Shatta Movement, is not like we are fucking drugs on brains, but about lyrics laid with gangsta precision. Every punch-line is coated with street literature, which oxford-clerics may find very vulgar— but who the fuck cares about soft asses? To decipher the codes of Street language, a wild sense of humour embedded in sarcasm is required. It may sound weird for nonresidents but a normal day in our ghettos. Shatta Wale the king of African dancehall and SM empire grinds hard in his lyrics in this same manner.

In his songs, the flow of his emotions shrouded in memories of ghetto struggles accounts for his husky thunder-striking voice. In that voice are hidden stories about his days in the ghettos with the trees. Take it or leave it, a bit of fire-on-leaves is soothing to the soul, especially for those of us in this jungle. Whether in Jamaican Patwah or Ghanaian local dialect, he strings words at varying pace to create diverse rhythms that leaves ever lasting sweet melodies in the hearts of music lovers world wide.

Shatta Wale’s prowess in beat making and music production has earned him the accolade “Da Maker”. The meeting of kicking sounds of artillery and gun cocks, shots and shellings, and ghetto onomatopoeias synched with sounds of typical musical instruments, gives a gangsteric effect resembling the blitzkrieg of Nazi Hitler in Moscow. His lyrics bumps and tumps on the beat either in a ragged, hiped , highed, cooled or ‘dancehalled’ way. The full complement of his artistry will involuntarily arose every neuron in your body, leaving you with no option than to dance, even as a hater.

Amidst the lyrical bluntness, his songs carry a positive message, that eludes those who are not preview to the full complement of his repertoire , the real stories that inspire those lyrics and his ghetto background. Shatta Wale epitomizes the marginalization of some minorities in society by the rich and powerful. He had risen above all odds and shown some kind of resilience, relentlessness, and staunchness that motivate the youth of our time.

World Alert Lerical Entertainer (Wale) is a real monarchy poised to reign forever in the music fraternity… We bring the heat to our enemies without mincing words… Straight outa Gh SM4lyf

By: Warren Nunoo
(The Gangsta With A Pen)