Mike Cook is the Real "Grand Papa of Hiplife" - Okyeame Quophi

Okyeame Quophi

The Ghanaian entertainment cycles have being boiling for the past few weeks with the revived argument of "who is the originator of Hiplife"?

This argument has now being re-branded with the tag, "Setting the records straight". The whole argument started after Reggie Rockstone had a session with CNN and then his cousin, Sidney who is also a musician popup to tell Reggie to stop parading himself as the originator of hiplife and set the records straight.

Rot Eye of TV3 has said his own, whiles, Zapp Mallet has also said his view which ended up as a banter between himself and Reggie Rockstone on live radio.

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Okyeame Quophi of Akyeame music fame during the late 90s and early 2000s has also revealed his side of the Hiplife story. According to him, Mike Cook of Live Fm is the originator of Hiplife and not Reggie Rockstone or Zapp Mallet as some people have said.

This what he posted on his facebook timelime:

THE HIPLIFE FACTS
1.The genre was originally conceived by Mike cook of Vibe fm fame.

2.The first Hiplife song was produced by Zapp Mallet and Mike cook in 1994 at combined House of music.Reggie was the rapper on that track they titled Hiplife,after also deliberating on Hi-pop as a name.The song was launched at club Makumba.Reggie the rapper did not show up for the launch.The same song later came to be known as Chooboi.

3.Mike Cooke the real grand papa,Patented the genre and therefore officially owns it.

4.Hiplife is not just twi rap.Hiplife is a musical genre fusion which takes music skill to produce.In this regard Zapp mallet deserves the credit and honor.

5.The Chooboi Rap verse 1 took approximately two months to be put together.Making it the longest time needed to write a verse.

Please let’s give credit where it’s due.

This subject is really interesting and getting very confusing by the day. So we ask, who is the Originator of Hiplife if it is not Reggie Rockstone?