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Crayon says he and Rema are “no longer friends” and blames Mavin
Six years after both signed to Mavin Records, Crayon wrote on X on 5 November that the friendship is over and the label “killed” the old him. Rema, Mavin, Don Jazzy and Tega Oghenejobo have not responded publicly.
Kofi Kinaata’s “Boot 4 Boot”: the man who quit football over the price of boots names a song after kicking back
The Takoradi songwriter released "Boot 4 Boot" on 2 November through Team Move, produced by OT Woode and WillisBeatz. The title is a Ghanaian street phrase for tit for tat, but the song hands the fight to the Spirit and prays for traders and mothers.
Kelvyn Boy’s 2nd Step: seven years after the Burniton split, the “wounded lion” is back with a 12-song album
After Stonebwoy's label parted ways with him in September 2019, Kelvyn Boy started again with Blakk Arm Entertainment, broke through with Down Flat, and backed newcomer KOJO BLAK on Excellent. His new album, 2nd Step, came out on 25 September.
Gyakie spelled her name on Pluzz FM. Who is Haeven, the rapper with 1,796 monthly listeners?
Asked which female artist she is listening to in Ghana, Gyakie named Haeven and spelled it out. The independent rapper has an Apple Music Up Next nod, a debut EP and a TGMA nomination, and under 2,000 monthly listeners on Spotify.
Gyakie Live returns on 12 December at Ghud Park, her first own show since December 2022
The singer last headlined her own concert on her birthday in 2022. In the three Decembers since, she released a debut album and passed 480 million Spotify streams across her credits.
Omah Lay postpones his tour, then releases four new songs four days later
A knee ligament injury took every Clarity of Mind tour date from 30 October off the calendar. On 30 October the album came back as Clarity of Mind (Extended), with Gunna and Tiakola on two of the four new songs.
"Compare me with Stonebwoy": Carter Efe's joke on his Ghana stream starts the third Shatta-Stonebwoy ranking row in ten days
On his own Twitch stream in Ghana, with Shatta Wale look-alike Made in Ghana beside him, the Nigerian streamer said Shatta was the biggest in Ghana and he should be compared with Stonebwoy instead. Stonebwoy fans called it disrespect.
Dave's "The Boy Who Played the Harp": a rapper named David puts himself on trial
The title track that closes Dave's third album is one long verse with no hook. He asks what he would have done in 1940, in 1960, on the Titanic and at Karbala, then turns the question on himself: what is he doing in this generation?
Is reggae dead in Ghana? Twelve years, three winners
A UTV panel argued over whether Ghana's reggae is dead. The Ghana Music Awards record says both sides have a point. New names keep winning the song award, but only three artists have ever won Reggae/Dancehall Artiste of the Year.
Sarkodie and OliveTheBoy's "Cold": a heart running cold, and a Twi word for calm
The second single from Sarkodie's DeJaVu EP turns on one line. In English, a cold heart is a cruel one. In Twi, the word Olive reaches for next comes from a root meaning to cool down, the same root as the word for peace.
Ko-jo Cue says a teacher changed his name, and nobody was around to check
In a new interview with Abena Soreno, the rapper says the name he spelled as Kenny became Kennedy at school. He also talks about growing up without his father, the boys from Bantama who never made it, and the year music could not help him.
A month after soldiers cleared her Laboma bar, itz Tiffany released "Hustler"
The song's hook, "this tunnel ein end deɛ, no light, but we still dey push through", lands differently once you know what happened at Laboma Beach on 14 September.
M.anifest and Black Sherif's "Road Rage" hides Julius Caesar three times in four lines
Unveiled at Nowhere Cool At 10 on Saturday and out today, the single runs from a Minnesota college in 2001 to Ghana's Artiste of the Year taking the wheel.
Omar Sterling on "Stay Up": why buy data to depress yourself?
Track five on VTH 2 asks the question every phone owner in Ghana knows at two in the morning, and its title means two things.
Gyakie's Your Body (Crazy) video passes 1.2 million views in 11 days
Her last music video needed a year to reach 1.4 million. The new one, produced by AfroLektra and pushed out through a Warner Music Africa distribution deal, is moving close to 30 times faster.
Joey B called it "Sunshine", then shot the whole video at night
The 2017 single, produced by Nova, opens as a prayer in Twi and is set in a night-time Western lit mostly by fire. The sun appears only in the video's final shots.
