{"id":1206888,"date":"2022-09-19T08:44:37","date_gmt":"2022-09-19T08:44:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/09\/19\/maata-gave-me-all-the-awards-and-all-the-troubles-shasha-marley\/"},"modified":"2022-09-19T08:44:37","modified_gmt":"2022-09-19T08:44:37","slug":"maata-gave-me-all-the-awards-and-all-the-troubles-shasha-marley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/09\/19\/maata-gave-me-all-the-awards-and-all-the-troubles-shasha-marley\/","title":{"rendered":"Maata gave me all the awards and all the troubles \u2013 Shasha Marley \u00bb \u2122"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div data-td-block-uid=\"tdi_33\">\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<p><span class=\"td-adspot-title\">&#8211;  &#8211;<\/span><br \/>\n<!-- ResponsiveAll --><\/p>\n<h2><strong>Shasha Marley, whose birth name is Julius Amua-Sekyi, has said that the success of his song Maata has brought him both fame and significant legal problems.<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Speaking with Ghana Television, Shasha Marley said that the song was a hit upon its first release and opened doors for him as an artist.<\/p>\n<p>I was at this very studio in 2007 when the song was first released. I\u2019ve tried to explain this music from here a million times, but no one ever seems to believe me.<\/p>\n<p>READ ALSO:\u00a0The late T.B Joshua delivered me from evil spirits \u2013 Shasha Marley defends TB Joshua\u2019s fake Prophet tag<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"td-adspot-title\">&#8211;  &#8211;<\/span><br \/>\n<!-- ResponsiveAll --><\/p>\n<p>All the success and all the failure came from just one song. He remarked, \u201cThis earned me the greatest honors.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is my song and I want to hear it,\u201d he stated when asked whether he was concerned about the song\u2019s reception and interpretation.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"td-adspot-title\">&#8211;  &#8211;<\/span><br \/>\n<!-- ResponsiveAll --><\/p>\n<p>The Reggae musician reiterated that the song\u2019s title had nothing to do with flatulence, but rather the names of his pals in Papua New Guinea: Maata Tuitui, Maata Pue, and Maata Fish.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"td-adspot-title\">&#8211;  &#8211;<\/span><br \/>\n<!-- ResponsiveAll --><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8211; &#8211; Shasha Marley, whose birth name is Julius Amua-Sekyi, has said that the success of his song Maata has brought him both fame and significant legal problems. Speaking with Ghana Television, Shasha Marley said that the song was a hit upon its first release and opened doors for him as an artist. I was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1206889,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[365,7810,25943,1520,10948,9000],"class_list":["post-1206888","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-awards","tag-gave","tag-maata","tag-marley","tag-shasha","tag-troubles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1206888","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=1206888"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1206888\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1206888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1206888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1206888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}