'Ghana Music Awards turn gob3’ – Kwaw Kese slams nomination process

Rapper Kwaw Kese has criticised the Telecel Ghana Music Awards and its organisers, stating that the nomination process has become so confusing that even industry players are often unaware of it.

In a post on X on March 16, 2026, the rapper said the awards seem to announce nominees without the public even noticing when the selection process begun.

“Ghana Music Awards turn gob3. You just wake up one day and there’s a nominees party and you ask yourself how and when people got nominated,” he wrote.

The rapper has long expressed frustration with the awards scheme. Earlier in 2017, he appeared at the Vodafone Ghana Music Awards with a wheelbarrow containing plaques of all the awards he had ever won from the event.

Kwaw Kese questions credibility of music awards over vote-buying

The wheelbarrow, labelled ‘AWARDS FOR SALE,’ drew attention at the foyer of the Accra International Conference Centre.

Kwaw Kese told Graphic Showbiz at the time that he sold some of his VGMA awards and still had others on the market as a protest against what he saw as the declining value of perhaps the biggest night in Ghanaian music.

He confirmed that selling the plaques was an unusual but deliberate way to express his disapproval of the flawed awards system.

“I managed to sell some of the awards on Saturday, and although I did not have a fixed price, I sold them depending on the condition in which the awards were,” he said.

Ghana music awards turn gob3.

You just wake up one day and there’s nominees party and you ask yourself how and when did people get nominated 😂😂😂😜

Call it Beans Music Awards

— KING KESE (@kwawkese) March 16, 2026