Somewhere last week, social media was buzzing with fans of Sarkodie celebrating the fact that the Ghanaian rapper was in a studio working with US rapper-Ace Hood. For the critics, there was nothing big about Sarkodie working with Ace Hood.
I took to my facebook at the time to write this;
“I just came on Facebook to take a break from the Cannes madness out here and it seems Sarkodie working with Ace is trending—with some Ghanaians saying it’s a BIG thing and others saying; it’s not anything huge.
Now to determine if it’s a great achievement for Sarkodie to be working with Ace, you must first know the terms of the work—is Sarkodie paying him some money so he can feature on his track? If Sarkodie is paying him, then what is the big deal here? I can even pay him if I have the money to feature on my demo—not literally though.
But if Ace has heard of Sarkodie’s songs and appreciates his work as well as his career direction and has decided to collaborate or work with him on the basis that he sees him fit, then it’s a great achievement.
Look, showbiz in US or anywhere is all about money these days—a few cares about integrity. So if a Kumawood producer wins Euro millions and decide to bring Denzel Washington to star in his movie; does that mean the Kumawood producer is now the best or has achieved anything beyond what his money or anyone’s money can buy?
It’s the relationship of the work that should settle this debate…Until we know that, everyone is right!”
Following that, Sarkodie also mentioned in an interview that Ace Hood actually contacted him to work with him for ‘free’. Speaking to Bola Ray on Starr FM, he actually said ‘Ace Hood approached him.’
But it seems Sarkodie lied—he paid Ace Hood 25,000 dollars to have him feature on his song.
A fan twitted at Ace Hood putting to him rumours that he contacted Sarkodie to work with him for free—and the rapper tweeted to say; that is a lie—he only did the feature when the $25K settled in his account, from Sarkodie.
When will our Ghanaian Celebrities stop throwing out lies and just present things as they are?
Flip to the next page to see what exactly Ace-Hood wrote…
when will the Ghanainan media put an end to this irresponsible reportage koraaa. Sarkodie never said anywhere that Acehood Begged him, yet you have the media reporting “Acehood Begged me- Sarkodie” what kind of journalism is this? And in anycase what is wrong if Sarkodie paid Acehood 25k to feature on his song? Its that not done all over the world? Did Rickross feature on P-Squares Onyinye for free? Did French Montana feature on Ice princes song for free? So where is the lie if Sark paid Ace 25k to feature on his song? This is why I will always supports Sarks #FREEPRESS.
Pls do ur research well. First , go n watch that interview he had with bola Ray on starr fm n then find wat de hammer wrote abt this collaboration few days bac . You re here saying wat u don’t know. Y shld sark lie abt this to us ?First of all, nobody asked anything so y did he even volunteer giving us that info. I ve always said this n will say here too. Sarkodie is Gud but he thinks he is bigger than who he really is . Very little is known abt sarkodie outside of Gh yet this nigga brags n hype himself too much. I remember wen he lied some few years bac that he was signed to convict label. It came out as a lie. He needs to be real with himself and stop the bragging
Hmmm Gh controversies,I think this is not the first time our celebrities collaborated with some int.stars,what’s the hype and ace hood?tweaa spare us the noise!
Sarkodie needs to be truthful cos this could affect any collaborations in the future. If sarkodie made those claim then he must think his fans are stupid enough to believe that an American artist would work with you for free…really sarkodie??? And I doubt any of these rappers have heard of him even with the BET nominations.
LOL.!! Wonder what that sark nigga was thinkin’ runnin’ his mouth on radio.!! Ain’t nuthin wrong payin’ “ace” to be on ur track… #BOYSKASA
$25000? 3ne3 Ace hood nso )y3 cheap papa.. Tweeeeaaa
Say it again! I didn’t even know of this Ace hood until GC mentioned him.
Wat at all is de big deal of Ace n Sark, Ace is great rapper who is also tryn very hard to mk it in his country as Sark is also tryn very hard to mk it in his country. So wat is de big deal. Dese celebrities will also gv us large platforms for us to tlk abt dem saaaaa. Ohhh hoo… celebrities wahala everywer……evryday
Haven’t listened to this Sark interview with Bola bt from wht I hve ‘read’ so far I think the article had a misleading title regardless of Sarkodie paying ACE hood or not.