Zeus receives Channel O nomination
Friday, May 09, 2014
The rapper has been nominated for the acclaimed awards a couple of times already, emerging the category winner three times.
He received his first Channel O nomination in 2008. To date, he is the only Motswana who has won in the Channel O awards, which are one of the highly recognised awards in the continent. This year he has been nominated for the Most Gifted Southern Artist with his song Psych. He will be contending against South African artists DJ Clock featuring Beatenberg’s Pluto, Cassper Nyovest’s Doc Shebeleza, AKA‘s Congratulate and K.O. featuring Kid X’S Caracara. Nominees for the 2014 Channel O Africa Music Video Awards were announced in Johannesburg last Thursday.Last year the artist scooped the Most Gifted Male Video award at the 10th annual Channel O awards for the song Dats Wasup featuring AKA and Tumi.
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