Kwame Yogot has named three of Ghana’s least talented rappers in his eyes: Rap Fada, Tinny, and D-Black.

He was on Accra 100.5 FM’s Ayekoo Ayekoo midmorning show when Nana Romeo asked him for his list of the least talented rappers in Ghana.

Kwame Yogot said, right off the bat, “My brother Rap Fada – he’s simply poor at rapping”.

Rap Fada came to public notice via his hit with King Paluta titled Odo Bi Ye Bad.

Strangely, Kwame Yogot mentioned rap legend Tinny, next. He was reluctant to do this, however.

“He’s my favourite and still wack to me. I don’t understand what he says in Ga. Perhaps, if I could understand what he was saying, I’d appreciate it more. I’m not happy about this because I greatly admire his style of rap,” Yogot said.

“He is a favourite of mine but at the same time, part of my list of wack rappers,” the Biibi Besi hitmaker stressed.

Laughing, he said “the killer” or topmost on the list of least talented rappers, “was D-Black,” the multiple award-winning rapper and businessman.

Top rappers

Conversely, Kwame Yogot named “Yaa Pono, Sarkodie and M.anifest” as his top three best rappers in Ghana, emphasising “it’s in no particular order”.

Singing over rapping

The rapper-turned-singer said, “I’m not sure rap is dead, and some people excel at it.”

However, he observed, “The listeners accept the message you preach when you sing, better than when you rap.”

Kwame Yogot noted, also, that rapping is not as lucrative as singing.

“Anyone who tells you they get money from rapping is lying to you,” he said, intimating Sarkodie may be the exception, however.

Sarkodie's legacy

Kwame Yogot said Sarkodie had reached the apex of rap in Ghana and stands unchallenged.

“If you’re a young rap artiste, what can you do that Sarkodie has not already done?” he asked.

“Unless your dream is not big, then you’d want to follow the rap path. But if you really dream of doing big things in rap, you need to look at what the veterans in rap have done and the level they’ve taken it to – you cannot reach it. Else, you need to make some important decisions to beat their records.

“Some old rappers did not do any inspiring things with the art form but if you consider what Sarkodie has done, it’s as though he’s climaxed with nothing else to do in Ghana or perhaps Africa. So if you’re a young artiste and you want to do more than this or take it to another level, you have to do something different,” Kwame Yogot contended.

Kwame Yogot, born Kenneth Kyeremateng, has a new song out titled Abele, featuring Ras Kuuku.