 Welcome to Ghana, welcome to the YouTube channel, it's your favorite village boy Mr. Ghana baby right here and if today's your first time seeing this annoying face on your screen, can you do me a favor subscribe and be part of the YouTube family as we are about to reach a million subscribers. You know what, I'm actually doing something different, I'm actually meeting one of the biggest inspiration in my life, I'm actually meeting somebody that I didn't know anywhere but I became a PR for him to the extent that anyone that knew me in China thought that I'm a brother of this guy but I was not a brother, I always want to tell you something yeah, I want to tell you something always support people that you don't know because trust me the people that made me who I am today are strangers so I don't take each and every one of you for granted, I know you don't know me anywhere but some of you see me as your son, some of you see me as your nephew, some of you see me as your brother, I mean this is what makes the community of YouTube beautiful and I've supported Michael Dapao for decades and I never knew a day would come, you'll actually reach out to me and say that hey Maya, I want to link up with you, I mean sometimes when people support you also be grateful that's why I always come in here, I know I cannot be able to get in touch with each and every one of you but I will use my platform to say thank you so much for loving me, thank you so much for being part of this awesome family but hey I'm not gonna talk too much, I'm not a motivational speaker, I just want you to come with me as I go meet my biggest inspiration, thank you thank you, you're looking good, thank you so much man, GH, you're a chrome, awesome, you're my guy you know what the Maya, are you Maya, what the Maya, Mr Ghana baby, the most annoying village boy, you know all that, come on bro, what are you saying, come on bro, we're locked in bro, I'm proud of you man, thank you so much bro, you're going towards a million subscribers, no but I can't catch you up man, 1.9, jeez oh my god, bro it's not a competition, no it's not a competition, it's just about if you're enjoying and you're loving it here, numbers don't mean nothing, thank you so much, you need to let the people know that numbers don't mean nothing, numbers don't mean nothing bro, numbers don't mean if are you fulfilled in here, the impact alone, that's what it is, if we get 50k views, 2k views, 150 views, 1 million views bro, it's in here, you understand, are you doing what it is that you know in here, you know what I'm saying, that's what's important, numbers come and go, because overnight you can spike, the next day, you understand, and then you can go back, it's just like, I always tell people don't get help bent on the numbers, it's what you're doing in here, I know who you are, and like I told you earlier, you're one of the biggest inspiration in my life, I think if you check all my social media handles, you are there, I posted it 4 years ago when you said 8 years ago you couldn't travel, if you remember that post, yeah on twitter, like 8 years ago you couldn't travel, but it's the 8th time you catching a flight, and I posted that, you know what, believe me, I will get there someday, and that's why I couldn't even afford a train ticket, now here I am man, I look up beautiful, and train one country so far, and I want to tell you an inspiration, thank you man, it's good to see you in person, look at me, I've made it to life, and it's a pleasure meeting you man, but I know there's so many people watching us who don't know who Michael is, if you can tell us something about yourself, who is Michael man, what's going on my beautiful people, my name is Michael Dapa, Dapa, you know, Ghana to London, London to Ghana, we're in the building, you know, I don't even know what else to say, you can look me up, and you're gonna find everything that you need to know about me, but you know, I'm here with my brother Wode Maya, it's beautiful that we're here in Ghana, cry, it's been a nice day today man, so how to hold it today, yeah bro, yeah bro, you know, it's been nice, but I want to know yeah, what really inspired you to do what you do man, what really inspired, do you know what it is, I love, I love entertainment, I love people, I love life, I love God, thank you, most importantly above everything, and you know, it's just everything that I see, you feel me, I was telling my, I was telling some of my team earlier the other day that, you know, my thing is I love creativity and performance, and my job as a detective is to crack down crime, you feel me, and I feel like creation is an art, you know, we're all blessed to be created by the creator, and we all have bits of creativity within us, you feel me, and so for me, to be able to create, I think is the most powerful gift, and so you know, I love and I embrace it, and that's what really inspires me, just the fact that I think it's crazy that now we are blessed to live at a time where we're able to create, and we're able to just do so many amazing things, like even this, when we went to the market, I was just looking at it, just admiring it, that yo, this came from