{"id":743671,"date":"2022-01-10T21:28:01","date_gmt":"2022-01-10T21:28:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/01\/10\/im-the-new-fela-kuti\/"},"modified":"2022-01-10T21:28:01","modified_gmt":"2022-01-10T21:28:01","slug":"im-the-new-fela-kuti","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/01\/10\/im-the-new-fela-kuti\/","title":{"rendered":"I&#8217;m the new Fela Kuti"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"floatLeft\">Entertainment of Monday, 10 January 2022<\/p>\n<p class=\"floatRight\"><strong>Source: <\/strong>mynigeria.com<\/p>\n<p>2022-01-10<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-left\">\n<p class=\"article-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/19022518.295.jpg\" alt=\"Dancehall artiste, Shatta Wale\" title=\"Dancehall artiste, Shatta Wale\" width=\"295\" height=\"208\" \/> <span class=\"play-icon\">play video<\/span><span class=\"image_caption\"><span>Dancehall artiste, Shatta Wale<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"-webkit-user-select: none; -webkit-touch-callout: none; -moz-user-select: none; -ms-user-select: none; user-select: none;\">\n<p style=\"clear:right\" id=\"article-123\">Ghanaian dancehall musician, Charles Nii Armah Mensah Jr. popularly known as Shatta Wale has established that he is the new Fela Kuti and as such doesn&#8217;t need any form of promotion from Nigerians to be successful.<\/p>\n<p>One can recall that the controversial singer stated that Nigerians ride on the back of Ghanaians to gain global prominence while claiming that Nigerians have no love and don&#8217;t support other musicians from the other parts of the continent.<\/p>\n<p>In a new development, the 37-year-old singer has touted himself as the new Fela Kuti, adding that Nigerians should either accept it or forget it.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNigerian fans stay on the internet and talk bullsh*t. It\u2019s your turn today, but tomorrow is another man\u2019s turn. If you people didn\u2019t see Fela Kuti for a long time, he is back. This is him. Accept it or forget it.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t need Nigerian promotion for anything. No Nigerian artiste can say I visited them. How many of your rappers can beat Sarkodie?\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p><b>Watch the video below<\/b><\/p>\n<p><div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"BV172AS5UX0\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Shatta Wale Declares Himself \u2018Fela Kuti\u2019 |Simi, Don Jazzy Advise Artistes About Social Media|TEATIME\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/BV172AS5UX0?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Entertainment of Monday, 10 January 2022 Source: mynigeria.com 2022-01-10 play videoDancehall artiste, Shatta Wale Ghanaian dancehall musician, Charles Nii Armah Mensah Jr. popularly known as Shatta Wale has established that he is the new Fela Kuti and as such doesn&#8217;t need any form of promotion from Nigerians to be successful. One can recall that the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":256322,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-743671","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/743671","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=743671"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/743671\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=743671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=743671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=743671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}