Award-winning Dancehall artiste, Shatta Wale, has descended into the gutters with his immediate past manager, Bulldog, explaining he had no professional competencies.
In a clear case of friendship gone bad over disagreements about money, the CEO of Bullhaus Entertainment, Lawrence Nana Asiama Hanson, known in showbiz as Bulldog, announced on Saturday that it had parted ways with Shatta Wale.
Bulldog’s statement
“The management of Bullhaus Entertainment wishes to bring to the notice of the general public that we no longer have a working relationship with multiple-award winning artiste, Charles Nii Armah Mensah A.K.A. Shatta Wale effective immediately,” the statement said.
[contextly_sidebar id=”F5YAdDmzHDcd6A8vqztZSIs6xBj1Ylwq”]It added “We are humbled to have been part of the success story up until this point, and wish Shatta Wale all the best in his future endeavors. We also wish to thank Shatta Wale and his Shatta Movement team for choosing us as managers for his professional career for these past years. We will forever be fans of Shatta Wale and his music and still believe in the mantra of the Shatta Movement. ‘Shatta Movement for life”.
Shatta Wale’s response
But Shatta Wale, who appears incensed and disappointed about the statement, responded to Bulldog in an interview with Santa Maria-based Pluzz FM on Monday.
He said Bulldog as far as he was concerned, followed him like a “bodyguard” and not a manager, since there was no agreement between them.
“There was no agreement in this thing; there was nothing like 50-50. When I get it and we share it 50-50 it was just between me and Bulldog. I love him as a brother and I wanted him to enjoy what I was enjoying same as my whole shatta movement crew so nobody should take this thing anyway; I am just putting things across the way it has to be “he emphasized.
He added “this is a guy that I took like my brother so there is nothing like regret but I have learnt. Maybe, I think that how I started with this career should continue that way. I should work with people who are professionals and just pay them to work for me. Bulldog doesn’t have any professional competence. I, Shatta Wale, nurtured everything you are seeing around me. I am the controller of this whole ship. I put Bulldog in the picture just for people to give him that respect”.
Shatta in the interview stated among other things how bad their relationship had gone to the extent that Bulldog had threatened to kill him.
According to him, he was shocked about the reaction from Bulldog particularly when efforts had been made behind the scenes to get them to iron out their differences peacefully.
“I have repeated the part about him threatening to kill me twice and I won’t hide it. Somebody asked him, ‘Bulldog are you not the same person who has issues to answer in Ghana about things like these, and he responded; don’t mind him, I will kill him like I killed the other guy,’” Shatta Wale said in a radio interview on Monday.
But Shatta Wale did not mention the name of the individual he claimed Bulldog killed. In 2014, Bulldog was arrested and charged over the murder of another entertainment personality Fennec Okyere, the then manager of hiplife artiste, Kwaw Kese.
According to Shatta Wale, Bulldog largely contributed to his poor image in the eyes of the public and the corporate world, which has affected his career; hence the need for him to come out and clear his name.
“I remember in some time past, he recorded my conversations and sent them to people abroad”.
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By: Ebenezer Afanyi Dadzie/citifmonline.com/Ghana