“I Don’t Have Time For Beefs” – TiC
Hiplife musician, Nana Kwaku Duah popularly known as TiC and formerly Tic Tac has stated categorically that he has no time for beefs.
Although he said beef is ok in the music industry depending on the level one wants to take it, he has no time for it.
Just like everywhere in the world, the Ghanaian music industry has had its fair share of feuds between artistes.
At various stages in the life of our music industry, there has been one form of feud or rivalry between artistes.
These feuds often divide opinions with many arguing for or against depending on their beliefs and experiences.
But speaking Thursday on Kumasi based Solid FM 103.7, TiC told DJ Kuskus he has no time for beefs.
“Beef is ok but it depends on the level one wants to take it.Democracy is at play here but I don’t have time for it,”he told DJ Kuskus.
Rivalries among music artistes have long existed.
The music space has always been comeptitive and artistes have consistently tried to outdo each other to get the most attention.
However, the first form of ‘beef’, as we know it today, first surfaced in the late 1990s when rap music, stylised as Hiplife, emerged.
It was between Hiplife duo Ex-Doe and Chicago who had fallen out after working as a group to release the Daavi Medekuku song a few years earlier.
Both artistes were claiming to own the song and eventually went on to record diss tracks for the other. From that time, there came the rivalry between Lord Kenya and Obrafour.
Theirs was a subtle lyrical war to determine who was the greatest.
Obrafour had once used the expression ‘rap heavyweight champion’ to describe himself while Kenya also laid claim to the title.