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It’s very common these days to see other musicians doing renditions of songs of their

colleagues in the Ghanaian music industry.

According to rapper Kwame Ametepe Tsikata, popularly known in showbiz as M.anifest

however he has not spotted anyone trying to do same with his songs.

The ‘godMC’ explained that this is because he cannot be easily replicated due to the level

of his skills.

“I don’t think I can easily be replicated because I have built my skill level and tried to find my identity that you can’t just replicate what I am doing,” he noted.

M.anifest further stated that, his genre of music is pretty odd from what Ghanaians are

used to and this differentiates him from his counterparts.

 “I am okay that mine has been a gradual build of the under-dog and even now that I am quiet known, there’s still the under-dog status in the sense that, I really go left when the others are going right,” he added during an interview on Ghanaweb.

Ghanaian rapper M.anifest has expressed his disappointments in the activities of

Land Guards in Ghana and how the country has over the years accepted the menace as a norm.

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In a tweet on his official Twitter account,

the “Me ne woa”  Hitmaker expressed his displeasure on why a fully paid land with all legitimate documents

will still require an owner to deal with land guards to prevent encroachers from invading the land or

at worst being sold to another person.

Is M dot on the verge of putting up a ‘million dollar mansion’?

Awards-winning Ghanaian rapper M.anifest has eulogized his late South African collaborator

Hip Hop Pantsula(HHP).

The hip-hop legend passed away Wednesday, 24 October. This was confirmed by HHP’s

publicist wife, Lerato Sengadi.

The cause of his death is unknown but reports say he confessed to attempting suicide on five occasions in 2015.

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Upon hearing the news, M.anifest took to Instagram to describe the rapper as ‘a merchant

of joy, kind-hearted soul, open-minded spirit’.

He said HHP’s death broke him but he is grateful that the multiple award-winning

legend shared his friendship with him.

M.anifest shared a photo with the late rapper with the caption:

“My brother Jabba. A merchant of joy, kind-hearted soul, open-minded spirit. Your charisma…enough to fill a room but you were generous enough to make space for everyone in it.

I’m broken that you left. Grateful that you shared your friendship with me. A great artist when I met you but an even greater reminder of positivity and our humanity when I got to know you. Rest in Paradise. Live forever. #RIPHHP”

HHP collaborated with M.anifest on a 2014 hip-hop jam, titled “Jigah”. The song produced by Wes Mapes comes with a music video shot in Johannesburg by Jobie Bakama of Callback Dreams Studios.

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Rapper M.anifest has joined the tall list of celebrities who have reacted to Sarkodie’s ‘Advice ‘(Diss) song to Shatta Wale.

The song, since its release has got the whole nation talking and social media buzzing.

Unfortunately, Manifest also dropped a song titled “Fine Fine” the same day featuring Olamide.

Soon after Sarkodie released his song, Manifest made a tweet with the ‘I’m Dead’ emoji in

there with a hashtag of the title of the song “Fine Fine”.

This only implies that if he had known that Sarkodie would drop such an explosive hit,

he wouldn’t have also dropped his song.

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Evidently, Sarkodie has killed the hype of his song. Even Shatta Wale who dropped

‘Mind Made Up’ music video is struggling to make it to the top of Youtube trends.

As of now Sarkodie’s “My Advice” song has clocked over 291, 137 views on Youtube barely 48hours after it’s release with over 700,000 downloads across music download websites in Ghana and Africa.

Shatta’s “Mind Made Up” is also around 90,983 views.

‘Fine Fine’ by M.anifest on the other hand has has 6,858 views as of the time of filing this story.

 

 

Rapper M.anifest, has extended his appreciation to colleague, Sarkodie over his compliment on the quality of the video for his ‘Azumah Nelson Flow’ song.

Few hours ago, the Sarkcess music boss took to twitter to praise M.anifest on the visuals of the song.

“Obidi nie. Menua medaase.” wrote the ‘godmc’ in response to Sarkodie’s post.

This only goes to show that there’s no ‘beef’ between the two rappers.

M.anifest released the visuals for ‘Azumah Nelson Flow’ on July 19, 2018 to mark the legendary boxer’s 60th birthday anniversary.

The video begins with a speech from Azumah Nelson, taken from excerpts of one of his matches. The Makere Thekiso-video also features the three-time World Boxing champion.

Other scenes show people going about their daily activities,and upcoming boxers sparring at a gym in Accra.

Tweets below;

Obidi nie. Menua medaase. https://t.co/U8EEmag2Ug

— M.anifest (@manifestive) July 24, 2018

Awards-winning Ghanaian rapper, M.anifest has received some nominations with a short film.

The film was however curated from his music video titled ‘Be My Woman’.

Furthermore, the ‘No Where Cool’ crooner released this video in August 2017.

It features South African artiste Mi Casa.

