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Ghanaian rapper Trigmatic, born Enoch Nana Yaw Oduro-Agyei has disagreed with the perception that recording in local languages limits the artiste from gaining global recognition.

Speaking in an interview on The Day Show, Sunday, he argued that it’s the responsibility of the artiste’s publishers and distributors to ensure the artiste gets international reach and not the language the song was recorded in.

“I disagree with that. It doesn’t necessarily take the artiste to go far. It takes his publishers and distributors to do that job and so if you have a good publisher and they want to take you so far they can, if they don’t want to or they are limited, that’s what is going to happen,” he added.

He urged artistes to value and uphold their tradition by recording more songs in local languages.

“I think we need to start being proud of who we are as a people. We need to encourage a lot of people to record in vernacular (local languages). There is nothing wrong and bad about it. I think it is something we need to encourage,” he said on The Day Show, Sunday September 22.

Trigmatic is known for recording most of his songs in the local language particularly, the Ga language. The rapper and songwriter entered the music scene in 2010 with his album, ‘Permanent Stains’ which had hit singles such as ‘My Life’, My Jolly’ and ‘Mefiri Ghana’ earning him the best rapper of the year award in 2011.