Rapper Kwesi Arthur from Ghana claims that having a public persona is one of his greatest challenges.
Ghanaian rapper Kwesi Arthur thinks that maintaining a public persona is one of his biggest concerns.
“Being in the public light, like everyone seeing what you do, everyone trying to judge your moves, yeah, I feel that’s a big challenge. Sometimes it gets like that (uncomfortable), but I feel like it comes with the job I do so, I just have to swallow the pill it comes with,” he said.
Kwesi Arthur mentioned the following when discussing some of the surprises he has experienced in the music business: “there’s a lot of lies; a lot of smoke screens”.
People said that they recognized me in a pornographic video, but I wasn’t in it. However, the video was taken in such a way that it deteriorated, making it difficult to identify that the man had dreadlocks similar to mine.
Even when the original, high-quality video was released, in which it was obvious that it wasn’t me, people kept claiming, “Oh, it’s me, it’s me,” Kwesi Arthur recalled.
Ghanaian rapper, singer, and songwriter Kwesi Arthur is from Tema. He first gained notoriety in 2017 with the smash tune “Grind Day,” which was supported by rap legends Sarkodie and Medikal. 2019’s Live from Nkrumah Krom Vol II, his second EP, received more than 2 million streams in the first week of availability.
In addition to being nominated for Viewers’ Choice Best International Act at the 2018 BET Awards, Arthur has won a number of awards, including Rapper of the Year and Hip Hop Song of the Year at the Vodafone Ghana Music Awards. Following Sarkodie’s nomination in 2019, he was the second rapper from Ghana to receive a nomination for the BET Hip Hop Awards Cypher.
