Mark Okraku Mantey has declared that he does not like some of the tracks Ghanaian artistes are producing nowadays.

The music producer and acting president of the Creative Arts Council stated that although he cannot stand the songs, he realises that the tracks are what the fans want so he has no choice but to adapt to them.

He said this while speaking on the need for persons in the entertainment space to embrace change instead of being content with their efforts.

“Our kind of job, you should be addicted to change because if you do not change, the consumer will change anyway and lead you there.”

The Slip Music boss, who is known to have produced Lord Kenya, Daasebre Dwamena, and a host of other successful musicians admitted that he has to adapt with the times if he hopes to continue being successful in the art world.

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“My DNA is changing. I’m Aquarius. I always want to evolve… The truth is that I can never be in a box; then I don’t qualify to be a creative person in the first place. Every marketer of music thinks the way I’m thinking. If you do not think this way, you are a big candidate for failure in the music space.”

“Some of the music we’re hearing today is not music that technically I’d want to produce. Unfortunately, the people who are consuming today are not my age; but that’s what they want. So I can say I don’t like it but there is a market for it and so I struggle to stay in a box,” he explained.

Okraku Mantey made these assertions at the ‘Return Conversations: The Business of Music” – a masterclass that was put together by the Ghana Tourism Authority, the Creative Council, Beyond the Return Secretariat and The Bridge Zone (all under the auspices of the Ministry of Tourism, Arts & Culture)