{"id":60690,"date":"2019-02-21T08:24:07","date_gmt":"2019-02-21T08:24:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.com\/gh\/?p=60690"},"modified":"2019-02-20T20:12:28","modified_gmt":"2019-02-20T20:12:28","slug":"one-man-chop-attitude-killing-music-industry-tic-cries-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/gh\/one-man-chop-attitude-killing-music-industry-tic-cries-out\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018One man chop\u2019 Attitude Killing Our Music Industry \u2013 Tic Cries Out"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hiplife artiste, Nana Kwaku-Duah, known in showbiz as Tic has bemoaned what he describes as selfishness among people in the Ghanaian music industry.<\/p>\n<p>According to him, the \u201cone man chop\u201d attitude is the reason very few artiste rule the music space within a period of time.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Speaking to Citi TV\u2018s AJ Sarpong on Hall of Fame, the \u2018Kwani Kwani\u2019 singer intimated: <em>\u201cIn Ghana when you do something and someone wants to promote it, hates sets it.<\/em> Why? Even if the person will come spice the show-up, they won\u2019t bring them because everybody wants to chop alone. That is the problem in our music industry. One man chop. Simple.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>He also expressed his displeasure about the fact that a few musicians are made to hijack the music scene.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>\u201cHow can we have in a whole year, only three artistes doing shows when the whole nation has 100 artistes?\u201d<\/em> he asked.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>When asked if the few artistes being booked for shows are not just satisfying the demand and<\/p>\n<p>supply theory, he answered that \u201cwe create demand.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Tic (formerly Tic Tac) is one of few rappers who projected the hiplife genre during its incipient stage.<\/p>\n<p>Also Read:<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/gh\/set-up-fund-for-the-creative-arts-industry-fiifi-coleman\/\">https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/gh\/set-up-fund-for-the-creative-arts-industry-fiifi-coleman\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>He was able to break into the Nigerian market, gaining prominence in the country through<\/p>\n<p>collaborations with Nigerian musicians like Tony Tetuila.<\/p>\n<p>After taking a foray into other ventures, he returned to active music business in 2018 with songs like \u2018Pene Ma Me\u2019 and \u2018Kwani Kwani Part 2\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hiplife artiste, Nana Kwaku-Duah, known in showbiz as Tic has bemoaned what he describes as selfishness among people in the Ghanaian music industry. According to him, the \u201cone man chop\u201d attitude is the reason very few artiste rule the music space within a period of time. Speaking to Citi TV\u2018s AJ Sarpong on Hall of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6036,"featured_media":53784,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[46612],"class_list":["post-60690","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-tic-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/gh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60690","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=60690"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/gh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60690\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60696,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/gh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60690\/revisions\/60696"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/gh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/53784"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/gh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/gh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/gh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}