M.anifest Admits The Beef With Sarkodie “Bigged Him Up For The Summer”

Rapper, M.anifest has admitted that his beef or ‘philosophical differences’ as he calls it with fellow rapper, Sarkodie helped give him more visibility than he had before. During a press tour to promote his album on MORNING ZOO on STARR FM, he agreed with public assertions that the ‘lyrical sparring’ with Sark gave him some mileage in the Ghanaian music industry.

“Of course. People enjoy this sense of rivalry, and the media feeds on it, social media feeds on it etc. It’s natural but everyday people are trying some gimmicks to get your attention but if it’s sincere or music or based on what people do. People know me for music and lyrics,” he said.

“And so for me I was in my corner somewhere finishing my album… as to the outcome. Yes, sure. Rivalries cause attention. Of course but people act as if my career began there. At the time all that was going on, I was actually somewhere performing and been doing this. I’m not a new or young artist.”

Months ago, the two acts took shots at each other through their music: M. Dot rapping ‘what’s a king to a godmc?’ an apparent dig at Sarkodie, who calls himself a king of rap. Sark also replied on the song ‘Kanta’ calling M.anifest a ‘bitch’ and other derogatory words.

M. Dot, however, denies there was/is a beef between them telling Joy FM‘s Mamavi Owusu-Aboagye in an earlier interview “I think there was a bit of a conflict… philosophical differences being shared. I acknowledge things that go on [but] I just say I don’t feel the same way people feel towards these things… I don’t take it as world cup… when I feel something, I can express it, I express it through music and then I keep it moving.”

M. Dot launched new new album NoWhereCool last week at the Jaguar Showroom at Airport.
The 14-track album features Worlasi, Cina, Dex Kwasi, Paapa, Dark Suburb, Tumi Molekane, Brymo, Nomisupasta and Ama Ata Aidoo.

M.anifest is an award winning Ghanaian rapper and songwriter . He has worked with the likes of Damon Albarn, Flea, Tony Allen, Erykah Badu, and is featured on a number of songs on the Rocket Juice and The Moon album.

He is the grandson of one of Africa’s foremost ethnomusicogists and composers, J.H. Kwabena Nketia.

In 2012, BBC’s Arts program The Strand (radio) tipped him as one of four acts to look out for in 2012.

M.anifest won Best Rapper of the Year and Hip-Hop Song of the Year at the 2013 Ghana Music Awards after having been nominated twice in 2012 and thrice in 2013.

In 2015, his song “someway bi” earned him a third place honor in the International Songwriters Competition (ISC). In the same year The Guardian named him as “the foremost rapper on the continent.”