{"id":31232,"date":"2019-10-18T12:24:21","date_gmt":"2019-10-18T11:24:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/?p=31232"},"modified":"2020-09-27T15:16:08","modified_gmt":"2020-09-27T13:16:08","slug":"sarkodie-bet-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/sarkodie-bet-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"Sarkodie wins the maiden BET Award for Best International Flow"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Ghanaian rapper is one of Africa’s most decorated artists.\u00a0<\/i><\/b><\/h4>\n

Iconic Ghanaian rapper Sarkodie, born Michael Owusu Addo, has added the BET\u2019s \u201cBest International Flow\u201d award to his ever-growing cabinet of awards.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

He becomes the first musician to grab the award, as it is a new category. The Tema-born rapper received the award at the 2019 Black Entertainment Television (BET) Hip Hop Awards at the Cobb Energy Center in Atlanta, GA.<\/span><\/p>\n

Adorably called King Sark by his teeming fan base, (they themselves called \u201cSarkoholics\u201d) he was nominated in the newly created category alongside six other acts: Falz (Nigeria), Ghetts (U.K), Kalash (France), Lil Simz (U.K), Nasty C (South Africa) and Tory Lanez (Canada).<\/span><\/p>\n

In his acceptance speech, the rapper said: <\/span>\u201cI just want to say thank you to the Almighty God. To family, this one is for my lil girl Titi\u2026. I think Africa has always had it and it is about that time\u2026This year is the Year of Return and I will urge each and every one of you here to take a trip back home\u2026\u201d<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

The 2019 Awards event was held at the Cobb Energy Performing Arts Centre in Georgia, United States and was hosted by American comedian, actor and entertainer, Lil Duval.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Sarkodie also delivered a very special message of Black Power via a freestyle he dropped on the BET microphone, alongside Martinique rapper Kalash.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Ghanaian rapper is one of Africa’s most decorated artists.\u00a0 Iconic Ghanaian rapper Sarkodie, born Michael Owusu Addo, has added the BET\u2019s \u201cBest International Flow\u201d award to his ever-growing cabinet of awards.\u00a0 He becomes the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":38,"featured_media":31233,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3944,87],"tags":[5309,23741,23713],"location":[],"yst_prominent_words":[8403,8509,23719,23718,23615,23724,23721,8407,8414,8933,9163,8402,9474,8506,11385,23722,23605,23723,23720,8543],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31232"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/38"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31232"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31232\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31233"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31232"},{"taxonomy":"location","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/location?post=31232"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=31232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}