Days after his absence at the Hogbetsoso Rave in Volta Region, Dancehall Artiste, Shatta Wale has explained his side of the story on Facebook.
After days of silence, Shatta has taken to social media to state reasons for his absence on stage.
Stating his side of the story, the Dancehall Artiste expressed that he was disrespected by the organizers.
Shatta Wale explained that, he was driven directly to a radio station to grant an interview when he already had an agreement with organizers that he would not participate in such an arrangement or even greet any chief.
He added that one of the organizers threatened to withhold his accommodation if he fails to grant the interview and that was when he took off.
“Ibe show wey them contract me for. We no dey go greet greet people. Ago taya before the show starts sef. I know how people dey love me and I know I’d have to get into the crowd. Everybody godey talk to you and your voice all go strain.
I wanted to keep the energy for my lovely people of Volta. As I ask them whether ino be this thing I tell them before coming, I hear sey one of the organizers say if I no go come the radio station, then them no go take me go my hotel room.
So you expect me to carry all the luggage I came with to the radio station?” he expressed in Pidgin English during an Instagram live.
A disappointed Shatta however asked if a foreign artiste could be treated in such an unfair manner.
“Massa, make I carry all my luggage come the radio station den come do radio interview? As yourself whether that’s how they treat foreign artistes. Do they take them to radio stations immediately they land at the airport? Even some international artistes come with their live bands, do they carry all that to the radio station? When Usher came to Ghana did he carry all his luggage and band to radio stations for interview?” he quizzed.
In a statement by the organizers, it was explained that he arrived in Volta Region but later left to Accra. “It is interesting to note that Shatta Wale had shown up at the venue of the concert in vehicles rented for him and his team by the organizers yet could not be found afterwards. All efforts by the two management teams to get him to come to the concert grounds to perform to the waiting crowd proved futile,” part of the statement from the organizers read.
