Dancehall artist Shatta Wale says he has lost a lot of deals from corporate organizations due to negative perception about him online.
According to him, some powerful people in Ghana’s entertainment industry were hoping to see his downfall as a musician before he had his breakthrough collaboration with RnB superstar, Beyoncé.
Speaking about his collaboration with Beyoncé, in an interview with Sammy Flex on CTV’s Class Showbiz, Shatta said the collaboration was a divine blessing that sanitized his tainted image due to pundits and public criticism.
“I’ve met companies that have told me, ‘Oh we wanted to sign you, but you had this problem, and your media people [said this and that] so they said we should forget it,” he illustrated. “Big, big companies.”
“I keep telling people that don’t think you’re hurting me, but you are hurting all of us,” he said.
“When I make money, I bring it to the table, and we all enjoy. So I think those things [uncontrolled negative criticism] have to stop,” the ‘On God’ hitmaker added.
“I keep saying, God bless Beyoncé every time because for Beyoncé’s team to sit down with her and say they want to work with me, it wasn’t just a mere and meaningless happening. God’s intervention came there. I think maybe God spoke to her, ‘Come and help my son because [contrary to] the way they are seeing him, I want you to [paint] a beautiful picture (about) him.”
