Asamoah Gyan aka Baby Jet was the first Ghanaian to score in a World Cup and he's scored another first, by becoming the first footballer to venture into hiplife music. He features with popular hiplife star, Castro the Destroyer, in a classic video, African Girls. Asamoah Gyan is also very popular for his goal celebration dances, some of which he performs in the music video. The song and music video has been greeted positively by music fans as it is becoming very popular.

The song is produced by Castro's Wondzie Entertainment. The Takoradi native has been struggling to enjoy the same success he had during the times of hit songs like Sradenam and Toffee, and this Asamoah Gyan collaboration might just do the trick. The idea of singing about African women is not as fashionable as of 2005 but it is the focus of the song. Castro and Asamoah Gyan sing about Ghanaian and African women. The song mentions "African girls dey be, dance to the groove and feel the heat". "African girls dey be, them be weet, them be sexy like cheese". It's a party type track and not exactly one that empowers women. Then again, how many African songs do that?

A lot of music fans love the song and the dances but are not very impressed with Asamoah Gyan's rap. Some believe he should learn to take better penalty kicks and not worry about rapping and doing music. Baby Jet claims Ghanaian women are beautiful and that they should use their sweet thing to do 'kekye'. 'Kekye' is a popular Ghanaian term for dribbling and football showmanship.

The video was directed and edited by Egya Bucknor, with camera by Virus Agyare, art direction by Dela Sanaki, make-up by Eunice Mould. The team is known as NAS (Nuquari Arts Studio). There is a cameo by Asamoah Gyan's brother, Baffour Gyan, himself, a former Black Stars regular. It would have been nice to have seen some other Black Star players join in the 'Asamoah Gyan dance' in the music video, especially players like Anthony Annan, John Paintsil and Kwadwo Asamoah.

Watch the music video

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PQ2eF0kcsrg

Lyrics for the song coming to this Museke.com link. African girls is not the only song Asamoah Gyan has been working on. He also has ‘Baby’ which also features Nigeria born Soli Baba. Dancing and music is surely in Gyan’s blood. He plans to record a hiplife album after he finishes his football career.

Source: http://mightyafrican.blogspot.com/2010/08/black-stars-striker-asamoah-gyan.html

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Oh these precious smiling faces! Their joy is infectious, its like we've all just shared some silly moment. Ghana, you have our hearts. For the last two months Steve and I have committed to letting go of our expectations of this adoption process. We've been trying to live like this since we first decided to adopt, but its really so easy to start getting ahead of ourselves. Waiting and letting the adventure unfold one step at a time sounds lovely, but the allure of managing it ourselves is sneaky and powerful.

We'd heard Ghana might be closing to international adoption. We heard there have been issues with The US Embassy. So, at the beginning of the summer we agreed to open our hands back up and trust that what we could hold would be left there and we'd have the courage to let go of all the rest. We prayed about all the details, and were brought back to a place of dependency. Waiting, and not planning. It required such discipline and there were many days where I still spent all my energy stressing about things I couldn't do a thing about.

We wanted to make sure that if Ghana was where we'd be adopting from, we'd know it and not be pushing against something that wasn't going anywhere. This was hard, we both already felt an attachment to Ghana specifically, and considering looking at another country was confusing. But this time also put us right back where we need to be, letting the story be as big and bold and beautiful as possible. So we waited. And prayed, together and with community.

While I was hoping for a little bit more of a lightening bolt sign or something, the answer has been slower and has developed naturally as we've gained clarity on some of our concerns. (Ghana IS and plans to stay OPEN...and there are issues with the Embassy but there has also been much progress!). We feel such peace about it, and I don't mean the sort of placid, plain-vanilla peace we get so used to hearing about... but thriving, vibrant, sprawling peace - the kind that makes your heart flicker and your imagination expand. Its like this entire adoption process is alive, breathing and wild, and I know we're going to continue to be blown away by it.

Source: http://cartersgroundswell.blogspot.com/2010/08/so-ghana-it-is.html

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