Music duo, Buk Bak, has denied stories making the rounds that the group deliberately ditched music trio, 4x4, during their album launch at the Osu Oxford Street Friday, December 9.

Buk Bak is widely credited with discovering and guiding 4x4 into the phenomenal trio it is today and while Buk Bak’s name was among the list of artistes billed to perform at album launch, they failed to show up.

Soon after the successful launch of the album, which saw all the other billed artistes performing, Captain Planet, a member of 4x4 expressed his disappointment to Myjoyonline.com, saying their ‘fathers’ and mentors did not show up to support them.

He said Buk Bak did not give any indication that they were not going to turn up for the launch and was therefore surprised at their absence. As at news time that Myjoyonline.com contacted Captain Planet, he said Buk Bak had still not contacted them to say why they failed to turn up for the launch even though they were invited. While he will not call it a sabotage, he will not rule out the possibility.

But Buk Bak refuted the claim in an interview with Myjoyonline.com. Bright Boateng popularly known as Blinks Sparkles, a member of the group said “If it’s coming from my boys (4x4) then I will be surprised …” He explained that, “Prior to the day of the show something came up, something that we can’t disclose. I called one of the boys and told him [something urgent came up] so I wouldn’t be able to make it so I had to go take care of it out of town."

Brothers

Bright said he knew 4x4 would understand, stating “I spoke to CoDed about it, he was like cool.” Bright lamented however, “I felt disappointed myself for not showing up.”

Ronny Coaches, another member of Buk Bak quizzed, “What will Buk Bak have against 4x4?” explaining that “from day one we’ve been with them … we’ve been like brothers since day one, nothing won’t stop us from being on their show and we don’t have any misunderstanding with them.” Bright vehemently denied having any beef with 4x4, stating “I can’t hate on my own success. This is something I started so why should I hate on my own success?” 

Source: Myjoyonline.com

Ghana’s ever fresh Hiplife trio 4x4 is set to launch its 5th studio album on Friday 9th December 2011, with a free Street concert on Accra’s infamous Osu Oxford Street. The title track of the album “Waist and Power” (WaP) when released is expect to attract positive attention from music audience worldwide. WaP has already spawned 3 chart toping singles namely “Waist and Power”, “Womaniser” and “Yesii Yesii” the current dance floor banger. This comes on the back of their recent win of The Best

Group Music Video Award the 2011 4syte TV Music Video Awards. According to group leader, Captain Planet “The Osu Oxford street choice as venue will not only help bring us closer to our fans, but will afford us the opportunity to connect and give them an early Christmas gift”. The “WaP” album has got 12 tracks, all written and composed by 4x4 and being released under their own X4 Records label. According to Coded “The Waist and Power album is a tribute to the African man from an African

Woman. It celebrates the strengths, work and deeds of true black men who show love care and kindness to their women”. The album launch is expected to be a massive funfair that will feature an exciting supporting line-up including VIP, Buk Bak, Castro, Tinny, 5five, Ruff-n-Smooth, Asem, Stay Jay, Trigmatic, Jupiter, EL, J Town, Keche, Chemphe, Eduwodzi, Pope Skinny. The rest are Diamond, Mzbel, D-Cryme, D-Black, D-Money, Saint Riya, Samini and many more. This launch is a prelude to their 2012 Ghana tour to be followed by an African tour later in the year.