I Wanted To Speak For Others Who Were Less Fortunate: Addi Self

By Riddy10 2 Min Read

Addi Self, a Ghanaian singer and the CEO of Self-Nation, has discussed his motivation for choosing the less popular Reggae-Dancehall style of music in Africa.

Interestingly, Addi Self claims that his upbringing in the Greater Accra Region suburb of Maamobi gave him the inspiration to write songs that would both tell his tale and highlight the struggles of the less fortunate.

On that note, he iterated, saying: “People who have seen my music journey know the rap side of me and keep asking me why Dancehall. But for me, I do everything in music. It all started growing up in Maamobi-Nima.

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Seeing stuff and seeing a whole lot of different things and how to grow up and how the less privileged coming from the ghetto didn’t have a voice.”

I Wanted To Speak For Others Who Were Less Fortunate: Addi Self
Addi Self

Furthermore, he continued to emphasize, saying: “We didn’t have someone always trying to say what was going on in the ghetto. So, I found myself writing what I saw around me. I see people doing stuff and I tried to blend those experiences with music,” 

I saw myself loving Reggae and Dancehall so much because my father was a fan of Reggae and he always played Peter Touch, Bob Marley, and the like so I grew up loving Reggae- Dancehall naturally.

And obviously, these greats influenced me because I started looking at them before I started looking at Ghana artists and stuff like that,” the dancehall musician added.

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