O motor musical de Gana não roda em cima de uma única gravadora. Entre o rádio local e as pistas de dança, o país funciona numa colisão de Afrobeats, Highlife, Hiplife e dancehall. É um ecossistema onde a dominância é estabelecida no chão de Accra, charteada faixa por faixa, e sustentada por artistas que passam mais de uma década ancorando a rotação.
No centro desse som estão Shatta Wale e Stonebwoy. Nas paradas da MUSIGA, Stonebwoy ocupa o sexto lugar entre os artistas com quatro faixas ativas, seguido por Shatta Wale em sétimo com três. Os dois artistas mantiveram um lock nas paradas locais enquanto pivotavam entre gêneros.
Shatta Wale, nascido Charles Nii Armah Mensah Jr. em Accra, continua sendo um dos nomes mais visíveis do dancehall ganense. Conhecido localmente como o Rei do Dancehall Africano, ele produz e comanda a maior parte do seu material de forma independente, tendo gravado e masterizado a maioria dos seus hits sozinho. O Graphic Online observou que 2025 pertenceu a Shatta Wale ao lado de Wendy Shay e Black Sherif, impulsionado em parte pelo seu single “Street Crown”, que se tornou um dos discos definidores do ano e sustentou atividade pesada no chart Ghana Audiomack do Soundcharts. Seu catálogo abrange mainstays locais como “Ayoo”, “ON GOD” e “Pancake”, voltando a clássicos anteriores como “Fool Is The Last To Know” e “Bullet Proof” de 2018. Como um espectador do YouTube comentou embaixo de “Bullet Proof”, “I am from Nigeria but i love shatta Wale music pls hit shatta Wale like.” Shatta Wale seguiu com seu lançamento pela Shatta Movement Empire African King, colocando faixas como “God of the Universe” no Apple Music Ghana Top 200, antes de lançar o single “One More Year” e se juntar aos artistas nigerianos Tekno e Bankuli no seu álbum de Afrobeats Konekt.
Stonebwoy (Livingstone Etse Satekla) comanda uma base igualmente dedicada em Ashaiman, na Grande Accra. Surgindo através de showcases de rap no Kasahare Level da Adom FM e hits iniciais como “Climax” e “Ghetto Love” de 2012, ele lançou a Burniton Music Group e construiu um catálogo que passa por Grade 1, Necessary Evil e Epistles of Mama de 2017. Essa era produziu clássicos como “One Thing” com Damaris e o hit “Bawasaaba.” Sob o vídeo de “Bawasaaba”, um ouvinte escreveu: “Who else is in support that Stonebwoy is just talented? #EOM #Bawasaaba #BHIM🔥🔥.” O álbum de 2023 de Stonebwoy, 5th Dimension, empurrou seu som para o Afropop e amapiano, preparando seu single “Jejerje”, que atingiu o topo das paradas do YouTube e do Apple Music em Gana. Seu álbum de 2024 UP & RUNNIN6, lançado com a ADA Worldwide da Warner Music Group, trouxe participações de ODUMODUBLVCK, Duncan Mighty e Spice, enquanto seu single “Many Times” continua firme na rotação local do Audiomack.
A rotação de clubes da cena também puxa regularmente vozes da diáspora e regionais. O artista britânico-ganês Eugy Official, nascido em Gana antes de se mudar para Londres, virou presença fixa nos clubes com “Dance for Me” de 2016 ao lado de Mr Eazi, “Tick Tock” de 2017 produzido por Team Salut, e “Captain” com a vocalista sul-africana Siza do EP Flavourz. Sob o vídeo de “Tick Tock”, um espectador escreveu: “I feel Eugy is underrated like highly underrated.” Siza seguiu “Captain” com seu vídeo de estreia para “Say What You Want” com Eugy, e depois seu EP Pull Up de 2019. Eugy voltou diretamente ao som local de Accra em seu EP de cinco faixas Home Run, unindo forças com Jhay Bhad de Kumasi para a faixa de drill “Show Me The Light” e DanceGod Lloyd em “BumBumBum”, antes de lançar singles recentes como “He Called Me” de 2024 e “God Is Good” de 2025.
Artistas nigerianos como Falz e D’Banj também continuam entrelaçados no circuito de shows de Gana. Falz, que venceu como Melhor Rapper Africano no AFRIMA em Acra em 2018 depois de largar o Direito pela música, se juntou a Medikal e Maleek Berry no “Next” de 2018 e apareceu em “Ghana Jollof” ao lado de Kwabena Kwabena. Desde então, lançou o álbum de 2025 The Feast e o EP de 2026 Break Time. Já D’Banj, cuja base inicial remonta às gravações com Don Jazzy no estúdio de Kas em 2004, soltou o clipe de “Action” em 2018 e segue firme nas aparições em clubes com o álbum de 2024 The Entertainer: D’Sequel e “Tobari” de 2025 com DJ Maphorisa e DJ OBI.
Essa rotatividade é respaldada por uma história profunda. O Highlife surgiu na Costa do Ouro no final do século XIX e início do XX como expressão de modernidade e resistência, e os anos 1990 trouxeram o hiplife quando Reggie Rockstone misturou rap, dialeto local e gírias de rua com Highlife e Dancehall. Nas contagens de faixas da MUSIGA hoje, Sarkodie, KiDi e Kuami Eugene estão acima da média, emoldurando eventos como o Telecel Ghana Music Awards de 2025. Momentos de crossover internacional acontecem—”Kwaku the Traveller” de Black Sherif fez história como o primeiro disco ganense a liderar o Apple Music Nigéria, e Shatta Wale alcançou ouvintes internacionais através de uma colaboração com Beyoncé. No entanto, o pulso atual da cena local pertence às faixas que dominam a rotação em casa, lideradas pelo lançamento de 2025 de Black Sherif, “Sacrifice”, e “Darkest Style” de D Global e Lasmid.
