Shatta Wale, King of DanceHall!
Arguably described as the man of the moment in Ghana’s, Charles Nii Armah Mensah, popularly known in showbiz as Shatta Wale, made history in Cape Coast when he thrilled thousands of music lovers at the Cape Coast Stadium last Saturday.
As late as 11:30pm, hundreds of people were spotted in queue trying to secure tickets to enter the stadium in anticipation of an extraordinary show.
Performances by some Cape Coast-based artistes including Okotor Perry, Kaphun and Boogy Wenzday opened the show with great performances. Other big artistes like Pop Skinny and Medikal took over the stage to give an energetic performance.
At about 2:00am Sunday, when Shatta Wale mounted the stage, the crowd went haywire amidst screaming and shouts of ‘dancehall king ‘.
Shatta Wale started his one and half-hour performance with some of his old hit songs through to his latest hits, ‘Mahama paper‘, ‘Kakai‘, and ‘chop kiss‘ among others that have been ruling the airwaves in recent times.
At the end of his performance, he expressed gratitude to the people of Cape Coast for the massive show of support which made his performance a success, and promised come back again.
Before Shatta Wale started his performance, he announced that he had told all the Police men at the venue to wait outside, because ‘ghetto’ men don’t deal with police.
Shatta Wale wasreportedly paid $60,000 (GHS272,000) by Solash Entertainment for his Headlining performance.
One of the highlights of the show was when an anonymous person took one of the microphones and said ‘Shatta Wale your mother’ right after the superstar started his performance. This angered the Dancehall King who in reply asked the coward to come out and face him.
