Meek Mill, an American rapper, has explained the circumstances leading up his filming within and around the Jubilee House in three tweets posted on January 9, 2023.
The government had been under constant compulsion to investigate how the rapper filmed footage while visiting President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo in December 2022 for the Afro Nation concert.
Mill apologised to Ghanaians and the presidency for how a music video promo he created sparked dispute and widespread social public uproar.
He posted the video on his Instagram reel but switched to Twitter to render his apology.
“To the people of Ghana no video I drop is ever meant to disrespect the people of Ghana …. The fastest way to make connection is thru music and I wanted to do that with displaying art … im in my 30’s from America and didn’t know much about the lifestyle here,” his first apology tweet read.
He followed it up with another apology, again to the Ghanaian people but also to the presidency:
“My apologies to the people if any disrespect! We still gonna push to make the connection between black people in America and Africa … what I’m trying to do is more than a video and you should see coming soon! My apologies to the office also!” it read.
When a Ghanaian blogger tweeted that the outrage was not targeted at him per se but at the presidency, he explained how he procured the footage.
“I don’t think they knew it was video footage when we asked to shoot it’s a small camera and one kid … in America we didn’t know this existed and was excited to show because they don’t show Ghana on our media much! So I’ll take responsibility for my mistake! Not intentional,” he added.
