Sunday, July 13, 2008
Making it Rain Suicidal in the City of Accra
Somebody’s kindly jetting in Phat Joe and Sean Kingston to stupefy the City of Accra. The concert tickets are aviating between GHS70 and GHS100 (read $70 and $100). Stupendous! I wonder: would the rates be that interplanetary in NYC or London? Local artistes will play with them, no? How much of the astral takings will our own galactic Ghanaians be earning? Am I the only one who appreciates that while Tinny, Samini and Co. run excellent stagecraft at live events, these huge hip hop stars with sizzling music videos flop feebly on the stage?
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TEXT your name and number to 1499 to stand a chance of winning 2 free tickets to the Fat Joe & Sean Kingston concert. Draw on the 17th of July. The person with the highest number of text entries will also win 2 VIP tickets so start texting NOW!
ReplyDeleteNo thank you, Anon. I will not be going! And I do not accept freebies of this kind. But thanks for dropping by.
ReplyDeleteNana Yaw. Just chanced on your blog!! Good stuff. Will be passing by regularly...as for your post, ain't that the truth!!
ReplyDeleteThanks, Emmanuel. I will go to yours and see what you have going on there!
ReplyDeleteNana Yaw, what you've written is so true. What I find even more disturbing (from my experience at the JayZ concert, don't worry, i didn't pay for my ticket) is that tiny G I S kids (I'm speaking of 7-8 year olds) are taken to these concerts by their drivers who probably earn half of what the tickets cost.
ReplyDeleteHow is that not provoking and inspiring an increase in armed robberies and hostility between the classes?!
it's one of crazy things we impose on ourselves....inequality at play in the daylight!
ReplyDeleteAn aside:
God bless Amandzeba's voice! do i love this guy too much...well i won't miss an aside to sing to his song Bra! beautiful peace far more than all the phat ones!
Nana, you keep bringing up the obvious in ways that make them prick the mind like so new! we've got to wake up my big bro! let's keep the fight going to they that pull us down!
Maya, yesterday was Bastille Day! As history repeats itself, the Ghanaian "High Class" will ask why the masses are crying for bread when they can have cake, and will keep living extravagant lives until the masses rise up.
ReplyDeleteWell, Novisi, one of my readers chided yesterday for this one. Her comment, if I refuse to (or cannot) pay for the tickets, somebody else would. My answer, I have the right to opine.
ReplyDeleteExcellent analysis, Nana Yaw. Our 'upper class´now consists of too many Marie Antoinettes who will be shocked when their maids spit in their food, served on plates bought for more than the maid's salary.
ReplyDeleteMaya, out of fear of les enfants de la liberte, I will keep speaking my mind on the class inequalities.
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