Kwesi Dain and Medikal's Hallelujah is a thank-you that starts with nowhere to sleep

Kwesi Dain released "Hallelujah", featuring Medikal, on 22 May 2026. The official visualizer followed on 29 May. One review credits the production to Sperry Beats, and in an interview the song was said to be mixed and mastered by Candy Beats.

The song came up on 20 October, when a fan on X, Brilliant Mayor, asked for it to be broken down.

Who made it

Kwesi Dain moved from Kumasi to Accra for his music. He told Ameyaw Debrah in June that he has admired Medikal since his school days, and that the two connected through Medikal's management. "Hallelujah is me showing appreciation to God for everything He has done," he said. On MAX TV he called having Medikal on the song a dream come true, and said he used to sing Medikal's songs.

Medikal, real name Samuel Adu Frimpong, released his first mixtape, Medikation, in 2013. On 9 May 2026 at the TGMA at the AICC, he won Hiplife/Hip Hop Artiste of the Year, and his song "Shoulder", with Shatta Wale and Beeztrap KOTM, won Most Popular Song. Hallelujah came out 13 days later.

What the song says

The song starts at the end of the story. What his enemies planned did not work, and he asks if they are ashamed now. Then he goes back to what he did not have. A place to lay his head. A home with peace in it. He says he ate only when he begged, and joy came maybe once a year.

One refrain is a plain thank-you. He tells God it was His doing, and asks Him to receive the thanks.

In his lyrics Medikal says he was homeless in 2014. That is why, he raps, he is "raising ma shoulders" today. No outside source confirms the homeless claim, and it stands only as what he says in the song.

Trotro to Benz

The bridge tells the doubters they cannot touch his soul, and its Twi lines name a trotro, a Benz and a visa.

The song is on Apple Music and other streaming platforms.