Hammer of The Last Two
| Hammer Of The Last Two | |
|---|---|
| Birth name | Edward Nana Poku Osei |
| Also known as | Hammer Tony Starks |
| Born |
27 March 1976 Accra, Ghana, West Africa |
| Origin | Mampong Ashanti, Ghana |
| Genres | Hip hop, Hiplife |
| Occupation(s) | record producer |
| Years active | 1999–present |
| Labels | The Last Two Music Group |
| Associated acts | Obrafour, Tinny, Kwaw Kese, Ayigbe Edem, Sarkodie (Hip-Hop Artiste), Kwabena Kwabena, K. K. Fosu, Jay Dee, Eugene(Praye) |
| Website |
thelast2music |
Hammer of The Last Two (born Edward Nana Poku Osei, 27 March 1976) is a record producer in the Ghanaian music industry. He is the founder and CEO of The Last Two Music Group and is also known for grooming some of the best Ghanaian Hip Hop or Hiplife artists, including Obrafour, Tinny, Kwaw Kese, Sarkodie, Ayigbe Edem, and others. As a producer, he is credited as one of the pioneers and key figures in the popularization of Hiplife or Hip Hop made in Ghana.
Hammer began his career in music accidentally when a friend of his (Yaw Opare Anoff, aka Way Deep), a gifted keyboardist at the time encouraged him to take up the career because he realized Hammer had the ability to dissect and analyze music in the most unusual ways as a professional does. He also had the habit of finding faults with world-class professional music which he thought could be better. This friend and Hammer then formed a production unit called The Last Two, meaning the only two left to put Ghana on the world map musically. Together they produced an album for a young artist called Obrafour which became the highest selling Hiplife album in Ghana. This album was called Pae mu ka. Way Deep, however, left for the United States while Hammer remained as "one of the two" left alone with the task of fulfilling the dream of two. Hammer however decided to maintain the name The Last Two as a tribute to his friendship with Way Deep.
After Obrafour's album, Hammer took up a new dream to spread Hiplife or Hip Hop in Ghana through all dialects instead of the stereotypical Akan language, which was and is the most popular language in the country. After Obrafour (who rapped in the Twi dialect, typical of the Ashanti people), he challenged himself by risking the production of albums in other unpopular dialects, musically and made history again with the recording of Tinny, who raps in the Ga language, typical of the people of the Greater Accra Region of Ghana. He went down in history as the bestselling Ga act to date. He then challenged himself again with Kwaw Kese ending up as the biggest Fante act to date. The Fante language is typical of the indigenes of the Central Region and parts of the Western Region of Ghana. The story followed with Ayigbe Edem adding to Hammer’s credit as the biggest Ewe rapper to date. The Ewe language is the mother tongue of the Volta Region of Ghana and neighbouring Togo and Benin.
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