Ghana Has A Lot Of Great Talent But They Are Not Aggressive- Nigerian Comedian, Basketmouth
Nigerian comedian Basketmouth believes Ghana has immense talent within the creative industry and the reason they are not blossoming is that they lack the requisite to market themselves on the global stage.
The famous Nigerian comedian and entertainer also suggested that Ghanaians are not aggressive in promoting their own as compared to their Nigerian counterparts.
The comedian acknowledged that Ghanaians are more laid back when it comes to supporting their music stars but insisted that this needs to change if they want to see their artists make it big on the international stage.
“Ghana has a lot of great talent, but the problem is that they’re not getting the support they need to succeed. Nigerians are more aggressive when it comes to promoting their own, and that’s why our music is doing so well,” he said in an interview
Basketmouth also counselled Ghanaian musicians to promote their music and themselves more actively. He continued by saying that Ghanaians possessed wealth that Nigerians lacked. He claimed that venues and event centres in Ghana were superior.
He claimed that Nigeria was lacking in that respect and recommended Ghanaians make the most of it. Ghanaians appear to favour Nigerian music over Ghanaian music and have acquired a great liking for it.
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Basketmouth and AY beef
Basketmouth recently discussed his friendship with AY Makun his colleague. Remember how AY stated in an interview that he owed N30,000?
However, Basketmouth refuted AY’s assertion while appearing on the most recent episode of The Honest Bunch podcast, which is hosted by media personality Nedu, and insisted that there was no client involved.
He said that he never had a friendship with AY and that their professional relationship had only ever existed once.d him by Basketmouth began their ongoing dispute.
He claimed to have filled in for Basketmouth at a function, but he actually tried to outwit him by falsely claiming that the client had not paid for the gig—a claim he later learned was untrue from the customer.
He said, “It’s 2023, my kids don grow. My son is going to be 14 next month. Everybody don dey grow.
“It is so sad say na this kind gist [my beef with AY] dey social media. 2023, after elections. After all these things. Ukraine dey fight war, we dey talk of 30 thousand [naira].
“I been no want talk about this thing [my beef with AY]. Many people don ask questions and I don ignore. But just to set the record straight. Number 1, AY is not my friend. We have never been friends. I have never visited his house. I have never personally invited him to my house.
“I never ever call am one day say ‘o boy, where you dey? Make we hangout’. Nothing like that don ever happen.
“And it’s easy to tell, if you look around social media, you will never find a picture of him and me. So, we were never friends.
“Make I talk the truth. The reason I used style mind my business, na because of when there was that coming together [between AY and I], I heard something that threw me off. I heard some things wey I no supposed hear or know. As I hear am, I was like ‘what the f*ck! Really?’ I no supposed know. And I no fit tell am [AY] so I kept quiet.
“The kind of person I’m, I go wait make you do something first. All these ones wey him [AY] dey talk, no be wettin make me give am space be that. It’s something else!
“That incident [30k] sef, I don forget. But I dey use that one as distractions because you know the kind person wey I be. If I dey talk right, I dey talk left because I no dey like make person know my moves.
“That matter, no client dey involved o. In actual fact, when this matter come outside, when I first hear the thing I said ‘what?’ Like say na 20 per cent of wettin him talk be lie, I for don vex sef say you know what let me set it. But when 90 per cent of wettin him talk na lie. I still dey in shock. All my men dey laugh me because they warned me say ‘guy, be careful o’. And see wettin happen. The one job. And na one job. Him even come make am feel like say there was a tutorship or mentorship. You know the kind men wey dey around me, the funnymen. How I go jump them come dey give this guy [AY] show?
“So, it was only one job. And that job when I heard say them never pay am. I told Magnums, ‘please, pay him’. And they paid him. He omitted that information. I know the move. The guy [AY] dey promote shows; he needs to sell tickets. That’s the truth.” (sic)
