In its fifth week running, the Vodafone Icons Mixed edition pulled a surprise on the audience when Benny Blanco, host of the show, announced that recently adjudged Vodafone Ghana Music Awards Artiste of the Year, Sarkodie, was the guest judge for the evening. The roar from the audience proved the acceptance of Ghana’s fastest rapper as the judge for the night. Sarkodie clearly brought his experience and expertise in the music industry to bear on the night’s performances as he gave his opinion and advice to the various groups after their performances. This week’s edition seemed to have favoured Vybes, who came together with 2JD in the bottom two as they were overwhelmingly endorsed and saved by Miss Naa and Apietus, because ‘they outperformed 2JD last week’. 2JD had to leave the competition as the icy hands of eviction fell on them. Interestingly, the group that had been saved by the judges on two occasions was not in the bottom two this week. The night saw amazing performances of Ghanaian highlife songs from the remaining six groups including the evicted 2JD. The groups had a visit from VGMA Best Group 4x4 and ICONS Diva’s Edition winners RnM in the ICONS’ house earlier in the week. Both groups shared experiences in the music industry and encouraged the ICONS to work hard to achieve their dream. With three evictions so far and two more to go, the public is encouraged to vote for their favourite group to stay in the competition by texting the group name to short code 1738.