Colossium Magazine September Issue_2019 | Page 14

GiST [ SARKODIE ] nominated for Best International Flow at the 2019 BET Hip Hop Awards B ET Hip Hop awards is coming off this year and this time, Africa’s Hip Hop heavy weight champion Sarkodie will be battling it out alongside African rappers for the ultimate crown “Best International Flow”. This comes days after he was featured in post for the first time on the Grammy Awards website. 2019 has been good so far for the Ghanaian rapper. He won a number of awards at the 2019 Vodafone Ghana Music Awards and recently released an album titled ‘Black Love’. He becomes the first Ghanaian to be nominated in the newly created category dubbed “Best International Flow”. This category highlights rap artists from different countries outside the United States. Sarkodie will be battling it out with fellow African rappers Falz and Nasty C. This is not the first time the Ghanaian rap artiste has been nominated by BET. In 2012 he was nominated for the International Act: Africa category which he emerged winner. Both Sarkodie and Sarknation fans and in fact the entire country are optimistic he will emerge the winner in his category. 14 | Colossium . September 2019 July 26: Sarknation president, Sarkodie released his much anticipated Black Love album. The album was poised to preach love amongst black people according to Sarkcess Music founder, Sarkodie.