M.anifest Road Rage arrived on Thursday 29 October 2026, and it puts one of Ghana’s most respected rappers next to Black Sherif on a new single. A lyric video is now on M.anifest’s official YouTube channel.
The two artists share the billing on the upload, which reads M.anifest x Black Sherif – ROAD RAGE. The video puts the words on screen, so listeners can follow every line as the song plays. For a rapper whose writing has always been central to his name, that is a sensible way to introduce a record.
The single carries a 2026 copyright from Mass Appeal and Singitdamnit Music. A stream link sits in the notes under the video on YouTube and takes you to the song on the streaming platforms. Fans searching for the audio, the video or the new M.anifest song will find all three routes in the same place.
Readers who followed the build-up will remember the announcement. We covered it in our earlier story, Black Sherif and M.anifest Drop Joint Single This Thursday, and the song has now landed exactly as promised.
For M.anifest, this is another collaboration in a year full of them. He began the run in June with NO MORE SLEEP, a song that features Kwesi Arthur and went up on his channel on 22 June. In July he put out HANDKERCHIEF, which appeared as a video and as an audio upload on the same day, 17 July.
September brought ON TEN with O’Kenneth and wavypae, uploaded on 17 September. Our own write-up, M.anifest – ON TEN, covers that release in more detail. A second upload of the song followed on 3 October under the name ON 🔟, with the same line-up of guests.
That makes five uploads in about four months, and each one has a clear identity. Road Rage is the newest, and it is the one that arrives with the biggest name from the younger side of Ghanaian music attached.
Where M.anifest Road Rage fits in his year
Set those releases side by side and a pattern shows. Within about four months, M.anifest has worked with Kwesi Arthur, O’Kenneth, wavypae and now Black Sherif. He is not retreating into his own corner. He is sharing records with artists from different parts of Ghanaian rap, and that keeps his catalogue moving.
Here is my reaction as a listener. Black Sherif is one of the names younger fans across Ghana turn to first, and M.anifest has long been the writer that rap followers of an earlier generation point to when they argue about lyricism. Putting the two on one record brings both audiences to the same link, and the lyric video gives them something to talk about when they get there.
The background helps explain why M.anifest remains a draw. Born Kwame Ametepee Tsikata on 20 November 1982, he is a Ghanaian rapper, musician and record producer. He is the grandson of J. H. Kwabena Nketia, one of Africa’s foremost ethnomusicologists and composers, so music runs deep in his family.
His father is the lawyer and academic Tsatsu Tsikata. His mother, Rev. Dr. Priscilla Naana Nketia, is a lawyer and pastor. He moved to the United States in 2001 to attend Macalester College, and today he divides his time between Madina in Ghana and Minneapolis.
The recognition came early and kept coming. In 2012, The Strand on BBC Radio tipped him as one of four acts to look out for. In 2015, his single Someway Bi earned third place in the International Songwriters Competition, and The Guardian named him the foremost rapper on the continent that same year. In 2017, he won Best Rapper and Hip-Hop Song of the Year at the Ghana Music Awards.
His list of collaborators is just as long. He has worked with Damon Albarn, Flea, Tony Allen and Erykah Badu, and he appears on five songs on the Rocket Juice and The Moon album. Against that record, a joint single with Black Sherif looks like a natural next step rather than a departure.
The pairing carries the kind of weight Ghanaian listeners like to debate, a veteran and a current favourite on the same track. How the verses divide between them is for each listener to judge, and the lyric video makes that easy to do line by line.
The release also adds to the sense that M.anifest treats this stretch of the year as a campaign. A song every few weeks, each with a different guest, keeps his channel active and gives his followers regular reasons to return. M.anifest Road Rage extends that rhythm into the final months of 2026.
Watch the lyric video on M.anifest’s official YouTube channel, then use the link in the notes to stream M.anifest Road Rage on your preferred platform. His Instagram, TikTok and X pages use the handle manifestive, his Facebook page is manifestations, and he is on Spotify too.
Tell us in the comments which verse you replayed first, and share the song with the friend who always argues about Ghanaian rap.
Watch the official video for Road Rage below.
Stream Road Rage on Spotify.
It is also on Apple Music.
Video and artwork: M.anifest ft. Black Sherif (official release).