someone's brain, this come from someone's head, do you get what I'm coming from, and this is just beautiful, just the fact that they were able to think of how to sculpt it, then mold it, then the colors, then, oh man, you know what I'm saying, and even little things like something like this, that someone might just think, oh, this is just a little something that piece of art that you hang on your wall, but when you look at the fact that like this came from someone's brain, you feel me, I think that is the most powerful thing, and it's just beautiful because creativity runs the world, you know, and so that's what really inspires me, I'm inspired by, I'm inspired by so many different things bro, you know, even coming to Ghana, meeting people like yourself, everyone I connect with over here, King Promise, you know, Kusiyafa, Dobie, you know, Kidi, that, all these different, all these different people Chedda, you know what I mean, like the people that are just really doing great things out here, my uncles, my aunts, even my grandma, coming and seeing my grandma, like they, and I met some amazing creatives yesterday, you know, tribe of gods, oh, there's so many people that I'm, but even Eric from Twist, I just love his vibe, his energy, oh, where's these people, man, there's so many things bro, I want to know, yeah, I know you to be Big Shaq, yeah, Big Shaq, Big Khaled, what are we saying Khaled, anyone's doing, so we're going to win more, before Big Shaq, yeah, what were you doing, before Big Shaq, ah, bro, yeah, we was working same way before Big Shaq got birthed off the back of a series, right, cool swill, somewhere in London, so if you type in swill, SWIL, you know, you're going to be able to see, like, you know, where the, where that particular character comes from, did you get me, you know, I'm in London right now, because that's where it's at, and I'm trying to pursue my dream of being an actor, you know, y'all got that, you know, and he's just, Big Shaq is just one of my creations, and one of my ultra egos that we play, creativity, yeah, my brother, you see what I'm saying, yeah, bro, so that's what I'm saying, like comedy, comedy acting, music, it's always been a thing for me, would you say, like, man's not hot, change your life, it definitely did, it definitely, it definitely, I believe, like, it was a, it was a, it was a, it was a great, it was a great moment to, to take me, because I was, I had, I had a decent level of fame and success prior to that, you feel me, but then obviously when you create a record like that, and you know, you're blessed by the man upstairs for it to go, where it goes, you know, it takes you into a different stratosphere, that song was global bro, yeah bro, how did you make it feel, how did that work, how did you feel after seeing your song everywhere, I mean, people singing it, I didn't even know bro, I just like, I didn't even know what was going on, you know, that's okay my bro, you know, some things are happening, just look up to God, why me, you know, now I've definitely had, I've definitely had those moments, I think like, I've definitely had those moments, I think there's, I've had several moments, you know, that, that, that moment is definitely what I think sometimes when you're on a stage and you're performing in front of so many different people, it's, it can be very overwhelming, you know, some things that I do can be very overwhelming because remember, I always see things in my head before it comes to life, right, just like you see things in your head before it comes to life and so to be able to have ideas or an idea and bring it to life and, you know, for it to touch so many people in different ways and you create it in your mom's house or your mom's kitchen or something, you know, that you, something you create on a plane or wherever it is and for it to touch so many people in different ways, wherever it is, wherever, you know, some people have an emotional connection to it and meet kids that, that is their thing that brings them joy, it's a blessing, how can I, how can I not be thankful? 2 plus 2 is 4, minus 1, that's 3, quick pass, you know what I'm saying? Are you planning to move back to the continent anytime soon? Yeah, no, I'm going to be definitely spending more time here, bro. I've made, usually before, I would only come in December, but, you know, this is middle of the year and we're out here, bro, like, you know, it's beautiful to be out here, it's nice to come in and taking gana for just gana, you know, don't know for like, taking gana for gana because, you know, ye wo krung, ye wo krung, no, no, taking gana for, taking gana for gana, it's just sick, it's nice, it's beautiful to be with the people. How you say that they progress so far? Bro, I've seen progress, bro. Like I said, I think I tweeted the other day that when I come to gana, I feel proud because of the progress that I see. You have to remember like, there was a prayer at the time that I didn't come in for like nearly 20 years, bro, remember because I was here when I was a baby and just the development that has happened since then and then I think I came when I was maybe in secondary school, you