Ghanaian Artiste Edward Kofi Agyemang Amoah, popularly Known as Kofi Mole, claims that hip-life music is no longer a successful genre in the music business.
According to the young rapper, the industry lacks active hiplife musicians in the music industry and this is causing the hip-life genre which was once a success to fizzle out.
Hip-life is a genre of music inspired by American hip-hop, fused with the Ghanaian culture and the hip-hop genre. It was originally introduced in Ghana by Ghana’s hip-life ‘Grand Papa’, Reggie Rockstone, and has been the claim to fame of many Ghanaian artists in the music industry.
“I don’t know; maybe it’s because we don’t have artists that currently make mention of hiplife in their music unlike Reggie Rockstone who persistently made mention of hiplife in his music,” he said.
The musician also mentioned that the emergence of the internet created a lot of awareness around rap music and hip-hop culture where many young Ghanaian rappers got their exposure from. This resulted in hip-hop, replacing Hip-life.
“Since the internet season came, we got so exposed to hip-hop and outside and the music outside of Ghana; their culture and everything; The young ones who came up now tried to vibe with the Hip-hop culture I mean the hip-hop from America’s culture,” he hinted.
Meanwhile, the ‘Don’t Be Late’ hitmaker indicated that hip-hop in Ghana which also has fragments of Ghanaian culture has its origin from hiplife because both genres have an element of rap, adding that hip-hop is currently thriving because there are more artists that are doing hip-hop in the Ghanaian music industry.