M.anifest has been able to bag in 4 nominations for his short film.

The film was inspired by the music video at this year’s La Jolla International Fashion Film Festival(LJIFFF).

‘Be My Woman’ has nominations for the Best Fashion, Best Sound Design, Best Cinematography and Best Director categories.

Meanwhile, the godMc has set a record of becoming the first musician from Ghana to achieve that.

His win will definitely be something to write home about.

About La Jolla International Fashion Film Festival

LJIFFF is the first international fashion film festival founded in North America.

World’s largest gathering of fashion filmmakers.

The Cannes of the fashion film world.

A filmmaker centered film festival. Global promotion, stage time, priority red carpet scheduling, legendary after parties, industry connections, seminars and panels, art installations, and more!

Hundreds of fashion filmmakers from around the world will be in attendance at the upcoming 9th year of LJIFFF.

An international jury will be awarding filmmakers in 18 different categories.

Mission: Empower, Support, & Recognize The Individual Creative Professionals Who Make Up The Fashion Film Community Worldwide.

This year’s edition of the La Jolla International Fashion Festival is the 9th edition.

It will however come off July 19th-21st in California.

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Multiple Awards-winning Ghanaian rapper, M.anifest, has turned down numerous requests by his fans to do a remake of the viral ‘This is America’ song days after a Nigeria version emerged.

The song originally made by American actor/rapper, Childish Gambino. It was accompanied by a catchy dance video went viral weeks ago.

Nigerian rapper, Folarin Falana better known as Falz released a Nigerian version of the music video weeks ago.

He however gave his ‘This Is Nigeria’ as the title and his version has also been trending non-stop since its release.

Known for his unique cultural representation in all aspectsof his music career, fans of M.anifest therefore decided to request him to do a remake for ‘This is Ghana.’

But reacting to the numerous requests, M.anifest tweeted;

“There will NOT be a “This is Ghana” from me. Sorry. Enjoy Childish and Falz. Both great”.

There will NOT be a "This is Ghana" from me. Sorry. Enjoy Childish and Falz. Both great. 🚶🏿

— M.anifest (@manifestive) June 1, 2018

Watch video for This is America below;

Ghanaian rapper M.anifest has been featured on the soundtrack of a new video ad for one of the world’s clothing giants, Adidas.

The video which displays Adidas’ products, has M.anifest and Kobi Onyame’s “Chosen Ones” track as its soundtrack.

M.anifest took to Facebok to share the good news with his followers.

In his post, he stated that the sound track, “Chosen Ones” is a song on Kobi Onyame’s upcoming ‘Gold’ album.

Kobi Onyame is a British-Ghanaian artiste.

“New Adidas ad w/ Kobi Onyame ft. M.anifest – #ChosenOnes. Get the song from Kobi’s ‘Gold’ Album,” he wrote.

Adidas is a multinational corporation, founded and headquartered in Herzogenaurach, Germany. It designs and manufactures shoes, clothing and accessories.

It has been one of the world’s leading clothing industry for years now.

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Award-winning Ghanaian Rapper, M.anifest says women are better songwriters.

The God MC rapper made this revelation when he visited the BBC to promote two UK headline performances this weekend.

He joined broadcaster Veronique Edwards in an engaging Facebook Live chat that dished on numerous topics – his music influences, his fashion sense and latest projects on Wednesday.

According to him, women songwriters give an interesting perspective to music and they are refreshing to listen to.

Asked why he thinks women in the music industry are few, the ‘Nowhere Cool’ crooner attributed it to the power dynamics.

M.anifest believes it is down to power dynamics where some men feel threatened by the talents of women, they prefer to let them be in the background.

M.anifest speaks;

“I want to see more women producers…I think that will change the sound and make it more interesting,” he said.

The reigning best VGMA rapper said pitching two female singers against one another is unhealthy. This he explained is because there are lots of space at the summit for everyone. M.anifest believes that the opposite way is rather helpful because it’s more exciting.

“It makes it more exciting because you just can’t have this testosterone-heavy scene which makes it one way. I am anti one way.

“On every show I do, I try to balance the energy with women…I love working and performing with women artiste that is why I worked with them on every album.”

M.anifest, born Kwame Ametepee Tsikata is an internationally acclaimed award-winning Ghanaian musician. He was crowned the King of Ghana Hip-Hop in 2017 when he won Best Rapper and Hip-Hop song of the year at the Ghana Music Awards. M.anifest has worked with the likes of Damon Albarn, Flea, Tony Allen, Erykah Badu, all international acts.

He is credited with songs like; ‘W’ani Aba’, ‘Someway Bi’, ‘No Shortcut To Heaven’ among others.

He’s currently warming up to headline the 2018 Lake of Stars Concert, scheduled for March 10,2018 at the Walthamstow Assembly Hall – London.

