Sarkodie announces new album

Sarkodie has finally announced the release date for his 8th studio album titled “Jamz.”

This comes a year after he released his last album, No Pressure, which had popular songs such as Coachella, featuring Tema-based rapper, Kwesi Arthur, and Non-Living Thing, featuring Nigerian afropop artist, Oxlade.

With Jamz, the 2010 Ghana Music Awards (VGMA) Artist of the Year speaks to a bigger ‘global’ audience about his music and life journey from a modest beginning in Ghana to international stardom.

The entire project, which will be available on major streaming platforms from November 11, 2022, has 15 tracks, featuring Oxlade, Kwesi Arthur and Giggz, Stormzy, among others.

A video on Sarkodie’s social media pages giving his fans a look of what’s to come sees the ‘Mewu’ hitmaker in the early days of his career – moving from one show and radio station to another in hopes of making it big – to his growth.

“As far back as I can remember, I always wanted to rap, fell in love with this art form as a youth. Growing up in Tema gave me a lot to talk about. I always had an idea of the kind of career wanted so I had to stay true to myself,” Sarkodie noted.

He added, “my second album is already 10 years [old] and I am on my 8th album, still doing it my way. It takes a lot to stay motivated, but you can’t be in a rush to skip the process, you still have to deal with everything that comes with it.”

The album he said is inspired by how he feels adding that “these collections of songs are like your favourite playlist now lets have fun.”