Stonebwoy - Give It To Dem

What this video is

Released in mid-2013, 'Give It To Dem (Kwenaamu)' captures Stonebwoy at a pivotal pre-breakthrough moment — two years before his landmark 2015 BET Award for Best International Act: Africa. The track and video emerge from Ashaiman, Accra's working-class satellite city, which served as a breeding ground for Ghana's dancehall scene. The song's lyrical content directly references early-2010s social media platforms…

Why it matters

A representative artefact of the Ghanaian Afro-dancehall wave that predates the global 'Afrobeats' umbrella branding. Stonebwoy fuses Jamaican Patois-inflected dancehall delivery with Ghanaian local language references, a sonic template that would later gain pan-African and international traction.…