D-Black rejected his royalties from the Ghana Music Rights Organization (GHAMRO) because their method of accumulation made no sense acccording to the rapper.

He stated that the way the organisation allots royalties to Ghanaian musicians does not follow the way top music organisations allots theirs. 

He stated that GHAMRO shares royalties based on how hot or not a particular artists is, explaining that A List artistes gets GHC600.According to D-Black, the proper way is to allot royalties to an artist based on his or her logging, with a detailed statement showing how many times his or her songs have been played. He insinuated that the lack of transparency pointed to fraudulent activities in the system.

"Royalty collection has been going on in Ghana for years. Media outlets have been paying royalties to the body that collects these monies but they haven’t been disbursed the manner it should,” he told Mzgee in an interview.

"I have [been called] but it didn’t make any sense to me because I was on a radio station one time discussing a very similar issue and because I was upset or whatever, somebody from there [GHAMRO] texted me that this year, for A List artistes, everybody gets GHC600.

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“I receive royalties from all over the world and that’s not how it is disbursed. You’re supposed to show me a statement, the logging, how many times my songs were played…"

When asked if he was just being impatient the rapper said, "In 2011, it was my first year in the music industry. I met Obour and he asked me and some other artistes to go with him to the Ministry of Finance to convince the government to fund the music industry.

"I asked him what the money was going to be used for. They told me it was a top priority, we will set up a royalty collection society and system put in place to track and log in the songs that are played from each artiste so that everybody can make money,” he recalled.

“We went for that meet, the budget was read. This was when Atta Mills had passed. They said they had given MUSIGA two million Ghana cedis. It’s been 9 years so when you say I don’t have the patience to wait, I’ve been waiting for 9 years,”