Rex Omar, who has been in the spotlight a lot in recent times, has once again claimed that Ghana has no functioning music industry.

He made this emphatic statement while speaking in an interview with Y102.5’s NYDJ.

According to Rex Omar, a lot of people in Ghana overestimate the industry and try to make it out as something that it is not.

In fact, in his own eyes, there is no existing music industry in Ghana. 

“We keep using the words, ‘music industry’. The question I have been always asking myself is, do we really have any music industry in Ghana? Have we had any gatekeepers, producers, or musicians sitting down and deliberately tailoring say highlife and state, ‘we were from here and this is where we are going’?”

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“People do things anyhow, fighting themselves, people who don’t even know will sit on social media and say anything. And those who know and will want to educate will be insulted left, right and centre. So it’s like nothing is really working. We don’t really value who we are”, he said.

He went on to hammer in his point that the original form of music Ghanaians should pay attention to is the Highlife Genre.

Rex Omar stated that Ghanaians don't value what is theirs unless it is rebranded to them.

"People don’t know that Afro beats that was created by Fela Kuti came out of highlife. Fela used to live in Ghana and he came to study our highlife. He created his own Afro beats out of our highlife. It has always been like that so as Ghanaians, we always don’t like what we have. We always want something from outside even if it was stolen from us”.he concluded.