Award-winning professional beat maker and sound engineer, Awal Alhassan known as Possigee has addressed rumours that his ‘boy’ MOG sold US-based Ghanian artiste Jah Shanti’s beat to Stonebwoy
Music producer MOG Beatz has been accused of reselling Jah Shanti to reggae/dancehall musician Stonebwoy.
The said beat was sold to Jah Shanti in 2017 to record a song titled ‘Fire’ and later resold to Stonebwoy for his ‘Everlasting’ song which is the fourth song on his newly-released ‘Anloga Junction’ album.
Jah Shanti released his ‘Fire’ song as part of a seven-song mixtape in 2017. According Jah Shanti, he did not deal directly with MOG Beatz. His management reached out to the beatmaker and bought the beat in question from him.
MOG Beatz reacting to the accusations levelled against him said he has no idea of such a transaction between him and the said artistes.
However, Possigee standing in for his ‘boy’ MOG Beatz disclosed in a tweet that some time ago, MOG Beatz gave him about forty songs to give out for free – and the beat for Jah Shanti’s ‘Fire’ and Stonebwoy’s ‘Ever Lasting’ was part of it.
Explaining further in convo with Ghana Weekend, Possigee said: “as a producer, at the beginning of your career if you send a beat to somebody and within two or three days you don’t any information that the artist has used it, then you share it to other artists. So I am sure that she shared with other artistes because he was desperate that he would blow. He did not know that I had given them out to people,” he noted.
He also admitted that he should have quickly told MOG Beatz that Jah Shanti had used the beat for his song.
“It was a miscommunication,” he said.
Meanwhile, Possigee has promised Jah Shanti that he will replace the beat with two different beats when he needs it.
