Hiplife music will be 30 years next year, but there’s no Hiplife song to commemorate the celebration, multi-talented musician Fimfim has said.
He explained that all the musicians are following the band wagon to sing Afrobeat songs.
Isaac Adu Buxton, known in the entertainment scene as Fimfim, said this during an exclusive interview on Max Morning Dew in Accra on Friday.
He said the trend has made the industry lose its originality, recognition, and identification, hence the need for musicians to start singing Hiplife and Highlife songs.
The “Boasiako” hitmaker stated that Hiplife music, at some point, brought various foreign musical gurus into the country.
“Back in the days when Hiplife music was excelling, various musical gurus from Nigeria like D Banj, Tony Tetuila, and Don Jazzy, among others, came to Ghana just to learn Hiplife. But our problem is that we don’t cherish our things, so any new thing that comes, we go and grab it, throwing our own away,” he lamented.
Against this backdrop, Fimfim indicated that Hiplife music got neglected and needed to be revived, stressing that it was the reason he was filling the vacuum to revive the authentic genre of Ghana for the country to get a song to celebrate Hiplife music after 30 years the industry discovered it.
“Hiplife music will be 30 years next year. What song will we use to celebrate it?” he quizzed.
Source: Ghana/MaxTV/MaxFM/max.com.gh/Joyceline Natally Cudjoe
