If you think you’ve seen or heard the worst about how BET treats and
subjects African artistes to ridicule, then this may break your nerves…
Over the years, many Africans have called BET Awards
organizers ‘piss takers’ and have questioned why the organisers
continue to nominate African artistes and present their awards to them—back stage.
This year’s BET Awards’ organizers came up as having done something
extra for the various nominated African artistes, by staging a mini
concert called ‘BET Experience At LA Live’ where Sarkodie, Tiwa Savage,
Mafikizolo and others performed.
The event was hosted by Ghanaian actress-Nadia Buari and Democratic Republic of Congo’s music star-Fally Ipupa.
Few days after the above event and the main BET Awards, it is being
alleged that, the crowd our African top artistes performed to at the
‘BET Experience At LA Live’ was FAKE; they were Decorators, Cleaners and
Technicians who were working for BET.
Nigerian Afro Pop Artiste-Imelda J has taken to twitter to blast
organizers of BET Awards to stop humiliating & treating our top
African Super Stars like “crap”.
According to the Imelda, her cousin was among the BET stage
technicians that worked on the 2014 BET Awards and the cousin has
confirmed that, the African artistes performed and jumped around on
stage to a fake crowd—not real fans as it would be expected.
If what is being alleged is true, BET Awards organizers seriously
need to sit up and deal with our African artistes in a deserving manner…
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