American rapper Meek Mill has apologised for the viral music video he shot at Ghana’s presidency which critics say puts the highest office of the land in bad light.
“I’ll take responsibility for my mistake!” the Dream Chasers founder twitted, noting that his action was not to denigrate the country.
On late Sunday, January 8, 2023; the celebrated American rapper posted an Instagram reel announcing that he was set to release a new track.
It turns out that portions of the said video were shot in and around the Jubilee House during his visit.
The music video that has since been deleted attracted avalanche of public backlash.
Member of Parliament for North Tongu, Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa, for instance, wrote on Facebook that, “All those responsible for this despicable desecration of the Jubilee House by Meek Mill must be fired immediately…”
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In a series of tweets on Monday evening, the Philadelphia rap star said in his apology that the video should not create a wedge between Ghanaians and their brothers and sisters in diaspora.
“To the people of Ghana, no video I drop is ever meant to disrespect the people of Ghana…The fastest way to make connection[s] is [through] music and I wanted to do that with displaying [my] art…I’m in my 30’s from America and didn’t know much about the lifestyle [culture] here,” he shared on twitter.
He followed with another tweet: “My apologies to the people [in case of] 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 [what’s] coming soon! “My apologies to the office also!”
Meek Mill responding to one Zubaida A-Rahman who said he is “not the one everyone’s mad at,” explained that the officials at the presidential palace that fateful day when the video was taken did not know “it was [a] video footage when we asked to shoot. [What we used was] a small camera and one kid [shot it].”
The rapper claimed he and his crew were amazed at the edifice – the seat of government -, which he said they never knew such architectural structure existed in Ghana.
“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”.
The 35-year-old reiterated in a subsequent tweet: “I’m just not here for no separation of anything Black… We already separated enough and don’t understand each other’s cultures… Let’s use this to help fix that and not [be] more judgement[al] towards each other!”.
