{"id":443333,"date":"2017-12-03T19:30:31","date_gmt":"2017-12-03T19:30:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2017\/12\/03\/opinion-decrepit-fame-from-hustling-bandana-to-noisy-gun-firing-shatta-wale\/"},"modified":"2017-12-03T19:30:31","modified_gmt":"2017-12-03T19:30:31","slug":"opinion-decrepit-fame-from-hustling-bandana-to-noisy-gun-firing-shatta-wale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2017\/12\/03\/opinion-decrepit-fame-from-hustling-bandana-to-noisy-gun-firing-shatta-wale\/","title":{"rendered":"Opinion: Decrepit fame; from hustling &#8216;Bandana&#8217; to noisy gun firing &#8216;Shatta Wale&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"medsection1\">\n<!-- End of html generated by this->header() --><\/p>\n<p class=\"floatLeft\">Entertainment of Sunday,  3 December 2017<\/p>\n<p class=\"floatRight\"><strong>Source: <\/strong>alfashaban.blogspot.com<\/p>\n<p>2017-12-03<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-left\">\n<p class=\"article-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/31824542.295.jpg\" alt=\"From Bandana To Shatta Wale\" title=\"From Bandana To Shatta Wale\" width=\"295\" height=\"192\" \/><span class=\"image_caption\"><span>From Bandana (Left) to Shatta Wale (Right)<\/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\/12\/1512329431_919_ai\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/iframe><\/noscript><\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"clear:right\">Growing up, I actively listened to music, not anymore for religious reasons. It&#8217;s the basis of how much music I will attempt to exhibit knowing in this piece.<\/p>\n<p>I have traversed GBC&#8217;s Guinness for your dancing feet through to TV3&#8217;s Hitz Video with the Iceman. Metro TV&#8217;s Advertising Cycle and sequels of MTV base.<\/p>\n<p>But more of the music I have come to know was more via radio. Years of Joy FM (Morning Show (Komla Dumor), Cosmopolitan mix (Doreen Andoh), drive time (Bola Ray) &amp; multi-track show (Kwesi Anim Adjei)) meant I could sing along a medley of tracks. I still can but don&#8217;t.<\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s cut the chase, I lived in the era when VIP from bogey down Nima were a tough side &#8211; Ahomka wom, swept awards at their peak. I lived in the time of Nkasei&#8217;s &#8216;Tuorbordom&#8217; when Tic Tac got us mental with &#8216;Philomena&#8217; and when Obrafuor was a shining light with &#8216;sense-laden&#8217; tracks. I cannot forget batman&#8217;s hit single Linda and Abrewa Nana&#8217;s Odo Filla. <\/p>\n<p>Of course, there were many others, Tinny, Sonny Achiba, KK Fosu et al. The Kojo Antwis, Amandzebas, Rex Omars, Daddy Lumbas and Gyedu Blay Ambulley&#8217;s all churned out hits that music lovers enjoyed.<\/p>\n<p>At that time was an artiste known as &#8216;bandana&#8217; who always looked as if he was in a rush, always running across any stage. He was a very ordinary artiste who did not make it anywhere &#8211; at least at the time. I didn&#8217;t even bother know his real name. From &#8216;Bandana from Ghana&#8217; with its &#8216;moko hoo&#8217; respone and &#8216;aafee fee shi still anyee,&#8217; was about all there was to the artiste.<\/p>\n<p>Years down the line, fame finally found him. And with each step, he feels like he has more than arrived. The latest idiocy being the firing a gun at perceived enemies. Right after needlessly and unprovokedly joining &#8220;issues&#8221; with a Nigerian artiste.<\/p>\n<p>I have heard also of verbal tirades even against persons that have criticised the content of his music. Flying the banner of a certain Shatta Movement, Charles Nii Armah Mensah &#8220;Shatta Wale&#8221; continues to defy common sense and to remember that many have come before him and before long he&#8217;d be gone as he came.<\/p>\n<p>It doesn&#8217;t matter that you sang at Mahama&#8217;s final rally and he crushed at 44%+. It&#8217;s of no significance that a tweet exchange with the man who beat Mahama earned you a Flagstaff House visit and I hear a car.<\/p>\n<p>Now listen, it&#8217;s no insult that some of your lyrics are nonsense. Who cares how many tracks you can record in a minute. You risk fighting yourself when you are done fighting any and everybody. Chinua Achebe in Things Fall Apart quoted an Igbo proverb that &#8220;Those whose palm kernels are cracked for them by a benevolent spirit, should not forget to be humble.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>And oh, just as I finished this article, I read that he had slapped a bodyguard during a concert in Accra, if you ask me, his latest piece of madness but that is exactly what the young man should check &#8211; to put himself in check.<\/p>\n<p><!-- uploaded by: 26 updated by: -1 --><\/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 Sunday, 3 December 2017 Source: alfashaban.blogspot.com 2017-12-03 From Bandana (Left) to Shatta Wale (Right) Growing up, I actively listened to music, not anymore for religious reasons. 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I have traversed GBC&#8217;s Guinness for your dancing feet through to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":443334,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-443333","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>Opinion: Decrepit fame; from hustling &#039;Bandana&#039; to noisy gun firing &#039;Shatta Wale&#039; - 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\/12\/03\/opinion-decrepit-fame-from-hustling-bandana-to-noisy-gun-firing-shatta-wale\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Opinion: Decrepit fame; from hustling &#039;Bandana&#039; to noisy gun firing &#039;Shatta Wale&#039; - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"Entertainment of Sunday, 3 December 2017 Source: alfashaban.blogspot.com 2017-12-03 From Bandana (Left) to Shatta Wale (Right) Growing up, I actively listened to music, not anymore for religious reasons. 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