{"id":367264,"date":"2017-03-07T05:54:59","date_gmt":"2017-03-07T05:54:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/entertainment\/2017\/03\/07\/m-anifest-eulogizes-reggie-rockstone-obrafuor\/"},"modified":"2017-03-07T05:54:59","modified_gmt":"2017-03-07T05:54:59","slug":"m-anifest-eulogizes-reggie-rockstone-obrafuor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2017\/03\/07\/m-anifest-eulogizes-reggie-rockstone-obrafuor\/","title":{"rendered":"M.anifest eulogizes Reggie Rockstone, Obrafuor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"medsection1\">\n<!-- End of html generated by this->header() --><\/p>\n<p class=\"floatLeft\">Entertainment of Tuesday,  7 March 2017<\/p>\n<p class=\"floatRight\"><strong>Source: <\/strong>asempanews,com<\/p>\n<p>2017-03-07<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-left\">\n<p class=\"article-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/91771196.295.jpg\" alt=\"Manifest Suffer Passport\" title=\"Manifest Suffer Passport\" width=\"295\" height=\"189\" \/><span class=\"image_caption\"><span>Ghanaian rap star M.anifest<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"clear:right\">Ghanaian rap star M.anifest has lauded the grandpapa of Hiplife Reggie Rockstone and Obrafuor in an interview with BBC\u2019s DJ Edu terming them as music greats who helped him to strike the balance between the Highlife and Hip Hop he had deep love for as a young talented guy.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI grew up to Highlife music [which cannot go without mentioning or] talking about  Ebo Taylor, C.K. man,  K.K. Kabobo, and all those Highlife greats who are still around like Amakye Dede and Charles Kwadwo Fosu aka  Daddy Lumba\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>He revealed that as a young aspiring musician \u201cI used to listen to the L.L. Cool J, Naughty by Nature, Kris Kross and the Jay Z\u2019s, but it all was not so real to us until Hiplife was formed.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He indicated that Hiplife is \u201cHip Hop finding its way to fuse with Highlife music from where we are from.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He paused briefly to praise Hip Life greats Reggie Rockstone and Obrafuor for igniting his passion to evolve to the next level in the genre of music he currently does.  <\/p>\n<p>\u201cBig ups to Reggie Rockstone pioneer and Big Ups to Obrafuor\u2026 Those days were the days when I really had the identification to Hip Hop that was closer to the kind of music that is closer to [my] culture\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>He added that though there are some challenges with creating music in Ghana, he was impressed with the new twist and energy emerging young talents bring to the showbiz industry.<\/p>\n<p><!-- uploaded by: 50 updated by: 45 --><\/p>\n<p><!-- Start of html generated by this->footer() -->\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Entertainment of Tuesday, 7 March 2017 Source: asempanews,com 2017-03-07 Ghanaian rap star M.anifest Ghanaian rap star M.anifest has lauded the grandpapa of Hiplife Reggie Rockstone and Obrafuor in an interview with BBC\u2019s DJ Edu terming them as music greats who helped him to strike the balance between the Highlife and Hip Hop he had deep [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-367264","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-business"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - 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