Ghana’s Samini Disses Psquare ‘Your Alingo Is Azonto’

Samini

It seems like a West African war is going to start pretty soon between Nigeria and neighbours Ghana. Nothing to do with guns and knives though…


Popular Ghanaian dancehall act Samini has verbally dissed Psquare’s ‘Alingo’ single and dance step stating that it’s a rip off from the popular ‘Azonto’ dance.


Samini means big business: he just released a remix of the twins’ chart topping single calling his version ‘Azonto’. Freestyling over a similar beat, Samini sings ‘the name sounds like azonto, the dance kind of look like azonto, so please tell me something I don’t know‘.
‘…no be lie, you know say these guys be my guys, but i know say garri no be rice, so please try show me what be right…’, Samini adds.


The comparison between the Alingo and Azonto dance has been there ever since Peter and Paul Okoye released the song but the single kind of grew naturally to be one of the biggest hits of 2012.
Samini might be uttering the many voices of Ghanaian artistes who feel their Nigerian counterparts have taken over the ‘Azonto’ dance theme and music as the latter seem to faring better at making ‘Azonto’ music.

A similar case is with Iyanya’s ‘Kukere’. Viewers from different African countries went back and forth on YouTube arguing which country the style and sound belonged to.
And there are several Ghanians who are not particularly happy Wizkid is ripping huge dividends from his ‘Azonto’ freestyle…

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Peter Okoye of Psquare

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Psquare and Jude Okoye at the BBC, London

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