{"id":1251819,"date":"2022-11-16T13:12:59","date_gmt":"2022-11-16T13:12:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/11\/16\/i-wanted-to-be-the-voice-for-the-less-privileged\/"},"modified":"2022-11-16T13:12:59","modified_gmt":"2022-11-16T13:12:59","slug":"i-wanted-to-be-the-voice-for-the-less-privileged","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/11\/16\/i-wanted-to-be-the-voice-for-the-less-privileged\/","title":{"rendered":"I wanted to be the voice for the less privileged"},"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 id=\"h-ghanaian-singer-and-the-ceo-of-self-nation-addi-self-has-shared-the-inspiration-behind-taking-up-the-less-patronized-music-genre-in-africa-reggae-dancehall\">Ghanaian Singer and the CEO of Self-Nation,\u00a0Addi Self\u00a0has shared the inspiration behind taking up the less patronized music genre in Africa, Reggae-Dancehall. <\/h2>\n<p>According to Addi Self, the experiences he had while growing up at Maamobi, a suburb in the Greater Accra Region inspired him to do songs to capture his story and help him highlight the experiences of the less privileged.<\/p>\n<p><strong>READ ALSO: Any wife who demands money from her husband before sex is a prostitute \u2013 Diana Hamilton<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cPeople who have seen my music journey know the rap side of me and keep asking me why Dancehall. But for me, I do everything in music. It all started growing up in Maamobi-Nima. Seeing stuff and seeing a whole lot of different things and how to grow up and how the less privileged coming from the ghetto didn\u2019t have a voice. <\/p>\n<p><span class=\"td-adspot-title\">&#8211;  &#8211;<\/span><br \/>\n<!-- ResponsiveAll --><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe didn\u2019t have someone always trying to say what was going on in the ghetto. So, I found myself writing what I saw around me. I see people doing stuff and I tried to blend those experiences with music,\u201d he told Rev Erskine in an interview on Y107.9 FM\u2019s \u201cMyd Morning Radio Show\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><strong>READ ALSO: Grammy Awards 2023: See complete list of nominees<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"td-adspot-title\">&#8211;  &#8211;<\/span><br \/>\n<!-- ResponsiveAll --><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI saw myself loving Reggae and Dancehall so much because my father was a fan of Reggae and he always played Peter Touch, Bob Marley, and the likes so I grew up loving Reggae- Dancehall naturally. And obviously, these greats influenced me because I started looking at them before I started looking at Ghana artists and stuff like that,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>Source: www.ghbase.com<\/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; Ghanaian Singer and the CEO of Self-Nation,\u00a0Addi Self\u00a0has shared the inspiration behind taking up the less patronized music genre in Africa, Reggae-Dancehall. According to Addi Self, the experiences he had while growing up at Maamobi, a suburb in the Greater Accra Region inspired him to do songs to capture his story and help [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1251821,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[11664,1731,4657],"class_list":{"0":"post-1251819","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-privileged","9":"tag-voice","10":"tag-wanted"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1251819","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=1251819"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1251819\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1251819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1251819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1251819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}