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Ace music producer, Mark  Okraku-Mantey has hit hard at Sarkodie once again over the release on his new single ‘take it back’. Mark Okraku-Mantey is one industry player that is noted for saying it as it is without fear or favour.

In the take it back song, Sarkodie more or less bemoans the low standards of rap nowadays where he added that instead of rappers taking pens to write, they will rather be snapchat-ing.

Sarkodie in the song also called his fellow rappers lazy as*es rappers in the sense that when instrumental is dropped, they only sustain themselves on it for 2 minutes.

On Joy Fm’s Rythm A-Z hosted by Mamavi Owusu-Aboagye, they treated a topic as in what has changed with regards to songs released today and that of yesterdays with Sarkodie’s ‘Take it back’ song as a case study.

According to Mark, Sarkodie doesn’t have any moral right to say most of the stuffs in his  song since there is no content in his own song - the productions are weak, there is no theme, his chorus doesn’t even relate to the whole song in general. “Standards in rap has fallen, even the production has weakened. Compare any song of Lord Kenya to that of Sarkodie’s songs, there is a vast difference in terms of production, content, theme. Take a song like Sarkodie’s ‘push push’, the entire song has nothing to do with the chorus.” 

Sarkodie’s rap standard has fallen. Compare his old songs to that of the new onees he is releasing nowadays, you would clearly see there is a difference. The only song that has content for me and was well produced is his ‘Hand to mouth’ song”. He added.

Mark Okraku-Mantey went ahead to advise musicians to work harder; include more themes in their songs, they should do proper mastering, they should stop rushing into the studios and just releasing anything as a song.