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Cassper Nyovest

Rapper Cassper Nyovest once again reigned supreme at the SA Hip-Hop Awards on Wednesday night‚ taking home six awards.

He walked away with the Album of the Year‚ Hustler of the Year‚ Best Male‚ Best Video and Most Valuable Performer awards. He was also honoured with a Milestone Award for his Fill Up Orlando Stadium show held late last year. The second in his series of stadium tours‚ Cassper managed to pull a near-capacity crowd for the show‚ making it one of the biggest hip-hop stadium shows in South African history.

Despite being the most nominated artiste at this year’s awards‚ with 17 in total‚ rival AKA walked away with only the Best Collaboration award for his single 10 Fingers with Anatii.

Kwesta also got just one award‚ for Best Digital Sales.

Nasty C boycotted the awards‚ as he believed the organisation did not “properly acknowledge” his success.

“We meet with all our artistes before we submit their music. We spoke with Nasty C to ask him which of the categories he would feel comfortable submitting in and he told us that he did not want to participate in the awards.

“He felt that he had a massive year last year but he was not recognised for his achievements by the awards and he does not want that again. It was a peak year for him and for him not to be recognised concerned him‚“ Mabala Noise spokesperson Sikhulile Nzuza told TshisaLIVE.

Nasty’s boycott followed in the footsteps of KO‚ who caused a stir by taking a stand against the awards three years ago.— Sowetan.