Hiplife icon Reggie Rockstone has revealed what he describes as pervasive corruption in the Ghanaian music scene, where he says some musicians are buying internet streams to boost their profile.
Speaking on Property FM in Cape Coast, Reggie Rockstone voiced worry that many Ghanaian singers are turning to streaming farms, which are methods of artificially inflating streaming counts, instead of earning the astounding numbers of streams they claim.
The Me Na Me Kae singer didn’t hold back when he denounced the corruption that has crept into the music industry, implying that it should be the subject of a lengthy conversation.
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He asserted, “The huge number of streams some musicians get are sometimes not genuine because they have streaming farms. The corruption that has infiltrated into music nowadays is a whole topic for another day that we need to discuss.”
Not content to stop there, Rockstone also stated that the creators of well-known digital streaming services, such as Spotify, are making enormous profits at the expense of the musicians themselves.
The Ghanaian musician continued by saying that the people who started these platforms—especially those from other countries—benefit mostly from the money made on them.
“The white people are really enjoying our money out of the digital streaming platforms they’ve created like Spotify and the rest,” Rockstone lamented. They’re really spending our money, and they always find a new way to rip, so we have a lot of things that we have to look at.”
