Ball J
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Ball J performing at the GMN Concert in 2012 | |
Background information | |
Birth name | Albert Ayeh-Hanson |
Also known as | Ball J Beat |
Born |
Accra, Ghana | November 8, 1984
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Years active | 2006–present |
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Website | Official website |
Albert Ayeh-Hanson (born November 8, 1984), known by his stage name Ball J or Ball J Beat, is a Ghanaian rapper, sound engineer, record producer and entrepreneur from Accra.[1] He spent most of his formative years in the U.S State of California. Ball J is the CEO and founder of Nu Afrika Records.[2][3]
Ball J was a pioneering member of the Skillions Records[4] when it began on the campus of Presbyterian Boys' Senior High School–Legon (PRESEC). He worked tirelessly with Jayso, the label's founder and formed a genre they called GH Rap[5] (hip hop made in Ghana).
Besides being a rapper, Ball J is also one of the best hip hop, hiplife and azonto sound engineers[6] in Africa with Weiyɛ Ball J Beat[7] (this is Ball J's beat) as his signature. He was nominated for Best Producer of the year in Ghana Music Awards 2015.[8] He holds a Degree in Business Management from the University of Professional Studies (UPS). Ball J is the only Ghanaian record producer on Patoranking's debut studio album "God Over Everything",[9] producing Patoranking;[10][11] the first track on the album.[12]
Early life
Early Career / Education
Albert Hanson, also known in the music industry as Ball J, was born in Adabraka in the Greater Accra Region of Ghana, on the 8th of November, 1984. He spent most of his formative years in California–United States.[13] He had his basic education at North Ridge Lyceum at Kanda. He went to Presbyterian Boys' Senior High School–Legon (PRESEC) for his high school education where he joined a Hip Hop group called Skillions, of which he was an active member. After High School, he furthered his education to study Software Programming and Computer networking at Atlantis Computers, Asylum Down–Accra. He then went to the University of Professional Studies (UPS) to pursue a Degree in Business Management. Despite his busy schedules on campus, he was still committed Skillions and was always present for shows, productions and meetings. Music was a natural thing for him, besides, he spent hours listening to his father play music.
Ball J classifies himself as a Hip hop rapper. The rapper's musical lifestyle was influence by several artists such as Jay Z, Nas, Mase, The Notorious B.I.G and Eminem. Not only is he known in Ghana as Ball J or Ball J Beat but some also call him Ghana's Jay Z because he sounds like Jay Z when he raps. According to Ball J, he had no choice than to learn beat making since there were no particular institutions in Ghana that focused entirely on Hip hop music production to produce the kind of beats he needed as a Hip hop artist. After School, Ball J decided to have a full-time career in music production with the aim of making Hip hop beats for himself as an artist. Around 2006, Ball J started making beats and demo records in his room with his close friends. He then formed Nu Afrika Records. Around 2008, he decided he needed to be more serious and make masters. He then had to rely on books and seek advice from pioneers in music production such as Kwame Twum, a former bass guitarist for the legendary Kojo Antwi. He consulted Hubert who is also well acclaimed and good in sound mixing and mastering. Ball J also trained with a bass guitarists friend, who had a studio in Lapaz–Accra. All this time, he was studying the general understanding of music production such as the dynamics, compressions and mastering. While learning the trade, he made his first professional hit "Temperature" which he featured some of his friends who were part of the Nu Afrika Records; Shao Qan, Krynkman and Screech. He had a few challenges becoming an artist and a music producer. Some of these challenges were the fact that Ghanaians were not much into Hip hop songs. Hit songs in Ghana are mostly songs you can dance to (e.g. Hiplife and Azonto), so this made it very difficult for Hip hop artist such as himself to make a hit song in Ghana. Without forgetting about hip hop, Ball J started fusing his hip hop style of beatmaking with faster beats, which was purposely to fulfil the demands of artists coming to his studio (Nu Afrika Records). His first significant hit he produced was Kwawkese's Killa Bewu Last Show in 2010. After that, Ball J produced a lot of songs for both the underground and known artists, but his major milestone was Lapaz Toyota by Guru. The song put Guru on the map in a big way, and significantly improved Ball J's music studio business. As the song blew up, all kinds of artists came to Ball J in the hopes of reproducing Lapaz Toyota's success.[14][15]
He then started working with artists like Kojo Antwi, Guru, Obour [the current president of the Musicians Union of Ghana (MUSIGA)], Tic Tac, Sarkodie, Kwawkese, Stay Jay, Gasmilla, Okra, Nhyiraba Kojo, Obrafour, Castro and the list goes on. Since then he has been recognized as one of the best music producers in Ghana, with songs like Lapaz Toyota, Let Me Do My Thing, Twaa Me Lala, Non-fa, Innit, Masa I Beg, Pooley and many more as his claim to fame; making hits in Ghana and the world at large. Ball J was nominated for the Best Producer of the year in the Ghana Music Awards this year. On the 21st of December, 2012, Ball J released his first Hip hop single “All Eyes On You”[16][17] from his upcoming album “Home and Away” which received credible response and air play from both Africa and the Western. 29 March 2013, Good Friday, saw the release of another banger, Afrobeat/Azonto tune "Togo Bikini".[18] He Co-Produced Kwasese's new hit single Yakubu which features Sarkodie and he himself. "Weiyɛ Ball J Beat" (this is Ball J's beat) is his signature phrase which is now a household name.
