A former member of Nkasei, Naakay, has revealed the challenges the group encountered following the release of their controversial hit song ‘Tuobodom’, including an attempt by an irate person to stab him.
According to Naakay, the man almost stabbed him during a stage performance in Kumasi.
Naakay, who was speaking about his experience in an interview on an Accra-based FM station, said “an incident in Kumasi… a guy nearly knifed us.”
He said, more than fifteen years after the release of the song, some people he suspects are natives of Tuobodom, still harbour hatred for him.
He said he recently performed the song on an Accra-based TV station and that elicited unsavoury remarks and threats from some persons who viewed his performance.
According to the former member of the now-defunct music duo, he is unfazed.
The Hiplife artist said: “The stupidity has to stop, and I’m not going to stop singing that song. I will sing it because it was creative.”
“This thing is beginning to really get on my nerves. I can understand to a certain extent that you’re loyal to where you come from but let it slide. It’s only a song, and some of these people even danced to this song.”
“Normally, I am quiet about these things, but I think it’s about time people need to start thinking. Beyond music and what we do, we’ve got families; I am a Godly person,” he said.
‘Tuobodom’ was a great hit partly because of the controversy that surrounded it. A number of natives of Tuobodom, a town in the Bono East Region, were unhappy about the song as they argued that it smeared the reputation of the town.
The song narrates the story of how some persons from Tuobodom were highly excited to move to the city to witness ‘a brighter side of life’.
