Music producer and the Chief Executive Officer of Highly Spiritual Music, David Kojo Kyei, popularly known as Kaywa, has revealed how Lasmid left his label.
Speaking to KMJ on Joy Prime, Kaywa said he did not have a contract with Lasmid from the outset.
According to him, Lasmid was given to him by the organizers of the MTN Hitmaker as part of his prize package after winning the Season 8 of the music contest in 2019.
“MTN gave Lasmid to me for one year for GHS 40,000 to produce two songs, two videos, to promote two songs two videos. Outrageous. I put in all,” he said.
He said that after a year, Lasmid’s time was over and he was sad.
“He wanted to stay and I also wanted him to stay but the young chaps in the industry felt my focus was on him even though he was no more part of the label. So I personally called him with some people. Let’s agree. Let’s push you to where at least we have a hit song then the conversation will be different so when we are signing you to the label proper then nobody will have a problem,” he noted.
Kaywa added that after taking a couple of years to push Lasmid’s craft, he luckily got his first hit, Friday Night which was his fourth song under the label.
It was after his second hit, Running that he decided to part ways with the label.
“If I begin to talk about what the investment is, you would know that we really went deep. Had a conversation with him and then we had to move to our next level. Then suddenly the conversation we had was sealed, was not written, but it was sealed with understanding both of us with evidence. Suddenly the narrative changes because now he’s become big and he’s been influenced by seeing people in our circle,” Kaywa told KMJ on Prime Morning.
He said after Friday Night they needed to sign a contract, and Lasmid was even desperate to do it.
“He took his time to study the contract and he even picked out a few things and I told his manager that he should do whatever he wanted to be done for him because I had Lasmid at heart,” he mentioned.
To make sure they did not make mistakes, they took about six months to study the contract, making changes where necessary.
After a while when Kaywa called him to avail himself for the signing of the deal so they could start releasing more songs, Lasmid said he was waiting for his lawyers in the United States of America.
“We went ahead to drop a new song ‘Running.’ I personally took that song around. I drove, I was everywhere trying to distribute the song, paid to get people to play the song. I told them the song was out there so let us sign this thing and move forward,” he stated.
He said later, Lasmid told him his father wanted to be a witness to the contract so they needed to wait for him. His father did not show up after a long wait.
When they were about to release the Running video, Kaywa asked them again to sign the contract before he would put the video out. Not long, Kaywa received a mail from some men in Nigeria who introduced themselves as lawyers for Lasmid.
The Highly Spiritual Music boss explained that the lawyers made requests that suggested they were not interested in the contract. So he had to let Lasmid go.
This comes a few months after it was announced that Mr. Drew had also parted ways with the label after the expiration of their contract.
Kaywa has worked with other artistes such as Kurl Songx, Yaw Berk, Krymi, King Maaga, and Rashelle Blue.
Currently, he has signed four new artistes to Highly Spiritual Music. They are Cadeen, Joe Vibe, Shuga Lord and Joe Verse.
Source: myjoyonline.com
