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Tinny (Nii Addo Quaynor) aka Aletse Kankpe was nominated for Nigeria's Hip Hop World Awards.
A couple of weeks ago, http://www.pinnaclegh.com reported that Tinny had made Ghana proud at the Hip Hop World Awards held at the International Conference Centre in Abuja on the May 16. Tinny was nominated along with Witness Mwaijaga (Tanzania), Buffalo Solja (Zimbabwe) and another called Dogg. After the Ceremony the official website of the Hip Hop World Awards reported that the African Artiste of the year award went to Ghana's Tinny.
Our investigations have revealed that the category was not mentioned at the ceremony neither had Tinny received his award yet. When various media was reporting that the Ghanaian had won the award there was raging disagreement between Dogg and the organisers. Dogg was also reported in other media as having won the same award. It is only after a whole month that the award organisers have come clean as to who really won the award.
Tinny has been confirmed as the winner of the award. However, the organisers could not give explicit reasons why the category was not mentioned at the ceremony or the award given. Most of the artistes in this category did not turn up at the event as the organisers did not make the necessary arrangement for them to be there as is the practice with such award ceremonies across the globe. The organisers blamed their inability to announce and give the award at the ceremony to 'logistic problems'.
http://www.pinnaclegh.com can confirm that the Ghanaian Superstar Tinny is indeed the winner of the award and is expected to pick up his award in the coming days. We contacted his manager who said they were planning other activities in Nigeria and so would pick up the deserved award when they were in Nigeria soon.
Tinny's Hip Hop world Award is thus not missing or a fiasco as reported in other media. The disorganisation on the part of the organisers of the Hip Hop Awards only goes as far as to tell us how well our Ghana Music Awards is handled. There has never been a disagreement over who won an award at the Ghana Music Awards although it has its own problems.
The African Artistes of the year award of the Nigerian organised Hip Hop world Award is a non-Nigerian category given to an African Artistes with the most outstanding album and astonishing achievements in the year under review.
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