[ 2014-01-24 ]

Shatta Wale warns VGMA
He used unprintable words in a song title “Me no
need no award” to establish his displeasure
after he lost the Reggae/Dancehall Artiste of the
year award to female dancehall artiste Kaakie, at
last year’s Ghana Music Awards ceremony.

He caused commotion and broke glasses at the Accra
International Conference Center after the awards,
and insulted award winner Kaakie and Charterhouse
organizers of the awards. That whole VGMA drama
and controversy was dancehall artiste Shatta
Wale’s claim to fame again, after almost a
decade in hibernation.

It’s been almost a year now since he suddenly
became the most sought after performer in Ghana.
As the popular saying goes “A lot of water has
passed under the bridge” in 2013 and the
“Enter The Net” hitmaker has ‘cleaned up his
closet’, putting all the problems he had with
people behind him.

Within 2013, he apologized to Kaakie and Samini
and ended the year with a public apology to
Charterhouse during his performance at Ghana Rocks
concert at the conference Center on December 27,
and Charterhouse immediately accepted his apology
with no hesitation. So obviously Shatta Wale was
on a clean sheet to be nominated for the awards
and perhaps win on the awards night, but trust
Shatta Wale to take you by surprise just when you
thought all was settled.

Shatta Wale, arguably the musician with the
largest following in Ghana at present, has
emphasized that in spite of all his apologies and
expression of remorse, he still stands by the line
in his song that states that he doesn’t need any
award and that he doesn’t have any expectations
at all as far as this year’s upcoming Ghana
Music Awards is concerned.

Speaking on Peace FM’s “Entertainment
Review”, Shatta Wale said he thinks that last
year was the right time for him to win an award,
but since he couldn't win, he has taken the whole
issue of awards out of his mind.

“If I say I don’t need an award, I really mean
I don’t need it to make a hit in Ghana. I
don’t need any awards! If Ghana would really
appreciate the kind of work I am, doing I don’t
have a problem but if they don’t give it to me I
will always create my music”.

Shatta Wale defused the speculations that he is
desperate for awards, and that was why he
apologized to Charterhouse at the time he did.
“Basically, I just decided that let me just let
bygones be bygones because we were entering a new
year, so why don’t we forget certain things and
move on, but it is not basically because of the
awards”.

He said right from childhood he never had any
thoughts of doing music, to win awards, because
according to him the real award comes from God.
“I don’t have that kind of mind from birth. I
don’t know who gives awards in music apart from
God and it is God who rewards. If Charterhouse
feels I have insulted them and they don’t want
to give me an award I don’t have a problem with
them. It is their life it is their company. So I
don’t have problem with them; I just felt that
let me just apologize to them and just do what a
child would do when he offends his parents”.

Asked if he is expecting any nominations and maybe
win any awards, Shatta said he doesn't even know
how an artiste is nominated for the awards, and
Ghana Music Awards is really not part of his plans
this year because he has a lot of travelling to do
and it is possible he might not be in Ghana during
the awards. But whatever happens his management
will deal with it and he would still be performing
and creating his music.

When Kwasi Aboagye host of the show, asked him if
he would cause another commotion this year if he
doesn't win any awards, he said; “Then they
shouldn't nominate me and they shouldn't even
invite me to the awards night for them to have
another Osama bin Ladin kind of thing. They
shouldn't invite me when they know they are not
going to give me any award”.

He said, he was nominated without his knowledge
last year, and he does not expect Charterhouse and
the VGMA board to repeat the same mistakes.

Source - Ghanamusic

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