The reigning Vodafone Ghana Music Awards Artiste of the Year said he will go to rapper sarkodie’s house for his money if he finds out the song was to endorse the work of President Nana Addo Danquah and his party. ” I will go to Sarkodie’s house for my share of the endorsement money”
Kuami Eugene has been devastated ever since the full version of song he featured with Sarkodie turned out to be a campaign song for the incumbent NPP government.
In an interview with MzGee on 3FM yesterday, the artiste indicated that Sarkodie only sent him the first verse of rap.
After getting the first verse he understood the concept of the song was praises to God and thus did his verses to reflect that.
But after he got his version done and met Sarkodie for the video shoot, he realised the rapper’s verses was with the political messages.
“Sarkodie only sent me the first verse of his rap which did not contain the endorsement for Nana Addo to aid me to do the chorus. It was only at the video shoot that we got to know of the second verse, we confronted Sark’s management, and they denied. I am uncomfortable, I still don’t know Sarkodie’s motive for the song. It will have an effect on my career, I wasn’t ready to vouch for any political party….it will not end here,” Kuami Eugene said.
According to Eugene, though he featured on Sarkodie’s new song, Happy Day, which has now been tagged as an endorsement, he did not do the song as such and he sacred this situation will affect his career.
The musician fears how the situation could affect his career. “Of course, if it was done with a political mindset it will have a toll on my career I won’t lie. If this is how it is going to end, then it will be sad because when it affects me I will be a young guy who didn’t know and will be part of the story. I don’t talk to Sark. It’s a management-to –a-management issue. If he wants to talk, he needs to call Linx Entertainment or Richie. I don’t talk to Sark. The last we spoke was at the shoot where he saw me for a long time. That’s why I didn’t confront him.”
He said that he was not the right person to confront the ace rapper about the issue, the more reason he kept mute but most of the communications were done through the management of both artistes hence he had no idea it was a for a different agenda.
“So there is something about management that you don’t fight your fight and for me, this isn’t a fight. It is about confronting their management and that this is what’s going on and this is what we have heard. I’m not the one to confront Sark. I was mute throughout the shoot so we made it a management versus management issue. I was there with my road manager to escort me. But my management Richie Mensah was not there, so I had to get to them to contact them. I did not want a part of all this”, he explained.
Even though Sarkodie has come out to state in a tweet that it’s not a campaign message for NPP, a lot of Ghanaians feel he was trying to divert attention.
Follow Us
