[ 2013-08-15 ]

Michael Kwesi Owusu Addo aka Sarkodie

Samini is bigger than me; i can't diss him - Sarkodie confesses
Award winning rapper Michael Kwesi Owusu Addo
popularly known as Sarkodie has debunked reports
of an alleged beef between himself and Samini,
stating he can never diss the dancehall artiste.

The U Go Kill Me hit singer stressed that he can
never have any beef with Samini because he looked
up to him as an artiste and that, he is also
bigger than him.

Samini released his controversial song, Pink Sheet
last month - a song that took some artistes in the
Ghanaian music industry to the cleaners and called
them fake artistes.

After the dancehall artiste mentioned Sarkodie's
name in the song, social media and news wires were
inundated with allegations that there might be
some beef between the two.

Samini took to twitter Tuesday to clear the air
that, "I'm not beefing @sarkodie," and that he
only "asked him to explain to me a line in his
song (Borga) in which my name was mentioned."

Reacting to the alleged rift, Sarkodie told Blakk
Rasta on Taxi Driver on Hitz FM that, "People
think there is a beef between me and Samini, it
can never happen because I am never on the same
level with him. He is somebody I came to meet."
I can't diss Samini

Touching on the song, the Ghana Music Awards
Artiste of the Year winner stated categorically
that, Samini "didn't diss [me and] even if he
dissed, I don't think I can reply [him]."

According to Sarkodie, the Time Bomb hit singer
"was asking me to come and explain something. As
an emcee, you just say whatever you want to say.
This is rap, rap is the only way that you can free
yourself and say whatever you want to say."

He however stressed that, although he mentioned
Samini's name in his Borga song, he does not "owe
anybody" an explanation for that. "I understand
him, it's a stunt, the same way I did that's the
same way he is doing it now. I respect him."

Sarkodie acknowledged Samini's superiority and
explained that he does not rate himself above
someone he looked up to because he, Sarkodie, has
won a Black Entertainment Television (BET) Award.
"If I have to do that, I have to do [it] with the
people I started with - my fellow acts."

"Samini is too big for me to try and think
something [like] that about him. It's [rather]
more of me 'bigging him up' and trying to follow
what he did from way back because he actually gave
us the urge that we could move further," after he
won a MOBO Award."

"That respect [I have for him] can never go
[away]."

Not a fan of Samini's music

In spite of the fact that Samini served as his
inspiration, Sarkodie noted that, he is not a fan
of the dancehall artiste's music.

"If you ask me what I like about Samini, I like
his stage craft, I like his business ideas. I look
up to him in a certain way but I wouldn't lie that
I'm a music fan of his. I wouldn't listen to
Samini," he said.

Source - MyjoyOnline

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