Award
winning rapper Michael Kwesi Owusu Addo popularly known as Sarkodie has
debunked reports of an alleged beef between himself and Samini, stating
he can never diss the dancehall artiste.
The U Go Kill Me hit
singer stressed that he can never have any beef with Samini because he
looked up to him as an artiste and that, he is also bigger than him.
Samini
released his controversial song, Pink Sheet last month - a song that
took some artistes in the Ghanaian music industry to the cleaners and
called them fake artistes.
After the dancehall artiste mentioned
Sarkodie's name in the song, social media and news wires were inundated
with allegations that there might be some beef between the two.
Samini
took to twitter Tuesday to clear the air that, "I'm not beefing
@sarkodie," and that he only "asked him to explain to me a line in his
song (Borga) in which my name was mentioned."
Reacting to the
alleged rift, Sarkodie told Blakk Rasta on Taxi Driver on Hitz FM that,
"People think there is a beef between me and Samini, it can never happen
because I am never on the same level with him. He is somebody I came to
meet."
Touching on the song, the Ghana Music Awards Artiste of
the Year winner stated categorically that, Samini "didn't diss [me and]
even if he dissed, I don't think I can reply [him]."
According to
Sarkodie, the Time Bomb hit singer "was asking me to come and explain
something. As an emcee, you just say whatever you want to say. This is
rap; rap is the only way that you can free yourself and say whatever you
want to say."
He however stressed that, although he mentioned
Samini's name in his Borga song, he does not "owe anybody" an
explanation for that. "I understand him, it's a stunt, the same way I
did that's the same way he is doing it now. I respect him."
Sarkodie
acknowledged Samini's superiority and explained that he does not rate
himself above someone he looked up to because he, Sarkodie, has won a
Black Entertainment Television (BET) Award. "If I have to do that, I
have to do [it] with the people I started with - my fellow acts."
"Samini
is too big for me to try and think something [like] that about him.
It's [rather] more of me 'bigging him up' and trying to follow what he
did from way back because he actually gave us the urge that we could
move further," after he won a MOBO Award."
"That respect [I have for him] can never go [away]."
Not a fan of Samini's music
In
spite of the fact that Samini served as his inspiration, Sarkodie noted
that, he is not a fan of the dancehall artiste's music.
"If you
ask me what I like about Samini, I like his stage craft, I like his
business ideas. I look up to him in a certain way but I wouldn't lie
that I'm a music fan of his. I wouldn't listen to Samini," he said. |
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