Heavyweight Rap Artiste Ja Rule was flexing hot on Joy FM Friday morning minutes after touching down in Accra ahead of his billed performances Friday night and Sunday beach act as part of the MTN/Ghana Music Awards celebration.
The multi-Grammy Awards nominee, minutes after disembarking the Delta Airline that had flown him from the United States, was all ‘slanging’ as he teased his fans to come see him perform, because he is one of the best performers around.
The man who took the music world by storm especially in 2002 with several visible awards and nominations, was obviously infatuated by the welcoming atmosphere in Accra and as he spoke via phone with Joy FM’s Super Morning Show host, Kojo Oppong-Nkrumah, he was all too ready to ‘hit town.’
“I’m good man, we’re laaving Ghana, we having a good time, I just touched down…yea I just gat here…I’m still at the Airport as soon as I make it out of here we gonna check town.”
“Oh man, you got to see me perform, I’m one of the best rap performers there is and if you haven’t seen my show, you haven’t seen anything yet,” he said and laughed off the jig.
The multi-talented musician is performing alongside some of Ghana’s best, plus others in the sub-region, including the loveable stage performers P-Square.
Organisers, Charter House, are lining up household names as ‘Abodam’ Kwaw Kesse, the must-be-tired-of-awards duo of Ofori Amponsah and Batman Samini, silky voices Becca and Kwabena Kwabena, non-conformist Shasha Marley of ‘Mata Mata’ fame and the all praises gospel list of Ohemaa Mercy, Lenny Akpadie, and Cee.
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| Music 'bird' Latoya and Kofi Okyere Darko at the awards ceremony last year. |
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The celebrations have already started, with Wednesday’s Industry Awards, and the fanfare peaks tonight with the competitive awards; Artiste of the Year, Song of the Year, Record of the Year, Album of the Year, Gospel Song of the Year, Gospel Album of the Year, Gospel Artist of the Year and Discovery of the Year.
The rest are the Best Collaboration, Reggae Song of the Year, Hiplife Artiste of the Year, Hiplife Album of the Year, Hiplife Song of the Year, Highlife Artiste of the Year, Highlife Album of the Year, Highlife Song of the Year, Pop Song of the Year, Female Vocal Performance of the Year, Male Vocal Performance of the Year.
And when all the stock-taking is done, the La Palm Royal Beach Hotel will open up on Sunday to soak away the sweat of the guys and girls whose toils have kept society refreshed, retuned and refocused with their international language – MUSIC – and that is where to meet Ja Rule again, to do ‘Clap Back’, ‘Put It On Me’ or ‘Livin' It Up’.
Author: Isaac Yeboah
Oh man, you got to see me perform, I’m one of the best rap performers there is and if you haven’t seen my show, you haven’t seen anything yet. 