CEO of the Volta Regime Music Group, Edem, says it’s nigh impossible for two artists like MzVee and Kaakie to sustain a beef when they don’t write their own songs and rely on ghostwriters to do it for them.
Kaakie and MzVee have in recent times been having a little back and forth over who has the mandate to be seen as Ghana’s top female dancehall star, a feud that kicked off after Kaakie returned from a hiatus with a hard hitting track at Kaakie.
But speaking on the Celebrity Fan Zone, Edem said the two simply lack the ability to sustain a compelling feud without writing themselves, as an outsider cannot channel their own emotions as well as they can.
“Kaakie has a song, Ronaldo…I wrote it, Stonebwoy writes for her. I mean it’s not wrong to write songs for people, of course it is the business of music. Richie writes for MzVee so how are you going react when a person throws a jab at you? You have to wait for your writer who doesn’t have the same emotions running to do it for you…because when there’s a beef it’s about emotions.
“So that is the angle from which for me I see this whole thing as a joke, because Lady Saw writes herself so when she’s taking a jab at somebody; it’s an honest jab… she’ll do justice. These people have to wait for the writer to take you and address you. So I don’t know how consistent that can be, because if your writer refuses to write a dis song then that ends it.
“The reason why I’m hammering on doing it yourself is this” he added “The thing about dance-hall is that when you see Beenie Man and Bounty Killer in battle they do it themselves, when you see Vybez Cartel and Movado battle they do themselves. I’m hammering on doing it yourself because it has to be back to back, but when people write for you it will be a one off and a one off in a battle, there’s no excitement. There has to be rounds 1, 2, 3 and then we get to see who’s withering away and who’s gaining momentum”