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Do You Agree Ghana Music Awards Should Scrap the HIP HOP Category?

D-Black Change Your Life
D-Black Change Your Life

The name of the award is Ghana Music Awards. From commonsensical logic, any human being who will hear Ghana Music Awards is readily informed that it’s an award scheme that awards Ghanaian musicians and music of Ghanaian origin.

Currently, the only music genres that can be described as music of Ghanaian origin are Highlife and Hiplife. The question therefore is; what is Best Hip Hop Song of the Year and Best Hip Hop Artiste of the Year doing in Ghanaian Music Awards?

Do we have ‘Best Highlife Music’ or ‘Best Highlife Musician’ in BET or Grammy Awards? The answer is a resounding no! By awarding Hip hop artistes in Ghana, whose touchstones does Ghana Music Awards board use – Western or Ghanaian? (Laughs)

I will not be surprised if Westerners mock us for awarding Hip hop artistes in Ghana. To us, D-Black and Kwaku T are Hip hop artistes, but to Westerners, they (D-Black and Kwaku T) are totally aliens to Hip hop music. Western Hip hop musicians don’t see Ghanaian or African Hip hop artistes as same-genre music compeers or competitors.

So the point is; what is the essence of creating Hip hop category (ies) in Ghana Music Awards? To award those so called Hip hop artistes to go international? Or to award them to become ‘local champions’ in Ghana? Funny showbiz industry we live in Ghana.

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