Tag: R2Bees News

Ghanaian music duo, R2Bees have announced a new date for the release of their latest album titled ‘Site 15’.

According to the group, the album, which will be their third studio album will be released on March 1.

The album, which was initially set for release on August 2018 was pushed back after the group

signed a deal with Universal Music Group, the world’s biggest music company.

“They [Universal] made us a very good offer which we think we should take,” explained Ike Otoo Arhin, Manager for the group.

“This is our 10 years anniversary and the album release should be huge. If we release it independently, it would not go as far as we want it. Ghana music has to go further,” he added.

CHECK:https://www.ghafla.co.ke/gh/59876-2/

Universal will handle marketing, promotion and distribution of ‘Site 15’ by the duo.

Meanwhile, ‘We Dey Vibe,’ a single off the album was released last year.

They became the third Ghanaian act to be signed by the world’s biggest music company after

Cina Soul and Stonebwoy.

Hiplife group,R2Bees in a latest interview have revealed how much they were paid for their

first ever show in Cape Coast.

The award winning duo reminiscing on the beginning of their career revealed they were paid 4

million Ghana cedis for the group to perform to their hit single ‘Yawa Girl’ in Cape Coast.

ALSO CHECK:https://www.ghafla.co.ke/gh/akwaboah-cuts-off-his-signature-hair/

Paedae, recounting the event in an interview n Joy FM said;

“I remember our first show was at Cape Coast and it was with Shatta Wale but then he was called Bandana and we were paid 4 million Ghana cedis.” 

“That’s when we realized we had to to take the music thing serious. “Yawa Girl” was hard but we decided to do more commercial songs.” 

The music duo, made up of Paedae and Mugeez are currently embarking on a media tour to promote their upcoming album ‘Site 15’.

They however have a new single ‘Beautiful’ which features Wizkid and out ahead of the album launch.

Watch video for Beautiful below;

Ghanaian music duo, R2Bees are currently on a media run promoting their upcoming album ‘Site 15’.

The group, which consists of PaeDae and Mugeez recently premiered their latest single

‘Beautiful’ which features Nigeria’s Super star, Wizkid which is obviously doing quite well.

The group, however is hardly seen organizing shows or events to promote themselves like

most of their colleagues do.

This has left many of their fans and Ghanaians wondering as to how they are even able to

keep up with times in this showbiz.

ALSO CHECK:https://www.ghafla.co.ke/gh/we-dont-beg-bloggers-to-post-our-songs-r2bees/

But the duo have revealed that they really do not need to run shows to remain relevant in

the Ghanaian music scenes.

According to Paedae, all things being equal, artistes still need luck to stay relevant in Ghana’s showbiz industry.

PaeDae talking about Ghana’s music industry revealed;

“The industry is a tough for everyone especially the upcoming artist.” He told Joy FM.

“I was telling Darko Vibes about artists that have been in the industry from when we started and they still don’t have a hit song an they are still trying.

“I tell Killbeatz the music industry is like Champions League because you need luck because you can be good but you need that little bit of luck.

“It’s really challenging especially in Ghana when there is no industry where in Europe where you don’t even need to do shows because of Royalties and streaming but Ghana we don’t have the structure where yo earn royalties but we are blessed and lucky because our streaming numbers are crazy that’s why people hardly hear from us. We don’t need to do shows to survive,” he added.

Ghanaian hiplife artistes, R2bees says hardly would they call on any publicist to publish a story on their behalf in the name of hype.

According to the Tema-based music duo, they believe in producing good songs that will

sell themselves hence they refrain from relying on bloggers to push their content.

Speaking on Joy FM’s Cosmopolitan Mix show with Doreen Andoh on Friday, member of the group, Omar Sterling said;

“I would never send you a song to post for me. [The reason is] I trust the music so much and I believe it will do just right.

“I don’t think we went through hardships because we started our record label. We don’t know people. We don’t get a lot of good press.

He also added that;

We don’t care about all these things. We believe in our music. It’s all about the fans. It’s always been all hands-on board if we are to give gratitude to anyone.”

CHECK:https://www.ghafla.co.ke/gh/i-used-to-be-ashamed-i-am-an-african-fuse-odg/

R2bees are however set to launch their new “Site 15” album early next year.

“We’ve pushed our new album to next year because we just dropped the single, “Beautiful”. We worked on it for three years,” Omar said.

One of Ghana’s longest serving music group, R2Bees has announced the release of a new album titled “Site 15”

This will however be their third studio album and will be made available to the public next week.

The project arrives 5 years after their critically acclaimed Da Revolution II: Refuse to Be Broke. This was a 19-tracker that birthed commercial monsters as ‘Ajeii’, ‘Life (Walaahi)’, ‘Odo’ and ‘Bayla Trap’ (That album also saw them earn a nomination at the 2013 BET Awards).

Site 15 references the Tema block cousins —Faisal Hakeem (Paedae da Pralem/Omar Sterling), and Rashid Mugeez (Mugeez) grew up in.

Active in music since 2007, R2Bees came to nationwide attention with their 2008 debut offering, “Yawa Gal”, followed by “I Dey Mad”, “Kiss Your Hand”, “T.E.M.A”, “Radio”, and “Africa” —songs which would serve as the crust of their first album, Da Revolution I.

While this is their first joint body of work in a significant while, the band, multiple-award-winners, have published endless chart-topping hits including “Makoma”, “Plantain Chips”, “Tonight”, and “Could This Be Love”, and appeared as guests on other projects. In September 2016, Omar Sterling, the rapper half of the group, published Victory Through Harmony, an 18-track mixtape to critical reviews.

Music duo, R2Bees have released yet another banger titled ‘Could This Be Love’

‘Could This Be Love’ is a low tempo jam which features awards-winning songstress Efya.

R2Bees, made up of Mugeez and Omar Sterling are heard questioning their love for their woman.

Killmatic takes credit for the production.

Listen to track below;