Kwame Ametepee Tsikata[1] (born 20 November 1982), known professionally as M.anifest, is a Ghanaian musician, rapper and record producer.

[2] He has worked with Damon Albarn, Flea, Tony Allen, Erykah Badu, and is featured on five songs on the Rocket Juice and The Moon album.

M.anifest emigrated to the United States in 2001 to attend Macalester College in the twin cities of Minneapolis-St. Paul, where he graduated in 2005 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in economics.

[7] He lent his voice to a Pepsi jingle that played nationally on U.S radio,[8] which earned him royalties to produce and release his first solo album, Manifestations, in 2007.

[10] In 2009 he released a free album, The Birds and the Beats, to raise awareness and funds for the work of a non-profit, Young Entrepreneurs Africa.

He caught the attention of Africa Express co-founder Damon Albarn, who thereafter invited M.anifest to be a collaborator on Rocket Juice & the Moon the following year.

[13] In September 2011, he released his sophomore album Immigrant Chronicles: Coming to America, which included the singles "Suffer", "Asa" and "Blue (Chale What Dey Happen)".

The song was met with mixed reaction, with popular music critic, Gabriel Myers Hansen, bemoaning its lack of dance rhythm.

[24] "Bereft of hooks, the instrumentation of the song is crafted with chords that fend off dance; instead inducing a frightful, contemplative atmosphere complete with doomy humming and the blast of gunshots.

The song was a response to Sarkodie's "Bossy" track, on which the Tema-based rapper threw subliminal shots at many of his contemporaries.

god MC also talked about the state of Ghana's pop culture, with the rapper bemoaning our "move from Inspector Bediako to Kunkum Bagya", a reference to the country's departure from creating real authentic Ghanaian productions to dubbing foreign films into local languages.

Worlasi echoed the sentiment in the bridge of the song when he said: "Normally, some deep things/ but now, we dey ease things/ me den M.anifest 'bout to move things/ raise things y'all n-word better rethink."

It had a rich roster of local and international artistes including Ghana's Worlasi and Cina Soul, as well as South Africa's Tumi Molekane and Nomisupasta.

Dex Kwasi was tapped for Palm Wine & Whisky while Nigeria's Brymo featured on Sugar and Good Bye.