Chief Executive Officer of Slip Entertainment, Mark Okraku Mantey has described rapper turned Pastor, Lord Kenya, as one of the most ungrateful persons he has managed in the past.
The producer, who managed Lord Kenya for about 3 years, has said the amount of investment and effort injected into his success were not duly appreciated.
According to him, the musician exhibited signs of disrespect, in and invariably hopped unto a new record label without his consent.
Mr Okraku Mantey who is also the Director of the Creative Arts Council told Hitz FM “I don’t remember Lord Kenya thanking me.”
“Sometimes I could send someone to call Lord Kenya, for me because I am making a booking for an event, he would send someone to me that, he is with his manager so when he is through he will come,” he recounted.
He also denied rumours the ‘Born Again’ hitmaker has made in the past suggesting that he was cheated of his earnings by Mr Okraku Mantey.
According to Mr Okraku Mantey artises normally use claims of cheating on the part of their handlers as an excuse “to run out of contracts…because now he or she has some form of equity, so they can ride on their equity.”
He explained that, even at the time when Lord Kenya was at his prime performing at an average of two shows per week, his share as a manager was never from what he earned from the performances.
The business agreement between the two was getting a percentage of the sales of the musician’s album, he said.
This arrangement according to the producer, did not constitute cheating.
The producer who has is no longer in production and artiste management mentioned the likes of late highlife musician Daasebre Dwamena, and Gospel artiste Nana Yaw Asare amongst others, as those who have made his work outstanding.
“We create stars, they become monsters, they come back to chew us up,” Mr Okraku Mantey lamented.
Source: myjoyonline.com
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Mark I dey talk too much are you sure you are not suffering from depression
Mr know all. Mark
Your arrogance and your know it all posture like kwasi Aboagye is flipping annoying. Aaa... u just 45yrs old yet to rubbish the accounts of the older ones u came to meet. In your delusional mind, your self importance and equally disrespectful behaviour will warrant anyone not just kenya to tell you his mind. I will probably do worse. For how long will u tarnish his image? You call Shatta 1gno.***barred word*** and that u pity him. If he comes out now to respond, u will say he’s disrespectful. Not that I condone everything Shatta does but in this case, if he does, I sure will support him. U dey bore koraa too much. So irritating! This uuuseless post u have got kraa, I don’t know why u were given that. Have u finished addressing the timber in your eye? I didn’t think so! Go sort out your womanising ways among other things before u sit on some moral high horse and talk about others. Three children with probably three different women. Nice one. I despise your arrogance and pride.
You've said it all Don't Biko. Kraku Mantey himself is an ungrateful ***barred word***.
Come on,this is ***barred word***! That's why the creative arts in this country is in tatters! Why should he thank you? You profited from his talent and because you invested in it you think he owes you? It was a business deal in which both of you profited and no one owes the other. You could have money but no talent for singing as much as you could also have talent but no money to nurture it. So you enter agreement and everyone benefits. There seems to be too many people complaining about same Mark..perhaps he was a wrong choice as director of the creative arts