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To celebrate the launch of the new bottle design of Malta Guinness in grand manner, Guinness Ghana Breweries Limited (GGBL) put up the best outdoor music concert so far dubbed, ‘Top of the World Celebration”, that saw performances by the internationally acclaimed Afro pop artistes P-Square from Nigeria, Sarkodie and Samini who replaced R2Bees who pulled out of the show because the monetary differences.

Before the advertised artistes came to perform, D2 and a few artistes warmed up the stage.

Sarkodie was in his best element as he wowed the audience for close to one hour of good music.

There is no doubt that Samini has over the years emerged to become one of the most popular musicians and performers in Ghana and Africa and he proved himself as the best when he dished out his hit tunes for fans.

The hosts for the nite, Funny Face and KOD called on Agnes Essah, Marketing Director to unveil the new bottle before the headline acts, P-Square came on.

“Malta Guinness has been part of our Ghanaian heritage for over 20 years. Since its launch in 1989, Malta Guinness has consistently satisfied consumers’ demand for a quality malt drink, filled with goodness, energy and vitality. This memorable event is to celebrate and reward our loyal consumers and trade partners for making Malt Guinness the No. 1 non alcoholic malt drink”, she said.

Multiple award-winning music entertainers, Peter and Paul Okoye, well known as P-Square, set the Independence Square on fire as their Ghanaian fans stormed out to watch them perform at the Malta Guinness Top of The World Celebration concert on 1st December, 2012.

P-Square halted the show to ensure that the diehard female fans were given medical help.

The fans who fainted at the sight of seeing P-Square their dream musicians mount the stage but the show continued as medics attended to them.

The Okoye twin performed on stage for three hours, dishing out songs from their repertoire monster cuts, yet left their fans at the capacity-filled venue yearning for more.

The high point of the lively performance was when P-Square performed their new single titled 'Chop My Money'.

Culled from: http://ghanaweb.com/GhanaHomePage/NewsArchive/artikel.php?ID=258432

@miguel:
Psquare no bi their mate na. Abi you wan compare mode 9 with shina rambo?

Not at all. I didn't write this, it was culled from a ghanaian site. This same issue caused serious ghana vs Nigeria ewar few days back.
As usual the short dwarfs from ashanti were here in dozens insulting Nigerians bc Malta Guiness paid Psquare 200k USD and the Ghanaian artistes were paid 10k USD each.

2 Ghanain artistes: Samini and Sakordie performed on that same stage but when Psquare mounted the stage many ghanaian girls fainted (http://ghanaweb.com/GhanaHomePage/NewsArchive/artikel.php?ID=258432). You see, no matter how they rant on the internet they all love Nigerians in real life. Even the ones that come to rant on nairaland they all watch nigerian movies in their homes and many of them have psquare and dbanj songs as the ringing tone

According to credible information available to Peacefmonline.com, all is not well between two Tema based artistes R2bees and Sarkodie due to a looming tension between the two. The best pals fell off last weekend over an issue of mistrust and betrayal.

Sarkodie and R2bees who were billed alongside a Pan African group P-Square on the “Top of the World Celebration” concert, together threatened to boycott the show prior to the main night allegedly over an alleged huge disparity between their performance fee of (¢20,000 and ¢10,000 respectively) and that of the Nigerian stars P-Square, who reportedly charged close to $.200, 000.

The two confronted the organizers together on Thursday evening November 22, and demanded additional money or they would not mount the stage.

According a close source, managements of Sarkodie and R2Bees were still in talks with the organizers the whole of Thursday and Friday still insisting on being paid more, but late Friday night a call was placed from Sarkodie’s camp to one of the senior executives of Charter House, organizers of the event, that they should forget about their demand and that Sarkodie was ready to perform.

Interestingly, all this happened without the knowledge of R2Bees or their manager who were leading the ‘crusade’ for more money. The duo (Mugees &Paedae) felt betrayed and disappointed in Sarkodie and his management, for stabbing them in the back to perform on a show they have both agreed not to perform until the organizers increase their performance fee.

According to Ike, manager of R2Bees, they had that information on Friday night when he was still negotiating that Sarkodie had agreed to perform, and when he confronted Sammy Forson, Sarkodie’s manage; he confirmed that indeed they had agreed to perform because they didn’t want any bad blood between them and the organizers. According to him they didn’t believe it until they were informed that Sarkodie actually mounted the stage to perform at the Independence Square, and that they (R2Bees) were replaced with Samini.

The group is currently dumbfounded that their friend Sarkodie could betray them for something they are both trying to change for the benefit of every Ghanaian artiste. They also feel misled because Peacefmonline.com gathers that this whole idea to boycott the show was Sarkodie’s idea and they trusted him enough to play along, but he rather double-crossed them.

However, R2Bees manager told Peacefmonline.com that “Oh! We as R2Bees do not hold anything against Sarkodie, we don’t have any problem with him but all I can say is that we have learnt our lessons. We have advised ourselves” Ike said admitting that Sarkodie “Obidiponbidi” has indeed ‘played Judas’ with them.

Meanwhile, when Peacefmonline.com contacted Sammy Forson Sarkodie’s manager, he promised giving us details of the whole issue later and stated that neither he nor Sarkodie betrayed anybody. “I will let you know the facts soon but let me put on record that Sarkodie didn’t betray nobody”, Sammy stressed.

It will be recalled that Sarkodie and R2bees started this crusade together against the event a organizers few days ago, and they both agreed to keep rebelling against event organizers until they treat Ghanaian artistes better than they do now.

They started this at the Joy FM “Nite With the Stars” on Saturday November 24, 2012 inside The Dome, when they both refused to perform even though they were at the venue, because according to them security was poor and also because their colleague Kwaw Kesse was attacked after his performance and after other confrontations backstage.

Even though both artistes are trying to paint a perfect picture to the public as though everything is fine between them, Peacefmonline.com can confirm that R2Bees have refused to communicate with Sarkodie since Saturday till date.

This is not too good for both artistes and their fans, because the two have quite a number of songs together, including Sarkodie biggest hit song “Baby”, which features Mugees, “Agyeeeii” by R2Bees and R2bees, latest single “Bayla Trap” which features Sarkodie, among other popular songs.

Culled from: http://ghanaweb.com/GhanaHomePage/NewsArchive/artikel.php?ID=258671&comment=0#com