Legendary Ghanaian rapper, Reggie Rockstone has said that anyone who says he is not the originator of the genre, Hiplife is a liar.
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About the fact that the iconic Ghanaian rapper has been credited with fusing Hip Hop and High Life to establish the genre, renowned music producers such as Zapp Mallet and Panji Anoff have disputed Reggie Rockstone’s claim to be the genre’s inventor.
Recall in 2015, Zap Mallet stated in an interview that when Reggie Rockstone came down from the UK, he came with his partner, and they both had the hip-hop culture which was sweeping all over the globe as it were at that time and some of us thought that we could go to our root, our heritage and do something Ghanaian, more African and merge hip-hop with our identity.
“An identity that will project the Ghanaian culture so Michael Kuku who was an instrumentalist then and I decided to name that class of music hip-life and it worked,” he added.
Zapp Mallet also revealed that Reggie Rockstone did not agree with his comments and due to that, he lambasted him and later apologized.
Speaking in a recent Instagram live video with New York-based event promoter and media personality, Afrobeats Kween for Glitteratieent, Reggie made it clear that he is the originator of Hiplife.
“They are lying and they know they are lying, if I wasn’t here live looking good, they will probably lie on me … there’s nobody out here that don’t know Reggie Rockstone set it up, I didn’t just set it up, I am still here doing stuff,” he said.
The father of 4 emphasized that “my mother used to say even if you didn’t create Hip Life, you would have been the creator of Hip Life, ain’t nobody put in work like I did. As to where they heard the two words, Hip Life, they can never tell you otherwise, is in only one song “Tsoo Boi”. Tsoo Boi is the first time you gonna hear those 2 words“, he added.
Watch the interview below: