Are You Better At Dancehall Than Those Who Created It?- Ambolley Queries Shatta Wale

 Legendary Ghanaian highlife musician Gyedu-Blay Ambolley has queried dancehall act Shatta Wale over his excessive acclamation of being the Dancehall King.

According to him; Shatta Wale’s assertion that he is the Dancehall King is a fallacy. This he claims is because he (Shatta Wale) cannot be better than those who created Dancehall.

“You sitting down here calling yourself Dancehall King, we know that the Dancehall was created in Jamaica. So are you a better king than those that created it, you who is an imitator?,” Queried Ambolley on 3 FM.

“Because we are lot being real to ourselves. We don’t have anything that is of our origin coming from our side of this world. We are doing too much of a copy than becoming creative. That is the problem we have,” He added.

Short Bio On Gyedu-Blay Ambolley

Gyedu-Blay Ambolley is a Ghanaian highlife musician, songwriter, producer, and composer. He’s the first musician from Ghana to formally incorporate rap forms into local highlife rhythms, Ambolley created the musical genre ‘Simigwa’.

He is a multi-talented, International, Ghanaian Musician, celebrated his “Silver Jubilee” in music in 1998.

In June 2015 Ambolley received a citation in the USA from the City Council of Philadelphia, read by Council woman ; Honorable Jannie Blackwell and Hon. Stanley J. Staughter in recognition of the musician’s contributions to Ghanaian music in the USA.
Gyedu-Blay Ambolley aka “Simigwa Do Man”  was rather unknown outside of West Africa until Soundway Records included his seminal Simigwa-Do, which Ambolley released in 1973, on their first anthology, Ghana Soundz.

He’s known for songs such as; Abrantie, Akoko Ba, Afrika Yie among others.