It was only three days after Tina’s death that it was confirmed by the Health Minister that the outbreak was H1N1. At the time, if you’d recall, there wasn’t much explanation about what was leading to the mass infections and at first there was no real sense of urgency to get to the root cause of what was happening. The following lines describe the confusion and the somewhat oblivion the students of Kumasi Academy and their parents/guardians had been in concerning the disease outbreak. His very first line is a reprimand to Tina for dying suddenly I didn’t want to cry but the tears just flowed,” he said.īlacko in Oh Paradise channels the average Ghanaian auntie’s audacity to reprimand the dead for dying (as If the dead intentionally wanted to die, lol). “It’s crazy, that was the first time I cried about someone dying. In an interview in 2021, the musician had described the experience as crazy.
She was the last of four who had died that year. Oh Paradise is a song about his first love, Clementina Konadu (Tina) who had died following an outbreak of H1N1 infections in Kumasi Academy in 2017. It’s like an appetizer to the main sad course, Oh Paradise – Track 3, where Blacko recounts the death of his lover, broken promises and let’s his grief flow. There is a somewhat deep sense of sadness in Don’t forget me. Then the final verse, as if to placate his lover, he decides she should rather do the leaving. He then throws in the eerie death premonition-like line and goes his merry way. The following verse, as if he’s now settled on really breaking up with her, suggests whatever is happening is merely temporal and that he’ll be back for more good times. Let me be a favori before I leave so you don’t forget meĬome hold my hand look in my eyes and say to me something I don’t know when I’m leaving but it’s not too far from today You dare not make a joke about something that is remotely similar to a scenario they had shared with you or else they begin to think you’re probably mocking them. Not surprising really, Blacko is currently the king of oversharing in Ghana’s entertainment industry and we love that for him and for our ear buds.īut then the thing with oversharers is that they’re very paranoid. He tells us he has mistakenly made his lover aware that she has him wrapped around her finger like a ring. In the second verse, Blacko prods his insecurities about his vulnerability with his lover even more. Watch your back and give you that D D when you want it In the next lines, he shows a commitment to being a provider for his lover food, shelter, and sex (what did you think he meant when he said “Watch your back and give you that D D when you want it”?) He makes it clear he wants nothing from her just her assurance, her commitment to him, and the way she complements him.
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