{"id":457954,"date":"2018-01-24T10:30:32","date_gmt":"2018-01-24T10:30:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2018\/01\/24\/ghanaians-dont-appreciate-their-artistes-flowking-stone\/"},"modified":"2018-01-24T10:30:32","modified_gmt":"2018-01-24T10:30:32","slug":"ghanaians-dont-appreciate-their-artistes-flowking-stone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/01\/24\/ghanaians-dont-appreciate-their-artistes-flowking-stone\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghanaians don\u2019t appreciate their artistes \u2013 Flowking Stone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"medsection1\">\n<!-- End of html generated by this->header() --><\/p>\n<p class=\"floatLeft\">Music of Tuesday, 23 January 2018<\/p>\n<p class=\"floatRight\"><strong>Source: <\/strong>www.ghanaweb.com<\/p>\n<p>2018-01-23<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-left\">\n<p class=\"article-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/44006144.295.jpg\" alt=\"Bitter9\" title=\"Bitter9\" width=\"295\" height=\"187\" \/><span class=\"play-icon\">play video<\/span><span class=\"image_caption\"><span>Rapper Flowking Stone<\/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\/2018\/01\/1516789832_498_ai\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/iframe><\/noscript><\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"clear:right\">Winner of \u201cHiplife Song of the Year\u201d award at the 2017 Vodafone Ghana Music Awards, Kwaku Nsiah-Boamah aka Flowking Stone has expressed disappointment in Ghanaians for not showing much love for musicians in the country.<\/p>\n<p>In an exclusive interview with Ghanaweb, the \u2018Go Low\u2019 hitmaker strongly stated that the \u2018backbiting\u2019 attitude of Ghanaians is very pathetic.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNigerians are very compassionate and delighted of their artistes. How they hype D\u2019banj, Wizkid, and others is not same as Ghanaians, we rather condemn and I see that very pathetic,\u201d he observed.<\/p>\n<p>According to Flowking Stone, how Nigerians hype their artistes has made Ghanaian musician snub their tone of singing and started using \u2018Naija\u2019 lyrics in their songs to attract Nigerians who appreciate musicians.<\/p>\n<p>He said even though most of his songs create the perception that he has bitterness in him but his key interest is addressing serious situations which are hindering the development of the music industry.<\/p>\n<p>Flowking King, the young brother of \u2018Best Rapper Alive\u2019 Okyeame Kwame, came into the music industry in 2004 as a duo with his younger brother Kunta Kinte with the album \u2018Efri Fie\u2019 which had hit song \u2018One Gallon.\u2019 <\/p>\n<p>They were called Bradez.<\/p>\n<p>Their second album \u2018Breakthrough,\u2019 released in 2008 also had great songs like the multiple award-winning \u2018Simple,\u2019 \u2018Flashe,\u2019 \u2018Runthings,\u2019 \u2018Dondoo,\u2019 \u2018Woso\u2019 (Remix) and many others. They followed up with their third album \u2018Conquer the World\u2019 in 2011.<\/p>\n<p>Flowking Stone had to go solo following his brother\u2019s ill health. He then released smash hit songs like \u2018Ohene,\u2019 \u2018Go Low,\u2019 \u2018Machine Gun Flow,\u2019 \u2018Mekyeakyea,\u2019 \u2018Faya Bon Dem,\u2019 and others.<\/p>\n<p>His \u2018Rapping Drums,\u2019 a masterpiece of rhythmic African poetry is still gaining huge patronage among music lovers.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"600\" height=\"350\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/MRJDqMuh17U\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"600\" height=\"350\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/uJOXWPF5cAQ\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><!-- uploaded by: 65 updated by: 65 --><\/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>Music of Tuesday, 23 January 2018 Source: www.ghanaweb.com 2018-01-23 play videoRapper Flowking Stone Winner of \u201cHiplife Song of the Year\u201d award at the 2017 Vodafone Ghana Music Awards, Kwaku Nsiah-Boamah aka Flowking Stone has expressed disappointment in Ghanaians for not showing much love for musicians in the country. In an exclusive interview with Ghanaweb, the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":457956,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-457954","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/457954","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=457954"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/457954\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=457954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=457954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=457954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}