Stonebwoy was responding to a question about how it feels to win so many accolades respecting him as the top reggae dancehall artiste in Africa.
“If Otumfuo is King, he doesn’t have to remind his people that he is king,” he said.
This year, Stonebwoy has faced off with the top dancehall artistes in Africa to emerge the winner as ‘Dancehall Artiste of the Year’ in Ghana and Africa at both the All Africa Music Awards (AFRIMA) and the Vodafone Ghana Music Awards all hosted here in Ghana.
When asked about his collaborations with the AFRIMA brand, he suggested to Ghanaians to think globally and that AFRIMA has been doing big things with him internationally for five years now since his first performance at that awards.
“The world is bigger than Ghana, so let’s open our minds,” the dancehall artiste remarked.
Dancehall artiste, Stonebowy has confirmed that celebrated Jamaican reggae band, Morgan
Heritage, will be part of the tall list of musicians who will be performing at his BHIM
He however made the revelation on Joy Prime’s Showbiz Now with host KMJ on Tuesday.
“Morgan heritage is performing on the BHIM concert and it’s a done deal,” he said after he was asked about the top artistes billed to perform on the night.
Meanwhile, Morgan Heritage, 2016 Grammy Winners for “Best Reggae Album”, safely
touched down in Ghana on the night of Tuesday, September 18, 2018.
Some group of angry clients of gold dealership firm, Menzgold, have embarked on a
demonstration against the company on Tuesday, 27 November 2018.
According to these angry clients, they can no longer watch their investments to be locked up
at the firm whiles they struggle to feed themselves.
They revealed that they are fed up of their daily excuses given them by management of the firm.
Some of the also revealed that they were convinced their investments were safe due to
assurances by Ghanaian dancehall artiste and Zylofon Media signee Stonebwoy.
An aggrieved customer, who participated in a demonstration against the company said
the words of the Stonebowy convinced him that all was okay.
However, after several months of promises to pay them 15 per cent of their locked-up
investment principals, the company has failed to live up to expectation.
“I remember Stonebwoy promised us that our money was safe,” the angry customer said
during the demonstration.
He also criticized musician Becca and other ambassadors of Menzgold for keeping quiet
about the plight of the customers whose investments have been locked up.
A few months ago, Stonebwoy, who is one of the top artistes signed by Zylofon Media, also
owned by the CEO of Menzgold, Nana Appiah Mensah, urged the customers to stay calm
since the operations of the company will soon return to normal.
“I urge all members of Menzgold to keep calm and take it easy because the situation is under control and your gold deposits are safe and secure,” he said.
Scores of the angry customers marched through the principal street of Accra starting from the
Obra Spot and ending at the Accra Hearts of Oak Park.
The customers have therefore pleaded with the government to intervene to get Menzgold
to refund their investment.
Another aggrieved customer, Obeng-Mensah told Class News’ in an interview during the demo that;
“We are demonstrating against Menzgold in particular and pleading with the government to intervene. We’ve had a contractual agreement with Menzgold and there is this issue of the Bank of Ghana and the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) that came to shut down the company.
“We became loyal to Menzgold and expected them to pay us our money. Initially we agreed they cancel the interest and pay us our principal investment within 90 days but for three months now, there has not been any payment. None of the customers of Menzgold has received their money but Menzgold is going about deceiving that they are making payment.”
Another demonstrator pleaded with the Akufo-Addo government to intervene to ensure
CEO of Burniton(BHIM) Nation, Stonebwoy has revealed he would be having a collaboration
with Leader of the Weezy Empire, Kwadwo Nkansah (Lilwin).
Stonebowy made this revelation on Bryt FM when the ‘acting’ host Lilwin asked him when
he would be having a collaboration with him and Shatta Wale prior to the just ended Odwira festival.
Lilwin asked, “when are you collaborating with me and Shatta Wale?”
The ‘Most Original’ hitmaker in-turn answered after the show, “I will collaborate with you first before anybody because you are my brother, so, collaboration is going to come on and this should happen because we are all musicians.”
According to him, not everybody can listen to Stonebwoy neither Lilwin, however, there are
people who want to listen to both parties and now want to hear the two on a song and that,
“we will surely give them a song”.
