{"id":1187810,"date":"2022-08-23T13:36:45","date_gmt":"2022-08-23T13:36:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/08\/23\/it-is-a-curse-to-disrespect-old-gees\/"},"modified":"2022-08-23T13:36:45","modified_gmt":"2022-08-23T13:36:45","slug":"it-is-a-curse-to-disrespect-old-gees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/08\/23\/it-is-a-curse-to-disrespect-old-gees\/","title":{"rendered":"It is a curse to disrespect &#8216;old gees&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n            <!-- image --><br \/>\n            <!-- content --><br \/>\n <!-- A generated by theme --> <\/p>\n<p><span class=\"td-adspot-title\"><\/span><noscript id=\"td-ad-placeholder\"\/><\/p>\n<p> <!-- end A --> <\/p>\n<h3>Veteran rapper Reginald Yaw Asante Osei, famed as Reggie Rockstone has detailed the sacrifices his era of musicians made to secure a safe spot for the new crop of artistes in the local industry.<\/h3>\n<p>According to him, it is totally forbidden for new school singers who are now making waves to disrespect \u2018old gees\u2019 in the industry.<\/p>\n<p><strong>READ ALSO ; Black Sherif\u2019s freestyle of his upcoming song goes viral [Watch]<\/strong><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_134156\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-134156\" style=\"width: 1000px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-134156\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/It-is-a-curse-to-disrespect-old-gees-because-we-sacrificed-for-you-Reggie-Rock.jpg\" alt=\"Reggie Rockstone \" width=\"696\" height=\"365\"   title=\"It is a curse to disrespect 'old gees' because we sacrificed for you - Reggie Rockstone 1\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\"\/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-134156\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Reggie Rockstone<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<div class=\"code-block code-block-1\" style=\"margin: 8px 0; clear: both;\">\n<div class=\"td-all-devices\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/1650190712_304_Ad-banner.jpg\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\"\/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Speaking on \u2018The Lowdown\u2019 with Ismail Akwei on GhanaWeb TV , he stated that the digital era has made song distribution much easier compared to their era when music lovers had to travel long hours just to buy a cassette of their favourite musicians.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI come from an era where we were hands-on, on the ground but today, these kids are so entitled, they\u2019ve got YouTube, Facebook, Twitter and Snapchat. I mean when you record a song you can share it on Facebook with a million viewers. In our time, someone had to come all the way from Suhum to Kantamanto to buy cassettes just to listen to music,\u201d said Reggie.<\/p>\n<p> <!-- A generated by theme --> <\/p>\n<p><span class=\"td-adspot-title\"><\/span><noscript id=\"td-ad-placeholder\"\/><\/p>\n<p> <!-- end A --> <\/p>\n<p>He added: \u201cToday, these kids are buying cars and building houses. This is why it is such a curse for the folks who we sacrificed for to ever be disrespectful to us. It is forbidden.<\/p>\n<p><strong>READ ALSO ;Reggie Rockstone\u2019s house flooded after Tuesday\u2019s downpour [Watch]<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is a curse unto you if you ever speak disrespectfully because we sacrificed.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Also sharing his musical journey, Reggie Rockstone admitted to having a stress-free career due to the help of his father, Ricky Ossei, a fashion designer.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo tell you the truth, I didn\u2019t struggle in the industry and am not shy to say this. My father stepped in, he believed in the dream, and he saw it. He was part of the team that named it Hiplife and he sponsored it\u2026I started my career abroad, I was in UK and New York before heading to Ghana.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>READ ALSO :It\u2019s the toes for me \u2013 Nana Ama McBrown darker feet get netizens talking (video)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Read all the Latest News, Entertainment News and gossips <strong>here<\/strong>. Follow us on <strong>Facebook<\/strong>, <strong>Instagram<\/strong> and <strong>Telegram<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><!-- AI CONTENT END 1 --><\/p>\n<p> <!-- A generated by theme --> <\/p>\n<p><span class=\"td-adspot-title\"><\/span><noscript id=\"td-ad-placeholder\"\/><\/p>\n<p> <!-- end A --> <\/p><\/div>\n<p><script async defer src=\"https:\/\/platform.instagram.com\/en_US\/embeds.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Veteran rapper Reginald Yaw Asante Osei, famed as Reggie Rockstone has detailed the sacrifices his era of musicians made to secure a safe spot for the new crop of artistes in the local industry. According to him, it is totally forbidden for new school singers who are now making waves to disrespect \u2018old gees\u2019 in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1187812,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[8225,8990,24164],"class_list":["post-1187810","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-curse","tag-disrespect","tag-gees"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1187810","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=1187810"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1187810\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1187810"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1187810"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1187810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}