{"id":1131944,"date":"2022-06-23T11:44:11","date_gmt":"2022-06-23T11:44:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/06\/23\/kwesi-arthur-ready-to-perform-in-church\/"},"modified":"2022-06-23T11:44:11","modified_gmt":"2022-06-23T11:44:11","slug":"kwesi-arthur-ready-to-perform-in-church","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/06\/23\/kwesi-arthur-ready-to-perform-in-church\/","title":{"rendered":"Kwesi Arthur Ready To Perform In Church"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><strong>Kwesi Arthur<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Ghanaian hip-hop artiste, Emmanuel KwesiDanso Arthur Junior, also known as Kwesi Arthur,credited with a number of hit songs,has said that he will not decline an invitation to perform in a church.<\/p>\n<p>The rapper, who is currently the first Ghanaian rapper to be featured on the digital cover of Equate Magazine, said his songs project the reality of life and the experiences people go through, hence does not see why he should reject an invitation to perform in a church.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf they invite me to come to perform why not. With most of my songs, I preach and I talk about the reality now and what is happening around us. We don\u2019t hide things and we speak about certain happenings that affect us, so if the church wants us to come to perform and show love, I will do that,\u201d he told <em>Y 102.5 FM<\/em> in an interview.<\/p>\n<p>The Tema-based rapper in 2018performed his \u2018Woara\u2019 songat the Church of Pentecost in Tema Community 9.<\/p>\n<p>However, just like \u2018Woara,\u2019 Kwesi Arthur\u2019s \u2018Adom\u2019 music has a gospel message in it; therefore it wasn\u2019t shocking that he is now ready to perform in churches.<\/p>\n<p>In his recent interview with <em>Hitz FM<\/em>, Kwesi Arthur said he has been brought up in the church, hence preaching in the church won\u2019t be a new thing.<\/p>\n<p>The rapper, who sees himself as a preacher and depicts that in his songs, is currently considered as one of the best young performing artistes in Ghana and Africa.<\/p>\n<p>He became the second Ghanaian rapper to be nominated for BET Hip Hop Awards Cypher after\u00a0Sarkodie\u2019s nomination in 2019.<\/p>\n<p>In 2017, he released the lead single \u2018Grind Day\u2019 from his debut EP,\u00a0\u2018Live from Nkrumah Krom\u2019. The record was released under his independent outfit and supported by a social movement called Ground UpChale.<\/p>\n<p>Kwesi Arthur, who has collaborated with a number of popular artistes such as\u00a0Sarkodie,\u00a0Medikal,\u00a0KiDi, Jason EL-A,\u00a0R2Bees, B4bonah, M.anifest,\u00a0EL,\u00a0Stonebwoy,\u00a0Shatta Wale,\u00a0among others,\u00a0won \u2018Best Rapper of the Year\u2019 at the 2020 Vodafone Ghana  Awards (VGMA).<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><!-- AI CONTENT END 2 -->\n\t<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kwesi Arthur Ghanaian hip-hop artiste, Emmanuel KwesiDanso Arthur Junior, also known as Kwesi Arthur,credited with a number of hit songs,has said that he will not decline an invitation to perform in a church. The rapper, who is currently the first Ghanaian rapper to be featured on the digital cover of Equate Magazine, said his songs [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1131946,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[7801,100,3600,2481,718],"class_list":["post-1131944","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-arthur","tag-church","tag-kwesi","tag-perform","tag-ready"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1131944","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=1131944"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1131944\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1131944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1131944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1131944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}