{"id":469056,"date":"2018-03-02T07:32:48","date_gmt":"2018-03-02T07:32:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2018\/03\/02\/shatta-wale-is-my-inspiration-fireboy\/"},"modified":"2018-03-02T07:32:48","modified_gmt":"2018-03-02T07:32:48","slug":"shatta-wale-is-my-inspiration-fireboy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/03\/02\/shatta-wale-is-my-inspiration-fireboy\/","title":{"rendered":"Shatta Wale is my inspiration &#8211; Fireboy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"medsection1\">\n<!-- End of html generated by this->header() --><\/p>\n<p class=\"floatLeft\">Music of Thursday,  1 March 2018<\/p>\n<p class=\"floatRight\"><strong>Source: <\/strong>Graphic.com.gh <\/p>\n<p>2018-03-01<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-left\">\n<p class=\"article-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/26138184.295.jpg\" alt=\"Fireb9\" title=\"Fireb9\" width=\"295\" height=\"206\" \/><span class=\"image_caption\"><span>Ghana-based Nigerian artiste, Fireboy<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"clear:right\">Dancehall artiste, Shatta Wale may have a lot of critics because of his controversial ways but for Ghana-based Nigerian artiste, Fireboy, the self-proclaimed Dancehall King is the reason he has decided to go commercial with his music.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have a high opinion of Shatta Wale because of what he is doing for Ghana music. He is one of the biggest artistes in Ghana and I admire him for his success.<\/p>\n<p>He encourages me a lot and I can boldly say I don\u2019t regret looking up to him as my mentor,\u201d he told Showbiz in an interview on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Fireboy says his love for Shatta Wale has been transferred to Ghana.<\/p>\n<p>Born in Enugu State in Nigeria, Fireboy, whose real name is Mamah Stanley Emeka, believes his stay in Ghana would help to boost his brand.<\/p>\n<p>He is currently promoting his latest track, Once Upon A Time featuring another Nigerian Patoranking and he is optimistic he can attain the successes of acts like Mr Eazi, who made hits in Ghana.<\/p>\n<p>On the low tempo Once Upon A Time, recorded by Mix Masta Garzy, Fireboy talks about his hustler lifestyle and how he has suffered on his own to build a comfortable life for himself through hard work.<\/p>\n<p>Patoranking does what he knows best as he delivers lines about how he had to leave his comfort zone to seek greener pastures elsewhere when life was tough for him.<\/p>\n<p>Fireboy told Showbiz he is he is ready to work with artistes like his mentor Shatta Wale, Sarkodie and Stonebwoy on subsequent songs.<\/p>\n<p><!-- uploaded by: 65 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>Music of Thursday, 1 March 2018 Source: Graphic.com.gh 2018-03-01 Ghana-based Nigerian artiste, Fireboy Dancehall artiste, Shatta Wale may have a lot of critics because of his controversial ways but for Ghana-based Nigerian artiste, Fireboy, the self-proclaimed Dancehall King is the reason he has decided to go commercial with his music. \u201cI have a high opinion [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":469057,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-469056","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\/469056","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=469056"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/469056\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=469056"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=469056"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=469056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}