{"id":58623,"date":"2019-01-09T08:55:31","date_gmt":"2019-01-09T08:55:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.com\/gh\/?p=58623"},"modified":"2019-01-08T19:24:36","modified_gmt":"2019-01-08T19:24:36","slug":"punches-are-always-necessary-and-allowed-samini-says-as-he-eyes-album-of-the-year-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/gh\/punches-are-always-necessary-and-allowed-samini-says-as-he-eyes-album-of-the-year-award\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Punches Are Always Necessary And Allowed\u2019 \u2013 Samini Says As He Eyes Album Of The Year Award"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ghanaian Reggae\/Dancehall, Emmanuel Andrews Samini, popularly known as Samini, has expressed his views on musical lyrics.<\/p>\n<p>Samini believes it\u2019s always very necessary and allowed to throw punches in songs.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;The Obimbra&#8217; hitmaker was speaking about his 21-track \u201cUntamed Album\u201d, which was reviewed song-by-song on Zylofon FM\u2019s Showbiz Agenda.<\/p>\n<p>His comment however follows a question posed by the host of the show, Sammy Flex, about some lines in his \u201cRagga Dada\u201d piece that seemed to be aiming a swipe at Shatta Wale, the self-acclaimed king of dancehall.<\/p>\n<p>Below is the excerpt of the lyrics of the \u201cRagga Dada\u201d song being discussed:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>\u201cwhat\u2019s the king without a regiment? If you really want to battle with the better, check your readiness \u2026 you make the wrong move, a man, you no go get me o Rasta no be toy, them no fit set me o Them lay ambush and them try set me up But them know I\u2019m good Jah, Jah bless me o It\u2019s funny when a man said he\u2019s gonna end my career When he can\u2019t even run ten of my career Everybody knows, me, I be the benchmark for years\u201d.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The \u201cLinda\u201d hitmaker accepted that the song which was produced by JMJ has some punches<\/p>\n<p>and it\u2019s very necessary and allowed to have them.<\/p>\n<p>Read Also:<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/gh\/manifestivities-2018-m-anifest-re-unites-with-sarkodie\/\">https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/gh\/manifestivities-2018-m-anifest-re-unites-with-sarkodie\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Samini, in another development also said he\u2019s already won the 2019 VGMA Album of the Year<\/p>\n<p>when he was asked whom he thinks can win the award.<\/p>\n<p>He also revealed that he didn\u2019t cut the cake his family presented to him with the knife given during his show in December 2018 on stage because he thought doing so will mean stabbing himself.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ghanaian Reggae\/Dancehall, Emmanuel Andrews Samini, popularly known as Samini, has expressed his views on musical lyrics. Samini believes it\u2019s always very necessary and allowed to throw punches in songs. &#8216;The Obimbra&#8217; hitmaker was speaking about his 21-track \u201cUntamed Album\u201d, which was reviewed song-by-song on Zylofon FM\u2019s Showbiz Agenda. His comment however follows a question posed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6036,"featured_media":58625,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[17235],"class_list":["post-58623","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-samini-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/gh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58623","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=58623"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/gh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58623\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58626,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/gh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58623\/revisions\/58626"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/gh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58625"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/gh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/gh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/gh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}