{"id":5449,"date":"2024-05-05T13:53:20","date_gmt":"2024-05-05T13:53:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/?p=5449"},"modified":"2024-05-05T13:53:23","modified_gmt":"2024-05-05T13:53:23","slug":"it-was-just-entertainment-medikal-defends-decision-to-perform-with-sister-derby-at-o2-arena","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/?p=5449","title":{"rendered":"\u2018It was just entertainment\u2019- Medikal defends decision to perform with Sister Derby at O2 Arena"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Ghanaian Rapper Medikal has responded to criticisms he received for performing on stage with his ex-girlfriend Sister Derby at his most recent 02 Indigo event in London.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Medikal took the decision amid rumours about troubles in his&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/3news.com\/showbiz\/afronitaa-and-talented-kids-abigail-wow-judges-and-audience-with-first-performance-at-britains-got-talent\/\">marriage to actress Fella Makafui.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Speaking in an interview on Accra-based UTV, Medikal clarified that his reason was to give fans a live performance of a popular song hey had both worked on.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He stressed that the goal of the performance was to provide fans a better live concert experience, especially for those who had only heard the song via his music videos and Snapchat account and had never witnessed a live performance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">According the whole thing is mere entertainment and not to spite Fella Makafui as it\u2019s been suggested.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cShe is someone I have a song with, a song people know about, and I wanted people to feel a live performance of what they watch on my Snapchat and in my music videos,\u201d Medikal stated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cSo that\u2019s what it is, not anything new. I wasn\u2019t trying to prove any point. I was just trying to have fun and let my fans have an experience of a great event. This is not disrespect anyone, this was just entertainment,\u201d he said on United Showbiz, May 4.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Despite his defense, several critics have called his conduct insulting to his ex-wife and said that, under the current situation with Fella Makafui, the public show with Sister Derby was improper.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Meanwhile, addressing the supposed breakup of his marriage, Medikal urged that the success of the event should rather be the topic of discussion and not his divorce with ex-wife, Fella.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He stressed that their breakup is not the first to have happened and Ghanaians should move on with their lives.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ghanaian Rapper Medikal has responded to criticisms he received for performing on stage with his ex-girlfriend Sister Derby at his most recent 02 Indigo event in London. Medikal took the decision amid rumours about troubles in his&nbsp;marriage to actress Fella Makafui. Speaking in an interview on Accra-based UTV, Medikal clarified that his reason was to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5450,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,41],"tags":[1463,1884],"class_list":["post-5449","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","category-general-news","tag-medikal","tag-sister-derby"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5449","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5449"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5449\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5451,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5449\/revisions\/5451"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5450"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}