Good Old
Hiplife Days To Be Relived At "Back In The Days" Concert
There can be no ‘Sarkodie’
without ‘Obrafour’, there can be no ‘Eazzy’s Wengezze’ without ‘Abrewa Nana’s
Odo Fila Fila’, there can be no group as ‘4x4’ without ‘Buk Bak’, there can be
no ‘now’ without ‘was’, there can be no ‘present’ without ‘past’, there can be
no ‘today’ without ‘yesterday’, simple!
Back in the days when the baggy
jeans, durags, hefty chains, combat shoes and the pinpinnis and otophistas were
on the move; who would forget so easily the days when inter-school competitions
where the toast of the day, at least if not for anything but to listen and see
your favorite ‘kill it’ as it was said then on the beat.
Back in the days when the groove
was smoother, tighter and fun, those were the days every Tom, Dick and Harry
wanted to represent his or her school and prove to the next person that
“charleeeey I know those lines of T-Blaze’s ‘wosisi ye wo ya’ better than you
do”.
Back in the days when the DJ hits
‘Sika Baa’ by Lord Kenya, one could not help but nod the head until it nearly
falls off the body. When you hear ‘Davi mede kuku’, then you smile at the
language and make a thumb up sign at Ex Doe. When you attend any Sallah
festival and don’t hear ‘Rana Sallah ka ka yi ko’ by VIP then with the Ox-Bone
plus Friction, then that wasn’t the place to be. The list is just so endless.
Back in the days when there was
this HIV/AIDS abstinence advert on the television featuring the All Stars then;
when you see Obrafour and Tic Tac come in their white shirts to dance their
azan crib walk dance promoting one foam company, advert be what? Being the
first to learn the lyrics was always paramount because we loved our stars.
Back in the days and I mean in
the late 90s and early 2000s, when Bop TV was watched by everyone in Ghana, a
beautiful year when the yoo-yoo was getting deep into our main brain. This was
when the rapid change in the Hip Life community was emanating, and then the
music selection shifted to local hits like Sweetie Sweetie, Maka Maka, Yaanom,
Komi Ke Kena, Feeling No Ye Deep, Philomena Kpitinge, Kokooko etc.
Back in the days when the most
populous places where you can get to see and feel these ‘old soldiers’ were the
Pool sides, Children’s Parks, National Theatres, Inter-schools (perhaps there
were other places which I didn’t know of or mention here). Those were the days
everything seemed pure and crooned fresh from the pot.
Years and decades perhaps later,
with the initiative like this, we cannot but doff our hats to the organizers
for evoking what now stands as a true purification of what has ushered the ‘new
born babies’ into the limelight today. With no disrespect, I am going to
implore the organizers to invite all the ‘new born babies’ to come, sit,
appreciate and applaud to every tune that made the word HIP LIFE in every sense
a household name today.
The event is a purely Ghanaian
musical concert meant to showcase the story of our popular musicians. Come the
21st of September, 2012, at 7pm, the Accra International Conference Centre
(Dome) will take an ambience depicting that of the 90s era complete, dress
codes will be reenacted for patrons.
Grateful
To: Victor Adeyemi Adebayo
