Free spirited Ghanaian Journalist Kevin Taylor has subjected Ghana’s most decorated rapper, Sarkodie to attacks over his silence despite the country’s economic turmoils.
Sarkodie has appeared silent since this current government took over from the Mahama administration in January 2017. It might have been that he was enjoying the policies and governance of Nana Addo whose early days in government sounded promising.
However, things have taken a different turn with corruption being the other of the day. The dollar has swallowed the cedi, fuel prices keep increasing and inflation keeps inflating day in day out and exorbitant prices have taken over everything little thing in the market.
In spite of all this, the rap icon has still gone mute. This has raise many eyebrows since he was one of the loud-mouthed personalities in the erstwhile administration pointing the weaknesses of the government back then through his craft.
He crooned such tracks as “Inflation”, “Dumsor” and the “Masses” coupled with several other activism together to unleash the frustrations of Ghanaians at the time.
Owing to this, Kevin Taylor has gone hard on the rapper tagging him a tribal bigot because he thinks Sarkodie felt he and Akuffo Addo are from the Akan ethnic group and that’s why he has not openly talked about the sufferings of Ghanaians currently.
He intimated further that he was the one who brought Sarkodie to Kumasi when his career started to blossom.
He said he could tell Sarkodie the number of his boxers back then because of how broke he was.
“Where is Sarkodie? He is yet to do a song about all that is going on in the country. My friend Eric and I brought you to Kumasi for the first time. We helped you perform at KNUST. I even knew the number of boxers you had”, he lambasted.
He insisted that if Sarkodie wants to be taken seriously in this country, then he has to break out from his shell of hypocrisy and drop his tribal lens and for once use his music to propagate his patriotism by criticizing Akuffo Addo’s government too.