{"id":1229649,"date":"2022-10-20T10:49:35","date_gmt":"2022-10-20T10:49:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/10\/20\/sarkodie-should-have-been-bigger-than-wizkid-shatta-wale\/"},"modified":"2022-10-20T10:49:35","modified_gmt":"2022-10-20T10:49:35","slug":"sarkodie-should-have-been-bigger-than-wizkid-shatta-wale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/10\/20\/sarkodie-should-have-been-bigger-than-wizkid-shatta-wale\/","title":{"rendered":"Sarkodie should have been bigger than Wizkid &#8211; Shatta Wale"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Shatta-Wale-1-1024x576.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div id=\"article-text\">\n<p>Dancehall artiste Shatta Wale believes his colleague Sarkodie should have been a bigger artiste than Wizkid or just as big.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking on  A-Z, Shatta Wale said that the \u2018Pizza and Burger\u2019 rapper failed to take advantage of his relationship with record producer Akon to boost his career.<\/p>\n<p>He said that he has noticed Sarkodie invest so much money into his music and his brand but that has not propelled the rapper\u2019s career as much as he expected to.<\/p>\n<p>This he said is mostly because he is an independent artiste making moves in the industry all by himself with no label to back him like his Nigerian counterpart.<\/p>\n<p>Shatta Wale said he is sometimes hesitant to invest as much as Sarkodie does for his music.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/video.php?height=314&#038;href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2Fjoy997fm%2Fvideos%2F675201083836674%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>He explained that this is because he has been observing the \u2018Highest\u2019 rapper and his \u201cslow progress\u201d is not enough motivation for him and others to do the same.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSarkodie is doing it, I am watching him and he is still not making it. He is doing this alone and he is using money to do it,\u201d Shatta Wale said.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/video.php?height=314&#038;href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2Fjoy997fm%2Fvideos%2F4846385022130630%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>But he acknowledged that being an independent artiste is not a walk in the park and thus was grateful to his fans for their patience.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.myjoyonline.com\/sarkodie-should-have-been-bigger-than-wizkid-shatta-wale\/\">Source<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dancehall artiste Shatta Wale believes his colleague Sarkodie should have been a bigger artiste than Wizkid or just as big. Speaking on A-Z, Shatta Wale said that the \u2018Pizza and Burger\u2019 rapper failed to take advantage of his relationship with record producer Akon to boost his career. He said that he has noticed Sarkodie invest [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1211890,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[6752,8312,134,886,1024],"class_list":["post-1229649","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-bigger","tag-sarkodie","tag-shatta","tag-wale","tag-wizkid"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1229649","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=1229649"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1229649\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1229649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1229649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1229649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}