Personally, I have no problem when people are fooling; I only have a problem when people are fooling and seemingly sane people support the foolishness. The enablers of the fooling conduct are those who applaud and justify it.
If you see it that way, you’d realise that the one fooling is actually the wise one manipulating those applauding.
Medikal did a show at Indigo Arena, the third Ghanaian to do so. It was arguably the best promoted and perhaps the best planned in terms of details in organization. It was also the one that most industry players supported, and it went well.
He was on UTV to promote the show. For the past month, the show has been constantly discussed; pundits shared ideas and also had a say on certain personal issues Medikal felt were necessary to mix with the event’s promotion. That is his marriage.
After the concert, he granted an interview to UTV on the same night. Questions were largely focused on the show, from the conception of the idea, funding, and then to performances.
Medikal had no issue discussing the performance with his ex-girlfriend; he explained why it was necessary and disagreed with those who thought it was not necessary.
Being the one constantly talking about the divorce, I believe questioning him on that is justified; he talked about it before the show on several occasions, talked about it during the show and so shouldn’t be bothered talking about it after. This is not the same as pressing Fela for an answer on it; she has remained tight-lipped on the subject.
To her credit, MzGee focused on the event and only asked two questions on Fela. When Medikal justified having Derby on stage with the reason that they have a hit song, she asked why he didn’t take Fela along too.
There, Medikal revealed that all artists footed their own bills to be there.
Then the final question:
MzGee: Last week, right here, we asked Fela about your show and she wished you all the best, next week, she is premiering her movie Resonance, what do you have to say to her.
Medikal: MzGee, you are behaving like a marriage counselor. I know how this works, you want to make headlines, we have had a successful show, we are making headlines, we are making money, you are also making money. I don’t think I am the only one who is divorced, you, I’m not sure your first boyfriend is the one you married, people break up every day.
All Medikal had to say was: I wish her all the best. It was a harmless question, and being the one who is happy discussing the divorce, such an indirect question should not get him offended. It ended on that note.
Then he went on Kwadwo Sheldon’s platform to call MzGee poor for asking if he booked the tickets for the other artists. That’s fine, I consider Medikal to be childish a lot of the times so we can let it slide and congratulate him for daring to chart the path of the great in our entertainment industry.
The point of this post is not the above; it is below, and that is the target of my opening paragraph.
How does such a conversation bring Shata Wale to the place of insulting MzGee and even using unprintable words to describe her private parts? Like, it beats all imagination; aside from the fact it had nothing to do with him, why the desperation to be part of the discussion by engaging in full blown attacks on someone’s wife in such a manner?
This thing got out of hand long ago; man has this complex issue, once it’s not about him, he can’t rest. He so desperately wanted to be in the trends that he decided to outdo Medikal.
What he said, I don’t expect a madman to say, it was too shameful, too classless.
But this is the problem; some people were hailing him. Shata Wale does these things knowing that he will get away with it became there a people who support him regardless of the evil course he chatters.
A man his age with so much exposure keeps acting like a little bush boy because he has people who have declared their their minds for him in perpetuity.
Even if great thinkers, when it’s about him, most lose their rational thinking ability and defend him.
If I am MzGee’s husband, I’d really have taken that personally and taken him on. In fact, I want to even slap him on their behalf. How can a person be this foolish almost at age 50?
Let’s see how Sammy Flex justifies this too and maybe, the response from some solar-energised beings who deem calling him out for the wrongs he does to be more offensive than when he attacks people for doing absolutely nothing to him.
I know that even the number one SM fan with some wisdom and conscience won’t support what he did, if you do, you know how I rate you. Empty!
By Kofi Kyei