“You have to save some of you for you” – Black Sherif explains meaning of ‘Sacrifice’

Ghanaian artiste Black Sherif has unpacked the meaning behind his song Sacrifice from the Iron Boy album.

He says the song reflects the tension between self-improvement and preserving one’s own well-being.

On the maiden edition of Music Lab on Joy FM’s Showbiz A-Z, Black Sherif explained: “If I could sacrifice it all, I wouldn’t wait for you to tell me to sacrifice it all. That is what I am saying because sometimes you have to save some of you for you. You can’t exert all your energy trying to save people and then you are dying inside. You know, you can do that for as long as you can but you can’t do that forever. That is all I am trying to say. Sometimes you have to save some of yourself for yourself.”

Music Lab is a recently introduced monthly segment on Showbiz A-Z, launched by Joy FM on 16th August 2025. The segment explores Ghana’s most talked-about songs from multiple angles: vocals, lyrics, instrumentation, arrangement and production – with commentary from music experts.

It takes listeners behind the curtain of Ghana’s most talked-about songs, exploring the creative and technical processes that bring them to life and aims to demystify production while celebrating Ghana’s music culture  .

The inaugural edition of Music Lab, hosted by Kwame Dadzie, featured a panel of industry professionals: Austine Woode (broadcaster); Kofi Boachie-Ansah, known as ‘Beatmenace’ (audio engineer); Freeman Daniel Ame (voice coach and artiste development manager); and Hubert Kofi Anti, known as ‘Ubeatz’ (music producer). They dissected Sacrifice from lyrical, vocal and instrumental perspectives.

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