{"id":3471,"date":"2019-07-29T13:06:03","date_gmt":"2019-07-29T13:06:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/?p=3471"},"modified":"2019-10-26T18:28:44","modified_gmt":"2019-10-26T18:28:44","slug":"its-wahala-keeping-dreadlocks-guru","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/2019\/07\/29\/its-wahala-keeping-dreadlocks-guru\/","title":{"rendered":"It\u2019s \u2018wahala\u2019 keeping dreadlocks &#8211; Guru"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>HIPLIFE artiste, Guru, has revealed that keeping dreadlocks is hell, the reason why he did away with his after a few short months.<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Speaking in an interview on <em>Sammyflex TV<\/em> which Showbiz sighted on <em>YouTube<\/em>, Guru said the \u2018wahala\u2019 that comes with coming dreadlocks was too much.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe headache and the heat on my head when I kept on the dreadlocks for six months last year was too much. I finally gave up and brought everything down when we went to shoot a music video in Dubai on the desert.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The place was very hot and with the dreads on I just couldn\u2019t handle it. It was very uncomfortable and I brought everything down after the video shoot. I was getting headaches when I was wearing dreadlocks. I now respect anyone who wears dreadlocks,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Moving on to other matters, Guru said his appearance including the way he dresses has changed because he is now growing. \u201cI am now targeting the corporate world and you cannot dress anyhow if you want to get the attention of such people. I now do a lot of African wear and I am clean shaven,\u201d he stated.<\/p>\n<p>About his music, Guru, who is known for songs like <em>Lapaz Toyota<\/em>, <em>Alkayida<\/em>, <em>Pooley<\/em>, <em>Samba<\/em> and <em>Mpaebo<\/em> among others said he is touring the country to promote his music to his fans.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy fans are all over Ghana and the best I can do is to reach out to them. I have decided to do collaborations with the best artistes in each of the regions to broaden my fanbase. I started with Accra and will be moving to other regions,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Guru said he was done with getting a manager because they have all disappointed him. \u201cThere is no need for a manager now because they have all failed me. They didn\u2019t get the direction I wanted to go so we had to go our separate ways,\u201d he stated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HIPLIFE artiste, Guru, has revealed that keeping dreadlocks is hell, the reason why he did away with his after a few short months. Speaking in an interview on Sammyflex TV which Showbiz sighted on YouTube, Guru said the \u2018wahala\u2019 that comes with coming dreadlocks was too much. \u201cThe headache and the heat on my head [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":3472,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_post_source_name":"","_post_source_url":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[80],"tags":[4553,4899,6695,9026,192,401,1444,11493,5198,12791,5058,11748,9761,7818,8033,3954,36,594,9550],"class_list":["post-3471","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-accra","tag-african","tag-dubai","tag-fans","tag-ghana","tag-guru","tag-hell","tag-interview","tag-lapaz","tag-manager","tag-music","tag-pooley","tag-shoot","tag-toyota","tag-video","tag-will","tag-world","tag-who","tag-youtube"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3471","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3471"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3471\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3472"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}