One skit features a man getting caught searching for new jobs at his current workplace, with him perfectly miming the lyrics in response to getting caught. His brutally honest, straight-to-the-point verses-such as, “Of course I f*cked up! Who hasn’t f*cked up? Hands in the air,” from latest hit “Kwaku the Traveller”-have become the backing track for a tonne of fittingly meme-worthy clips. With no gimmicks, Black Sherif has reached those pinnacles in record time-all the way from Ghana. From TikTok to Shazam and Instagram reels, short snippets of his anthems have topped ‘viral sound’ lists all over the world this past year, and in this new era of music, these are milestones of musical achievement.
It’s hard to ignore the meteoric rise of Black Sherif when his choruses and hooks have swiftly become some of the most shared and repurposed globally.
