{"id":437393,"date":"2017-11-15T08:30:30","date_gmt":"2017-11-15T08:30:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2017\/11\/15\/im-the-smartest-african-artiste-making-more-money-from-music-shatta-wale\/"},"modified":"2017-11-15T08:30:30","modified_gmt":"2017-11-15T08:30:30","slug":"im-the-smartest-african-artiste-making-more-money-from-music-shatta-wale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2017\/11\/15\/im-the-smartest-african-artiste-making-more-money-from-music-shatta-wale\/","title":{"rendered":"I\u2019m the smartest African artiste making more money from music \u2013 Shatta Wale"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"article-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/30713271.295.jpg\" alt=\"Shatta Wale Diss\" title=\"Shatta Wale Diss\" width=\"295\" height=\"336\" \/><span class=\"image_caption\"><span>Dancehall artiste, Shatta Wale<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"noPrint\">\n<div id=\"537626303\" style=\"width:300;height:250;margin:0;padding:0\">\n<p>\t\t  <noscript><iframe loading=\"lazy\" id=\"b2ad7fa7fd\" name=\"b2ad7fa7fd\" src=\"http:\/\/ghanaweb-d.openx.net\/w\/1.0\/afr?auid=537626303&amp;cb=151057541695353\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"300\" height=\"250\"><a href=\"\/\/ghanaweb-d.openx.net\/w\/1.0\/rc?cs=b2ad7fa7fd&amp;cb=151057541695353\"><\/p>\n<p>\t\t  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/1510734630_62_ai\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/iframe><\/noscript><\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"clear:right\">Dancehall Artiste, Shatta Wale has described himself as the smartest African artiste making more money from his career as a musician.<\/p>\n<p>According to him, most of his colleagues see him as a braggart but to him, he frequently talks about his wealth in order to motivate the Ghanaian artiste, to encourage them to strive to attain higher heights like some foreign artistes have done.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking on whether he believes WizKid is a super star like others rate him, he indicated that he does not see WizKid as a super star although some Ghanaian acts rate him higher.<\/p>\n<p>Charles Nii Armah Mensah said \u201cI will not see Wizkid and be stunned, I rather want him to see me and be amazed because I don\u2019t see anything extraordinary about him, even though he claims to the best African artiste\u2026\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>He called on Ghanaian artistes to start respecting themselves and stop rating Nigerian artistes high above them.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a style=\"display:none\" rel=\"follow\" href=\"http:\/\/megatheme.ir\/\" title=\"\u0642\u0627\u0644\u0628 \u0648\u0631\u062f\u067e\u0631\u0633\">\u0642\u0627\u0644\u0628 \u0648\u0631\u062f\u067e\u0631\u0633<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dancehall artiste, Shatta Wale Dancehall Artiste, Shatta Wale has described himself as the smartest African artiste making more money from his career as a musician. 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