Rapper Medikal has laid claim to Ghanaian drill music and he is already requesting for royalties from his fellow musicians.
The rapper’s claim, via a tweet comes on the back of a recent rise in popularity of the trending genre in Ghana.
According to MDK, he deserves a cut out of the revenue of musicians profiting from drill.
View the tweet:
Any artiste making hits off Drill owes me 20 percent on any song, I birth this.
— EL CHAIRMANO (@AmgMedikal) January 7, 2022
Drill music is a subgenre of hip-hop that originated in Chicago, USA in the early 2010s.
Members and affiliates of Kumasi-based hip-hop group, Asaaka Boys, are noted for championing the genre in Ghana.
In 2021, high-school student, Thorsten Owusu Gyimah, aka Yaw Tog, a drill artist, won the Vodafone Ghana Music (VGMA), Hip-hop Song of the Year, with his viral single, ‘Sore’.
By Lord Kweku Sekyi
