it, ” he stated.
On his part, the artist also thanked the company for its interest, pledging to give off his very best: “I am excited about this partnership and I know it will take me places. JOC isn’t just a partner —it’s also home for me. I have been working with them for some time, and I must confess that they are very well organized.”
Apolo’s Fila is already receiving massive endorsement fans, influencers and other artists. This tape is a vibe, but more importantly, a very solid introductory showcase coming from two geniuses with a new sound
Twitter and IG: apoloimon
Kofi Mole – Die Rich (Mixed. by Quamina MP)
Kofi Mole returns with a hustlers anthem dubbed ‘Die Rich’, produced by Quamina MP
CHECK OUT: R2bees – Supa (feat Wizkid) (Prod. By Killmatic)
Kofi Mole – Die Rich (Mixed. by Quamina MP) [DOWNLOAD]
Bisa Kdei – Pocket (feat. Sarkodie) (Official Video)
Finally the much awaited “Pocket” music video by Bisa Kdei featuring Sarkodie is out
Pocket is an inspirational and motivational song, that sends a message to every person facing temptations in life, to not give up.
“Pocket” has a true story-telling video which brings the lyrics of both artistes to live. Bisa Kdei touches the heart with his magical voice, and Sarkodie blesses the song with his deep verses.
After several collaborations between Bisa Kdei and Sarkodie, including Chingam, Kutu, etc, “Pocket” seems to be the first video both musicians have featured in
The visuals was directed by Yaw Skyface
Enjoy the video from below
Larry Gaaga – Wonderful (Feat. Sarkodie x Wande Coal) (Prod by Da Piano)
Nigerian singer Larry Gaaga is out with this masterpiece featuring Sarkodie and Wande Coal.
Song titled ‘Wonderful’, and produced by Da Piano.
CHECK OUT: Kofi Kinaata – MalaFaka (Prod. By KinDee)
Larry Gaaga – Wonderful (Feat. Sarkodie x Wande Coal) (Prod. by Da Piano) [DOWNLOAD]
R2bees – Supa (feat Wizkid) (Prod. By Killmatic)
Award winning group, R2Bees follows up on the released on the trending hit single ‘Boys Kasa’ with another smashing joint with Nigerian superstar, Wizkid – Starboy.
With a Afropop groove, they call this ‘Supa’, produced by Killmatic.
CHECK OUT: Gariba x Sarkodie- Evil (Biibi Ba)
R2bees – Supa (feat Wizkid) (Prod. By Killmatic) [DOWNLOAD]
Tha Blackboi – Asetti (feat Ras Kuuku) (Official Video)
It’s finally here, the long awaited, promising award-winning video grace your screens on Friday. Sensational artist on the Rebel Africa Label, Thablackboi , releases visuals to his single ASETTI song. This video features Ghana’s Reggae Dancehall artiste Ras Kuuku and it’s full of inspiration and positive vibrations and depicts a true heritage of African tradition.
Watch it
Eno Barony – Do Something (Remix) (feat Wendy Shay)
2MG’s King of Queens, Eno Barony releases the remix version to her jamming hit single ‘Do Something’
The song which calls on the ladies to make a living from their hardwork was produced by renowned music producer, Mix Masta Garzy.
It’s features the much talked about sensation Wendy Shay.
CHECK OUT: Bless – Chocho Mu Cho (Feat. Kofi Kinaata)
Eno Barony – Do Something (Remix) (feat Wendy Shay) [DOWNLOAD]
Luvmorh – W3ndi (Mixed by Mizter Okyere)
