Shatta Wale with his unbeatable energy wowed fans and non-fans alike at the Afrobeatz Festival which was organized by BBNZ at the Independence Square over the weekend. Although many Artistes were billed to perform, the name Shatta Wale kept the audience at the venue as late as 1am to have a dose of the Dancehall King before departing from the venue.
With a stylish entry of being rode to the stage on motor cycle, Shatta Wale started with the miming of his breakthrough record ‘Mokoho (Bandana from Ghana)’. Undeniably, the whole crowd could not keep mute hearing DJ McSmith dropping the songs one after the other.
27 songs which he performed and were chorused by the audience amazed most people as every line of the songs was either chorused by all the audience or a section. Indeed, Shatta Wale was on top of his prowess.
More than half of the crowd left the venue when Shatta Wale’s performance ended. Most of the Artistes who came after Shatta Wale came to perform to a dead crowd.
Sounding angry with the media already, when paparazzi were doing all their best to capture him on their various cameras, the Dancehall King said “make you guys no take me picture. Go off the stage. Same people will go and write that I didn’t do anything. Go off, go off the stage!”
Shatta Wale is recorded to have warned some section of the media not to publish anything about him ever again and it seems his spleen spreads to all media hosues.
Shatta Wale was the man of the night on the day 2 of the Afrobeatz Festival undeniably if and only if the judgment should rest on crowd response.
Author: Nana Kwesi Coomson (www.233times.net)