Career
2016: Okumoo
On April 15 this year, Ball J released a standalone afrobeat single Okumoo.[19]
2016: Big Six (Debut Album)
On 6 June 2016, Nu Afrika Records released Ball J's first studio album "Big Six". The album has six songs in total as in its name and features only three Ghanaian artiste; Choirmaster, Sarkodie and Stonebwoy all on one track "Poolside Jam". "Big Six" album is currently on 37 online digital stores for Digital download and Streaming.[20]
No. | Title | Writer(s) | Producer(s) | Length |
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1. | "Intro / Day One Fans" |
| Ball J | 6:01 |
2. | "Blackmail The Black Male" |
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4:40 |
3. | "Awesome" |
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3:59 |
4. | "I Am That I Am" |
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5:07 |
5. | "Poolside Jam" (featuring Choirmaster, Sarkodie and Stonebwoy) |
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4:45 |
6. | "Gravity Of Love" |
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6:06 |
Total length: |
30:37 |
- Notes
- "Intro" vocals by Ichibangod Kofi and dialogue from "Deadly Voyage" movie.
- "Day One Fans" outro vocals by Ekow Botchway.[24]
- "Day One Fans" additional vocals by Jayso[25] and EL.[26]
- "Blackmail The Black Male"[27] additional vocals by KRS-One.[28]
- "Awesome"[29][30][31][32] additional vocals by Kofi DJ.
- "Poolside Jams" features vocals by Choirmaster, Sarkodie and Stonebwoy.[33]
- "I Am That I Am"[34] additional vocals by Malik Ofori and Amdia.
- "Gravity Of Love"[35][36] additional vocals by Enigma, Malik Ofori and Maron Wullar.
- Sample credits
- "Intro" contains dialogue from "Deadly Voyage" movie.[37]
- "Gravity of Love" contains samples of "Gravity of Love", and contains interpolations of "Gravity of Love" performed by Enigma.
Musical Style
Ball J is regarded as one of the best rappers in Africa when it comes to hip hop music.[38] He is very good at rap freestyles. Most of his songs online are freestyles, what he calls unwritten freestyle. Ball J has contributed a lot to the Ghana Music Industry, he can be named among top 10 famous Ghanaians who made the Azonto genre and dance popular worldwide.[39][40]
Personal life
Ball J comes from a family of five; his mother Beatrice Richardson, his father Emmanuel Ayeh-Hanson (late), He and his two siblings; Norris Nii Noi Ayeh-Hanson (brother) and Nancy Nana Atei Ayeh-Hanson (sister). He is married with three children.
Entrepreneur
Nu Afrika Records
Nu Afrika Records was founded by Ball J in the early 2006. Nu Afrika Records is an artist management and recording studio located in Spintex–Accra. For the past 9 to 10 years they have been producing, recording and managing most of Ghana's prominent Hiplife and Hip hop musicians like Guru, Kwawkese, Nhyiraba Kojo, Sarkodie etc. Nu Afrika stands for New (Nu) Africa (Afrika). Most songs produced by Ball J or owned by the record label has the phrase "Take Y'all To Nu Afrika" at the beginning or at the end of the song. The record label has Ball J the owner of the label signed to its credit. It also has a video editing, graphic designing and production house called 36 Men and Two Radio Shows, The World African Show and Rap360 airing online and on radio respectively. Nu Afrika Records is also an event organizing and promotions company.[41]
The Nu Afrika Hip Hop Cypher
The Nu Afrika Hip hop Cypher Volume 1 was one of Ghana's first if not the first cypher's to be recorded in Ghana. It was recorded in 2007. Ball J was able to put together a lot of Ghana's top rappers and underground rappers on the cypher. The cypher is in two different versions; the English version and the Twi version. The full English version is about 24 minutes long and the full Twi version is about 23 minutes long. On the 4th of January, 2014, Ball J released short versions for both the English and Twi cypher.[42][43] Both the full English version and the full Twi version are yet to be released.
