Rapper Sarkodie has revealed that the track ‘Try Me’, recorded to address allegations Yvonne Nelson levelled against him in her memoir, was done on the blind side of his team.
Speaking on Way Up with Angela Yee, the Ghanaian artiste noted that he recorded the song secretly because he did not want his team to interfere with his decision at the time.
“People think my team is in support of what I did but none of them knew I did the record because I was on tour. Sometimes when I feel something, the lyrics are going to come right there. So I sneaked into the studio to even record this. I didn’t let anybody hear it because I didn’t want to hear any advice,” Sarkodie said.
He added that he wanted to do what he felt at that point and face the consequences later. “But it wasn’t like the whole team sat down and said, this is good to go. I did it personally for myself.”
Sarkodie in a song he released in the early hours of Wednesday, June 28, responded to claims Yvonne Nelson made against him in her recently released memoir ‘I am not Yvonne Nelson.”
In the memoir, she revealed having had an affair with the rapper in 2010 which resulted in a pregnancy.
In Chapter 8 of the book, she recounts her decision to terminate the pregnancy because the rapper did not accept responsibility, explaining that later she found out the rapper had another girlfriend who was studying in a university abroad hence his rejection.
However, replying to Yvonne Nelson’s allegation, the BET award winner in his new release ‘Try Me’, a direct reply to Yvonne, says he never encouraged the actress to have an abortion.
According to him, while he was not ready to be a father, he had told her to keep the pregnancy but Yvonne chose to go ahead with the abortion because she was schooling.
“So don’t you make it seem like I was the one pushing you for abortion,” he said in Try Me, and advised Yvonne Nelson not to play the victim and create the impression that she was looking for love.
“Baby girl make you no try me”, he cautioned.
But Sarkodie said that he is not entirely proud of what he did and had many people call him after the song’s release.
“This is not the first time, I’ve done records to address certain issues or maybe a line or two in a record because I don’t know, there’s a certain energy that I hate to feed into, especially speaking about it, because I might lose my cool.”
“So with this situation, yes, exactly. I’m not going to sit here and say I’m super proud of everything. It’s just in the moment how I felt, whether it be my truth, there should have been a way that I could have said it.”