 

 

 

 

Awards-winning Ghanaian rapper, M.anifest is billed to perform at the 2018 Lake of Stars Concert.

The event which is scheduled for March 10,2018 at the Walthamstow Assembly Hall- London.

This year’s is the London edition of the Festival which also marks its 15th year of inception.

The after, which is 11th March, the ‘Some Way Bi’ crooner  will also perform at Glasgow.

Also on the bill to perform are some International acts. T

hey include; Frightened Rabbit, Faith Mussa from Malawi and other acts from Tanzania, South Africa and Zambia.

About Lake Of Stars Festival;

Lake of Stars Festival is an annual three-day international festival held on the shores of Lake Malawi, the third largest lake in Africa.

A British tourist, Will Jameson is the founder of the festival.

He was a student at John Moores University and took a year off to work with The Wildlife Society. That work sent him to Malawi for the first time in 1998.

Upon returning to college, Jameson started a club night as tribute to his trip, called’ Chibuku Shake Shake’, the name of a brand of Malawian beer.

In 2004, the club night was named the best club night in the United Kingdom by Mixmag, the same year, Jameson held the first festival. An estimated 700 people attended, the majority from Africa.

The 2011 Lake of Stars attracted over 3,000 attendees from Europe and Africa. The festival was opened with the Malawian ministry of tourism skydiving onto the festival beach.

Short Bio about M.anifest;

M.anifest, born Kwame Ametepee Tsikata is one of Ghana’s top rap artistes. who has earned his spurs in the Ghanaian hip hop and hiplife world.

He was crowned the King of Ghana Hip-Hop in 2017 when he won Best Rapper and Hip-Hop song of the year at the Ghana Music Awards.

He has since chalked other awards, bot national and international. M.anifest continues to raise the flag of Ghana high wherever he steps his feet.

Some of his hit songs include; ‘godMC,’ ‘Sugar,’ ‘100%,’ ‘Someway Bi,’ among others.

Rapper, songwriter M.anifest is ending the year 2017 on a good and high note.

His song ‘B.E.A.R’ off his 2016 album No Where Cool is the soundtrack for HOOPS Africa‘s new Basketball documentary titled- HOOPS AFRICA: UBUNTU MATTERS.

The rapper took to his official twitter account to share the good news with his fans and followers.

Airing on NBA TV! Dope to have my song B.E.A.R featured on the soundtrack of the @hoopsafrica documentary. He wrote after posting excerpts from the documentary.

The documentary is a collection of stories that celebrates the past, present, and future of basketball in Africa, spotlighting the sport’s impact on society and its development on the continent.

From the dreams of a young Zimbabwean player to honoring the NBA legends who paved the way before him, this film journeys through the growth of the game in Africa.

By centering on basketball nonprofit Hoops 4 Hope in South Africa and Zimbabwe, this documentary uncovers the role the African philosophy of Ubuntu played in the Boston Celtics’ 2008 NBA Championship season.Further documents the historic 2015 NBA Africa Game.

Featuring Hakeem Olajuwon, Dikembe Mutombo, Adam Silver, Luol Deng, Luc Mbah a Moute, Chris Paul, Doc Rivers, Paul Pierce, and many more NBA greats, this documentary shows us all why #UbuntuMatters.

It  was aired on NBATV on December 24 and 26, 2017.

M.anifest Biography

M.anifest is an internationally acclaimed award-winning musician from Accra, Ghana. He won the “Best Rapper of the Year” award at the 2013 Ghana Music Awards. This was only a year after being tipped by BBC’s “The Strand” as one of four artists to watch in the World. Described as “Ghana’s rapper supreme” by Rita Ray of the BBC.

2014 saw a blossoming of M.anifest’s artistry, continental presence, and international credentials. He is moreover the first artist to feature on the BBC World Service Africa Beats program.

Born Kwame Amet Tsikata, M.anifest recalls being privy to a breadth of African music. Having been influenced by his grandfather Prof. J.H. Nketia, one of Africa’s foremost ethnomusicologists.  Further described in 2015 by the Guardian (UK) as “the foremost rapper on the continent.”

He has earned collaborations with musical giants such as Tony Allen, Damon Albarn, Flea (Red hot Chili Peppers), Erykah Badu, Femi Kuti, A.B Crentsil and more.

Some of his songs include; ‘Someway Bi, ‘No Shortcut To Heaven’, ‘W’ani Aba’ etc.

He is indeed cementing his reputation as one of the best and musically mature live performers in Ghana.

Read his tweet below;

Airing on NBA TV! Dope to have my song B.E.A.R featured on the soundtrack of this @hoopsafrica documentary🏀⚡#NBA
📺: @NBATV
⏰: 12pm ET#UbuntuMatters @NBA_Africa#NowhereCool pic.twitter.com/d7puaDJoog

— M.anifest (@manifestive) December 26, 2017