The following are names of rappers on the Nu Afrika Hip hop Cypher (Short English version):
- Ball J
- Scientific
- J-Town
- D-Black
- Gemini
- Trigmatic
- Recognize Ali (Greenfield)
- EL
- Frank P
The following are names of rappers on the Nu Afrika Hip hop Cypher (Short Twi version):
Advertisement And Voice Over
Amongst Ball J's numerous talents is his amazing voice with which he does Radio and Television commercials, Jingles and all forms of advertisements including branding of products, goods and services. For example, Joy FM's famous radio jingle "Joy 99 point 7" was made by Ball J, another famous radio jingle mad by him is OK FM's "This is OK Fm" or "OK FM! 101 point 7". Almost all jingles on Green FM Ghana was made by him. The following are some of the multimedia company / companies Ball J has worked with; Hot FM, Live FM, Radio Universe, UTV, The Spirited Actor, General Motors Ghana, Kalypo, Y Fm, L.G, Happy Fm, E.tv Ghana, Reality Shows etc. Ball J is currently working with Mr Ivan Quashigah; director for the popular TV series "Things We Do For Love" and "YOLO".
MTN Hitmaker TV Show
The MTN Hitmaker is an original talent hunt reality show opened to Ghanaians who believe they are bound to be Hitmakers.[44] MTN Hitmaker strives to discover and nurture the great creative potential in Ghana. The ultimate winner of the MTN Hitmaker show wins GH¢100,000 recording deal. Ball J was selected as one of the music producers/sound engineers for the MTN Hit Maker reality show since the show began during the later part of 2012.[45][46] Togbe, winner of the Hitmaker Season 3 was from the camp of Nu Afrika Records. He walked away with the prize of GH¢100,000 recording deal when he emerged winner for season 3.[47][48][49] Because he was once an artiste of Nu Afrka Record, Ball J was his sound engineer. His debut track Number 9 (produced by Ball J) which featured hiplife heavyweight Kwawkese was released a few months ago and is steadily climbing the charts.[50]
Year | Show | Season | Sound Engineer | Artist | Result |
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2014 | MTN Hitmaker | 3 | Ball J | Torgbe | Won |
Skillions Records
Skillions started as a rap group in 1999 with Jayso[51] and T-Kube, both classmates in Senior High School. After T-Kube left Ghana for the United Kingdom in 2000, Jayso began recruiting young rappers and singers like himself. For Jayso, the dream was to create an empire; a force that will take over the entire Ghanaian Music Scene.
By 2001, The Skillions consisted of Jayso, Ball J and Jinx Therapy (now Frank P).
Jayso later joined the Haatsville Music Group led by Kwame Barfour Osei popularly known as Kobi-Onyame.
The Skillions continued to make music together with Haatsville, and Jayso continued to recruit talent to ensure the dream was kept alive. EL, J-Town, Midknight, KP and Sandyswiz joined the Skillions between 2002 and 2005. The group worked on the first ever Hip Hop mixtape to come out of Ghana. The 21 track Mixtape did extremely well and provided a platform for each Skillions Member to showcase their versatility.
After the mixtape, the Skillions members decided to pursue solo careers. Jayso went ahead to use his newly gained platform to help younger upcoming artists to also achieve their dreams. He formed the New Generation Skillions, which consisted of Lil'Shaker, Bra Kevinbeats, Joey B, Grafik, Killmatic, Paapa, Rumor, Noble, Padlock, The Third and Gemini. The New Generation Skillions worked on their mixtape and it was a major success under the Skillions umbrella and Ebuzu Media Services. Some members of the New Generation also pursued solo careers after the mixtape.
Over the past few years, Skillions has gone through some major changes and most of the old members have moved on to pursue solo careers. Ball J started Nu Afrika Records EL started GH Productions and is now signed to BBnZ Live, J-town signed to Killa1west, Jinx is unsigned, NKP quit rap, Midknight is in Atlanta, Grafik left, Joey B and Gemini signed to Hammer's Last Two, Kevinbeats signed to Cryme Records and Killmatic is signed to Duncwills Entertainment.
