{"id":188256,"date":"2025-12-16T22:06:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-16T22:06:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/188256\/"},"modified":"2025-12-16T22:06:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-16T22:06:08","slug":"i-didnt-expect-the-backlash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/188256\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;I didn&#8217;t expect the backlash&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"article-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanaweb.com\/GhanaHomePage\/entertainment\/I-didn-t-expect-the-backlash-King-Promise-speaks-on-Lagos-Ghana-blunder-2014047?gallery=1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/16578348.295.jpg\" alt=\"King Promise with a geography textbook\" title=\"King Promise with a geography textbook\" width=\"295\" height=\"204\" \/> <\/a>King Promise with a geography textbook<\/p>\n<p id=\"article-123\">Ghanaian Afrobeats musician King Promise has opened up on the controversy he faced after he made some false claims about the population sizes of Ghana and the Nigerian city of Lagos.<\/p>\n<p>King Promise came under fire in October 2025 after he was captured in a viral video in an interaction with Nigerian streamer Peller stating that \u201cLagos is bigger than Ghana.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The video sparked reactions across social media, with various netizens lambasting the \u2018Paris\u201d hitmaker.<\/p>\n<p>King Promise later responded with a picture of him with a geography book. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanaweb.com\/GhanaHomePage\/entertainment\/King-Promise-responds-to-backlash-after-Ghana-Lagos-blunder-2006444\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">King Promise responds to backlash after Ghana-Lagos blunder<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Opening up about the picture, King Promise, in an interview with Hitz FM, stated, \u201cI was learning. I was fixing my geography knowledge. It was Mr Eazi\u2019s idea.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Speaking on the comment he made, King Promise stated that he meant it as a harmless statement he had always heard as a child and did not intend to undermine Ghana in any way.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI didn\u2019t expect it to go the way it went. It was a harmless take. I felt like it\u2019s something that we\u2019ve all heard growing up. But I didn\u2019t mean it,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>He clarified his comment, stating that, \u201cI was speaking in terms of Nigeria being bigger than Ghana population-wise, which is why their artistes have the wider international reach.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>ID\/AM<\/p>\n<p>Watch more videos from the 2025 Praise Achievement Awards below:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"King Promise with a geography textbook Ghanaian Afrobeats musician King Promise has opened up on the controversy he&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":188257,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[458,146,85,46],"class_list":{"0":"post-188256","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-celebrities","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-il","11":"tag-israel"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188256","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=188256"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188256\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188257"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}