Rex Omar has come to the defence of Vodafone Ghana Music Award's Artist of the Year, Kuami Eugene.

Critics have been pointing out that Kuami Eugene cannot be regarded as a highlife artiste because his style is unorthodox.

According to Rex Omar, the Highlife genre is a constantly evolving one and music adepts cannot expect that highlife music will be done now as it was done back in the day. He stated that only uneducated individuals don't have the ability to understand that a track is considered highlife as long as the basic elements of the highlife genre are present in it.

To this end, he said that Kuami Eugene is a through and through highlife artiste since the basic elements are always present in his song.

In saying this, Rex Omar has sent a strong message to the critics of Kuami Eugene while speaking in an interview with Y102.5’s NYDJ.

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“Culture is dynamic so what we need to do is to encourage them so they do not detach from highlife. Because trust me I noticed that some of the millennials are detaching from highlife. The lifestyle of people who carried highlife does not motivate the millennials. We need to encourage them, coach them to get into the highlife so that as they grow up musically, they will do the right thing. We know it is difficult for young artists in Ghana”.

Rex Omar claims that people like to criticise what they don't understand and the only reason people point fingers at Kuami Eugene is because they can't lay claim to his success.

“The only reason why people are saying Kuami Eugene is not doing highlife is that, of course, what he is doing lacks a lot of the highlife element. But that, in essence, is highlife music. And again I am not expecting a 21st century millennial to play highlife like our days. That is not possible.”

“So you cannot just sit somewhere, you have not supported the guy, he comes out to make a hit and you are now coming to talk about highlife. When he was hustling, what did you do? When they come to the limelight, we have to gradually encourage them and guide them gradually so that they will go back to imbibe the rules of highlife,”