Former SarkCess signed act and one of Ghana’s most talented rappers, Strongman has cast more light on why he could not blossom to his full potential under the wings of Sarkodie in a new interview.
Trying to sound diplomatic and not to apportion the blame on Sarkodie as a lot of Ghanaians do say on why he could not shine, Strongman noted that there was not enough fund to support him and Akwaboah, his label mate plus Sarkodie’s own expenses on himself as a commercial artist dwarfed what he had to invest in them.
“Honestly, I have never asked Sark to shoot a music video for my song. If Sark would shoot a video, he will shoot it after listening to the song, and he thinks that music needs a push. So after I finished that project … he didn’t tell me to come and shoot a video. He didn’t tell me to come and shoot a video for any of the songs,” he said on Angel FM.
Strongman further pointed out that Sarkodie taking money from the same source that fed his family, expensive clothing, and lifestyle was challenging and splashing it on his signed artist became challenging.
“The reason why I don’t blame Sark that much is because he is an artiste who signed Akwaboah and myself. And under Sarckcess, we didn’t have investors. It was Sark’s own money that was used to finance all the projects.
At that time, he also had video projects he was undertaking … so after shooting music videos for Akwabah and himself, he might have already spent about 100,000. So, if I try to be considerate a bit, at the end of the day, my project suffers.
“But I can’t complain because I understand that the money is from his own pocket. So the only problem I feel we had at Sarkcess was that he was supposed to get an investor before signing us. Then every video will come. But as he didn’t get an investor at that time, his own money and he had to take care of himself, family plus he likes big big outfits so that you pay him more…”
SOURCE: www.Ghgossip.com