Nigerian artist Timaya, in a recent interview with The Beat 99.9 FM, Lagos, expressed his belief that Nigerian awards lack credibility, even more so than the Grammys.
The host asked, “What is your take on a lot of people saying the Grammy used Afrobeats and we need to come back home and grow?”
Timaya replied, “We don’t need to come back home. Even our own, which credible awards? Is it the Hip-hop awards, Hip TV awards (The Headies)? I don’t even know. They are not credible either. They are even worse than the Grammys.
“If we have a homegrown award that is credible, people would gravitate towards it. But for now, whether you like it or not, Grammy is still Grammy. We don’t have to back down (because Nigerian artists lost this year). We are going again.”