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Tuesday, September 23, 2025

Yung Bredda responds to flag furore: I just had to be there

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36 days ago
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Yung Bred­da (Akhen­aton Lewis) has re­spond­ed to crit­i­cism from the Grena­di­an pub­lic over the ab­sence of the coun­try’s flag in a col­lec­tion of Caribbean flags fea­tured in the mu­sic video for his hit song, The Great­est Bend Over, fea­tur­ing US R&B/pop star Chloe Bai­ley and Ghana­ian singer Moliy.

Lewis post­ed a short video to his so­cial me­dia yes­ter­day ex­plain­ing why the Grena­di­an flag was miss­ing. He said, “Great­est Ma­neu­ver was signed by a la­bel in, I think it’s ei­ther Amer­i­ca or Eng­land. And the remix, the song is not in my hands any­more. I just had to be there. The mu­sic video was set up by the la­bel. They them­selves went around and buy a bunch of Caribbean flags and make that big flag and sew it to­geth­er and make that big flag. So, I just had to be there and shoot the video.”

He said he has been re­ceiv­ing heavy crit­i­cism in his in­box from peo­ple up­set that their Caribbean flag wasn’t in­clud­ed.

“I didn’t have re­spon­si­bil­i­ty in deal­ing with the flags and not hav­ing the Ba­hami­an flag and the Grena­di­an flag in it,” he added. “So, I was plan­ning to just leave it at that and let the breeze pass. But my grand­moth­er is a Grena­di­an, and it kind of led me to see this is how peo­ple treat oth­er peo­ple when they—be­fore they ask a ques­tion—or just wait and see. This is how peo­ple re­act to stuff, and I would al­ways say that be­ing fa­mous is not al­ways a hap­py thing.”

The song con­tin­ues to gain mo­men­tum glob­al­ly. Ac­cord­ing to TrinGlobe, it is the first so­ca re­lease since 2017 to gen­er­ate ten mil­lion Spo­ti­fy streams in un­der a year. It has al­so fea­tured on the Shaz­am Top 200 in 11 coun­tries. In the Nether­lands, it reached the top 15 on Spo­ti­fy’s Vi­ral Chart, and in New York, it has been in the top three on Spo­ti­fy Lo­cal Pulse for three weeks.

TrinGlobe al­so re­ports the track has seen suc­cess in Papua New Guinea and New Zealand.


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