Reggae artiste and media personality, Blakk Rasta, doesn’t want to be part of award schemes that ask fans to vote for their favorite artistes.
The artiste believes that asking fans to vote during awards is stealing.
He feels that the jury for awards should be able to determine the best candidate and bestow the honor on him or her.
“An award scheme where fans are to vote using their airtime is corrupt; that is stealing. That is selling the award to the highest bidder. Give it to artistes who deserve it. Judge them and give to the one who deserves it rather than asking people to vote, which is not free”, he said on ETV.
Blakk Rasta also stated that asking fans to vote with money will deprive deserving artistes with smaller fan bases the chance to win awards.
“So if I am not Shatta Wale with 1 million fans, and I am some underground artiste, and I have only about 30 fans but I have a song that is truly a hit , it means that I am not going to win because 30 people cannot vote against 1 million people”, illustrated.
The Reggae artistes asked that organizers of award schemes to conduct surveys rather than ask fans to pay to vote.
“The awards schemes can do surveys without asking people to pay”, he suggested.
Blakk Rasta has songs such as ‘Barrack Obama’, ‘Robert Mugabe’,’Jameela’, ‘Dumb Trump’, among others to his credit.
