JURIKID (Hip-hop Artist)

                                                                     

Samuel Opoku porpularly known with the stage name, JURIKID was born in Jamestown on April, 25^th 1993.  The name JURIkID is a combination of two separate words; “JURY” and “KID”. Jury as in, panel of judges, and KID as a young dude. So in joining the two, JURIKID gives a clear meaning; a young Rapper who decides for other rappers.

Jurikid is a young independent Hip-Hop artist with about 15 to 20 songs and is still working on a new mixtape. Though he is young, he has been able to work so hard with engeneers like Skriim from Cameroon, DN from Newtown, Abowch from get busy studios, kid dyno from USA and Nii Ayi from E.N.D Sudios. He has also worked with other artistes like Pagez, Rules, Leak, Kay, Willy j Voiceout, Flow, Deenash, Nature and Dee from Ghana. Jordan York, Check Mate, The fool Boys from USA and Ice pik from UK are also other artist outside the country Jurikid has worked with.

Jurikid started writing his own songs in 2007 and did his first recording in 2010. Jurikid related to most of the songs he grew up listening to and those songs happened to be hip-hop. The struggle, the pain, the disappointment from family and friends grew almost everyday and all he had left was songs from Andrea 3000, T.i and jay z. “Hip-hop has been there for me through the good and bad times and i feel that’s where i belong. I will find it hard rapping about parties and afro beat songs because i have not really been there”, he said. He is doing hip-hop because it’s a good culture and he wants to help it grow like it should, here in Ghana and the rest of Africa.

Jurikid’s principle in life is to plan ahead, take risk and do or try doing all by oneself and his advice to the other young independent artists like him should present what they are doing from their hearts and put focus on money last or aside. love God, respect and hardwork is what they need most.

PAGEZ (HIP-HOP ARTIST)

 I happened to join a Whatsapp group chat created by an x (95.1fm) presenter called Eric. Through this group, I met different kinds of people from different places. Here, I came across a young hip-hop artist called Pagez. Pagez got my attention on an instance when I received an audio from him during a chat session, Listened, and my first word after listening to the song was “WOW!” I was fully impressed by his choice of words in his lyrics.

Pagez, whose real name is George Ramos Ankrah hails from Anomabo in the Central Region. He took the name Pagez because to him, Pagez means life. Life consists of different pages. Today is a page, tomorrow will be another Page. So the name Pagez means life and according to him, his name reflects in his music. There is life in his music.

George Ramos Ankrah discovered his music talent when he was young. By then, he used to learn and rap like the popular hip-life and hip-hop artistes like t-blaze, Obrafour, Okomfour Kwaadee, and Reggie Rockstone until he begun to create and put down his own lyrics and do his own rap music. He revealed that his elder brother who is also a very popular hip-life artist in Ghana, AKOO NANA and other American hip-hop artistes like Kanye West were the   biggest influence on him.

Pagez begun doing his own music in 2006-2007, from the JHS entered through the Senior High School and now, he sometimes organise programmes with his colleagues which gives him the platform to perform his music.

In an interview with him he stated, “I chose to do hip-hop because that’s where am good at and can also express myself with hip-hop better than any other genre of music. Hip-hop is a culture and I love living in it”. For the number of songs he has done so far, he can’t count and even some are on the cooking, not ready. His purpose in music is to stand as a great figure to the public and that the young ones will also look up to him as he looked up to other people.

He personally told me that, Ghana Music is growing and he thinks Ghanaians should embrace it from all aspect equally but not on a particular genre of music. Ghanaians should also expect good music from Pagez and has promised to take the country far when he finally gets on his feet.

Go to www.reverbnation.com/pagez to download and listen to this young independent musician and give me a feedback or prove me wrong when I say he is GOOD. Pagez is GOOD.