Rapper Sarkodie, who has won numerous awards, has explained why he has shunned other record firms.
Surprisingly enough, Sarkodie has never worked for a record label and has been releasing music on his own record label, SarkCess Music, for many years.
Why he has never signed with a record company has been a subject of much speculation.
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In his latest rap song, “Fraud (guy) in Suit,” Sarkodie explained why he has never signed with a record company.
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Interestingly, he discussed how record label contracts frequently deprive musicians who work for them of their independence.
He stated in the song that:
“There’s always going to be some fraud [man] in a suit, trying to give you some money to stay mute. Always been part of the game, this is not new.”
“How many be real owners? Just a few,” he highlighted the phenomenon of many artists not owning their masters or having as much as they may portray to the public,” the Ghanaian rapper added. 
The multi-award-winning rapper went ahead to iterate that:
“Buy a beautiful house, trust the view,”
“Don’t trust nobody, my [man], trust you. There’s nobody really in the game and that’s true,” he said and warned.
Last but not least, he emphasized that the label business is “a game” and said that having one’s own financial independence offers one the ability to escape the label frauds he had previously mentioned.
Of this, he stated as follows:
“We have the money now so [forget] you.”
