{"id":759554,"date":"2019-12-06T10:21:24","date_gmt":"2019-12-06T10:21:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2019\/12\/06\/i-came-to-the-industry-for-business-and-money-not-awards\/"},"modified":"2019-12-06T10:21:24","modified_gmt":"2019-12-06T10:21:24","slug":"i-came-to-the-industry-for-business-and-money-not-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2019\/12\/06\/i-came-to-the-industry-for-business-and-money-not-awards\/","title":{"rendered":"I came to the industry for business and money, not awards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"td-post-featured-image\">\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"696\" height=\"387\" class=\"entry-thumb td-modal-image\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Shatta-Wale-Copy-696x387.png\"   alt=\"Shatta Wale\" title=\"Shatta-Wale (Copy)\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">File photo: Shatta Wale<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>Award-winning dancehall musician, Shatta Wale, has said he prefers making money to receiving awards.<\/p>\n<p>In an interview with Kisa Gbekle on the Business of Entertainment Show, the Chief Executive Officer of Shatta Movement Empire expressed interest in making a lot of money from his music talent.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m religious but when it comes to the business side, God knows that when I have to say some hard word in music, I will say it,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p><strong>READ ON: Photos: Okoe Vanderpuije remarries<br \/><\/strong> <br \/>\u201cMy society has not gotten that business path that we are on but getting to know me much better will make them understand,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>The \u2018Gringo\u2019 hitmaker went on to lament about the irregularities that are hindering the outside world from knowing what Ghanaian musicians are capable of making it.<\/p>\n<p><strong>SEE ALSO: Guys keep using and dumping me \u2013 Singer cries out<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn the industry we find ourselves, we don\u2019t get certain facilities to explore, so we don\u2019t get the outside world to know how good we are,\u201d he told Kisa.<\/p>\n<p>Shatta Wale, however, admitted that the music industry is lucrative, as he has made a lot of money making music.<\/p>\n<p>He noted that fellow musicians have to strategise and focus on the business side of the industry to be able to make money like himself and a few others.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>File photo: Shatta Wale Award-winning dancehall musician, Shatta Wale, has said he prefers making money to receiving awards. 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