{"id":147309,"date":"2020-09-29T07:31:15","date_gmt":"2020-09-29T04:31:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.com\/ke\/?p=147309"},"modified":"2020-09-29T07:31:15","modified_gmt":"2020-09-29T04:31:15","slug":"willy-paul-is-right-he-has-succeeded-in-the-face-of-hostile-industry-gate-keepers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/ke\/willy-paul-is-right-he-has-succeeded-in-the-face-of-hostile-industry-gate-keepers\/","title":{"rendered":"Willy Paul is right, he has succeeded in the face of hostile industry gate keepers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Willy Paul is one of the few artists who can genuinely talk about there being cartels that exist within the music industry whose sole purpose for existence is to frustrate artists into either fitting their agenda or they blackball them into oblivion.<\/p>\n<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/ke\/it-has-not-been-easy-willy-paul-opens-up-about-battle-with-unknown-persons-trying-to-kill-his-music-career\/\"><span style=\"color: #008000\">\u201cIt has not been easy\u201d Willy Paul opens up about battle with unknown persons trying to kill his music career<\/span><\/a><\/h3>\n<p>These cartels involve music producers, older artists who were smart in the manner in which they networked so they landed cushy jobs at digital music platforms or radio personalities and producers.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_137818\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-137818\" style=\"width: 1080px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2020\/06\/Willy-Paul-photo-op3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-137818\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2020\/06\/Willy-Paul-photo-op3.jpg\" alt=\"Willy Paul\" width=\"1080\" height=\"1186\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2020\/06\/Willy-Paul-photo-op3.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2020\/06\/Willy-Paul-photo-op3-273x300.jpg 273w, https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2020\/06\/Willy-Paul-photo-op3-932x1024.jpg 932w, https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2020\/06\/Willy-Paul-photo-op3-768x843.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1080px) 100vw, 1080px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-137818\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Willy Paul looking snazzy<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>That is why Willy Paul and his peers can tell you about their being harrased and harranged by these industry gatekeepers or being asked to pay up for their songs to get any airtime on certain radio stations.<\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"color: #008000\"><a style=\"color: #008000\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/ke\/why-jalango-is-wrong-for-writing-off-gengetone-as-dead\/\">Why Jalang\u2019o is wrong for writing off Gengetone as dead<\/a><\/span><\/h3>\n<p>But this is where the similarities between Pozze and his peers end because he found a way to rise above the fray of crab in the bucket haters. You see, he realized that digital platforms that are outside the control of Kenyans or East Aricans, truly neutral platforms such as Youtube and Instagram, Facebook and TikTok are where they will beat this old heads.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_133729\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-133729\" style=\"width: 495px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2020\/05\/Screenshot-2020-05-12-at-11.38.43.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-133729\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2020\/05\/Screenshot-2020-05-12-at-11.38.43.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"495\" height=\"541\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2020\/05\/Screenshot-2020-05-12-at-11.38.43.jpg 495w, https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2020\/05\/Screenshot-2020-05-12-at-11.38.43-274x300.jpg 274w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 495px) 100vw, 495px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-133729\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Willy Paul by his sleek Mercedes<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I could tell you for free about being in rooms with decision makers who would write-off working with Bwana Mkunaji because of stories that were told about his controversial ways, because they don&#8217;t like his brand or because they simply did not like his image. And Willy Paul suffered for the longest due to this nonsense. He literally would be frustrated even worse because he was a gospel artist and if you think Kenya has cartels, now multiply the complication of that by ten when churches are involved.<\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"color: #008000\"><a style=\"color: #008000\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/ke\/kama-mbaya-mbaya-willy-paul-pulls-out-knives-sends-strong-warning-video\/\">Kama mbaya, mbaya! Willy Paul pulls out knives, sends strong warning (Video)<\/a><\/span><\/h3>\n<blockquote><p>Morning fam, hope you had a super charged sleep ???? ????.. growing up and becoming who I am today hasn\u2019t been easy. I\u2019ve faced a lot of panda shuka.. (still facing) people trying to pull you down, trying to kill ur career\u2026 trying to mess with your confidence!!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<figure id=\"attachment_129903\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-129903\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2020\/04\/Screenshot-2020-04-08-at-09.02.58.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-129903\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2020\/04\/Screenshot-2020-04-08-at-09.02.58.jpg\" alt=\"Willy Paul\" width=\"600\" height=\"598\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2020\/04\/Screenshot-2020-04-08-at-09.02.58.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2020\/04\/Screenshot-2020-04-08-at-09.02.58-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2020\/04\/Screenshot-2020-04-08-at-09.02.58-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-129903\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Willy Paul chilling<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>One of the ways this played out was to pit Mkunaji against Bahati. And the idea was to have someone with a cleaner image, someone more willing to be malleable and pliable to have to contrast against Willy Paul instead of sticking to a mentorship program for the more talented but equally as problematic Pozze. This plan backfired because in his heart of hearts, the new prop, Bahati was envious of him and would lowkey ape what he saw from his competition complete with the departure from the gospel industry.<\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"color: #008000\"><a style=\"color: #008000\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/ke\/kuna-ukabila-na-who-knows-who-willy-paul-fed-up-with-the-corrupt-music-industry\/\">\u201cKuna ukabila na who knows who!\u201d Willy Paul fed up with the corrupt music industry<\/a><\/span><\/h3>\n<p>Certain collaborations were closed off to Bwana Pozze simply because he was him. You would have upcoming artists think it funny to ingratiate themselves to the gatekeepers by taking shots at Willy Paul only for their careers to get derailed, some of them due to their own sexual exploits getting outed. Whatever the case may be, their careers tanked. The adversity forced Willy Paul to be versatile. It forced him to learn how to promote his music without radio assistance. It forced him to elevate his sound. It eventually forced him to go secular. He transcended the older heads who are still hating to this day.<\/p>\n<p>For more thought-provoking opinion pieces, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/ke\/author\/ozymandias\/\"><span style=\"color: #008000\"><strong>click here<\/strong><\/span><\/a>. And be sure to like our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/ghaflakenya\/\"><span style=\"color: #00ff00\"><strong>Facebook page<\/strong><\/span><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Willy Paul is one of the few artists who can genuinely talk about there being cartels that exist within the music industry whose sole purpose for existence is to frustrate artists into either fitting their agenda or they blackball them into oblivion. \u201cIt has not been easy\u201d Willy Paul opens up about battle with unknown [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6069,"featured_media":119353,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[107988],"tags":[7283],"class_list":["post-147309","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-opinions","tag-willy-paul"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Willy Paul succeeded in the face of hostile industry gate keepers<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Willy Paul is one of the few artists who can genuinely talk about there being cartels that exist within the music industry...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/ke\/willy-paul-is-right-he-has-succeeded-in-the-face-of-hostile-industry-gate-keepers\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Willy Paul is right, he has succeeded in the face of hostile industry gate keepers\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Willy Paul is one of the few artists who can genuinely talk about there being cartels that exist within the music industry...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/ke\/willy-paul-is-right-he-has-succeeded-in-the-face-of-hostile-industry-gate-keepers\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Ghafla! 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