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Black Sherif\u2019s style of music keeps engendering debates on various platforms.<\/p>\n

The artiste, who has a highlife background, produces songs that have influences from highlife, hip-hop and sometimes reggae.<\/p>\n

The prominent drill beats he uses for his songs have caused many to categorise him under the hip hop genre. Both the Vodafone Ghana Awards and 3Music Awards have largely considered him as a hip hop artiste.<\/p>\n

However, some people including Akwaboah, are of the opinion that the \u2018Kwaku the Traveller\u2019 singer leans more to the highlife genre than hip-hop.<\/p>\n

He told Kojo Yankson and Winston Amoah on the Super Morning Show on Joy FM<\/strong> that highlife music would get more recognition if Black Sherif\u2019s highlife-induced songs were really categorised as highlife.<\/p>\n

\u201cI will describe most of the songs Black Sherif does as highlife, when you listen to the way he sings and everything, but he has been pushed to hip hop. So going global, imagine calling what he is doing highlife, that would have been highlife on the map, but in a way it appears we are pushing him into hip hop or Afrobeats. So now what is happening is, he is out there but they are calling it hip hop or Afrobeats,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

This comes a few days after Kwabena Kwabena also expressed his disappointment people who describe Black Sherif\u2019s songs are hip hop.<\/p>\n

Black Sherif is known for songs such as \u2018Money\u2019, \u2018Soja\u2019, \u2018Kwaku the Traveller\u2019, \u20181st Sermon\u2019, and \u20182nd Sermon.\u2019<\/p>\n

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Black Sherif\u2019s style of music keeps engendering debates on various platforms. The artiste, who has a highlife background, produces songs that have influences from highlife, hip-hop and sometimes reggae. The prominent drill beats he uses for his songs have caused many to categorise him under the hip hop genre. 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