{"id":1187857,"date":"2022-08-23T14:12:25","date_gmt":"2022-08-23T14:12:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/08\/23\/sarkodie-charged-us-25k-a-feature-ene-yatt\/"},"modified":"2022-08-23T14:12:25","modified_gmt":"2022-08-23T14:12:25","slug":"sarkodie-charged-us-25k-a-feature-ene-yatt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/08\/23\/sarkodie-charged-us-25k-a-feature-ene-yatt\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Sarkodie charged us $25k a feature&#8217; \u2013 ENE Yatt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p>A grid of ENE YATT &#038; Sarkodie. Credit: @officialeneyatt \u2014 Instagram; @manuelphotography_official \u2014 Instagram<\/p>\n<div id=\"article-text\" style=\"line-height: 2; letter-spacing: -0.5px;font-size: 18px;\">\n<p>                        <!--p class=\"ky_saved_articles_link\"><span class=\"ky_saved_articles_hide\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\" class=\"ky_saved_articles_img\" alt=\"'Sarkodie charged us $25k a feature' \u2013 ENE Yatt\" title=\"'Sarkodie charged us $25k a feature' \u2013 ENE Yatt\"><\/span> Bookmark<\/p-->\n<p>Ghanaian-based Nigerian music duo, ENE Yatt, claim rapper Sarkodie charged them 25k dollars for a verse.<\/p>\n<p>This comes as a response to the question of whether they have ever been refused a feature because of their status as up-and-coming artists.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking in an interview with <strong>Sammy Forson<\/strong> on <strong>Daybreak Hitz<\/strong> on Monday, one member of the group, Richard, said: \u201cWe wanted to do a song with Sarkodie and we were asked to pay $25,000.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/video.php?height=314&#038;href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2FHitz1039%2Fvideos%2F2479930618815888%2F&#038;show_text=false&#038;width=560&#038;t=0\" width=\"560\" height=\"314\" style=\"border:none;overflow:hidden\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" allow=\"autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; picture-in-picture; web-share\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe fact is, paying this amount of money to Sarkodie is not a problem. But taking this money from an underground artist who is trying to come up\u2026 I wonder where you are trying to get to with that.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSarkodie is big. He deserves to be paid more than $25,000 for a feature \u2013 even a $100,000, but not from up-and-coming artists who are trying to survive,\u201d said Elvis of ENE Yatt fame on <strong>Hitz FM<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>They added that Sarkodie could have simply denied the feature if he wasn\u2019t ready to do it, instead of quoting an outrageous sum of money for a verse.<\/p>\n<p>Probing into the matter, the host asked who among Sarkodie\u2019s team they contacted about the feature, to which they responded: \u201cWe spoke to his management \u2013 Angeltown (Sarkodie\u2019s manager), Possigee (Sarkodie\u2019s longtime producer), and a couple of people.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The duo went on to state that featuring a mainstream artist like Sarkodie does not necessarily guarantee that the song will become a hit, although his presence on the project will give it some buzz.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSark can actually give you the hype, but I don\u2019t think it is written anywhere that once you do a song with him, it is going to be a hit.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>EnE YATT is a Nigerian Afropop duo composed of two brothers; Elvis Pamo Owugah [Smart] and Richard Ebi Owugah [Snazy].<\/p>\n<p>The two were born in River State, Nigeria. They attended Immaculate Comprehensive College, Omoku.<\/p>\n<p>They moved to Ghana after their Secondary School days and have lived in Ghana ever since.<\/p>\n<p>Their latest single, \u2018No Dull,\u2019 is available on online music stores.<\/p>\n<p>                <!-- Post Tags --><\/p><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.myjoyonline.com\/sarkodie-charged-us-25k-a-feature-ene-yatt\/\">Source<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A grid of ENE YATT &#038; Sarkodie. Credit: @officialeneyatt \u2014 Instagram; @manuelphotography_official \u2014 Instagram Ghanaian-based Nigerian music duo, ENE Yatt, claim rapper Sarkodie charged them 25k dollars for a verse. This comes as a response to the question of whether they have ever been refused a feature because of their status as up-and-coming artists. 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