Celebrated Dancehall musician, Stonebwoy has expressed worry about how Ghanaians celebrate mediocrity and called for a mental shift.
He lamented over how some Ghanaians fail to honour their own and always spread false information about Showbiz figures who are doing tremendously well in the industry.
Speaking in a recent media interview in which he shared the video on his Instagram page, Stonebwoy noted that the celebration of mediocrity was bringing the industry to its knees.
”As Ghanaians in the Ghanaian industry, there’s a need for a mind shift, a mental shift. We need that mental shift because celebrating a lot of mediocrity is one thing that is hurting our industry because if we want to progress, then we have to do progressive things,” he stated.
The “Jejereje” hitmaker observed that little was being done by Ghanaians to make that change and progress possible.
“But we are not mentally changing to adapt to stuff that would make such progress possible,” he stated.
Stonebwoy further charged Ghanaians to change the pull him down syndrome narrative and begin to spread a positive narrative about their musicians for the industry to progress in the right direction just like the Nigerians.
”There is a need for us to speak positively about the strides we make toward progress, rather than immediately comparing or downplaying them. Before any Nigerian artiste in my time would win a Grammy, they were already doing the groundwork.”
“You’d hear a narrative like, ‘If it wasn’t for Davido, Chris Brown wouldn’t have won a Grammy.’ I love that kind of narrative. But here in Ghana, I humbly say we often create narratives that pull us backward. We have a P.H.D. syndrome-Pull Him Down. But what if we change that to ‘Pull Him There?” he added.
