Ghanaian rap king, Sarkodie has confessed that, Shatta Wale’s collaboration with Beyonce won him an Afrobeat deal he had been chasing for a long time.
According to him, an Afrobeat deal he really wanted, only went through because his partners who before the didn’t understand what the music genre was, signed the contract right after Beyonce released her song with Shatta Wale.
Sarkodie told Dentaa that: “So I was out of the country to sign a deal which was dragging for days. I had a deal with some white people. The same week Beyonce released her song with Shatta Wale and after that, the people who were dragging their feet signed the deal for me.”
For him, he felt Shatta Wale’s feature on Beyonce’s album opened a door for him and therefore needed to support the dancehall artist.
He added that there is a need for artists in Ghana to support themselves but he believes that selfishness has been the main problem to the growth of the music industry.
