Musician Ebenezer 'Slim Buster' Asare has decried how Ghanaians appear to disregard veterans and legacy music, favouring only music and artistes who are new and sensational.

He said this attitude was greatly detrimental, as it would take more than new stars to push local music to higher heights and greater influence.

He was talking to Summy Brown on Accra 100.5 FM, bemoaning how Hiplife and Highlife superstars who had laboured to create, shape and promote Ghanaian music culture had been snubbed over the years.

Buster cited his guest, rap legend Tinny, who, he said, appeared on the last major production he ever did.

"Tinny is superb when it comes to rap; he knows what he's doing, but unfortunately, judging from what's happening... We have lost so many good musicians," he noted.

He criticised the prevailing trend of attempting to retire musicians "even after just five years in the music industry". 

"They say your [best] time is past," he bemoaned.

The dance champion and record producer said this was not the case in the West, where musicians enjoy mass appeal and industry engagements long after their heyday, which stimulated the ecosystem, inspired rising talents, and improved the vibrancy.

"Look at Snoop Dogg," he said. "Americans worship [the likes of] Snoop Dogg, Jay Z... They worship [them]. The old rappers and musicians, they still worship them."

"But when you come to a country where there are loads of veterans like in Ghana, they don't care," the UK-based Ghanaian contrasted. "The problem we're having now is we are backward in our thinking and unenlightened like villagers."

The serial hitmaker said to "break this jinx, the musicians must come together and decide what to do".

He advocated consensus building and knowledge sharing across music generations for one genre to spearhead Ghana's music culture, forecasting that then "we can break through".

He further said this would naturally inspire new talents to walk the same path of promoting the genre out of pride and excitement just like in the days of the Hiplife wave, for which he came to great fame.