NewsSarkodie says radio talks about him with confidence and no idea, and three public records show how that happens
On Luv FM's Drive Time, Sarkodie criticised people who discuss him on air without knowing the facts. Three recent examples show how unchecked lines travel through Ghana's entertainment media.
Sarkodie used an appearance on Luv FM in Kumasi to hit back at commentators who talk about him on radio. The interview aired on Drive Time on Thursday 22 October, during his media tour ahead of Rapperholic at the Baba Yara Sports Stadium on Saturday 24 October.
Luv FM's caption quoted him as saying: "Sometimes, I hear people on the radio talking about me with so much confidence, yet everything they say makes it clear they have absolutely no idea what they're talking about."
He did not say who he meant. QMS does not suggest he was speaking about any of the cases below. But his complaint describes something that can be checked, and three recent examples show the pattern.
A question that became a quote
Sarkodie sat with Serwaa Amihere for the first episode of her show When We Sit, which runs for 82 minutes and is free on YouTube. At about 39 minutes, Serwaa Amihere asks him: "You couldn't say no to the jollof?"
It was her question. Sarkodie answers in Twi and then tells a story about a buffet in Tema. He never says the line. Two entertainment websites printed "I couldn't say no to the jollof" in quote marks as Sarkodie's own words. QMS checked the tape word for word.
Five cards, none about the music
On 21 October, Gyakie gave an interview on Starr FM to promote a new EP and a concert. GHOne posted five cards from it: on searching for a boyfriend, a stage moment, being booed at KNUST, her deal-breakers, and her dream collaboration with Efya and Asa. None was about the EP or the concert.
When QMS checked, the boyfriend card had about 12,300 views. The dream collaboration card, the only one about music, had 1,402. That is almost nine times fewer.
A number nobody counted
ShattaFest 2025 was a free concert at Black Star Square on 17 and 18 October 2025. Sammy Flex said more than 300,000 people attended. The organisers had projected 100,000. GBC reported only "thousands". The stands at Black Star Square seat 30,000. There is no official attendance figure, yet the 300,000 claim kept being repeated.
The homework is public
In each case, the source was freely available: a public YouTube interview, a TV station's own posts, and the published seating capacity of a public venue. Baba Yara seats about 40,000 people, and Rapperholic coverage will follow this weekend.
Confidence is free and homework costs small. The tapes, the posts and the seat counts are all public, one search away. If you hold a microphone and a man's career is in your mouth, do the reading or pass the mic, and that applies to us too.
- Luv FM 99.5: Sarkodie on #DriveTimeOnLuv, Instagram reel (22 Oct 2026)
- Serwaa Amihere: When We Sit, episode 1, with Sarkodie
- GHOne: five cards from Gyakie's Starr FM interview (21 Oct 2026)
- Wikipedia: Black Star Square seating
- Graphic Showbiz: Rapperholic 2026 heads back to Kumasi
- Adom Online: Sarkodie promises biggest Rapperholic yet
Every factual line in this story is checked against at least two independent sources, unless the text says it comes from one report.