NewsShatta 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".
Shatta Wale released "We Deh Inside" on 25 February 2023. For three years it sat quietly on YouTube, with around 400,000 views by 21 October 2026. Then, after ShattaFest, it was all over the timeline.
ShattaFest 2026 took place on Saturday, 17 October at the Accra Sports Stadium, on Shatta's birthday. The festival was powered by MTN Mobile Money. Jupitar was on the lineup, and Medikal performed his new song "Sika" with Shatta.
The Trueman line
When Shatta sang "We Deh Inside", he broke down. A Beboat TV clip shows him wiping his eyes while singing the second verse about Trueman. In that verse he remembers sleeping on a veranda, his father telling him they had to move, and Trueman being stripped naked in public. He says it hurt him deeply, and that to this day he has done nothing for Trueman.
YEN reported that he broke down in tears, and fans wrote that the lyrics said it all. One post on X said people had jammed to the song without understanding how deep it was.
Four days later, at 11:18 p.m. on 21 October, Medikal shared the song with no caption except "Chale".
A song full of clues
Elsewhere, Shatta calls himself expensive, gold and never copper, and says he is from the trenches but also a dadabee, the Ghanaian word for a rich family's child. He has called himself a dadabee in interviews. He thanks a friend who once took his gun away and told him it was no good for him. He calls out to Jupitar and the times he called him at 4 a.m. The hook says that broke or not, "country broke oh, country no broke", everyone is still inside, while the phone keeps ringing with requests to send MoMo.
What he said on stage
Early in the song he raps about having boys and bad land guards around him. At ShattaFest he went further. He said he has plenty of friends who are fraud boys and that he is not a snitch. He claimed ministers steal and are not caught while young boys are arrested, and asked why only Ghana gets the FBI. These are his claims.
Nine days before the show, the FBI announced Operation Blackout, with more than 130 people arrested or detained in Ghana. Pulse reported that in August 2025, EOCO held Shatta over his Lamborghini, a car US authorities had linked to a fraud case, and that he was granted bail. On stage, he said he bought a Lamborghini with money from his music.
Medikal shared that stage and needed only one word. Shatta has never hidden who he moves with, in 2023 or on that stage. You can love that or hate it, but he told you.
- YouTube: official "We Deh Inside" visualizer, uploaded 25 Feb 2023
- Apple Music and Deezer: "We Deh Inside" single (25 Feb 2023)
- Lyrics Room {Ghana} on YouTube: "We Deh Inside" lyric video
- YEN: Shatta Wale calls himself a "dbee"
- MyJoyOnline, GNA, GBC and Adom Online: ShattaFest 2026 at the Accra Sports Stadium (17 Oct 2026)
- ModernGhana and GNA: ShattaFest powered by MTN Mobile Money, in partnership with MobileMoney Fintech Limited
- MyJoyOnline and xtrafrica: Medikal performs "Sika" with Shatta Wale
- Beboat TV on YouTube: stage clip of Shatta Wale singing the Trueman line in tears
- YEN: Shatta Wale breaks down in tears at ShattaFest
- Graphic, DailyGuide and Pulse: Shatta Wale's comments on fraud, ministers and the FBI at ShattaFest
- Citi Newsroom, GBC, Ghana Report, ModernGhana and Vanguard: FBI Operation Blackout, 130+ arrested or detained (8 Oct 2026)
- Pulse: Shatta Wale's EOCO detention over a Lamborghini in 2025 (19 Oct 2026)
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