Hahaha! Everything is so messed up with
Shatta Wale’s team, even if they planned
not to go, they should have had someone
there just in case, word coming out have it
that Shatta Wale’s team has denied
knowledge of the girl who picked the
awards on behalf of Shatta Wale … Sigh!
The 2014 Vodafone Ghana Music Awards
(VGMA) would go down in history as one
of the most memorable, as the biggest
winner of the night, Shatta Wale, waited
till the event was over before he
appeared and pulled a mammoth crowd
that blocked access road to the venue.
Shatta was officially adjudged the overall
Best Artiste of the Year and his mega hit
track, ‘Dancehall King’, also won the
Most Popular Song of the Year and
Dancehall/Raggae Song of the year,
bringing to an end, the never-ending
debate on who Ghana’s Dancehall king
really is.
The incorrigible musician however stuck
to his word not to attend the event and
none of his management members was
present to pick the awards on his behalf.
All three awards were picked on Shatta’s
behalf by a ‘strange lady’ who
introduced herself as a lover of the
Shatta Movement family.
Shatta, a few hours to the show, had
sent word round that unless the
organizers paid him an amount of GH
¢70,000 as performance fee, he would
not attend the show.
His management further revealed that
most of their fans had threatened to
abandon the artiste if he attended the
event.
STRANGE LADY
NEWS-ONE contacted Shatta’s manager,
Bull Dog, to confirm the identity of the
lady but he said they do not know her.
“My brother, we don’t know her. We
were watching from home when we saw
her going on stage to pick the award and
say she is a lover of the SM family and
was taking the award on our behalf. But
honestly, we do not know her. I could
have been there myself to pick on his
behalf but as I said there were issues we
could not reach a compromise on.”
After the programme ended, Shatta Wale
was reported to have appeared at the
Conference Centre to speak to his fans
and attracted a mammoth crowd that
caused a huge vehicular traffic.
Bull explained to NEWS-ONE what
happened: “We were watching it at home
when our lights went off, so we moved
to Osu to eat and we were eating not far
from the stadium so it was on our way
home that we used the road in front of
the venue and his fans saw him.
“We could not disrespect them so Shatta
had to wave and so on. They asked why
he was not present and he explained the
two issues to them. They understood and
that was it,” Bull added.
NEWS-ONE has picked signals that Shatta
and his management would be staging a
free music show for the SM family at
Nima, Korle Gonno and Dansoman.
By Halifax Ansah Addo
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