Ghanaian rapper, Medikal, has opened up about why he did not respond to colleague rapper Amerado when he (Amerado) released a diss song for him in 2021.
He said he felt no need to respond because Amerado was not at his level.
“I think two years ago he ‘dissed’ me. He did a diss track for me and I didn’t do anything to that lad. Then I felt like he had not reached my level for me to respond,” he said in an interview with TV3.
Ghana’s entertainment industry, arguably thrives on feuds (widely known as ‘beef’.) Some celebrities, especially musicians, dwell on these feuds to promote an upcoming (music) project, while others use the controversy surrounding these disputes to stay relevant.
Ghanaians for the past years have witnessed a number of incidents where musicians hit the studios and record what they term “diss songs” targeted at a particular colleague in the industry. The other faction also responds with a diss song and the game continues till they decide it’s enough.
The likes of Shatta Wale, Yaa Pono, Samini, KK Fosu, Sarkodie have all had their turns recording diss tracks for colleagues. Sometimes, the feuding parties open up (though later) and confess that they planned the feuds.
However, Ghanaians were taken aback when Medikal remained silent even after Amerado, then a-not-so-old-face in the industry, mustered courage to record a diss song for Medikal.
The song, Indelible Flow, was released in 2021. Ghanaians found Medikal’s silence rather disturbing since Amerado really went hard on this song, per popular opinion.
But two years down the line, Medikal has revealed that he was unperturbed about neither the content of the song nor its owner, whom he referred to as a “lad.”
“We are not friends and I don’t have anything against him but then I did not respond to him because he was not my level. I’m known to be a person who speaks his mind but when it’s something that I’m not going to benefit from or get money from I’m not doing it,” he said.
Source: The Independent Ghana