BET award winner, Stonebwoy has urged fellow Ghanaian artistes to forget about trivialities and concentrate on developing their craft so as to get more international recognition.
Stonebwoy lost to his Nigerian friend, Patoranking in the Best New Act category at the just concluded MTV Africa Music Awards Kwazulu Natal over the weekend.
Moments after the awards event, controversial Ghanaian act, Shatta Wale tweeted: ‘Some ghanaians are too popular in america not africa lol,’ leading to insinuations that the tweet was directed at Stonebwoy and others.
Addressing the said tweet in an interview with Starr FM, however, Stonebwoy said: ‘I’m an artist who concentrates on my arts and I do my best to keep going to entertain the people who appreciate me and appreciate my work.
‘Shatta Wale has the right to his Twitter and to write whatever he wants to write. I haven’t seen that but if I had which you said is ‘some Ghanaian acts are more popular in America than Africa,’ it still makes sense. I don’t get hurt from that because I believe it takes effort to move from one place to the other.
‘I was so close at the MAMAs, I was there, I was nominated, and at the end of the day I know what happened. I don’t think it was directed at me but as Ghanaians we need to support our own and push it.
‘We shouldn’t be looking at the mockery side because from experience I think we have to work hard to be known outside Ghana.’
some ghanaians are too popular in america not africa lol
— SHATTA WALE (@shattawalegh) July 18, 2015
