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M.anifest<\/strong><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n Popular Ghanaian rapper, Kwame Ametepee Tsikata, aka M.anifest, has declared that the local music industry is not\u00a0well-equipped to support the development of artistes as well as young talents.<\/p>\n The rapper, who won Ghana Awards Best Rapper and Hip Hop Song of the Year 2017,mentioned that artistes and creativity in the industry are evolving much quicker than the institutions and infrastructure needed to ensure optimum growth.<\/p>\n He believes that due to lack of good structures to streamline the operations of the industry, players were suffering and could not get the exposure they need.<\/p>\n Speaking on\u00a0Daybreak Hitz<\/strong>\u00a0on Hitz FM<\/em>, he said \u201cso constantly the thing that is making it possible for us to be global is if by the stroke of luck, your artistry which has evolved so much catches on, whether on TikTok or wherever.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cIt is because of individual exceptionalism artistically that you are seeing some of these things,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n M.anifest noted that there is a lot of work that needs to be done, and structures put in place to make the industry a fertile ground for talented individuals across the country to blossom.<\/p>\n The \u2018Big Mad\u2019 hitmaker explained that consistently, artistes have turned into their own show promoters, tour curators among other things while focusing on their craft.<\/p>\n \u201cSo there is a lack on the other side\u2026there is a lack in terms of infrastructure and institutions and resources to dip into,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n M.anifest added that, \u201cI can\u2019t say that the industry as it stands is positioned to take the most promising talent from local to global.\u201d<\/p>\n The rapper will on December 18 host his annual music concert dubbed\u201cManifestivities Concert\u201d at the Bukom Boxing Arena in Accra to entertain all his fans in and around Accra.<\/p>\n It will feature acts such as BBrave, Kojo Manuel, Gyakie, Kwesi Arthur among others.<\/p>\n It will also feature underground acts who will be sharing the stage with established ones to enable them gain attention in the industry.<\/p>\n \n\t<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" M.anifest \u00a0 Popular Ghanaian rapper, Kwame Ametepee Tsikata, aka M.anifest, has declared that the local music industry is not\u00a0well-equipped to support the development of artistes as well as young talents. The rapper, who won Ghana Awards Best Rapper and Hip Hop Song of the Year 2017,mentioned that artistes and creativity in the industry are evolving […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1265314,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[2977,709,10208,5249,115],"class_list":["post-1265313","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-artistes","tag-industry","tag-lacks","tag-structures","tag-support"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1265313","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=1265313"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1265313\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1265313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1265313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1265313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}