The Headies is a prestigious music award which
started as Hip Hop World Awards in 2006. It has
many categories but the highly prized category is
the Next Rated category where the winner will go
home with an expensive car. Many star artistes
in Nigeria have been nominated in the category
and nine artistes have won the prize. The
Headies 2015 is the 10th edition and Reekado
Banks won the Next Rated in the edition as he
defeated Lil Kesh, Kiss Daniel, Korede Bello and
Cynthia Morgan.

According to the organizer, Next Rated is a voting
category for people to vote for the most
promising upcoming act among the nominees.

There shouldn’t be any controversy on the
winner. However, my observation on the The
Headies 2015 Next Rated category is that it
follows the normal trend of the past winners.

The past winners didn’t win it with Lil Kesh’s kind
of songs. Let me remind you the past winners of
the Next Rated category.

Asa – 2006
Overdose – 2007
Wande Coal – 2008
Omawumi – 2009
Skuki – 2010
Wizkid – 2011
Davido – 2012
Sean Tizzle – 2013
Patoranking – 2014

It must be noted that Wande Coal was
nominated alongside Banky W (Ebute-metta), M.I
(Crowdy mentality), GT Guitarman (Dreamer),
and Cyrus Da Virus (Very Gbofy) but he won it
with his song titled ‘Ololufe’. In 2011, Wizkid was
nominated alongside Ice Prince (Oleku), Olamide
(Eni Duro), and Tiwa Savage (Kele Kele Love) but
he won it with his song titled ‘Holla at your boy’.
Sincerely, Reekado Banks deserve the award
considering his lyrics in his songs and
collaborations in the year under review. He was
also featured by Nigerian-American rapper, Wale
in ‘Allelu’ which is a plus for him. The only right
contender is Kiss Daniel but his lyrics didn’t
match Reekado Banks. Besides, Reekado Banks
glo ambassador deal gave him chance to
perform in more shows in 2015
Alhough Lil Kesh has some hits in the year under
review, he needs to work on his lyrics. Truly he
released ‘Is it because I love you ft Patoranking’
but it was not released in the year under review
(June 2014-June 2015). He should swallow his
pride as lyrical werey and learn from Adekunle
Gold on how to write good lyrics. He may not win
any major award as a rapper.

Advisedly, Olamide should stop the ridiculous
beef between him and Don Jazzy, although he
was provoked. At least, he didn’t get mad when
he lost in the category in 2011. He should go and
work on how to produce a next rated artiste
under his label. I believe Adekunle Gold can win
the Next Rated in The Headies 2016.

Don Jazzy has now nurtured two next rated
artistes; Wande Coal with MoHits Records
(defunct) and Reekado Banks with Mavin
Records. The secrets of these two artistes involve
maturity in their lyrics and production of their
songs. Another important secret is the way Don
Jazzy is promoting his artistes.

A voting award shouldn’t cause any trouble
because it’s the duty of music lovers to choose
the artiste of their choice. This article is an
account of my own observations. I’m a YBNL
Nation fan. You are free to add yours via
comment box. Thanks for reading.

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Which song kesh wan win am with, Ladi? Gbese? Abi na efejoku!