Legendary Ghanaian music producer Appiah Dankwah popularly known as Appietus says no one can boldly claim the ownership of the Azonto genre.
Two rappers Sarkodie and Gasmila have locked horns over who owns Azonto and who introduced Azonto into the music industry. These controversies and beef commenced after Sarkodie launched the resurrection of Azonto to stir up the music industry.
But according to legendary producer Appietus, Azonto doesn’t belong to any individual but it belongs all Ghanaian music lovers because Azonto went far because of these music lovers. He emphasized that Ghanaians aided its progress to the international staged although it fell in the past year.
“Sometimes I feel Azonto was abandoned because we tend to like new things and it was taken away from us,’’ he told Ghana News Agency.
Appietus was optimistic that Azonto music and dance can be made bigger again if Ghanaian musicians join forces to help thrive it.
“The world loved Azonto some time back but instead of pushing it and making it a vibrant genre we left it but I also efforts in bringing it back one more time and I believe it is going to be successful because we once made it a success,” he said.