Currently, Skillions is no longer just a group but a Record Company.[52]
Discography
Selected Singles
Year | Title | Producer(s) | Ref |
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2009 | Temperature by Nu Afrika Records | Ball J | [53] |
2011 | Take My Letter Away (featuring Kojo Antwi) | Ball J | [54] |
2013 | Coco Beach | Ball J | [55] |
2013 | All Eyes On You | Ball J | [56][57] |
2016 | Okumoo | Ball J | [58] |
Selected Songs Featured On
Year | Title | Producer(s) | Ref |
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2014 | Mr Lover Lover by Kwawkese | Coptic | [59] |
2015 | Yakubu by Kwawkese (featuring Ball J & Sarkodie) | Ball J & Skonti | [60] |
Selected Songs Produced And Mastered by Ball J
Year | Title | Artiste | Producer(s) | Ref |
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2009 | What's Up New York | Yaa Pono | Ball J | |
2010 | Killer Bewu Last Show | Kwawkese | Ball J | |
2012 | Lapaz Toyota | Guru | Ball J | [61][62][63] |
2012 | Twame La La | Stay J | Ball J | [64] |
2012 | Let Me Do My Thing | Kwawkese | Ball J | [65] |
2012 | Innit | Gasmilla | Ball J | [66] |
2012 | Kareoke | Guru | Ball J | [67] |
2012 | Fano Saa | Castro | Ball J | [68] |
2012 | Kwatrikwa | Praye | Ball J | [69] |
2012 | Survival (featuring Stonebyow) | Fiifi Selah | Ball J | [70] |
2012 | Carry Dey Go (featuring EL) | Greenfield | Ball J | [71] |
2012 | One People (featuring R2Bees) | Obour | Ball J | [72] |
2012 | Chilling | T-Blaze | Ball J | |
2013 | NonFa | Mr Hmhmm | Ball J | [73] |
2013 | Wo Fi Te Mo Lɛ (featuring Double) | Pope Skiny | Ball J | |
2013 | Vampire | Tictac | Ball J | [74] |
2013 | Come See For Ghana | King Ayisoba | Ball J | [75] |
2013 | Ayalolo (featuring Screwface) | Nhyiraba Kojo | Ball J | [76] |
2014 | Pooley | Guru | Ball J | [77] |
2014 | Pressure Pump (featuring Joey B) | Kwawkese | Ball J | [78] |
2014 | Yaayi (featuring Keche) | Nhyiraba Kojo | Ball J | [79] |
2014 | Obunsam (featuring Obrafuor) | Kwawkese | Ball J | [80] |
2014 | Bossu | Guru | Ball J | [81] |
2015 | Masa I Beg (featuring Ike Wonder) | Kwawkese | Ball J | [82] |
2015 | Nyame Be Tua Wo Ka | Guru | Ball J | [83] |
2015 | Baba God (featuring Ike Wonder) | Guru | Ball J | [84] |
2015 | Wonohard (featuring Ball J) | Konfi | Ball J | [85] |
2016 | Patoranking | Patoranking | Ball J | [86] |
2016 | Are You Aware | Guru | Ball J | [87] |
Selected Songs Co-Producer by Ball J
Year | Title | Ref |
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2015 | Yakubu by Kwawkese (featuring Ball J & Sarkodie) | [90] |
Selected Songs Mastered by Ball J
Year | Title | Ref |
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2014 | Pooley Swag | [91] |
2015 | Yakubu by Kwawkese (featuring Ball J & Sarkodie) | [92] |
Freestyle Songs / Cover
Year | Cover Title | Original Song By | Ref |
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2010 | No Afraid | Eminem | [93] |
2013 | Open Letter | Jay Z | [94] |
2014 | They Don't Love You No More | DJ Khaled | [95] |
2014 | Hammer Freestyle | Hammer | [96] |
2015 | CMM (Count My Mistakes) | N/A | [97] |
2016 | Figure It Out | French Montana | [98] |
Videography
Year | Title | Director | Ref |
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2010 | Temperature | Phamous Philms | [99] |
2014 | They Don't Love You No More | Malik Ofori | [100] |
2014 | Mr Lover Lover (as a featured artiste) | Prince Dovlo | [101] |
2015 | Yakubu (as a featured artiste) | Prince Dovlo | [102] |
2016 | I Am That I Am | Kenn Ayiah | [103] |
Awards And Nominations
Year | Awards | Category | Nominated work | Result | Ref |
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2010 | 4syte Music Video Awards | Best Special Effects Video Of The Year | Temperature by Nu Afrika Records | Nominated | |
2011 | 4syte Music Video Awards | Best Hip Hop Video Of The Year | Ya Tiatia by Nu Afrika Records | Nominated | [104] |
2011 | 4syte Music Video Awards | Best Special Effect Video Of The Year | Ya Tiatia by Nu Afrika Records | Nominated | [105] |
2015 | Ghana Music Awards | Best Producer Of The Year | Pooley by Guru | Nominated | [106] |
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