Reggie Rockstone reacts to Hiplife added to Grammys new category

According to Reggie Rockstone, a typo may have prompted the Grammys to exclude the famous Ghanaian music genre (Hiplife) from its newly minted Best African Music category.

Reggie Rockstone expressed disappointment that the Grammys’ Recording Academy had disregarded the genre that had brought many Ghanaian musicians popularity at a recent Twitter Spaces hosted by Kwame Dadzie and included Reggie Rockstone.

“Here is another thing that came up. A lot of times when people talk about hiplife and highlife they get confused. So somebody said to me ‘Reggie, it could have been a typo. So many times people have confused hiplife with highlife because they sound so similar.

“All the same, I am happy that we are in there because it could have gone the other way but it definitely became an eyebrow raiser when I realised the old lady hiplife wasn’t in there. The old lady’s grandmama is in there. That’s highlife. Even Mapouka is in there.

“Hiplife is what sparked the revolution and you can also go back and check before the re-emergence of Afrobeats with the ‘s’. And Nigeria knows this. We’ve always parlayed. We are cousins but you can never do without the old lady hiplife. You gotta be joking,” Reggie Rockstone said.