{"id":1120643,"date":"2022-06-13T17:47:54","date_gmt":"2022-06-13T17:47:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/06\/13\/patapaa-explains-why-black-sherifs-ktt-song-couldnt-break-barriers\/"},"modified":"2022-06-13T17:47:54","modified_gmt":"2022-06-13T17:47:54","slug":"patapaa-explains-why-black-sherifs-ktt-song-couldnt-break-barriers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/06\/13\/patapaa-explains-why-black-sherifs-ktt-song-couldnt-break-barriers\/","title":{"rendered":"Patapaa Explains Why Black Sherif&#8217;s KTT Song Couldn&#8217;t Break Barriers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<h2>Ghanaian musician, Justice Amoah, widely known as Patapaa Amisty has given a clear explanation of the reason why Black Sherif\u2019s popular song \u201cKweku The Traveler\u201d could not break barriers.<\/h2>\n<p>According to Patapaa, although Kweku The Traveler got the attention it needed in Nigeria, it wasn\u2019t able to go international because the song and the artist were attached to controversies.<\/p>\n<h4 id=\"h-read-also-afia-schwar-never-came-to-nogokpo-shrine-she-just-took-a-photo-with-the-sign-board-fetish-priest-exposes-afia-schwar\">READ ALSO: Afia Schwar Never Came To Nogokpo Shrine, She Just Took A Photo With The Sign Board \u2013 Fetish Priest Exposes Afia Schwar<\/h4>\n<p>Patapaa stated that Black Sherif\u2019s track could have taken Ghana to the Grammy and probably win but due to unnecessary comparisons made by Ghanaians and some entertainment pundits, the song was shot down. He emphasized that his song went international and made waves because his career was not compared to other artists in the industry.<\/p>\n<p><em>Kwaku The Traveller\u2026 the petrol has finished for that song. Everyone has one song to become a hit before they cement their careers. When One Corner came, I didn\u2019t have even social media handles.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Black Sherif had his social media handles even before his career. I don\u2019t know why they are comparing the song to my song One Corner. His previous songs are even doing better than the KTT.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>With Ghanaians, when they raise you, they will eventually bring you down again\u2026 When the kids [upcoming musicians] sprung up, instead of pushing them forward\u2026 they will rather pamper you and make you feel like you are there<\/em>, he told Adom TV\u2019s Maame Boatemaa.<\/p>\n<h4>READ ALSO: You Haven\u2019t Paid My Rent And Can Never Pay My Rent \u2013 Mona Gucci Replies Nana Agradaa<\/h4>\n<p>Additionally, citing instances, Patapaa said Ghanaians are gradually shifting away from Kuami Eugene to Kidi just like how they are treating Black Sherif presently.<\/p>\n<p><em>Now Kuami Eugene has been made like gari since Kidi is now on top. Now we are moving to Kidi. If you want to go for Grammy. We have to support the person and not to rather throw challenges,<\/em>\u00a0Patapaa advised.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async defer crossorigin=\"anonymous\" src=\"https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/sdk.js#xfbml=1&#038;version=v13.0&#038;appId=1009694476028322&#038;autoLogAppEvents=1\" type=\"208732f1f69b8bb709cb2338-text\/javascript\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ghanaian musician, Justice Amoah, widely known as Patapaa Amisty has given a clear explanation of the reason why Black Sherif\u2019s popular song \u201cKweku The Traveler\u201d could not break barriers. According to Patapaa, although Kweku The Traveler got the attention it needed in Nigeria, it wasn\u2019t able to go international because the song and the artist [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1120648,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[6824,94,3270,7624,2058,8141,10308,5295,1487],"class_list":["post-1120643","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-barriers","tag-black","tag-break","tag-couldnt","tag-explains","tag-ktt","tag-patapaa","tag-sherifs","tag-song"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1120643","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=1120643"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1120643\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1120643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1120643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1120643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}