Ghanaian rapper, D Black has intimated that there is no unity among the new crop of Kumasi drill rappers and D Black is sounding an alarm about the wrong path the ‘Kumerican’ artists are taking.
According to D Black, he has noticed that artists from Kumasi are doing great musically, but the division among them and that it is alarming.
“The Kumerican guys are doing great, but I think they are a little bit divided”.
The rapper during an interview explained that for acts to survive in any creative industry, they need support from one another as well.
Identifying the disunity among the ‘Kumerican’ acts, he said “I see Yaw Tog somewhere, Kofi Jamar on the other side, Asakaa boys doing their own thing”.
D-Black who is currently promoting his ‘Loyalty’ album, emphasized that they need to unite.
“I feel they need to come together and pursue a common agenda. Music is such that, you will not be on top forever. So, as a brother’s shine goes down, he gets featured on a big song on a particular moment to lift him”.
How the ‘Kumerican’ rappers fell apart
Yaw Tog, a teenage rapper from Kumerica [Kumasi], shot into the limelight in 2020. He wasn’t known until U.K. Twitter blew him up in late 2020 after releasing his breakthrough single, ‘Sore’, featuring O`kenneth, City Boy, Reggie, and Jay Bahd. Yaw Tog, O`kenneth, City Boy, Reggie, and Jay Bahd were collectively known as ‘Asakaa Boys’.
However, he later broke up with the ‘Asakaa Boys’ after refusing to sign a label deal with them. According to some Ghanaians, Yaw Tog only wanted to go solo after his boys bolstered his rise to prominence.
The teenage rapper sparked beef rumors with the ‘Asakaa Boys’ when he deleted their verses on the remix of ‘Sore’ when he featured U.K-born Ghanaian rapper, Stormzy, and Tema-based rapper, Kwesi Arthur.
“I didn’t sign their [Asakaa Boys] record label deal and it came out from them since I didn’t sign their deal. They can’t work with me again and things started from deletion of my verses and stuff we did together,” Yaw Tog said in a now-deleted tweet.
Since then, things have never looked good between them and they have been throwing subliminal shots at each, either in their songs, social media, or during interviews.
Other Kumerican acts like Kweku Flick, Kofi Jamar, YPee, Osikani Abrantie, Kweku Darlington, among others, have all been pursuing their music career individually.
That aside, D Black touched on his dormancy in the music scene. He disclosed that ever since the disappearance of Castro, he always felt uncomfortable performing their collaborated songs at events.
The ‘Enjoyment Minister’ crooner, D Black explained that at the time of Castro’s disappearance, he was one of the most sought-after musicians because of his hit songs ‘Seihor’ and ‘Personal person’ which he featured Castro on. Therefore, performing the songs made him uncomfortable as he always had Castro in mind whenever he was to perform those songs.
He noted that it was due to this he became silent in the music industry and focused on other career paths like his Onyx club and other businesses.
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