By Ini Sulemana :
After releasing the hit single ”Wind Low”with E-Fine and Kas, the hiphop star, Scientific, is ready to release onto the Ghanaian market yet another album.
This time around, he will be launching an album called ”The New Era in Liberia” on the 25th of May and will be embacking on a peace tour in Ghana with the sole aim of preaching peace while we prepare for the December elections.Many people may be wondering why scientific is very spiritual and never jokes with church, well, this is what he had to say in an exclusive interview with toontoom.com”uhmmm,I’m actually from a very strong christian background and have been through hard times, caught up with incidents or situations that almost cost my life and God intervened on my behalf, so i always keep God closer to me cos i’m nothing without him”.
Grammy-winning rapper Lil Wayne is making headlines this week after footage arose showing him declaring undying love for alleged ex-girlfriend/rapper Trina at a Miami club.
Footage of Weezy declaring his love for Trina landed online this week.
“I just want to say if Trina’s in here, hey Trina. … I love you and I miss you baby,” the rapper announced at the crowded Miami club LIV. The crowd erupted into cheers as if to root on the two to rekindle their romance. Did it work? We don’t know for sure and neither has confirmed a reconciliation though following the announcement, reports surfaced that the two were caught making out at the club. The two rappers dated back in 2007, though they only lasted a short time, according to Hello Beautiful. (Long Island Press)
While Wayne may be out to rekindle their past fling, Trina is currently in a relationship with NBA player James Harden.
After discoveing Kwaw Kese, Tinny, Obrafour and more recently Edem,the CEO of the Last Two Records, Hammer, is set to unveil two more highlife artistes unto the hiplife market. Hammer recently revealed on Citi fm, an Accra based radio station that, preparations are far advanced to make known yet another prolific rappers to Ghanaians. The first is Tuba, who raps and sings in Dagbani and a Ga-Adangbe boy who spits in Krobo. Music lovers should keep their fingers crossed and expect nothing but the best.
E.fine recently broke into the media circus about having caught the eye of Mo Hitz Don label owner, Don Jazzy. The exceedingly talented Nigerian RnB and HipHop sensation previously featured on ‘1+1’ by Jtown ft Ice Prince has hit the studio again for a recording session, but this time only with Ice Prince. E.fine has also announced 25th May as the release date for his mixtape “LIKE ME”.The mixtape is professionally mixed by 233LIVE’s DJ K3v.
It is expected to be premiered on the 233LIVE show and made available for exclusive download on africamixtapes.com and notjustok.com and itunes.The young artiste is assiduously working on his first album with big artistes such as Kas, David O, Scientific, Sarkodie, Ice prince, Jtown and more since 2009.He will fly to USA later next month to discuss distribution deals with top companies.
By Ini Am Sulemana: Nollywood actor Ramzy Nouah has revealed that, he will quit acting soon.
He said he has been able to play a formidable role in the nollywood industry hence the industry can’t talk about the movie industry without mentioning him as a contributor to it’s success.He revealed this shocking news in an interview with Joseph Akahome of Nigeria Entertainment.
He stressed that, he will not quit acting entirely but will appear once a while. For now he is going behind the scene. Toontoom.com wishes him well.
By Faiza Mohammed: The Tema-based rapper-turned-radio presenter, Pope skinny has found time out of his busy schedule to have a tete-a-tete with toontoom.com some few hours ago.
After coming out with “yeko browzi” in 2007 and later “Send the money” this year, a whole lot of controversy came out, some people thought the rapper was into cyber fraud better known as sakawa, this popeskinny has categorically and emphatically denied. He even embarked on an anti-fraud campaign tour and it has really helped in reducing fraud in Ghana.
Discovered by Buk Bak and elevated by 4×4 in their 1st album ”sikilitele”, pope has gradually risen into the list of the nation’s top music lyricists.
