some young people now don't realise lthe collaborations and work that has| been going on between ghanaian and nigerian artists for the last l 30, 40, 50, 60, 70 years. # palm wine for lunch and dinner for breakfast. nobody will understand i the importance of hiplife until afrobeat is the biggest music in the world — we are almost there already. but without hiplife, - there would be no afrobeats. ghana had established that sound before nigerians really got into the stride of things. # like say tomorrow no dey... for them, '99 was like a watershed moment for them and, '99, ghanaians already had megastar hiplife artists. if you were to take the music that they were doing and compare it with what was happening in ghana, what you will find is that it was more like the pre—hiplife american imitation sort of music, and it didn't have an identity. but as time went on, they fused in the pidgin, the local language, just