Ghanaian dancehall artist Charles Nii Armah, popularly known as Shatta Wale, has released a diss track titled Fame targeting YouTube content creator Kwadwo Sheldon.
The track follows a recent bout of online ridicule and reignites their previously settled feud. It was sparked by a sarcastic comment from Shatta Wale after Sheldon’s home was flooded during the torrential rains on May 17.
The 3-minute, 12-second single is accompanied by an audio slide featuring Ghibli-style artwork of Sheldon in a canoe amid floodwaters, with a polytank visible, an image referencing Shatta Wale’s earlier jab that Sheldon must have hit his head against a polytank to cause the flood.
In a post on X (formerly Twitter), Shatta mocked the content creator, urging him to reach out for help after news of the flood surfaced. This provoked a strong reaction from Sheldon, who responded with a barrage of insults.
The lyrics of Fame are coded but laced with verbal assaults, even touching on Sheldon’s relationship with his fiancée.
The chorus, “Who dey chase fame pass you? See you bite more than you can chew,” escalates the tension, to which Sheldon sarcastically responded, “Maybe I go inspire another hit in his career.”
Shatta also criticized Sheldon’s work, suggesting he invest in a canoe since he metaphorically “talks from the lagoon” while others “talk from the land.”
“You dey talk, you dey show camera. If you wan invest, invest for canoe. We dey talk for land, you dey talk for lagoon,” the song goes.
He further accused Sheldon of trying multiple times to reach him in London to apologize, with rapper AMG Medikal acting as a mediator during Medikal’s sold-out concert at the O2 Arena in the UK.
“How many times you knock my door? You make lucky say Heathrow we dey like you go see…” the lyrics state.