Ruff ‘N’ Smooth, the Ghanaian music duo, was on Independence Day involved in a nasty brawl over transportation arrangement that saw one of them jumping out of a moving taxi.
The brawl was so nasty and life-threatening that armed soldiers had to intervene to calm tempers and save the situation.
The incident took place at the Kokrobite beach on the outskirts of Accra where Hype Records had organised the Unity Beach Jam to mark the celebration of Ghana’s 55^th Independence.
According to the organisers, Ruff N’ Smooth, also known as Swagger Boys, had been billed to perform at the concert alongside Iwan, Akoo Nana and other artistes but the music duo, while the show was  going on, changed its mind and cancelled its performance over a disagreement on the contract sum.
Members of the group, Ahkan and Bullet, told myjoyonline.com that they were assaulted by the Chief Executive of Hype Records, Opoku Asafo Adjei Agyeman, and five machomen.
The two said even when they sensed danger and fled into a taxi to seek refuge and asked the driver to quickly drive out of the area, Mr. Opoku Asafo Adjei Agyeman and his macho men still followed them until they jumped out of the taxi and ran away.
They explained that the organisers of the show transported them to the event but when the show was ongoing, the organisers decided to reduce the contract sum and this resulted in a disagreement.
Ahkhan and Bullet said even when they agreed to perform, the event organisers decided to ignore them and rather rained insults on them when they attempted to seek clarification on what was happening.
When NEWS-ONE reached Mr. Opoku Asafo Adjei Agyeman over the issue, he denied ever assaulting any member of Ruff N Smooth.
According to the Hypes Record CEO, he only heard of a commotion and he went to calm issues:
“I didn’t touch Bullet, I didn’t touch Ahkan. We had a show and I saw things weren’t going on well and I went to intervene. I didn’t beat Ruff N’ Smooth. I didn’t beat anybody as it was reported. ”
Mr. Opoku said when he was informed by his team that Ruff N’ Smooth said it would not perform again because it had changed its mind, he told the team to ignore the group and let the other musicians perform.
He said after the event, he heard there was a commotion going on and Bullet was insulting guest visitors including Mercy Owusuwaa, the Managing Director of Ontario Physio-One, a subsidiary of Hype Records.
Mr. Opoku said he went in to calm tempers but when he got there, Bullet fled. “I didn’t touch him,” he added.
The CEO said while he was driving home later on in his car, a taxi driver recklessly crossed him and when he tried to stop the taxi driver to find out what might be wrong with him, Bullet happened to be in the taxi.
He said even before the taxi driver could stop to explain what happened, Bullet dashed out of the taxi and fled.
Mr. Opoku also denied claims that he hired macho men to assault Ruff N’ Smooth.
Event’s manager of Hype Records, Emmanuel Numekevor, also said their personal security men were long gone before the commotion started and that the military men at the beach tried to calm both sides down.
Explaining the agreement with the music duo, Emmanuel said they had an agreement with Ruff N’ Smooth to perform for GH¢2000, an amount which would be deducted from over $15,000 Ruff N’ Smooth allegedly owed Hype Records.
“We called their manager to come and sign the deal but he sent a different person to come and pick the contract.
The initial amount was GH¢1000 but they said the GH¢1000 was too small. So it was two or three days to the show that we settled on GH¢2000.
The only thing they requested for was that they had a problem with their car, so we should take care of their transportation.
“Prior to that, they said they were going to show up in the office so that we sign the contract but they didn’t show up. But later, we were like we are family so we can still go ahead since there was a verbal agreement.”
Emmanuel said Hype Records picked Ahkan and Bullet from their Spintex base but they refused to perform when the time came for them to hit the stage.
He added that when the show was ongoing, the two demanded a paper contract and surprisingly said the GH¢2000 was too small and that they wanted GH¢4000.
“After a couple performances, they came back and that if we can’t get them GH¢4000, we should get them some physical cash, so they would perform.
But that wasn’t the agreement so they left and went to sit in the car waiting for us to transport them back.
After the show, we couldn’t transport everybody at the same time so we decided to treat those who performed first and so we asked them to exercise patience, and that was how it all started.”
Source: NewsOne

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