Ghanaian rapper and entrepreneur D-Black has revealed that the late musician Castro initially recorded his hit song ‘Seihor’ as a diss track directed at Charterhouse, the organizers of the Ghana Music Awards.
Speaking in a recent interview, D-Black shared that Castro was frustrated after being snubbed for an award he felt he rightly deserved at the GMAs, and he channeled that disappointment into the creation of the song.
“Me Nam Na Me Tete,’ was initially a ‘diss song’ to Charterhouse. Because the past VGMAs, there was an award that he thought he was going to win, and he didn’t win, and everybody’s talking about it,” D-Black revealed.
He went on to explain that the lyrics of the song reflected Castro’s response to public conversations surrounding his loss.
“That’s how the ‘Me Nam Na Me Tete’ came about, which means, he’s hearing that people are talking about the award that Charterhouse didn’t give him,” he added.
D-Black also shared that Castro had asked him to record a verse on the song, one that matched the ‘diss’ tone of the original. However, he declined because he had no personal issue with the event organisers.
“So he freestyled it, a little ‘diss’ to Charterhouse and then he told me to freestyle on the song too, but I told him I can’t do that because they didn’t do nothing to me,” D-Black said.
D-Black further emphasised that after he recorded his verse, Castro had a change of heart. He decided to remove the ‘diss’ portion from the song and reposition it as a commercial release.
“So I freestyled on it. The next day he came and he said that’s his next single. Then he took out the diss to Charterhouse,” D-Black recounted.
