Rapper Trigmatic has revealed that High-life legend, Amakye Dede does not write his own songs, hence he doesn’t qualify to be in the league of best songwriters of all time in Ghana.
Trigmatic made this revelation in a recent interview.
According to him, this information was revealed to him by singer Ackah Blay and another confidant who is an old musician.
When asked about his top five best songwriters in Ghana now he said;
“My top five in Ghana now, currently, young people apart from myself I’ll say I love Akwaboah, Cina Soul, Kofi Kinata, AI, Worlasi,”
He added that Raquel is another great writer whose writing skills has not been recognized.
Touching on the older generation, he said, “One of the very greatest writers for me has been Ephraim Amu. I think he’s an amazing writer. Also, I love coming back down down down. Kojo Antwi is an amazing songwriter, Daddy Lumba is an amazing writer as well. I love Martin Nkansah and I love the writing of J. A. Adofo.”
He explained that another great writer he would have included if he wrote his own songs is Amakye Dede.
“Well, Amakye Dede, I love his songwriting but I also know that he used to have a songwriter some years back. I’ve forgotten his name he’s dead now. This is a story I heard from Akablay and I’ve also heard the same from one of the older musicians so I know that there is some consistency there”