The Bhim Nation frontliner and Shatta Movement boss, Shatta Wale have not been in
good terms for some time now as they ‘fight’ for supremacy in the world of dancehall music.
However, when Stonebwoy was asked when he will be collaborating with his rival Shatta Wale by the ‘host’ Lilwin, he expressed readiness to feature Lilwin over the SM boss.
“It’s not easy coming from artiste point of view; the works, demands, expectation… we don’t realise when we are depressed, we only go through a phase. It’s not healthy at all.” He said during an interview on Daybreak Hitz on Hitz FM.
On how he gets over depression, he said;
“I try to calm down and rest. The over-expectation is more and I think we go through that a lot unknowingly. I love to be by myself and alone and most often doing nothing literally. My circle is close so I am very private person. I find entertainment in entertaining the people.”
So he doesn’t see why they should say it was a sold-out show.
He disclosed this to Citi TV’s Nana Adwoa Sarkodie in an exclusive interview after his
recently held Ashiaman to the World concert at Ashaiman.
According to him, even though tickets were sold, he considers the show as a ‘free’ event
because most people did not pay to enter.
“I am not in competition with anybody but even if I was, you can see the difference. Because that [Shatta’s] show at the Fantasy Dome was free. People came from buses and got it for free. To me that was not a sold out event. This is also a free event but you see the numbers that we commanded. This is my hood; almost 50, 000 people,” he said.
Stonebwoy however quickly added that he isn’t in competition with any one. If not so, he wouldn’t have reached higher heights as he has attained presently. It’s rather unfortunate Stonebwoy has forgotten that even if Shatta Wale’s show was free, it was organized by one man.
Where as his Ashiaman concert had a whole lot of artistes present, so their fans were present to witness the event not necessarily because of him, Stonebwoy.
Stonebowy was speaking in an interview on ‘You sey Weytin’ show on Hitz 103.9 FM with Prince Tsegah aka De Don.
He also mentioned that he doesn’t see Shatta’s statement that nobody can fill the Fantasy Dome like he did recently with his album launch as a jab at him.
To Stonebowy, anybody at all can fill up the Dome so long as the person gets his/her promotions right.
Bhim Nation Boss, Stonebowy has angrily replied to reports that he has removed
Sean Paul from his Epistles of Mama album.
It was highly reported a few days ago that Stonebowy had taken Sean Paul’s name
from his EOM album and also changed the day of its release.
Meanwhile, the original release date of the album was December last year. Featured on the album however are some of the world’s biggest artistes.
They includes; Sean Paul, Burna Boy, Sarkodie, Efya, King Promise, Edem and Joey B were
The double disk project was consists of 24 songs – 12 Dancehall/Reggae songs and 12 Afrobeat
songs but the removal of “Most Original” which featured Sean Paul in the latest
update on the popular music store leaves 23 tracks on the album.
Reacting to the news however, Stonebwoy in an angry tweet queried why he would do such thing and tagged the news as “SENSELESS” and “EMPTY”
“Someone just sent me this from abroad. U can Imagine How We Are Perceived Out deh Globally. Everyday “SENSELESS” Headlines.Empty Content. WHY? We Won’t Get anywhere with this. Bloggers/Writers aren’t We Too Blessed And Smart To Be Acting Dumb. WhenTheWiseKeepMuteFoolsMultiply“, reads his tweet.
Stonebwoy’s ‘Epistles of Mama‘ after its release was rated the second best album in the world.
His spot gunned down many heavyweight albums, which saw Chronixx’s ‘Chronology‘
topping the list.
The ranking was however done by readers of Reggaeville, the world’s biggest gathering of reggae lovers and fans on the internet.
“Glo said I wasn’t worth the money; I asked them to pay me $120,00 but I hope they get a change of mind to sign me otherwise nothing like Glo SIM card in any Shatta Movement phones.” Shatta Tweeted yesterday.
An Instagram page with the user name ‘Stonebowynews’ counter attacked this message
in a post which reads;
“After winning the 2015 Black Entertainment Television (BET) Awards’ Best International Act: Africa award, Stonebwoy was approached by GLO but he rejected the $80,000 offer.
