If there is one thing i admire about this guy, then it is how smart he is. Sarkodie actually knows and understand the music game. This guy is actually the father and king of Ghana's rap game not necessarily because he has an extra-ordinary rap prowess or is even doper than any of our rappers in the country. He is the king of rap because he knows how to create the environment to be all about him and have people to keep talking about any of his next releases and have it trending for weeks.
The talk of town currently is his just released song 'bossy' featuring Jay So. Even though people seem to have a problem with a line in his lyrics where he goes like "Rap isn't all about punchlines and even too much of it makes a rapper sound immature and even goes on to say rap is rather about emotions". Could Sarkodie be right? Or is he clueless about rap itself? Well lets see. Well i totally agree with Sark on the part where he says rap is about emotions and also where he says rap isn't all about punchlines. The only part where i disagreed with him is where he thinks too much punchlines makes a rapper immature. When i heard that line i had to pause and i was like "Really Sark?" I mean how the fuck can he say that? Im like bruh you are supposed to be the rap king in Ghana how the fuck on earth can you say too much punchlines make a rapper immature. I then paused again and i think i know why he said that.
Sark is one rapper who always wants to rhyme and make sense.He always wants his verses to be in a particular rhyme scheme all the time. This means that most of the things he says are not things he actually mean. He is always trying to impress since there is so much pressure on him and every rap fan in the country is looking up to him ofcourse some waiting for him to flop and some hoping he does something extra O'. He just used 'immature' so it will rhyme with the last word in the next line 'jaws'. So personally i don't think he meant what he said that punchlines make a rapper sound immature. Well if he meant it then he doesn't deserve that king of rap title and that he doesn't actually understand rap like he has made us to believe. Punchline is one important tool in rap which portrays how smart and intelligent a rapper is. So i don't see how a rapper who has his verse full of punchline be immature, it takes the matured mind to come up with clever lines. Even talking of clever line, what shows a rapper is clever? It includes his ability to employ literary devices in his verses. There is no way a rapper with an immatured mind come up with punchlines which conveys similes, metaphors, aliterations and so on. These are some of the reasons why i admire Flowking Stone, M.anifest, C-Real, Strongman, TeePhlow, E.L, Okyeame Kwame and Kojo-Cue so much.
If indeed Sark thinks too much punchlines makes a rapper sound immature then i am highly disappointed in him and this statement can even revoke his "dope rapper pass". He should retract that statement right away and tell us he was just rhyming like he always do.
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