GHANA: I Don’t Want Any Awards that are Decided by fans - Blakk Rasta
4 February 2020
by Eugene Brown
Ghanaian Reggae Artiste and radio host, Blakk Rasta, has stated emphatically that he does not want to be part of any award scheme which extorts fans in the name of voting for their favourite artistes or an award scheme where fans vote to choose the best musicians.
“An award scheme where fans are to vote using their airtime is corrupt; that is stealing. That is selling the award to the highest bidder. Give it to artistes who deserve it. Judge them and give to the one who deserves it rather than asking people to vote, which is not free, ” Blakk Rasta said that in an interview with Foster Romanus on the Late Nite Celebrity Show on e.TV Ghana.
To get his point across well to his audience, Blakk Rasta added more.
“So if I am not Shatta Wale with 1 million fans, and I am some underground artiste, and I have only about 30 fans but I have a song that is truly a hit , it means that I am not going to win because 30 people cannot vote against 1 million people,” he added.
After lamenting on the bad schemes of awards, Blakk Rasta gave a solution to what could be done.
“The awards schemes can do surveys without asking people to pay,” he said.
Blakk Rasta is a Ghanaian Reggae artiste with songs such as ‘Robert Mugabe’,’Jameela’, ‘Dumb Trump’, among others to his name. For sometime now, he has not really been active in any award scheme.
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