{"id":447403,"date":"2017-12-15T13:00:27","date_gmt":"2017-12-15T13:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2017\/12\/15\/time-spent-with-kaakie-was-a-wasted-investment-jmj\/"},"modified":"2017-12-15T13:00:27","modified_gmt":"2017-12-15T13:00:27","slug":"time-spent-with-kaakie-was-a-wasted-investment-jmj","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2017\/12\/15\/time-spent-with-kaakie-was-a-wasted-investment-jmj\/","title":{"rendered":"Time spent with Kaakie was a wasted investment &#8211; JMJ"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"medsection1\">\n<!-- End of html generated by this->header() --><\/p>\n<p class=\"floatLeft\">Entertainment of Friday, 15 December 2017<\/p>\n<p class=\"floatRight\"><strong>Source: <\/strong>abrantepa.com<\/p>\n<p>2017-12-15<\/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\/63272456.295.jpg\" alt=\"Kaakie 1\" title=\"Kaakie 1\" width=\"295\" height=\"170\" \/><span class=\"image_caption\"><span>Kaakie<\/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=151125817981905\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"300\" height=\"250\"><a href=\"\/\/ghanaweb-d.openx.net\/w\/1.0\/rc?cs=b2ad7fa7fd&amp;cb=151125817981905\"><\/p>\n<p>\t\t  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/1513342827_894_ai\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/iframe><\/noscript><\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"clear:right\"> Dancehall artiste, Kaakie, in August made news for exiting Xtra Large Music label which had been pushing her brand for six years &#8211; a move the CEO of the label says amounts to a wasted investment.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking on the issue for the first time on Zylofon FM, Jah Masta Jay (JMJ) said he had leant lessons from the incident.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEverything that happened was very good. One thing that I\u2019ve learned this year is, there are no mistakes; everything is a lesson. What is coming next year is on another level from my side. What happened gave me chance to focus on myself. Managing an artiste means you have to live the life of the artiste, everything is about your artiste so all of a sudden I woke up and wow, I\u2019ve a life to live. Any good manager, your artiste should be bigger than you that\u2019s the standard and if you\u2019re bigger than your artiste, it means you are investing yourself more than your brand\u2026Your brand should be popular and bigger than you. What I noticed is that there is more to me than just managing an artiste. I\u2019m a producer, I\u2019m into audio-visual but all came to a halt because I had to focus on an artiste so now what is happening is, I\u2019m trying to allow the other talents and space in me grow so that as a brand on my own is also well taken care of even if I should have an artiste,\u201d JMJ told show host, Sammy Flex.<\/p>\n<p>Kaakie announced on Instagram that she was no longer under the label but failed to give reasons behind her move, abrantepa.com recalls.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"instagram-media\" data-instgrm-captioned=\"\" data-instgrm-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/BXf7BNelHlY\/\" data-instgrm-version=\"8\" style=\" background:#FFF; border:0; border-radius:3px; box-shadow:0 0 1px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.5),0 1px 10px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.15); margin: 1px; max-width:658px; padding:0; width:99.375%; width:-webkit-calc(100% - 2px); width:calc(100% - 2px);\"><\/blockquote>\n<p>Days after, she told GH One TV she did not sign the best of contracts and attempts to get management review it proved futile.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was young when I signed to JMJ\u2019s record label. I didn\u2019t even involve a lawyer then, I only invited a lawyer to read my contract after I had signed a bad deal. It was one of the stupid mistakes I ever did as a musician. Management wasn\u2019t ready for a review of my contract when I ask at some point\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt may interest you to know I don\u2019t even own a single song I have released so far. I feel I have wasted 6 years of my music career but I\u2019m ready for a new beginning. Not even my Facebook and Twitter accounts are mine. Last I heard, my social media pages have been deleted but, I promised my fans of my new pages by the end of this week,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>Although it was not a direct response to the claim, JMJ averred that Kaakie never registered any resentments and was therefore amazed about the development.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was at one agency\u2019s office trying to get a deal on her behalf and a management member asked me to get into the XLM WhatsApp group.  I checked and noticed that the very thing you guys saw on Instagram had been screenshot and put in the group. When she put it in there, she exited. She hadn\u2019t complained about anything but if you\u2019re smart, you should foresee things,\u201d he said while indicating that the label kept quiet on the matter as it believed the truth would come out one day.<\/p>\n<p>When asked if he sees his time spent with her as a wasted investment, the Xtra Large Music boss replied, \u201cYes and No\u2026 Yes because as we all know our industry is growing so most of the time the investment you do into artistes, sometimes if you are lucky, will break even but as in doing business and making profit is questionable. Yes, because she was a success story and anybody who start something\u2026there are a lot of females or artistes who have been doing this business for almost ten years and they don\u2019t even have a hit and they\u2019ve broken even. The African continent and the world doesn\u2019t even recognize them so even if you\u2019ve been able to achieve that, it\u2019s something worth praising\u2026it was worth it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He however described Kaakie as a \u201cwagon of talent\u201d and wished her well in her endeavors.<\/p>\n<p><!-- uploaded by: 49 updated by: -1 --><\/p>\n<p><!-- Start of html generated by this->footer() -->\n<\/div>\n<p><script async defer src=\"http:\/\/platform.instagram.com\/en_US\/embeds.js\"><\/script><\/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>Entertainment of Friday, 15 December 2017 Source: abrantepa.com 2017-12-15 Kaakie Dancehall artiste, Kaakie, in August made news for exiting Xtra Large Music label which had been pushing her brand for six years &#8211; a move the CEO of the label says amounts to a wasted investment. 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