Chief Executive Officer and founder of Rufftown Records, Ricky Nana Agyemang who is popularly known as Bullet, has said he is pained when people allege that he sleeps with his female artistes.
The talent manager who has managed at least three artistes including Ebony Reigns, Wendy Shay and Fantana, Bullet has stated that he is concerned about how the women fare in the industry and he manages them in order to help them top charts as the men do.
According to him, juggling up business with pleasure is not something he agrees to although he once engaged in that.
He noted that when he was an artiste, he was sexually involved with his manager who was a female and it brought “problems” which is why he vowed not to sleep with or date his artistes.
Speaking to Nana Ama Mcbrown on United Showbiz June 6, he was asked if he ever had a thing with Wendy Shay and how he feels when people speculate that he is sleeping with his artistes, he replied, “When I hear that, I am pained. We cannot date.”
“Personally, if you mix up business with pleasure, I don’t like because I was in the same situation and it was the other way round. When I was an artiste, I had a girl who was managing me. When we were on the field, I go all out fighting her and all sort of things and when we get to the bedroom and I demand sex, she referred me to how I behaved towards her in the day. It was bringing problems.
“So, before I founded the record label, I vowed to never ever date whoever I work with. We all have our principles to guide us. That’s mine”
He, however, noted that he sees nothing wrong with managers dating their artistes except the manager makes it a condition to have sex before helping them.
He directed that in such cases, the manager should be arrested.
He further said the rumours have made it such that it now sounds as if the norm is to sleep with the female just because you manage her and that he gets people contacting him to manage even if he would sleep with them.
“But if someone dates their artiste, I don’t see anything wrong with it. What I see to be wrong is if someone says ‘if you don’t have sex with me first, I won’t help you. Anyone who does that should be arrested but in my camp, it’s not easy to manage a female artiste so, imagine I managed all these women and had to sleep with all of them, it wouldn’t speak well of me,” he said.
“I’m pained by such speculations because it has gotten to the point where it seems it’s the reality” adding that females contact him saying “Bullet, I want you to sign me even if you’ll sleep with me. I’m like I’m not like that. The speculations have made it such that if you manage a female artiste, you’re supposed to sleep with them. Let’s be real. What is sex? We’ve played shows, seen lots of women. Sex is nothing. Sex is cheap. It’s on the street. We get it for free and we don’t even want, he reiterated”.
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By: Hajia Lamy Gates |ghanaweekend.com
