Victoria Odegbami March 26,2024
Eno Barony, whose real name is Ruth Eno Adjoa Amankwah Nyame Adom, is a Ghanaian rapper and songwriter. She was born in Accra, Ghana, it was claimed that she was the first female Ghanaian rapper to hit a million views on YouTube. She had hit singles “Tonga” and “Wats Ma Name”. In 2014 she was nominated for Vodafone Ghana Music Awards. She was made the music commissioner for Ghana Meets Naija 2017. In 2021 she was among the the Top 30 Most Influential Women in Music by the 3 Music Awards Women’s Brunch. She won an award at the 2021 3Music Awards to become the first female artist in Ghana to have won the Rapper of the Year award. She became the first Ghanaian female to be awarded Best Rapper at the VGMA beating artists like Sarkodie, Amerado, Medikal, Strongman, and Joey B in 2021.
Her song “Don’t Judge Me” features. Dee Wills. The song is talking about how women are always being called “gold diggers” and “whore”. That you shouldn’t judge, only God can do that. This song is a letter to God, telling him there is still evil in her and that she needs to get rid of the evil inside of her. How other people condemn her and call her “bitch”. The lyrics, “Lazy ass men spend all day in church, While I work to be rich, and they think it’s rituals” the lyrics tie back into the judgment that she receives from others when she is working hard and bringing a name to herself, while men just sit and complain.
Eno Barony is an influence on female rappers all over the world because she raps about what she goes through. Her lyrics and beat have a heat that you can’t compare with other rappers. She’s speaking from her heart.
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