“If you add value to your life, great deals will chase you. You won’t use Twitter to beg Glo for offers like ‘Alumi’ did yesterday,
A Big artiste like ‘Alumi’ shouldn’t be begging for endorsement deals on social media. Stop comparing a ‘jama’ singer to a musician.
#Facts 27th October is coming. Ashaiman to the world concert.”
Bhim Nation Boss, Stonebowy says it was not a deliberate thing on his part to snub some
fans who met him in traffic on his way to Hitz FM for an interview yesterday.
According to the “Top Skanka” artiste, he was unaware of the fans’ presence because he
was not himself at that moment.
Stonebowy was addressing this issue in an interview with Ohemaa Woyeje on Adom
FM’s “Work and Happiness” show on Thursday.
“We are all humans and we have good and bad days. I was not myself and anyone who will look at the video critically can determine that. Its not right to put a false perception into the minds of Ghanaians. I love my fans and they don’t know me as such,” he said.
He is certain that when structured policies are made to function and very detailed
accountability is demanded by people at the helm of such institutions, then
the music industry will experience an unprecedented turnover.
“There could be enough laws but if they’re not working or the people in charge aren’t making it work for us then I think we should re-visit and make it work.” He noted in an interview on Hitz FM with Andy Dosty.
When asked by one of the pundits if he has received any royalties from GHAMRO,
Stonebwoy replied no, adding that he had no idea how GHAMRO works.
“Let that not be the new issue, I don’t know nothing over there. I’m not trying to bash or insult but a drive on the interest isn’t really there so I said a big artiste like myself don’t know anything.
But He [My Manager] has actually spoken to me about this whole GHAMRO issue once or twice, but sincerely speaking I do not see any interest.
“This could be my fault because, at the end of the day, I’m supposed to get to know but is there really anything interesting about them.
Nothing interests me to know to say Yes this is what I have to do. Originally there should be steps like you buy a car and you know that DVLA doesn’t have to approach you but you have to.
DVLA does advert to create awareness but in this case [GHAMRO], it has to be attracted and the laws should work.” Stonebwoy said.
Meanwhile, most registered members of GHAMRO have complained bitterly about the
meagre royalties they receive. Other artistes have vented their spleen on GHAMRO
over their unpaid royalties since they became members of the institution.
Dancehall act, Shatta Wale on Saturday launched his much anticipated studio album.
The album, dubbed ‘Reign’ has since been making headlines.
Many have however criticized the album, describing the songs on it a ‘garbage.’
An Instagram page with name ‘STONEBOWY NEWS’, which happens to be the official news update platform for Stonebowy has described the album as a’ not not not’.
According to the Page, “Stonebwoy’s EOM album is still on iTunes chart but in less than 72 hours Reign album has vanished from the chart.”
It further stated that “We didn’t chastise Shatta Wale because we hate him. We criticise him to make him better. “
Describing the songs on the album, it mentioned that; “Songs on the reign album is more of a demo than a well planned, structure and executed content to make an album. Shatta just filled the album for releasing album sake.”
It therefore advised Shatta Movement(SM) fans to accept reality that their icon is no where near Stonebowy when it comes to music.
“No matter which angle your look at it, Shatta’s Reign album is Not Not Not. It’s the truth. The bitter truth SM fans must appreciate and accept,” it added.
Asked if he was paid for producing the beat of the song, Vacs told Andy Dosty in an interview on Daybreak Hitz on Hitz FM that, “I wasn’t paid for it.”
He however stated that the only recognition he got for the song is an acknowledgment on the cover of the album.
“For instance, for ‘Mane Me’ I got credit from the album cover art but not on social media.” He noted.
Vacs also revealed that, the beat “was supposed to be a feature between DJ Mingle and Stonebwoy.
Stonebwoy heard it and he liked it. So there was an agreement between them and Stonebwoy used it.”
After releasing the song, the producer said, Stonebwoy hasn’t reached out to him.
He lamented that he doesn’t “have any percentage in the song. That is how bad the industry is.”
Vacs said he tried reaching out to Stonebwoy’s management “and it is being dicey. I am not getting the feedback I wanted. I spoke to Blakk Cedi, Stonebwoy’s manager. He’s like he will get back to me.”
“At least show appreciation. You are making money so at least you can give me something,” the producer lamented, adding some form of acknowledgment from Stonebwoy and his team will really be appreciated.
