Flowking Stone
Hiplife artiste, Flowking Stone has described as unfortunate the controversy surrounding his recent song which features Sarkodie and Shatta Wale.
Social media activists are involved in a virtual battle over who is a better rapper between the ‘Illuminati’ hit maker and Flowking Stone.
Wading into the controversy, Okyeame Kwame, [Brother of Flowking Stone] tweeted “if you listen to #FireBonDemRemix, Sarkodie and Flowking Stone displayed nothing but love for each other so I’m sad at the negative energy”.
Speaking to Naa Ashorkor and entertainment anchor of ‘The Zone’, Aj Sarpong on Wednesday, Stone said “the two people [Sarkodie & Shatta Wale] I put on the song are like my brothers especially Sarkodie whom I host most often when he comes to Kumasi and had contacted me to feature on the remix of the original track after seeing the video on YouTube.
“The reason why I got back to Sarkodie was because I felt the fans wanted to hear us together, I believe in collaborations and also prove to our fans that we are not at loggerheads. I felt it had been long overdue and the fans were waiting for so long because it was something myself and Sarkodie had planned every time we met.
“I don’t know who put that out there about us battling each other because I’m too grown for that. Initially I thought it was healthy competition and when the competition is healthy it makes you step up your game as an artiste, but when people concentrate on the competition and not the collaboration then it becomes something else”, he stated.
He added “the song originally has a feel of hiphop and dancehall so it was only right I put a very good dancehall artiste like Shatta Wale and Sarkodie to compliment the song.
“It is a song to address our individual issues because it has soul…we are both rappers from Ghana and mostly do twi rap. We can tongue twist and go slow on a track but we come from different backgrounds...we are similar in a way and different in a way,” he concluded.
