{"id":445075,"date":"2017-12-08T18:50:16","date_gmt":"2017-12-08T18:50:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2017\/12\/08\/ungrateful-kofi-b-took-undue-credit-for-yaw-dompre-ofori-amponsah\/"},"modified":"2017-12-08T18:50:16","modified_gmt":"2017-12-08T18:50:16","slug":"ungrateful-kofi-b-took-undue-credit-for-yaw-dompre-ofori-amponsah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2017\/12\/08\/ungrateful-kofi-b-took-undue-credit-for-yaw-dompre-ofori-amponsah\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Ungrateful&#8217; Kofi B took undue credit for \u2018Yaw Dompre\u2019 &#8211; Ofori Amponsah"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"medsection1\">\n<!-- End of html generated by this->header() --><\/p>\n<p class=\"floatLeft\">Entertainment of Friday,  8 December 2017<\/p>\n<p class=\"floatRight\"><strong>Source: <\/strong>Myjoyonline.com <\/p>\n<p>2017-12-08<\/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\/59075786.295.jpg\" alt=\"Ofori Amponsah HITZ\" title=\"Ofori Amponsah HITZ\" width=\"295\" height=\"197\" \/><span class=\"image_caption\"><span>Ofori Amponsah<\/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\/1512759016_920_ai\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/iframe><\/noscript><\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"clear:right\"> Highlife musician Ofori Amponsah has revealed that fellow artiste Kofi B failed to recognise him as the writer of his \u2018Yaw Dompre\u2019 hit song.<\/p>\n<p>The singer popularly called Mr All4Real said the experience has stopped him from writing for any other person.<\/p>\n<p>The prolific songwriter whose writing skills have been described as deep and unique has interestingly not done much work for other musicians for some time now.<\/p>\n<p>On Daybreak Hitz on Hitz FM with Andy Dosty, Mr All4Real disclosed that he has stopped writing to avoid being hurt by ungrateful artistes.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSometimes you go through this job and you don\u2019t want to give out to other people because of an experience,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI wrote a song, it was a very powerful song, I listened to the song and said \u2018this artiste&#8217;s voice will fit the song\u2019, so I invited the artiste, and said this is the song and I want you to sing it\u2026,\u201d Ofori Amponsah revealed.<\/p>\n<p>According to the \u2018Otoolege\u2019 hitmaker, Kofi B felt that the song sounded too \u2018local\u2019 and only recorded the song upon his insistence.<\/p>\n<p>After the song came out, the artiste in an interview gave himself credit for the lyrics saying that he got the inspiration whiles he worked on his farm somewhere.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is painful,\u201d he lamented.<\/p>\n<p>Although he was evasive about specific names, he gave an example that if he wrote \u2018Yaw Dompre\u2019 he expects to be duly acknowledged.<\/p>\n<p>Later in the interview, he confirmed that \u201cmost of the songs we are singing today, like \u2018Yaw Dompre\u2019, were all written by me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"600\" height=\"350\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/0PcJ5v1yvAY\" frameborder=\"0\" gesture=\"media\" allow=\"encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><!-- uploaded by: 49 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 Friday, 8 December 2017 Source: Myjoyonline.com 2017-12-08 Ofori Amponsah Highlife musician Ofori Amponsah has revealed that fellow artiste Kofi B failed to recognise him as the writer of his \u2018Yaw Dompre\u2019 hit song. 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