Sarkodie's "Brag" named Wizkid, Davido and Burna Boy. Was it a diss? Check the dates
The 2024 single lists Nigerian stars who "came" after him and names Kendrick Lamar and J. Cole as his real competition. Every artist he named released a first album after his 2009 debut.
Serwaa Amihere told women to stop buying fakes. Then X inspected her own bag
At an IGNITE women's session, the broadcaster told young women to buy what they can afford, from Zara to Kantamanto at 4 a.m. By Monday morning, a post claiming her Chanel is fake had passed 186,000 views. Nobody has shown proof either way.
Rapperholic Kumasi review, a full stadium and a royal entrance let down by a slow night at the gates
Sarkodie's second Kumasi edition ended with him on his knees at dawn. Fans praised the crowd, the guest artists and the Daddy Lumba tribute, and complained about wristbands, traffic and timing.
Is Kwesi Arthur still making music? The record since Son of Jacob
A TikTok comment asking why Kwesi Arthur stopped singing drew 705 likes. Since leaving Ground Up Chale, he has released an independent album and toured the US.
Sarkodie's "Original" answered the Twi critics in 2013, and the argument is still going
The song opened with a promise to rap in his own language all the way to the Grammys. Thirteen years on, Rapperholic has been to Kumasi and the Grammy is still the missing stamp.
Stonebwoy's "Wilderness" came out four months before the Shatta remarks it was said to answer
The Torcher II song opens with a psalm, borrows from the story of Job and puts Stonebwoy beside Muhammad Ali and Thomas Sankara. It was out in March 2026, long before July's "daddy" row.
Rapperholic Kumasi: what the 'empty stadium' videos really show
The most-shared clip of an empty Baba Yara was filmed at 7:49 PM, by its own phone clock. Here is the night hour by hour, from the videos people posted.
ZAYN says Ayra Starr's "Heaven Baby" made him think of his daughter
Ayra Starr calls the Starrgirl song a love song. In Spotify's making-of film, ZAYN said he cried when he first heard it, and the director said he kept the two singers apart on purpose.
Booed in 2019, headlining Ghud Park in December: Gyakie on Starr Drive
On Starr FM, Gyakie talked about the crowd that booed her, her first headline show since 2022 and a new EP before Christmas.
Omar Sterling and M.anifest's "Makola Dreams" and the market soldiers destroyed in a day
The 2021 song treats life as one long bargain. Its title points back to August 1979, when the AFRC gave traders one night's notice and Makola Market was gone by the next evening.
Showboy's "Mood" reads like a letter home from a man who served time in a US prison
The rapper released the song in the first days of January 2026. Four weeks later he was arrested over blackmail and defamation allegations he has not been convicted of.
Sarkodie raps on Mickey Lux's Vanity hours before Rapperholic Kumasi
On the morning of his Baba Yara show, Sarkodie praised a song by the 27-year-old artist, then posted a video of himself rapping on it. The song had been out for four days.
Francis Duru, Ahanna in Rattlesnake, dies at 57
The Nollywood veteran died after a brief illness, his family announced on Friday. Many who grew up on VHS-era Nollywood in Nigeria and Ghana remember him as Ahanna.
Kafui Dey says the studio crew picked him to host Who Wants To Be Rich
In a new interview with Abena Soreno, the broadcaster and MC says producers could not choose between two finalists, so they asked the crew. It came after TV3 had turned him down.
Sarkodie says radio talks about him with confidence and no idea, and three public records show how that happens
On Luv FM's Drive Time, Sarkodie criticised people who discuss him on air without knowing the facts. Three recent examples show how unchecked lines travel through Ghana's entertainment media.
Shatta Wale's 2023 song "We Deh Inside" is trending again after he cried on stage at ShattaFest
A stage clip shows him wiping tears while singing the song's line about Trueman. Four days later, Medikal posted the song with one word, "Chale".
Omar Sterling meditated on half of "Tema Motorway" on Ghana's only motorway
The freestyle with Efya was performed live in Tema in 2011 and reached streaming platforms in 2022. The road it is named after opened under Kwame Nkrumah in 1965.
A line about his father in Omar Sterling's 2017 song "Victory Through Harmony" lands differently this month
Nine years ago, Omar Sterling rapped about advice from his dad. On 11 October 2026 he laid his father, known as Papa Watch, to rest in Tema.
