{"id":4606,"date":"2017-12-01T09:03:19","date_gmt":"2017-12-01T09:03:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.com\/gh\/?p=4606"},"modified":"2017-12-01T09:03:19","modified_gmt":"2017-12-01T09:03:19","slug":"stonebwoy-fumesover-negligence-ghanaian-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/gh\/stonebwoy-fumesover-negligence-ghanaian-media\/","title":{"rendered":"Stonebwoy Fumes Over Negligence of Ghanaian media"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Awards-winning dancehall artiste, Stonebwoy has expressed grave disappointment at the neglect of Ghanaians and the media as well.<\/p>\n<p>According to Livingstone Satekla Etse, Ghanaians do not support their own creative minds.<\/p>\n<p>Stonebwoy\u00a0 was speaking at a press briefing on Thursday to launch his 24-track album.<\/p>\n<p>The Zylofon Media Signee further stated that, it is sad how the Ghanaian media has failed in projecting Ghanaian musicians and actors.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c One of the most trending tweets on twitter as I was coming here is the fact that Wizkid has won an international award over Jay Z and Beyonce at the moguls and the way the Nigerian media is carrying it is amazing, even the President of Nigeria is tweeting about it,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<h3>More On Stonebwoy<\/h3>\n<p>Stonebwoy further said Samini was the first African artist to win a mogul award in Africa in 2006. But the Ghanaian media with their &#8216;much ado about nothing attitude&#8217; did not make news out of it.<\/p>\n<p>According to him, he was saddened when he posted about his Grammy nomination with Morgan Heritage.<\/p>\n<p>This, he says is because he got the lowest likes on his Instagram post when he broke the news.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIs it the English we do not understand or what?\u201d he quizzed<\/p>\n<p>Reacting to critics who think he bribed his way into the Grammy nomination, he said, \u201cIf anyone thinks it\u2019s that easy to get nominated for a Grammy, then they should get themselves in there,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>According to Stonebwoy, he is the first African musician to have featured five International artists on one album.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Ghanaians do not support their own - Stonebwoy\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/3RrkfJ0Jtk8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Video credit:Ghanaweb<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Awards-winning dancehall artiste, Stonebwoy has expressed grave disappointment at the neglect of Ghanaians and the media as well. According to Livingstone Satekla Etse, Ghanaians do not support their own creative minds. Stonebwoy\u00a0 was speaking at a press briefing on Thursday to launch his 24-track album. The Zylofon Media Signee further stated that, it is sad [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6036,"featured_media":3047,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[3195],"class_list":["post-4606","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-stonebwoy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/gh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4606","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/gh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/gh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/gh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6036"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/gh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4606"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/gh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4606\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4619,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/gh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4606\/revisions\/4619"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/gh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3047"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/gh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/gh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/gh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}