He won the BET award for Best International Act: Africa alright but Stonebwoy sees Sarkodie as the leader of the music movement in the country, calling him the ‘Jay Z of Ghana’.
In an interview with online magazine, Noisey, the dancehall act said: ‘We have the African music compilation coming out, we’ve done a song with JD Era and Sarkodie, who is the Jay Z of Ghana.’ He added that the song, ‘Hills and Valley’ done with label mate, Samini gave him the break he needed in the music industry. ‘It was a song plus a co-sign from another artist who has been working for some time as well, his name is Samini. When ‘Hills and Valley’ came out, we worked on the track together and people in Ghana were like ‘Whoa, this is a Jamaican song’ and when they realised it was from one of their people I got their attention and I kept slamming from one hit to another.’.