Now on Adom Fm as the key host of Ghana’s most patronized weekend radio show,” Kasahari level”, the rapper has silenced his critics by rising up to the standard. Pope is very good on radio and loved by the masses.
Former Bad Boy Records rapper Ma$e is letting the fans know he is back for good this time after past music returns and explained what kept him from dropping an album since 2004′s Welcome Back.
Talking to Hot 97 radio veteran Funkmaster Flex, Ma$e said he isback to music-making on his own terms.
“Flex, let me tell you something before I go, though,” Ma$e said, “I can only do music if I can do it the way I can do it. That’s what be making me stop. I don’t want to do music in a box. Like everybody say what I can’t do and he can’t say this, but if you need me to come do something for you, I’ve gotta be able to come to that event. So I’m taking all the limitations off. They gonna have to pray for me. I regret not giving myself room for growth. That’s what I regret. I went so hard left that I didn’t really leave no room to be an individual, a human being. … I still put God over music any day. I just didn’t give myself room to grow. I went from one extreme to another extreme.” (Hot 97)
Last night, the Harlem, New York-bred emcee dropped a remix toWale’s ”Slight Work” hit.
“Whatchu want me to say, whatchu want to do,” Ma$e raps. “Different kind of money make different kind of moves/Different kind of dudes wear different kind of jewels/Different kind of drop on different kind of shoes/With my hat to the back, man a different kind of mood/You get a different kind of chill from a different kind of cool.” (“Slight Work” Remix)
Recent reports suggested he could be headed to Rick Ross‘ record label.According to a reliable source within the Maybach Music Group camp pieces are falling into place. “Yes, I think its safe to sayOmarion is MMG.” As the Maybach Music empire continues to evolve it may not end there. Seems as if there is another offer on the table, “I don’t want to let no cats out the bag but we’ll see what’s good with Ma$e.” When pressed about what the roster may look like in the upcoming months, “As far as newest members Omarion and shout out to Ma$e if he wants to get down with this movement then we’ll see what happens.” (The Source)
Ghana got a wave and a buzz that was indescribable, the brand new single of Trigmatic received first time airplay ever across the capital and major cities in the country.
The response: definite, the excitement: peak, the anticipation and the quest to have the song : unfathomable. Trigmatic has once again proven that he is not a one day wonder. Coming out as the debut single of the 3rd Album, this is perhaps the perfect comeback for the 2010 Rapper of The Year.
His management has declared that it would be officially premiered worldwide via the worldwide web on the 30th of April. As music lovers anxiously wait for the release, the musical genius is stuck in the studio doing what he does best.
Call it ‘Sokode’ or ‘Aluguntugui’,the Ketche group are ruling the DJ playlist and had these two songs blasted out in the intro selection of DJ Black’s GMA performance.Many artistes have their hidden secrets but Keche the Group have been generous enough to reveal their long hidden secrets to success.
The Tema based hiplife duo tag team have disclosed to toontoom.com that their most hidden secret to success has been “hardwork and God”. “First we give thanks and praises to God for giving us the mind and this talent, we don’t play at all, we are always working as I told you. We know what the people want and so we speak their minds” they added.
“Working hard to see our fans happy is what we aim at all the time”. These are the words of Keche in an exclusive interview with www.toontoom.com. The Keche group made up of Andrew Cudjoe and Joshua Ampah had advice that determination, creativity and prayers are the main tools to their success. They are ever ready for their fans and had assured their fans to expect more beautiful tunes from them.
Veteran gospel musician and preacher, Mary Ghansa in an interview with Anita Owusu, host of Morning Ride Show revealed that, the present generation of gospel musicians are fortunate because, things are now flexible.
She said previously, it was sacrilegious for a gospel artiste to sing with raps, let alone adding reggae.Her comment comes in the wake of gospel artistes garnishing the word of God with raps, raggae and even the newest azonto pandemic.The singer who is now a reverend is currently leading worship at ICGC at the Sakumono branch and is positive that her much awaited album will be lauched in June or July.