After King Paluta’s “Makoma” went viral, entertainment pundit, Kweku Ose Koranteng Asiedu (KOKA) described the singer’s voice as useless and nonsense and this did not go well with entertainment connoisseur, Edem Mensah-Tsotsorme.
Few weeks ago, entertainment pundit, KOKA described his voice as useless and suggested he needs to get a voice trainer and also learn from colleague musicians like Sarkodie, Kofi Kinaata, Amerado and others.
In the wake of administering his responsibility as a pundit on air, Edem Mensah-Tsortsorme only sought to find out what exactly KOKA meant, but it culminated into an outburst creating room for KOKA to go hay wire at him.
Speaking in a podcast with Deejay Slim, Edem explained why he didn’t retaliate KOKA’s animosity but rather kept a calm spirit during the program.
“I have received a lot of calls and commendations from colleagues about how I kept my cool, when the conversation was going the other way; where it became more of a personal attack”.
Entertainment pundit, KOKA
He explained that he had the interest of the audience at heart, hence his decision to keep calm and not allow KOKA’s risen emotions dilute the purpose of the conversation.
Edem added that he was also expecting KOKA to give a more detailed and technical explanation as to what exactly he meant after critiquing Paluta for singing off key and having a useless and nonsense voice.
“I was keen on bringing out the education bit so our audience would learn, but unfortunately, it didn’t go that way because I wanted KOKA to give us a lot of education regarding the scoring he was talking about because he was saying we should score according to him, but I was saying he had scored already, so he would be able to tell us Paluta was on this key Q quick or F sharp” he added.
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Entertainment journalist, Edem Mensah-Tsotorme
He also bemoaned the fact that sometimes some of the entertainment pundits refuse to accept corrections when they make mistakes.
“We are fallible, at times, some of our colleagues, when we make mistakes we don’t want to accept. We are all fallible, so when you make a mistake and you get corrected, you must accept it” he added.
KOKA has since apologized to King Paluta for his comments amidst backlash he’s received from Ghanaians.
In a video posted on Hitz FM’s Instagram, KOKA expressed regret over criticizing King Paluta’s singing voice in the song Makoma, describing it as ‘useless’ and ‘nonsense’. He clarified that his intention was solely to offer advice to the musician and not to offend him or his artistic abilities.
