The controversy surrounding Meek Mill’s next music video, which was shot at the presidential palace of Ghana, has forced him to perform some damage control.

The Dream Chasers leader revealed a teaser of the music video over the weekend, which was shot while he was on holiday in Accra, Ghana. MeMeek Mill Changes The Style Of Ice Spice’s “MUNCH”ek is seen in many scenes throughout the country, but some of the footage upset some Ghanaians. 

The Jubilee House, which doubles as the presidential residence and Ghana’s highest security zone, was depicted in Meek’s teaser. In other scenes, the Philadelphia rapper can be seen standing at the same podium that President Nana Akufo-Addo used to address the nation.

The frustration of Ghanaians over what they perceived as a degradation of the presidency was quickly vented on social media. Many people wondered how Meek was given security clearance to record the video at such a famous spot while also claiming the video shoot was a security breach.

“Meek Mill really shot a music video at Jubilee House? This is the lowest point we can get as a country,” one person wrote on Twitter. “What happened to ‘Jubilee House as a security zone.’ Even American Embassy in Ghana, you can’t take pictures and Ghana allows Jubilee House to become studio. We are finish.”

Someone else tweeted: All those

responsible for this despicable desecration of the Jubilee House by Meek Mill must be fired immediately. How do those explicit lyrics from the president’s lectern project Ghana positively? Is Ghana’s seat of government no longer a high security installation?”

Another person asked if Meek can’t do the same in his own country, how is he allowed to do it in a foreign land tweeting: “Nah!! This is getting serious, why are we allowing this? Can Meek Mill shoot a music video in the white house? Eii Gh lol . What a country! We have given these guys too much liberty they don’t even have in their country.” 

When MKanye West Makes Fun Of Meek Mill For Criticizing Himeek Mill learned of the uproar, he removed the teaser from his social media accounts. However, the harm had already been done by the post. On Monday, January 9, he did apologize and make a commitment to soon reveal the larger project he was working on while in Ghana. 

“My apologies to the people if any disrespect! We still gonna push to make the connection between black people in America and Africa … what I’m trying to do is more than a video and it’s coming soon! My apologies to the the office also.”

Meek Mill encountered further issues while traveling in Ghana. He demanded the return of his phone, which he claimed had been stolen when he initially arrived. The Dream Chasers boss posted a number of videos on his Instagram Stories of him interacting with Ghanaians while traveling to the Afro Nation music event.

Ghana police recovered the phone and returned it to the Philadelphia rapper, hand-delivering it to him along with news that they had detained a suspect by the name ‘Nuhu Sule.’

“I wanna say thank you guys for getting my phone back to my life, man,” Meek can be heard saying in a video he posted to his Instagram Story showing his phone being returned. “Y’all ain’t let him hack me or nothing, did y’all, Commander?”

Meek later admitted that maybe his phone wasn’t stolen and instead could have fallen out of his pocket while he was out riding his dirt bike.

“I coulda dropped that phone on a dirt bike I don’t actually know for a fact somebody went in my pocket!” he tweeted. “I got it back that’s all I needed I don’t need anybody locked up for a phone. I don’t even know what happened to it.”

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