Rapper Kwaw Kese has chastised the Telecel Ghana Music Awards, claiming the nomination system has become so opaque that even industry insiders struggle to understand it.
In a post on X on March 16, 2026, he stated that the awards often announce nominees without the public ever knowing when or how the selection process begins.
“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.
Ghana music awards turn gob3.
— KING KESE (@kwawkese) March 16, 2026
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
Kwaw Kese’s frustration with the awards is not new. Back in 2017, he made headlines at the Vodafone Ghana Music Awards by arriving with a wheelbarrow filled with plaques of every award he had ever received from the event.
The wheelbarrow, marked ‘AWARDS FOR SALE,’ immediately drew attention in the foyer of the Accra International Conference Centre.
At the time, he told Graphic Showbiz that selling some of his VGMA awards while keeping others on the market was his way of protesting what he viewed as the diminishing significance of one of Ghana’s premier music nights.
“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 explained, confirming that the act was an unconventional but intentional critique of the awards system.
