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One Mic Entertainment, the record label of the �Best Rapper Alive� Okyeame Kwame has issued a press statement giving out 10 reasons why Okyeame Kwame will not �diss� or insult Obrafour. They said Okyeame Kwame is not a dissing artiste but a gentleman who will not return evil to evil (They quoted Romans 12:17, Ephesians 4:26, Mathew 18:21-35 to buttress that point) and besides he considers Obrafour as his brother in the game. One Mic Entertainment urged the media to see the whole thing as one-sided agitation and not call it a beef because it takes two to tango and it also takes two to have beef. Even though they acknowledge the existence of �beef� in hip-hop, going to the studio to record a dissing track against Obrafour would have been more situation but they didn�t think it was necessary as they didn�t want to bring Obrafour�s ten years reputation into disrepute and moreover dissing Obrafuor, Okyeame Kwame would have destroyed the corporate image he worked so hard to achieve, project and protect which is the perfect gentleman image. The full text of the press release is as follows: On 10th October, 2009, a controversy was born upon the release of Obrafour�s song, �Kasiebo� casting insinuations which affected two main artistes, Okyeame Kwame and Obour. Anybody who heard the song either called these affected artistes for their reactions or concluded that the song was a diss song to them. The song has enjoyed massive airplay, heavy listenership, sold a lot of newspapers, brought attention to the hiplife genre of music and both television and radio magazine programs enjoyed lots of ratings. The debate continues on http://www.ghanacelebrities.com One thing the song failed to do was to bring respect to all artistes involved-both Obrafuor and Okyeame Kwame have had their respective fans insulting the other artiste in the newspapers to make their points. Also, Obour, Obrafour and Okyeame Kwame argued on Radio Gold on 10th October and it was then that Okyeame Kwame professed that Obrafuor had brought shame to hiplife by getting them, as respected musicians, to argue openly on radio. Constantly, on radio, on the internet, in the newspapers and on television, Obrafour had been throwing a challenge to Okyeame Kwame to respond to the song if he felt it�s a diss song to him. The Rap Doctor�s reaction to this was a challenge to Obrafour to meet him for a rap battle at Joy FM�s open house party with DJ Black, Spotlight or any other program of his choice. His reason was simple; �I cannot do a diss song and put it on wax for my son to listen to when he is old enough to understand. What kind of a father and an example would I be if my son heard a documented insult from his father about a fellow brother?�. Just when the dust was settling, Obrafour performed at Joy FM Nite with the Stars where he revisited the controversy by bringing a mannequin in a T-shirt with O.K inscribed on it and had the acronym Okyeame Kwame created from Best Rapper Alive, BRA, written in it. The audience as well as the media begun to wonder why Obrafuor had OK and BRA in the T-shirt worn by the mannequin if he was not alluding to Okyeame Kwame in his song. One Mic Entertainment, the record label which produces the songs of Okyeame Kwame acknowledges the existence of �beef� in hip-hop. However, the company also acknowledges that the beef must be real. There must be a real bone of contention between the artistes. When Tupac had a beef with Biggie Smalls, Tupac felt that Biggie had sent his men after him. 50 Cent also felt that Ja Rule had sent his thugs for his chain. Suge Knight also felt that Snoop had violated the street code of secrecy. Therefore, if Okyeame Kwame and Obrafuor accept that there is no rift between them, then one may ask that is the beef really a beef? Or better still can we call it a beef at all since Obrafuor is the only one constantly agitating for a diss song? Pardon the clich� but does it not take two to tango? Therefore, One Mic Entertainment is urging the media to see the thing as it is-a one-sided agitation. It is for these reasons that One Mic Entertainment has issued a release, giving ten reasons why Okyeame Kwame will not reply Obrafuor with any diss song.