Shatta Wale Has Given Us More Problems - Arnold Asamoah-Baidoo

Shatta Wale has not done the industry any good with his shallow address Arnold Asamoah- Baidoo claims.

The pundit, while analysing Shatta Wale's 'State of The Industry Address' which he made last week Wednesday on the 2nd of June, 2021, noted that Shatta Wale's eagerness to present himself as a corporate stakeholder in the entertainment industry has only made things worse.

It would be recalled that Shatta Wale had attempted to "settle" some of the many problems the Ghanaian entertainment industry has been facing by providing viable solutions to them in his address.

“I want to propose that, we as music makers and stakeholders come together to identify one genre that can be attributed to all music works coming from our part of the world. Let’s do this for our industry to give it the global attention we have all desired,”

“I want to propose the institution and enforcement of a national agenda to prioritize Ghanaian music on our airwaves. Let’s give Ghana music 90% of the airwaves and spread 10% for the other countries. For this proposition to work, we need all hands on deck; media house owners, DJs, event organizers, MUSIGA, and every single stakeholder including the government of Ghana. This must be a national agenda. Let’s all get involved now to make it happen.” He had said.

Arnold Asamoah-Baidoo, even though he had commended Shatta Wale and his team for the initiative, maintained that the dancehall artiste did not meet his expectations with his address.

One of his many grievances was that Shatta awake did not do enough research, this therefore translated to Shatta Wale not providing any proper solutions to the problems that are on the ground.

According to him, anyone coming to give a state of injury address should come with 'detailed analysis, empirical evidence and move ahead to proffer solutions' instead of just empty talks with no real solutions. 

“I was not too impressed with the address because if you’re telling me you’re going to address industry-related matters, it should be detailed, it should be thorough. All he did was to give us problems and not proffer solutions,” he told host Abrantepa.

“You want us to the decentralized major event; which events are you talking about? You want us to set an agenda to play 90% Ghanaian music; how do we do it? You want 10% of what is invested in sports to be invested in music; how do we go about it? Has he done any research to figure out if there’s some benefit coming from sports to the government?

“He said we need an identity with respect to the music genre that we do; what genre? If you’re coming to give a state the industry address, it should be well-researched. You should give us a detailed analysis, empirical evidence and move ahead to proffer solutions,” he concluded.