Dancehall artiste Stonebwoy was hoping that Ghana would get more than one nomination at the 2017 Black Entertainment Television (BET) Awards.
According to the artiste, who has been nominated for the awards this year, he believes that given the work that Ghanaian artistes had done, the country should have received more nominations.
The ‘Go Higher’ hit singer will be competing with Wizkid (Nigeria), Davido (Nigeria), Tekno (Nigeria), AKA (South Africa), Nasty C (South Africa), Mr Eazi (Nigeria), and Babes Wodumo (South Africa) for the award this year.
After winning the award at the 2015 edition, Stonebwoy expressed worry in a post on Instagram that Ghana received only a nomination in this year’s awards while Nigeria and South Africa have four and three nominations respectively because of the lack of unity in the industry.
Shortly after the nominees were announced, several persons took to social media platforms to troll Shatta Wale for missing out on the awards again this year.
Shatta Wale reacting to the nominations explained that he was not worried about missing out. In a series of posts on Twitter and Facebook, he asked his fans not to bother at all.
“I don't want any fan of mine to feel bad about any BET...My skin is too strong now for such Nkwasias3m from this educated fools in our industry..” he said.
His comments received widespread condemnation from pundits and the general public who believed that Shatta Wale could have at least put their differences aside and congratulated Stonebwoy.
Born, Livingstone Etse Satekla, Stonebwoy told Doreen Andoh in an interview on Cosmopolitan Mix on Joy FM that he wasn’t surprised about his nomination but expected more for Ghana.
He said, “the way things were going, I felt that if we did get a nomination, I wouldn’t be surprised but I was only thinking that it was going to be more than a Ghanaian artiste, that I was sure about. My instincts were very sure that it was going to be more than one Ghanaian artiste but to our surprise,” it wasn’t so.
“This is what we do and sometimes when some good things come your way, you know that you deserve them. If you don’t deserve them, you know also. I know and I feel that I deserve it having won the first one, the first time I went there. The news came in… I was happy,” the Ashaiman-based artiste added.
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A TOOL TO UNDO SHATTA WALE A music monster has been created by hands whose chief concern was their bellies. Little did it ever occur to these Ghana music industry movers that a day will come when milking-dry and manipulating artist will be made so difficult by a single man, Shatta Wale. This still remains the only revolution that took the industry by surprise. The industry in the past had been ruled and controlled by some few players ( eg Okreku Mantey), who will cheat artist and manipulate them to their advantage. The artist will end up poor with his career and talent killed. Shatta Wale was a victim of this circumstance, so as a smart artist he went underground and equiped himself with the right arsenals to enable him stand on his own to fight this menace. He return back in 2013 after ten years with hits after hit, created a strong fan base world wide and has exposed all these industry players and their fishy deals. Now these industry players tend to use Stonebwoy as a tool to undo Shatta Wale. They have made sure any award scheme that they had influence on did not go to favour wale. Also having the media on their side they will skew every news item concerning Shatta Wale to give him negative publicity, but upon all these Wale stands Tall. He give us the finest of songs from pure dancehall, afro beat, Asorkpo, hip life and other hybrides of his genres. To undo Shatta Wale is like trying to change the direction of sunrise and fall. With a highly diversified repertoire of over thousand songs, and a music production machinery with an average production capacity of one song every three days, indeed Shatta Wale is a dancehall king of Africa and the revolutionist. By: Warren Nunoo (The Gangsta With a Pen)