Ahkan, a former member of the defunct Ruff ‘N’ Smooth duo, has responded to claims by his former partner, Bullet, that he used a song they composed together without his consent.
Bullet had told Kwame Dadzie of Citi FM that Ahkan took a song they did, called ‘Amina’ produced the same thing as his.
According to Bullet, Ahkan took the song without his knowledge.
“When I wanted to use ‘M’adi Wo Dwa’ for Ebony I sought permission from Ahkan and he agreed but I wrote a song for our group, we never released it. It called ‘Amina’. Ahkan released it without my consent.
“Now I cannot even claim it because the song didn’t come out and he didn’t even tell me if he could use it,” he added.
However, speaking to Ahkan, he described Bullet’s accusations as “funny.”
He said even though he may have had inspiration from that old song, the ‘Amina’ he released is different from what he composed with Bullet while they were together a group.
“Bullet is funny oo. How can ‘Amina’ be Ruff ‘N’ Smooth’s song? I mean Ruff ‘N’ Smooth had a song called ‘Amina.’ We recorded it way back but it had different compositions, different progression, a different rhythm. I mean I created everything myself with my producer Paa Wills Beat s I don’t know what he’s talking about,” he said.
This comes on the back of allegations by Bullet that a brother of Ahkan who used to be the group’s manager, had sold a song by the group, to a movie company without his knowledge.
According to Bullet, the brother of Ahkan, Theophilus Baah, once contacted him that a movie company needed their ‘Shaba’ song for a soundtrack.
He said they had not agreed on any terms, just to have seen a trailer of the movie out.
Ruff ‘N’ Smooth until their split produced hit songs such as ‘Azingele’, ‘Beautiful’, ‘Swagger’, ‘Dance for Me’, among others.
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By: ghanaweekend.com
