NewsOmar 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.
On 11 October 2026, Omar Sterling of R2Bees laid his father, Papa Watch, to rest at Tema Community 1. A year earlier, he released a song full of the names of those who came before.
"Peace" is track seven on VTH 2, released on 7 October 2025 by R2bees Entertainment. Killmatic produced it, and DAMATICMIX mixed, recorded and mastered it. The credits list Sean Maxbornd and Dwayne-Joe Ayim as writers.
Omar Sterling, also known as Paedae, formed R2Bees in 2007 with his cousin Mugeez. Both are from Tema.
The legends
The breakdown found a song full of names. He compares himself to Rick Rubin, the co-founder of Def Jam who produced the Beastie Boys and Johnny Cash. He also names Zapp Mallet, a hiplife pioneer who worked with Reggie Rockstone, Lord Kenya and Obrafour, and the only engineer to win at the Ghana Music Awards three years running, from 1999 to 2001.
Other references include the New York duo Mobb Deep, Kwame Nkrumah's slogan "Forward ever, backward never", Barack Obama, the first Black US president, and "never outshine the master", the first law in Robert Greene's The 48 Laws of Power.
Old name, new name
The episode's favourite bar sets his old alias, Paedae da Pralem, against the name Mr Sterling. Said quickly, the old name sounds like "payday the problem". As the breakdown hears it, the line casts the old self as the problem and the new one as the remedy. There is no official lyric sheet, and the transcription was done by ear.
Grief into joy
Near the end, he borrows from the Bible, John 16:20, where sorrow is turned into joy. His lyric says grief.
Days after his father's funeral, that line reads differently.
This song is a man settling his accounts, with the legends, with his old name and with grief. He wrote a line about grief turning into joy a year ago. Listen to it today. Rest well, Papa Watch.
- YouTube Topic / TuneCore: Peace credits, producer Killmatic, mixed and mastered by DAMATICMIX
- Audiomack: VTH 2 track listing (Oct 2025)
- Yen and Adom Online: Papa Watch funeral, Tema Community 1 (11 Oct 2026)
- Wikipedia: R2Bees, formed 2007
- Wikipedia, Writers Project Ghana and Graphic Online: Zapp Mallet
- Wikipedia: Rick Rubin, Mobb Deep, Barack Obama
- Robert Greene: The 48 Laws of Power, Law 1 (1998)
- The Bible: John 16:20 (KJV)
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