I wrote my hit song “16 Years” in a Taxi- MzBel

Famed Ghanaian Hiplife artist and entreprenuer, Belinda Ekuah Amoah, known in showbiz as Mzbel has shared that she wrote her monster hit song, “16 Years” in a Taxi.

The Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Mzbel Music made this known while speaking about the inspiration behind the song in an interview on 3Music’s Big Conversation.

According to MzBel, she was riding in a Taxi where she heard a conversation on radio about the girl child and rape by Maame Dokono.

MzBel shared that her experiences on the issue inspired her and she immediately got to writing.

Read also: My ’16 years’ Song Was Inspired By Conversations About Rape & The Girl Child – Mzbel

“I was in a taxi when I came Up with the lyrics. I use to stay with alot of girls from James Town, so I watched how they talk and the way they behaved. And Maame Dokono was always on radio talking about rape, so we were in a taxi one day and we were listening to Maame Dokono and I was watching how people were reacting to the stories and I came up with the song ’16 yrs’, she shared.

She continued, ”So I started writing in the taxi and when I got home, I built on it and that was it”

When asked if she saw the impact of the song coming, the music diva responded;

”Not at all, I didn’t even know it will go outside Ghana. It was just a another nice song I thought I have done. But the next minute, it was in Nigeria, Togo and in Equatorial Guinea.”