{"id":1077995,"date":"2022-05-06T08:03:57","date_gmt":"2022-05-06T08:03:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/05\/06\/after-many-years-of-doing-real-rap-music-ive-made-no-money-edem-cries-out\/"},"modified":"2022-05-06T08:03:57","modified_gmt":"2022-05-06T08:03:57","slug":"after-many-years-of-doing-real-rap-music-ive-made-no-money-edem-cries-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/05\/06\/after-many-years-of-doing-real-rap-music-ive-made-no-money-edem-cries-out\/","title":{"rendered":"‘After many years of doing real rap music, I\u2019ve made no money’ \u2013 Edem cries out \u00a0 \u00bb \u2122"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Ghanaian rapper Edem of Volta descent claims that he hasn\u2019t earned any money from his music career.<\/strong><\/h2>\n

When interviewed by Andy Dosty on Hitz FM\u2019s Daybreak Hitz, the rapper said Ghanaians do not love rap music, which explains the low level of popularity of the genre in the country.<\/p>\n

According to Edem, the majority of his songs that are popular in the nation include very few rap components and instead feature a lot of vocals.<\/p>\n

\u201cI never got compensated for my rap tracks. It was not because of rap that I gave my support. \u2018Nyornuviade\u2019 is my most popular tune\u2026 According to him, the most profitable songs are his \u201cOver Again\u201d song and \u201cKoene.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Asked about what he believes has contributed to the plight of rap music in Ghana, Edem said that the fan base for rap musicians does not show strong support for the genre.<\/p>\n

Also blamed DJs for not pushing the genre, he said.<\/p>\n

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– – Ghanaian rapper Edem of Volta descent claims that he hasn\u2019t earned any money from his music career. When interviewed by Andy Dosty on Hitz FM\u2019s Daybreak Hitz, the rapper said Ghanaians do not love rap music, which explains the low level of popularity of the genre in the country. According to Edem, the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1077997,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[3710,11118,7614,383,1484,7602,555,1151],"class_list":["post-1077995","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-cries","tag-edem","tag-ive","tag-money","tag-music","tag-rap","tag-real","tag-years"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1077995","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1077995"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1077995\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1077995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1077995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1077995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}