{"id":46122,"date":"2018-07-12T12:30:42","date_gmt":"2018-07-12T12:30:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.com\/gh\/?p=46122"},"modified":"2018-07-11T22:42:56","modified_gmt":"2018-07-11T22:42:56","slug":"ghanaian-rappers-are-sleeping-pope-skinny","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/gh\/ghanaian-rappers-are-sleeping-pope-skinny\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Ghanaian Rappers Are Sleeping&#8217; \u2013 Pope Skinny"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rapper, Pope Skinny pledges to revive the dying hardcore rap in the Ghanaian music space.<\/p>\n<p>Furthermore, according to him, the emergence of commercial music turned all the talented rappers into singing. Moreover, the situation caused a decline in the industry.<\/p>\n<p>He made these statement to Andy Dosty on Daybreak Hitz on Hitz FM. The rapper said he\u2019ll put measures in place to revive the hip-hop rap genre in Ghana.<\/p>\n<h4>Pope Skinny about reviving the rap industry<\/h4>\n<blockquote><p><em>\u201cThe rappers in Ghana are dead and not working because rap doesn\u2019t sell anymore so everyone is singing. We\u2019re trying to put the rappers on their toes. I am trying to tell all the sleeping rappers to wake up.\u201d\u00a0<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Furthermore, the host asked about what he meant by rap being dead. This is because there were rappers like Sarkodie, EL, Manifest, among others still present in the game. However, Pope said they were all sleeping because what they do isn\u2019t hard anymore.<\/p>\n<p>Pope added that critics who label him a mere rapper are people who don\u2019t listen to his songs.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201c<em>When I am saying rap is dead I mean we all slept at a point in time. It\u2019s not about who you like. Who should resurrect rap when everyone is sleeping? Sarkodie is my guy and I wouldn\u2019t say anything to hurt him. Every rapper is asleep and they will wake up. I have to feel the Sarkodie I knew way back. We can do our love songs but once we are rappers lets wake up for those who love rap to jam to it.\u201d\u00a0<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rapper, Pope Skinny pledges to revive the dying hardcore rap in the Ghanaian music space. Furthermore, according to him, the emergence of commercial music turned all the talented rappers into singing. Moreover, the situation caused a decline in the industry. He made these statement to Andy Dosty on Daybreak Hitz on Hitz FM. 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