Dismal ceremony for Zim Hip Hop Awards 2016

After all the hype that was created prior to the event that even saw Trace Africa and Channel O tweeting and the latter addressing the awards ceremony on their TV channel, all the efforts Krusty had put in went down the drain as his superiors pulled out a dismal awards ceremony.

Cindy & 8L performing at the ZHHA (Pic: Zimbuzz)

From being late with the programme that saw them starting two hours late, who would have thought that the sixth edition of the Zim HipHop Awards was going to be dismal especially after last year’s success.

After arriving an hour late at the venue, I had a feeling that the ceremony was going to be shoddy AF after I was asked weird questions on the red carpet. By the way, next time don’t bring that 50cm wide red carpet.

Who would have thought we were going to find American hip hop being played there, like seriously, does it mean Zim Hip Hop is not good enough?

It all started when the male host appeared on stage, like seriously the guy tried to pull some comedy stunts that were not necessary and not funny. Jumping and running all over the place withdrew people’s attention from the proceedings and led to disorder at Club 1+1 on the night.

One commentator asked, “If this was to be televised or if Channel O had decided to come, were we going to handle the embarrassment?”

It was actually a Dj Towers show as they kept on playing Team Bhoo music and all the videos he featured. The Djs for the night literally showed us that they did not have enough Zim Hip Hop music as they could not play the award winning tracks or any tracks of the award winners, sad.

Confusion was the order of the day as award presenters kept on trying to put up a Steve Harvey stunt, I really don’t know how they chose their presenters or it was lack of experience from the presenters. Ti Gonzi and Chibuku were victims of shoddy presentation on this day.

Then there was the performers, kids like Scrip Mula and others had dope performances and others we won’t talk about it. Other artists came with all their teams and even some of the fans went on that stage, imagine the confusion were a fan will be “performing” with their favourite artist, silly right? We need a little bit of order at important events unless y’all want them to be your backyard shows.

In as much as the awards themselves are concerned, eyebrows were raised and questions were asked after some awards went to people who did not deserve them, but that’s rampant at every awards show though.

Whichever criteria that was used to dish out the awards, it is crystal clear that these guys tried to balance off and be equal between Bulawayo and Harare.

The biggest surprise of the show was when Cal Vin failed to get any award from all the eight nominations he had, the guy was leading on the nominations but I guess he did not impress the judges.

From what happened at the awards ceremony, it’s either Beefy should conduct the awards ceremony when he is ready than to give a half-baked cake to waste people’s money.

PS: DJ TOWERS SHOULD NEVER HOST ANYTHING ELSE IN THE FUTURE!!!