I feel the time has come to bring my journey with the Ghana national team to an end. 🇬🇭❤️
I leave happy, proud and with the peace of mind of knowing that I gave everything every time I wore this shirt.
Ghana has given me much more than football. It has allowed me to come back home, feel even closer to my roots and experience the enormous pride of representing my country and wearing this flag on my chest.
Thank you from the bottom of my heart to everyone who has been part of this journey and for all the love you have always shown me.
Ghana will always be a part of me. I will continue supporting the Black Stars as one of you, wherever I am.
Medaase. Always Ghana. 🇬🇭❤️
A lot to unpack here, but first things first there’s no need to say something I never said that artistes should play along so far as it benefits them.
The first thing I asked you when we got on that call, and I still want to ask, is “What is your problem?” If, for any reason, you connected that post to yourself, that should tell me how you feel about everything else.
First off, there’s no post I’ve made in my life trying to shade you, and I don’t respond when fans want to make connections because I only care about your opinion, not what someone else makes it seem.
People normally respond to things that possibly had nothing to do with them because they would have done the same thing themselves. I’m only responding to this because it’s coming directly from you.
My G, let me say it again, just as I said on the phone there’s nothing in this industry I take to heart when I have real situations in real life to worry about.
I told you that you don’t have to forgive and forget anyone if you don’t want to, because you have every right not to. But you also can’t control how someone else chooses to deal with situations. The only common goal we probably have is to win together if we can. And if we can’t, that’s good too.
There are things I find easy to let slide, and there are things I feel I need to react to. We’re not all the same, and I’m okay with that.
If I had any issues with you, I wouldn’t have been the one to pick up the phone, call you, and invite you to my RAH show.
You hang out with people who have disrespected me, but there’s no way I would assume that means you support their disrespect towards me, because you have nothing to do with it. Yet you seem to feel I owe you something that simply doesn’t exist.
This is not the first time you’ve had these feelings, and every time you do, I take a deep breath, come to you, and we talk. Nobody even knows something happened until you did something that I know, if the situation were reversed, you wouldn’t let go of easily.
And despite all of that, I still reached out about us doing shows together and bigged you up with every milestone you’ve achieved.
So there’s really no need to twist my words or make them mean something they don’t.
And my g you don’t need to fck with me I’m pretty sure I add no value to your life to even worry about me
To the artiste: @sarkodie
After your RAH show in the UK, I called you the next day to congratulate you and we spoke for 10 minutes+.
After my OVO — you posted the second video on social media... Whatever message you meant to send across, only you can explain.
After I made that factual tweet, I still went ahead to send you a message because you were posting some cryptic stuff.
You called back immediately. I missed it, but I called you back after, and we spoke for more than an hour on industry, behaviors, and perspectives.
You were very clear about how no artiste could be "forced" to uphold any form of principle. That, literally, in our industry, artistes must play along so far as it benefits them, and it cannot matter how, because we all care about different things. Which is evident in Video 1.
Standing on just these 2 videos for now, I believe this tweet of yours has been equally considered. And you will agree that without PRINCIPLE, advice is an OPINION.
Video 1, credit: @kwesiriley_
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