Highlife legend, Nana Acheampong has finally opened up on alleged beef with Daddy Lumba.
The long-held public opinion was finally brought to an end in an interview on Accra FM.
“It may look as though we started this beef phenomenon but me and my brother, with whom people say I had a beef, had nothing ill going on between us. We had no problem, not for a single day.
“What happened was that after we made music together for a while, we parted. People thought it was over money or women,” he said.
“The fans were hurt because they had admired us as a duo of young talented music performers and breaking up, for them, was a signal that something big had caused it,” he explained.
Nana Acheampong said, “When we broke into two different music brands, it also divided the fans causing rivalry similar to the one between football teams Hearts of Oak and Asante Kotoko, struggling for one trophy.”
He said the fight was really among the fans, buttressing “no one heard him or I make any accusation against the other”.
The influential singer-songwriter recalled how keen the rivalry between his fans and Lumba’s as members of the public gathered into two factions: “Nana Acheampong Football Club and Daddy Lumba Football Club.”
“They were fighting but my brother and I had no beef between us,” he stressed. “We didn’t do what is done now where there is give and take, and verbal exchanges.”
He admitted some of their songs “clashed,” in fact. However, concerning Daddy Lumba songs that seemed to aim at him, he offered: “In my opinion, those songs were not made about me. I don’t claim them for myself and vice versa.”
“These were just songs we released to entertain our fans,” he said.
Nana Acheampong categorically said he has never recorded and released a diss track. His music only mirrored life, he added.