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Bawasaaba is still moving💃💥who's here with me 2019 on 3rd of June 🖐️ up. 🔥 ❤️ 💃 💃
♥ 264I'm in 2020 30th April
♥ 26 june 2026
I am African American. I hope that African Americans do not become upset when I say this:
♥ 292Outside of the United States, African musicians have made an amazing concerted effort to re-Africanize music that has been mislabeled as "Salsa", "Merengue" and other names that give credit to those who "appropriated" the musical genres associated with African music and made it appear as though non-Africans are the original inventors.
African heavy metal
African hip hop
Afro-soul
Afrobeat
Apala
Azonto
Batuque
Benga
Bongo Flava
Bikutsi
Cape Jazz
Coladeira
Coupé-Décalé
Hipco
Highlife
Hiplife
Isicathamiya
Chimurenga
Fuji music
Jit
Jùjú
Kapuka a.k.a. Boomba
Kizomba
Kuduro
Kwaito
Kwela
Makossa
Maloya
Marrabenta
Mbalax
Museve
Mbaqanga a.k.a. Sungura
Funaná
Genge
Mbube
Morna
Ndombolo
Palm-wine a.k.a. Maringa
Pandza
Raï
Sakara
Salegy
Sega
Semba
Shangaan electro
Soukous aka Congo, Lingala or African rumba
Taarab
Zouglou
The Caribbean is now another happy recipient of the progeny of Africans whose musical talents were plundered without ever receiving payment, let alone recognition. This reinvigoration of Africentric music by real Africans is now what African Americans need to pull ourselves out of the entertainment trap set by the sex-starved, Molech-worshipping, Ashkenazi leaders, who have a disgusting knack of capturing our talent when we are at our best and brightest, sexualizing not just what we sing, but sexualizing us too.
The ancestors have now sent some of her children to wake us up. Those of us who are intelligent enough to listen will heed the words of these musical griots and adjust our music to fit the spiritual needs of continental Africans and Africans in the Diaspora by relearning the languages, words, stories -- and above all, the music that has kept us alive, even when we did not know it.
Please . . . let us open our hearts and arms to African performers so that our talents are no longer sexualized by Hollywood. We owe that to ourselves and our children.
Well explained brother respect for your knowledge
♥ 1Can u repeat that
♥ 1Who else is in support that Stonebwoy is just talented? #EOM #Bawasaaba #BHIM🔥🔥
♥ 1,301Korkor Djaba I am in 1000%
♥ 8U aa hear too haha we will meet at dis thing wae
♥ 5Hmm I found out this the song Ebony was singing in her vedio on Snapchat 😢😧RIP Nana hemaa
♥ 369Hmmmm she was suppose to be part of it kraaa so the part she was singing was her part
♥ 7Very true.... her last snap
♥ 6I use to be a fan..am now an air conditioner 😆😆😆 BHIM to the world
♥ 499Hahahaaaaa this has just made my morning!!!!
♥ 6Amina Ibrahim gh
♥ 2Stonebwoy and Mugeez from Ghana don't mess with those two guys they're very talented! I'm from Congo, I live in Congo I never went to Ghana but I'm very interested in visiting Ghana one day and when I do I will make sure I meet those two exceptional guys.
♥ 286We welcome u
♥ 3U gonna feel good here in Ghana
One people one love
Look sharppp
♥ 2Am a Nigeria ,the reason why I came here was because of shatta words about stone boy....but I think stone boy is better....
♥ 285Don't mind that shatta guy, he's always hating on Stonebwoy for no reason. It's just pure envy. Stonebwoy is really good & humble and that makes him stand out.
♥ 26Stonebwoy is good but Shatta Wale is also good still I know that Shatta was been picking on Stone but please give Wale some COMPANY!😤
♥ 13in church my bishop in *Nigeria* heard this song and repented .. *Ghana* to the world at large . *9JA* loves you *stonebwoy* #BHIM to all the nations .
♥ 273trust me guys i play this every 2 days at least [ 30-40 times minimum ] on repeat . An overflow of internet [ work in a *Youtube Company* ] so u can can pikcha that. song is every kinda emotions man . *#BHIM** !!!*
♥ 10Pray some more 🤩
♥ 5My friend passed away just recently and in one of the videos I have of him he requested for this song to be played. So I'm leaving this comment here, anytime someone likes it, I'll come and listen to it again in memory of him
♥ 258My condolences 💐
♥ 6May he Rest In Peace 🙏🌹
♥ 3Who else liked b4 watching the video..... 2nd best reggae album fi de whole world. 💥💥💥💥💥 album of de year If u believe hit de like button
♥ 485Awal Yusif me
♥ 1Awal Yusif B.B.
Who else is here to read comments 🙌
♥ 300Daniel Wiaki หวยรัฐบาล
Am here
Ghanaians got every talents like seriously. high life, dance hall, hip hop, this boys no dey play ooo.
♥ 189@henryemele3147 we are talking about ghana and yur stupid self wants to put nigerian into it
♥ 5@henryemele3147 no.
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