{"id":441967,"date":"2017-11-29T12:04:17","date_gmt":"2017-11-29T12:04:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2017\/11\/29\/i-am-the-only-dancehall-artiste-in-ghana-who-doesnt-smoke-bastero\/"},"modified":"2017-11-29T12:04:17","modified_gmt":"2017-11-29T12:04:17","slug":"i-am-the-only-dancehall-artiste-in-ghana-who-doesnt-smoke-bastero","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2017\/11\/29\/i-am-the-only-dancehall-artiste-in-ghana-who-doesnt-smoke-bastero\/","title":{"rendered":"I am the only Dancehall artiste in Ghana who doesn\u2019t smoke \u2013 Bastero"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"medsection1\">\n<!-- End of html generated by this->header() --><\/p>\n<p class=\"floatLeft\">Entertainment of Tuesday, 28 November 2017<\/p>\n<p class=\"floatRight\"><strong>Source: <\/strong>ghanaguardian.com<\/p>\n<p>2017-11-28<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-left\">\n<p class=\"article-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/98753778.295.jpg\" alt=\"Bastero   No Smoke\" title=\"Bastero   No Smoke\" width=\"295\" height=\"192\" \/><span class=\"image_caption\"><span>Bastero<\/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=151125813995117\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"300\" height=\"250\"><a href=\"\/\/ghanaweb-d.openx.net\/w\/1.0\/rc?cs=b2ad7fa7fd&amp;cb=151125813995117\"><\/p>\n<p>\t\t  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/1511957057_772_ai\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/iframe><\/noscript><\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"clear:right\">The dancehall genre is presumably one for \u2018weed\u2019 smokers. However, dancehall artiste, Bastero, has debunked that statement.<\/p>\n<p>Born Abdul Basit Ibrahim, Basterto, who is currently the face of the young generation of Ghanaian artists\u2019 promoting an anti smoking community dubbed the  \u201cSay No to Smoking\u201d campaign says he has never smoked in his life.<\/p>\n<p>Bastero has been in the music industry for a while now with a number of songs to his credit which are highly popular within the youth of Zongo community who are the target this campaign.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to ZongoNews Radio, producers of the campaign, Bastero, said he can proudly boast of being the only  Dancehall artiste, who does not smoke.<\/p>\n<p>The Wind Hit Maker added that as part of his social responsibility on giving back to the society through his craft, he has gladly accepted to be a part of the project to promote and educate the youth on the path of positive direction.<\/p>\n<p>The Newtown based singer who can be credited for hit songs such as Newtown, \u2018Frenmies\u2019, Watayariya\u2019 among others has been tipped to be the next big thing in the dancehall fraternity by legendary Dancehall artiste, Samini.<\/p>\n<p>The campaign is aimed at educating the youth in Zongo about the dangers associated with abusing weed and other illegal substance.<\/p>\n<p><!-- uploaded by: 26 updated by: 26 --><\/p>\n<p><!-- Start of html generated by this->footer() -->\n<\/div>\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>Entertainment of Tuesday, 28 November 2017 Source: ghanaguardian.com 2017-11-28 Bastero The dancehall genre is presumably one for \u2018weed\u2019 smokers. However, dancehall artiste, Bastero, has debunked that statement. Born Abdul Basit Ibrahim, Basterto, who is currently the face of the young generation of Ghanaian artists\u2019 promoting an anti smoking community dubbed the \u201cSay No to Smoking\u201d [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":441968,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-441967","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>I am the only Dancehall artiste in Ghana who doesn\u2019t smoke \u2013 Bastero - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2017\/11\/29\/i-am-the-only-dancehall-artiste-in-ghana-who-doesnt-smoke-bastero\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"I am the only Dancehall artiste in Ghana who doesn\u2019t smoke \u2013 Bastero - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"Entertainment of Tuesday, 28 November 2017 Source: ghanaguardian.com 2017-11-28 Bastero The dancehall genre is presumably one for \u2018weed\u2019 smokers. 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