call it JSS, yeah, I came second in school. The progress that I've seen from then to now, coming here as an adult, bro, this is amazing, you know what I'm saying, just in terms of like the infrastructure, the roads are better, you know, when I was younger, bro, the roads are terrible, terrible, bro, roads are better, even like having like just the people even seeing creatives now really, really doing that thing, they weren't doing that before and so when I talk about like growth, there's so much growth that I see through the people and sometimes when you're somewhere, you don't get to really see it and you know like yourself, like I said, I'm proud to see, you know, a brother like yourself representing the continent, the way that you are growing, you know, you're unapologetically yourself and that's what I love, you get what I'm saying and that's what's important, so things like that make me proud, so when I come home like and you know the artists that do their thing, the actors, the visual creatives, like yesterday I met some amazing visual creatives and creative directors and I was just like, yo, that's these are the things that make me proud, like yo, like I can come to GH and you don't think, oh, let me bring all these people and nah, bro, GH is home and that's what makes me proud, everywhere's got their problems, don't let me wrong, everywhere's got their problems and I know GH has got their problems, it's problem, it's not perfect and nowhere in the world is perfect, nowhere is perfect, nowhere is perfect, so for me I'm just like, you see, I always look at things from a different perspective when there's problems and there's things that I always, I always try to look for how far we've come rather than how far we have to go, you know what I'm saying, because if you look at how far you've come and think, Rod, you know what, 10 years ago we were here, five months ago I was here, you know what I'm saying and that progress can inspire you and push you for what's next and that's what's important, we focus on the progress, it's always good to, you know, when things happen you can look at it two ways, you got a negative and you got a positive, but it's up to us how we look at it, you feel me, so my people are gone now, you know, I'm proud, I love all my guardians deeply and thank you for your love, your support, those that know the boy and those that don't know the boy and thank you for supporting my bro, you know, thank you for being behind him, pushing him, you know, pushing the culture, what we're doing out here, it's a beautiful thing, it's amazing, my final question, we have a lot of young Africans watching us right now, if you have a message that will inspire many of them, what would that message be? My message is firstly love God then because I believe that that is the true source of life, whether you believe it or not, that's what I believe and then secondly is follow your heart man, follow your heart, I believe that like every single one of us has an instinct and we've been blessed with an instinct and you know in your heart what it is you want to do, what it is that you want to be, you know, what it was telling me that he started and he was at 100k subs and he's grafted it out and he had a big decision to make and whether he was going to keep going, whether he was going to stay in China and go and work a boring job or he was going to take the risk and jump and do YouTube and content creation full time and you know you said this is the best decision he's made and so follow your heart, your heart, your heart, your heart will always guide you, you know in terms of like what is you want to do, what is you want to be and don't be afraid, it's never a mistake, it's always something you can learn from, I feel like right now the generation we live in everyone's scared to make mistakes because everyone wants to look a certain way, you want to present yourself a certain way, don't be scared, it's fine, I've made many mistakes, I've made many, not mistakes, I've made things that are mistakes but they're lessons, they're never an L and L is never a lesson, you get what I'm saying, everything I've ever lost from was gone left, I've always turned into a lesson, I've learnt from it, embrace your lessons, embrace your flaws and keep going man, none of us is perfect, nothing that we do, just keep going and that's my message to the people man and last but not least, I love you lot man you know what I'm saying, I love meeting the people out here, I love the love that you show me and I appreciate you lot genuinely and like I said, thank you for supporting my bro man you know what I'm saying, it's special, I'm glad, I'm really really proud of you bro, I'm really really proud of you and I'm really really proud of you man, thanks for giving me the chance to see you man, come on my boy, come on my boy, come on my boy, this is what we are about, GH you collaborate, you are a chrome, you are a collaborator, I know how to know, I know how to know who's saying, let me summe shovel, let me summe shovel, big up man, you don't know the thing, we're over here GH, give us a freestyle man, freestyle, yeah last but not least, secure the package