Ghanaian dancehall giant Shatta Wale has disclosed that he made $3 million from selling three hundred (300) of his songs to an external entity.

Shatta made this known in a TikTok live session on January 15, 2026, as conversations around catalogue valuation continue to gain traction among Ghanaian artistes.

“I have over 11,000 songs online that my team is still trying to gather. I sold 300 of my songs for $3 million, used the money to buy houses, and do whatever I want with it. I put some of it into my Shaxi business and other investments. Your same artiste went to say there’s nobody in Ghana that has a catalogue worth that much,” Wale said.

Apparently,  Stonebwoy had ealrlier expressed scepticism about the valuation of local music catalogues in an interview on DJ Slim’s Loud Lounge in September 2025.

“I don’t believe that any catalogue in Ghana currently is going to earn a mention at around $3-4 million,” Stonebwoy said.

Thus, Shatta’s disclosure served to prove Stonebwoy wrong in his assertion about the value music catalogues wield.

Last year, two of Shatta Wale’s songs were removed from Apple music by music producer MOG Beatz.

His decision was driven by claims that the dancehall star sold his catalogue without giving him and other producers proper credit or payment.

MOG Beatz announced on X (formerly Twitter), 19th August 2025, that he had taken down Shatta Wale’s Reign Album and Wondaboy Album, citing unresolved issues of credit and royalties.

“You sell my beats, erase my credit, then buy luxury cars,” MOG fumed in a post directed at Shatta Wale.

According to him, Shatta Wale wrongfully claimed production credit for songs he and other producers made in order to secure money from an international company without their knowledge or consent.

MOG warned that the removal of the albums was only the beginning.

“Two albums have already been taken down, and more are coming down soon. Sell your assets and refund the company you scammed. Leasing your catalogue just to survive? That’s the path you chose. This time, the talk will come with action,” he wrote.

The award-winning producer, who produced some songs on Shatta Wale’s Reign Album - Gringo, Bend Over, If I See, and Squeeze, said he had been cheated despite his contribution to the project.

This fresh clash comes on the back of a long-running dispute between the two. In 2021, MOG Beatz publicly accused Shatta Wale of failing to pay him for 10 songs he produced on the Reign Album. Although Shatta Wale had promised compensation, MOG said he was never paid even after the album became a major success.

“Money Man @shattawalegh, me I dey see you as a big brother I never had. I know say you no be STINGY like that lol, I produced 10 songs on the #ReignAlbum but ano see no CASH from you since 2018. Seeing this made me laugh sooo hard,” MOG wrote at the time.

With tensions resurfacing, the battle between MOG Beatz and Shatta Wale over credits and royalties appears far from over.

Sound producer MOG Beatz has confronted dancehall artiste Shatta Wale, accusing him of using his intellectual property to scam a company.

According to MOG Beatz, Shatta Wale took over 25 songs he had produced and rebranded them under his own name.

He alleged that the dancehall artiste secured an advance running into millions of dollars from the deal, which he used to acquire luxury cars, including Rolls Royce to portray wealth above fellow Ghanaian artistes.

“The 2021 fight it happen, you no learn sense from inside, the money you no pay me. On a normal day, that Rolls-Royce you no fit accord am. Why you for come involve me and scam the company using my property after 2021, why you no learn lesson. Your fans, I know them go come side you and things all, eno be problem, if you think this one be defamation of character, make you bring evidence, me to I go bring my evidence,” MOG Beatz stated in a video shared on X.

The Economic and Organized Crime Office (EOCO) in June seized a 2019 Lamborghini Urus used by Ghanaian dancehall artiste, Charles Nii Armah, popularly known as Shatta Wale, after its Surveillance And Asset Recovery Unit (SARU) undertook a lawful search in a home at Trassaco Valley Phase 1, in Accra.

The search, said to be “professional and civil,” was conducted on a 2023 request from the Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) and the United States Justice Department.

EOCO clarified that “it is a standard safety protocol practice for officers of the Surveillance and Asset Recovery Unit (SARU) to carry weapons whilst on operation for the safety of officers.”

According to the EOCO, the FBI and the Justice Department have tied the seized vehicle to the proceeds of the criminal enterprise of one Nana Kwabena Amuah, who is currently serving an 86 month sentence for several financial crimes in the United States of America (USA).

It is reported that Nii Armah pleaded with officers that he did not want the seizure to be made public because “the vehicle was a big part of his brand, and if his supporters saw the vehicle being driven away in the company of EOCO, it would destroy his brand.”

In light of this, Nii Armah was allowed to surrender the vehicle himself, which is currently in the possession of the Economic and Organized Crime Office.

According to EOCO, the FBI and the Justice Department intend to send a formal Mutual Legal Assistance (MLA) to the Government of Ghana to return the car to the United States as part of Nana Kwabena Amuah's $4,743,443 restitution.

Charles Nii Armah and a former senior officer of the National Signal Bureau (NSB) have been assessed as persons of interest and will be invited by EOCO to assist in further ongoing investigations in the coming days.

EOCO has noted that it may share the final investigation report with the FBI and the Justice Department “as part of our ongoing cooperation.”

Per reports, Nana Kwabena Amuah was jailed in October 2023 after he pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit money laundering. His actions and those of his co-conspirators resulted in the attempted theft of almost $4 million by defrauding almost 70 public and private organisations and wiring money into bank accounts through a shell company named Gretson Company LLC.

Twenty-four-year-old Shimea Maret McDonald, who is said to have had over 40 fake identity cards in her possession and helped Amuah move the stolen money and launder it through shell companies, pleaded guilty and is awaiting sentencing.

“This crime deprived businesses of their operating funds and caused significant harm to the well-being of the people who own and run those companies,” Prosecutor Kathryn Dieruf stated.

“I ask for a second chance, and I promise you will never see me in this courtroom again,” Nana Kwabena Amuah is quoted to have told the judge.

Judge Karen Caldwell, however, noted that “the crimes he helped commit were incredibly serious.”