With the level of brilliance and uniqueness Tema based music group, R2Bees creates music when Paedae & Mugeez decides to get in the booth, and one wonders what have been keeping the duo busy.
Did they suddenly fall at the nemesis side of the popular statement 'getting to the top isn't the problem but maintaining it'?
I pray not so but a few elements over the past two years fairly allows one to assess if the once crowned 'Artiste Of The year' at the Ghana Music Awards & BET 'Best International Act: Africa' nominees are 'titanic' like sinking while we all watch on.
Let's start from the number of songs they have released over the last 2years which surprisingly amounts to only two mainstream singles till date, being 'Lobi' & 'Makoma'. I mean we all know how great their album 'Da Revolution II' (released in march 2013) did and it baffles one as to why R2Bees haven't followed that feat with yet another classic album. This notion won't even come in the picture anytime soon since compiling songs from the duo's couple of year's music catalogue won't even make the number to fit an album. Could their lack of recording more music be associated with allegedly losing the 'official' services of Killbeatz whose signature was heavily present on their sophomore album?
One thing that also keeps acts active in the game is by playing shows; from the start of this year and partially through last year we haven't really seen R2Bees rock any major concert. As the months skips by the groups presence on stage have somewhat gone with it. Are they intentionally rejecting shows? What's the cause of them not getting shows to play?
Vis-à-vis not appearing on major concerts the group has had fewer miens when it comes to publicity. Coupled with that, buzzing platforms like social media has had limited activities from the duo which often attracts public interest. As for promo it is definitely zero effort from their team. Are they losing the touch to keep connected to their fans?
It is now quite concurrent to see a member of a music group drop a solo project while still with their group. Paedae of R2bees out of the blue decided to take such a path while the group's instant hit ''Makoma'' was still enjoying massive airplay. Actually, the Kaywa produced single was barely 2months when Omar Sterling released his solo mixtape. Aside 'makoma' losing that special attention, fans contemplated whether R2bees was still a group made up of Mugeez & Paedae. Am still looking forward to hear the latter tell us the reason why he released a solo project while the group was enjoying airplay from a recently dropped single.
Despite the above 'wrong' moves the group still has a vibe around them which I think they have 'refused' to take advantage of. R2Bees is still in the minds of music lovers and their core fans won't hesitate to jump onto a new release. So I don't see why they have decided to 'relax' with Paedae rapping about chilling in Dubai, getting high and alcohol on a single titled ''Nineteen Ninety'' off his mixtape, when they actually need to get together and record more dope stuff.
If the last paragraph didn't indirectly describe how exceptional R2Bees are as a group, rather than they trying to do solo projects then these few points will showcase what a formidable group they are (or should I say used to be). With just ''Lobi'' a single they released last year, R2Bees got nominated for 'Best Group' category at the Ghana Music Awards as well as being featured on BBC's Live lounge 'African Destination' segment.
In conclusion, this goes on to say it's either R2bees are gradually losing interest to do music or probably there is a deeper reason the group has lived up to expectation these few years.
By: GeorgeBritton.com
Source: R2Bees interest in music sinking gradually
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