{"id":449586,"date":"2011-06-28T19:59:42","date_gmt":"2011-06-28T19:59:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/06\/28\/no-award-for-ghanaian-rapper-d-black-at-bet-awards\/"},"modified":"2011-06-28T19:59:42","modified_gmt":"2011-06-28T19:59:42","slug":"no-award-for-ghanaian-rapper-d-black-at-bet-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/06\/28\/no-award-for-ghanaian-rapper-d-black-at-bet-awards\/","title":{"rendered":"No award for Ghanaian rapper D-Black at BET Awards"},"content":{"rendered":"<div readability=\"53.5444234405\">\n<p>You Are Here: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ghanabusinessnews.com\">Home<\/a> \u00bb <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ghanabusinessnews.com\/category\/entertainment\/\" title=\"View all posts in Entertainment\" rel=\"category tag\">Entertainment<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ghanabusinessnews.com\/category\/second-lead\/\" title=\"View all posts in Second Lead\" rel=\"category tag\">Second Lead<\/a> \u00bb No award for Ghanaian rapper D-Black at BET Awards<\/p>\n<div>\n<p><span>Page last updated at Tuesday, June 28, 2011 19:19 PM \/\/ <\/span><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ghanabusinessnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/D-Black.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-59137 alignleft\" title=\"D Black\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanabusinessnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/D-Black.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"248\" height=\"210\" \/><\/a>Ghanaian rapper D-Black failed to grab an award at the just-ended 2011 Black Entertainment Television (BET) Awards held at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles, United States June 26, 2011.<\/p>\n<p>D-black was nominated in the Best International Act (Africa) award category but was unable to grab the award making him the second Ghanaian musician not to have won the award after Kojo Antwi.<\/p>\n<p>Tuface Idibia and D\u2019banj, two of the most popular Nigerian singers\u00a0 were named as joint winners of the award.<\/p>\n<p>But D-Black can raise his head high because this is the first time he has been nominated by BET. Other musicians in the same category were Angelique Kidjo from Benin, Teargas from South Africa and DR Congo\u2019s Fally Ipupa.<\/p>\n<p>The only good news for Ghana was when Ghanaian-born British Actor, Idris Elba won the Best Actor Award.<\/p>\n<p>By Ekow Quandzie<\/p>\n<h4>Comments<\/h4>\n<\/div>\n<p>Here is the original post:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ghanabusinessnews.com\/2011\/06\/28\/no-award-for-ghanaian-rapper-d-black-at-bet-awards\/\" title=\"No award for Ghanaian rapper D-Black at BET Awards\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">No award for Ghanaian rapper D-Black at BET Awards<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> You Are Here: Home \u00bb Entertainment , Second Lead \u00bb No award for Ghanaian rapper D-Black at BET Awards Page last updated at Tuesday, June 28, 2011 19:19 PM \/\/ Ghanaian rapper D-Black failed to grab an award at the just-ended 2011 Black Entertainment Television (BET) Awards held at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles, United States June 26, 2011. D-black was nominated in the Best International Act (Africa) award category but was unable to grab the award making him the second Ghanaian musician not to have won the award after Kojo Antwi. Tuface Idibia and D\u2019banj, two of the most popular Nigerian singers\u00a0 were named as joint winners of the award. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":449587,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-449586","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-local-news"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>No award for Ghanaian rapper D-Black at BET Awards - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/06\/28\/no-award-for-ghanaian-rapper-d-black-at-bet-awards\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"No award for Ghanaian rapper D-Black at BET Awards - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"You Are Here: Home \u00bb Entertainment , Second Lead \u00bb No award for Ghanaian rapper D-Black at BET Awards Page last updated at Tuesday, June 28, 2011 19:19 PM \/\/ Ghanaian rapper D-Black failed to grab an award at the just-ended 2011 Black Entertainment Television (BET) Awards held at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles, United States June 26, 2011. 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