Kwesi Dain and Medikal's Hallelujah is a thank-you that starts with nowhere to sleep
The May 2026 song came out 13 days after Medikal's big night at the TGMAs. A fan asked for it to be explained, and the story underneath is about the basics.
Kwesi Arthur's Redemption opens his new album with a Twi line about the devil
The first track on Redemption Valley came out two weeks after his public dispute with his former label Ground Up. No ruling in the libel case has been reported.
Gyakie pushes back after GHOne TV headlines her love life from a music interview
GHOne posted five cards from her Starr FM interview. The one saying she was searching for a boyfriend drew the most views, and none mentioned her new song, EP or concert.
E.L's 10 Rap Commandments came out nine months before his VGMA Artiste of the Year win
The 2015 song set out ten rules for surviving the music industry. In 2026, E.L is back with D-Black on a joint EP, Dancing Machine.
Have Mercy 2 puts two prayers in one song, Kofi Kinaata's list and Sarkodie's plea
Kofi Kinaata asks God for a house in Trasacco, a Benz and a promotion. Sarkodie asks why God is late with food for the children.
Omar Sterling's "haven't prayed in 20 years" interview was recorded months before his father's funeral
R2Bees' rare sit-down on NandoLeaks' Real Talk set off a storm over Omar Sterling's views on prayer and God. The tape dates itself to Independence Day, seven months before his father's funeral.
Sarkodie's thank-you song to Kumasi ends with a promise he keeps on Saturday
Asante Y3 Oman came out days after a rain-hit Rapperholic at Baba Yara in 2025. Rapperholic returns to the same stadium on 24 October.
Kwesi Arthur's Devil Knocking and the sign that was already on the same EP
The last track on his 2017 EP is a prayer with a knock at the door. Two songs earlier sat Grind Day, the lead single whose remix went on to win at the 2018 Ghana Music Awards.
Shatta Wale says he made On God in 45 minutes. It now has 32 million views
The 2022 single came from a prayer about being compared, he has said. The video has one man in it, and that is the message.
Stonebwoy's Torcher plays one sound two ways, the torch and the torture
His January 2025 freestyle prints both spellings on his own subtitles, and many of its lines can be read through the Bible.
Omar Sterling's Ibiza has no beach in its video, and that is the point
The 2016 song from the first Victory Through Harmony was shot entirely on an indoor warehouse set. The island is only in the title.
What is the biggest show in Ghana? It depends on what you measure
Asked to name Ghana's biggest concert, fans picked ShattaFest, BHIM Festival, Global Citizen, AfroFuture, Zaama Disco and Rapperholic. Crowd, tickets, stage and experience each give a different winner.
Sarkodie on Serwaa Amihere's When We Sit, from the O2 Arena and royalties to Shatta Wale and Stonebwoy
In an 82-minute interview, Sarkodie talked about filling the O2 in London, the money behind Nigerian music, GHAMRO, his family, his rivals and his politics.
Sarkodie and Kweku Flick's Odo Pa video tells a domestic violence story from the grave back
The song's title means good love. Its video, starring Efia Odo, opens in a cemetery and closes on an ambulance marked with Ghana's emergency number.
M.anifest drops On Ten as Nowhere Cool turns ten
The song with O'Kenneth and wavypae came out nine days after his 2016 album's tenth anniversary. He plays the whole album live at the Accra Polo Club on 24 October.
M.anifest answers the call on Ezra Collective's Streets Is Calling
The 2024 single puts an Accra rapper beside a London jazz band and South Africa's Moonchild Sanelly. Its album helped the band win at the BRITs in 2025.
Shatta Wale says he came with a message, not to compete, a day after ShattaFest
As fans argued over free shows, paid shows and who is bigger, Shatta Wale posted a short statement and a photo of the full Accra Sports Stadium. Each line points back to a chapter of his career.
Omar Sterling's Peace, the VTH 2 song that honours those who came before
Track seven of VTH 2 is full of the names of those who came before him. Days after Omar Sterling buried his father in Tema, BAR FOR BAR took it bar by bar.
ShattaFest 2026 brings a full stadium, a set past sunrise and a late start
Shatta Wale played his birthday show at the Accra Sports Stadium from after 1 a.m. until daylight. Here is what happened on the night, and what the organisers should fix next year.