Over the years, Ghanaian Rapper Sarkodie has proven that he is the best and the beast rapper in both the Ghanaian and Nigerian music rap arena.
Obviously, he has no close rap competitor in his homeland Ghana, so he is compared to rappers who have also make names in the current most booming and successful African music industry; the Nigeria music industry.
Mentioning of Nigeria best rappers, the top 5 names that comes to mind are
- M.I
- Ice Prince
- Phyno
- Olamide
- False
Well, it sounds funny for the whole Nigerian Rap Music to boast of these names and still have the balls to compare all of them combined to Sarkodie.
So, we are here to set the records straight to enlighten you with these 3 undisputed reasons why Sarkodie is the best rapper over all the above mentioned Nigerian Rappers; courageously, it’s safe to say we’ll leave out the last 4 rappers and concentrate M.I Abaga, for reason that they are way below Sarkodie
Now to the 3 undisputed reasons,
- International Awards
Taking into consideration of the second ultimate rappers’ achievement aside the money they make from rap music is recognition and awards.
Obviously Sarkodie beat all Nigerian rappers in this.
The only prominent international award M.I can currently boast of is MTV Africa Music Awards where he was nominated and won the Best New Act category in 2009. Although, he was nominated for BET Awards Best International Act in 2010 category but didn’t win.
However, Ghanaian Rapper Sarkodie can boast of 7 prominent International awards nominated and won. Below are all of them.
.BET Awards for Best International Act Africa (2012)
2. The Headies for Award for African Artiste of the Year (2016)
3. The Headies Award for Best Reggae/Dancehall Song – No Kissing Babe (2016)
4. MTV Africa Music Award for Best Hip Hop Artiste (2014)
5. Independent Music Award for Best Song – Illuminati (2014)
6. Nigeria Entertainment Award for African Male Artiste of the Year (2018)
7. BET Hip Hop Awards for Best International Flow (2019)
2. Lyrics
Sarkodie is an epitome of rap lyrics itself. In fact, he is 2 Pac, Eminem, Jay Z, and Kendrick combined in the context of Africa rap music.
It’s clear Sarkodie mostly rap in his own dialect; Twi, but any Nigerian who for some reason understands a little bit of the Twi language has always switched from listening to M.I and his Nigerian rappers to Sarkodie. No pun intended, it’s a fact.
He is the best at word play, rhyme scheme intact, and his punchlines lines are always stronger than that of Nigerian best M.I.
3. Rap Flow
The world knows one of the determinants of a good rapper is the ability to flow on a beat. Sarkodie has confessed in a series of interviews that, one of the reasons why non-Twi Speaking countries love his rap music is the flow he delivers in his raps on any beat.
Sarkodie knows only a section of people speak and understand Twi even in Ghana, so to attract fans who does not understand his language and the message he wants to transfer to the masses, one of his strongest weapon is how he flows on a beat and he has proven to be the master at it, unlike M.I Abanga.
