{"id":1208927,"date":"2022-09-22T09:28:11","date_gmt":"2022-09-22T09:28:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/09\/22\/black-sherif-lays-his-fears-and-strife-bare-on-soja-ahead-of-upcoming-album\/"},"modified":"2022-09-22T09:28:11","modified_gmt":"2022-09-22T09:28:11","slug":"black-sherif-lays-his-fears-and-strife-bare-on-soja-ahead-of-upcoming-album","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/09\/22\/black-sherif-lays-his-fears-and-strife-bare-on-soja-ahead-of-upcoming-album\/","title":{"rendered":"Black Sherif lays his fears and strife bare on \u2018Soja\u2019 ahead of upcoming album"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Black-Sherif-1024x576.jpeg\" \/><\/p>\n<div id=\"article-text\">\n<p>Perspective in its truest form needs not be forced into an audience to relate. Once again, the 20-year-old seasonal anthem crooner has called another shot and the masses are listening.<\/p>\n<p>Black Sherif, off the heels of a tremendous start of the year is still aiming for gold with another single.<\/p>\n<p>Dubbed \u2018Soja\u2019, the Konongo born released the song on Thursday, September 22 and the cadence is already being touted as impeccable.<\/p>\n<p>Blacko feels like he needs to man up for the people. It is at this same intersection where the young act also deliberates on a potential dip in his skyrocketing career, a fear he struggles to shake off.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m too close I can feel it, something is vibrating<br \/>Inside me I\u2019m celebrating\u2026<br \/>\u201cBut outside them dey kill mee\u2026 My own-self dey kill me\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"\/>\n<p>He even singles out his personal anxiety and inferiority complex. It doesn\u2019t get any literal than this.<\/p>\n<p>At the same point he feels the need to protect his would in the valley of sanity while daring to traverse the obstacles that fame presents in his way.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"\/>\n<p>For me, it is the charisma in his movement in his viral snippet, the spring in his step and the sound in his message.<\/p>\n<p>It has been a year of highs and lows for the superstar; a navigating a legal battle and thumping through criticisms that he speaks of in his last chronicle, Kweku The Traveller \u2013 a chart topping hit that one went on to become.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"\/>\n<p>Today, Blacko just took us into another dark place buried under the urge to tell his truth.<\/p>\n<p>Blacko basically brought back \u2018Money\u2019 via \u2018Soja\u2019 \u2013 but now with a face \u2013 and everyone knows his name this time around.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"\/>\n<p>Another thing we now know is that the artiste\u2019s album beckons.<\/p>\n<p>Soja happens to be the fourth track on the upcoming album \u2013 The Villain I Never Was \u2013 scheduled to drop later this year with Kwaku The Traveller and Second Sermon Rmx positioned at 13 and 14th respectively.<\/p>\n<p>A few hours after it\u2019s release, social media already seems to relate to his iniquities, lyric by lyric.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.myjoyonline.com\/black-sherif-lays-his-fears-and-strife-bare-on-soja-ahead-of-upcoming-album\/\">Source<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Perspective in its truest form needs not be forced into an audience to relate. Once again, the 20-year-old seasonal anthem crooner has called another shot and the masses are listening. Black Sherif, off the heels of a tremendous start of the year is still aiming for gold with another single. Dubbed \u2018Soja\u2019, the Konongo born [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1208928,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[260,8334,12596,94,6923,2665,7603,26044,26118,3207],"class_list":["post-1208927","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-ahead","tag-album","tag-bare","tag-black","tag-fears","tag-lays","tag-sherif","tag-soja","tag-strife","tag-upcoming"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1208927","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1208927"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1208927\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1208927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1208927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1208927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}